Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
January 31st, 2013, 8:07
labtech wrote:Internal problem. Spindle is jammed. Pro has to open and investigate why exactly.
+1 , OR :
- drive dropped and heads stuck (be prepared to see damage on media
- drive dropped or not dropped but heads stuck.
Forget the PCB unless "you know something we don't know".
January 31st, 2013, 12:42
drive is not dropped, using it for a long time, just stop working, just usual use.
January 31st, 2013, 13:23
Then this is odd - can be everything : from a seized motor, to heads in non-parking position, to electronic failure...
January 31st, 2013, 18:14
if is problem with seized motor, can i just rotate it until it gets easy spin? will be platters alignmented?
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