malchie - Hitachi Model DK23BA-10

Hi all
I have a Hitachi Notebbok drive giving me a trouble
It is recognised in the bios but fails to read.
it has also lost all referance to the serial number.
is this a bad module? and if so any ideas on how to resolve the problem?
The PCB is fine and tested oK.

Cheers

heads

Password on it?

Malcolm wrote:Hi all
I have a Hitachi Notebbok drive giving me a trouble
It is recognised in the bios but fails to read.
it has also lost all referance to the serial number.
is this a bad module? and if so any ideas on how to resolve the problem?
The PCB is fine and tested oK.

Cheers

Heads will be ok... I have recovered data from these drives easily. I am sorry that I cannot give specifics to my recovery technique..... Maybe you can use Hot-swap??

guru wrote:
Malcolm wrote:Hi all
I have a Hitachi Notebbok drive giving me a trouble
It is recognised in the bios but fails to read.
it has also lost all referance to the serial number.
is this a bad module? and if so any ideas on how to resolve the problem?
The PCB is fine and tested oK.

Cheers

Heads will be ok... I have recovered data from these drives easily. I am sorry that I cannot give specifics to my recovery technique..... Maybe you can use Hot-swap??

Did you have any success with your Hitachi drive?

Regards,,
Guru

Happy New Year All

Yes I did thank you Guru HS did the trick
Now I am trying to get my head around toshiba MK4018GAS Series notebook drives that are failing to mount
any ideas?

Malcolm wrote:Happy New Year All

Yes I did thank you Guru HS did the trick
Now I am trying to get my head around toshiba MK4018GAS Series notebook drives that are failing to mount
any ideas?

Hehe Toshiba eh! Nice drive ....... Yes typicaly problems will either hang PC or just not mount. Can't swap PCB , important data on it, linked to the de! Maybe try hardware clone and not PC based. Thats all I can say... :teeth:

Malcolm, how did you do the HS? Thanks.

HD2003 wrote:Malcolm, how did you do the HS? Thanks.

Head exchange is pretty easy on most 2 1/2 inch drives. If they have load/unload ramp it's a simple process

Guru wrote

Heads will be ok... I have recovered data from these drives easily. I am sorry that I cannot give specifics to my recovery technique..... Maybe you can use Hot-swap??

Head exchange is pretty easy on most 2 1/2 inch drives. If they have load/unload ramp it's a simple process

HD2003: HS != HE

Guru, thank for your reply.
What I mean by "HS" is "Hot-swap" instead of "head exchange".
Thanks again.

HD2003 wrote:Guru, thank for your reply.
What I mean by "HS" is "Hot-swap" instead of "head exchange".
Thanks again.

No problems, but you will find lots of errors typicaly with hot swap.... But at least you got the data back

:good:

No problems, but you will find lots of errors typicaly with hot swap.... But at least you got the data back

P.s Some drives HOt-SWAP will fuxk them up

Hi, Guru,
Sorry, I do not get it.
What is the hot swap? How do you do it?
Thanks again.
Happy New year.

Hi HD2003,

I see you did not get an answer on HS

"HOT-SWAP procedure (changing the board with the power supply turned on)."

http://www.acelab.ru/products/pc-en/dtextractor.html

Do this with care and only when it is necessary.