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
May 28th, 2009, 17:12
i just recieved an external drive its a hitachi 120gig 2.5'' ide. the story is it was on when they dropped it. now i connect it to doctor it comes to ready but when i click load from hdd it gives error. it seems to be spinning but cannt seem to get anything... i had to diagnose this on site so couldnt risk opening the drive....
any ideas what to do?
May 28th, 2009, 17:32
Open outside clean room? Not good idea. Take it to lab and do a proper diag. I think at least head damage, can be media problem and also motor (excessive vibration ?)...
May 28th, 2009, 22:25
u said come ready, so that means reach DRDY DSC?, what its the answer to the read sector command, ? ABRT, IDNF, UNC, AMNF, ?
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