Hi,

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this drive. I had this in an external drive till I knocked it off my coffee table and now it won't work. I plug it into the PC but BIOS won't detect it. (It rather say NONE it just show " " blank in the drive detection.

I don't hear typical loud clicking noise but I can hear the drive spin with very quiet clicking like noise inside then the motor powers off.... I looked the PCB inside and outside like other people mentioned in the forum, but I do not see anythging burnt.

I have a same WD5000AAKS but 65TMA0 portion is a bit different.


Thank you!!!!

Spindle K.O

-BlackST (c) 2009

PS : Possible surface scratches and head crash to surface is possible, also

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Hi cryoborgofthevenus,

If it's Spindle K.O, how can I find out?

should I place the platters in the working donor drive in a clean room? At least I do have access to the clean room.

No, it spins. So you have head stack KO and likely media damage. Plus, if you open the lid you loose alignment. IF recoverable, it's in the 2000$/EUR range. Period.

Btw If you want to hire a clean room...

Yes, place the platters in a donor. I recommend using a Seagate as a donor as they are easier to work with.

Actually only kidding, if you want to lose the data you will attempt platter swap yourself. You have more chance of getting it to work a seagate donor drive than a western digital.

be prepared to pay big bucks to recover the data. You have no other choice if data is important to you.

That "period" word is what I like from BlackST

@ netwalker, having access to clean room is not "the solution". This model combined with this kind of situation is a difficult task to do. Opening up drives' cover is easy, swapping headstack is easy, UNLESS that drive is WD (quoted from a post by Odiferous, as i recall) when unknown anomalies joined the fun....errrr....the task

DR pro even don't like to deal with this kind of damaged WD drives.

Spindle might not 100% K.O, unstable in my opinion. The possibility of platter misalignment after being dropped is the problem. Since this is high density drive from WD, a small drop can cause a major damage to its original condition. And, honestly, I hate myself when doing this "exhausting" alignment against WD

If you never do this, just don't DIY. Send the drive to DR pro near your place.

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LOL

Yes, I agree. Seagate drives are rather easy to work with in this same situation

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