Hello.

My disk Samsung SP1614C crash to the floor from 50cm.
It started to makes click and the bios (in 3 different machines) does not recognize it.

I opened the disk and the platters are marked in some milimeters from the inner part, near the center of the disk.
I tried to find the same model disk but have no luck. I can only find a SP0822N or a new 160GB HD160JJ.

What can I do? Change the heads using which donnor?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

You are too much over from your posibilities unfortunately.
Forcing the drive to spin, and opening it was a huge mistake.
You have multipled the recovery price and divided the professional's success rate for this.

For you can read any (including reading only one 512byte) sector from this disk close to the zero.
(0.00000001%)

If you really need your data, stop at this point, and seek for professional help.
And check out the company precisely, because the most of the pros, can't handle the damaged suface drives....

Janos

Thanks for your prompt reply.
I really need my data but I doubt that I can afford sending the drive to a recovery service, mainly for the fact that i'm not in usa or europe, and for me there is difficult or very expensive even to send abroad a product covered by warranty.

(English is not my native language and maybe I have not expressed the best way)
I did not force the drive to spin. The disk fall down (was not connected to the computer) and I connect and turn on.
The vibration and noise show that the motor was working. A few seconds later I hear the infamous click click .... click click and the drive was not seen by the bios.

At this moment I knew that recovering will not be easy, begin to search for the same model or similar.
I turned on the disk a few more times but the situation was unchanged.
Then I decided to open the drive (with the precautions i read on this forum and on others tutorials in the web)

Does this samsung disk have something in these internal tracks which it needs to turn on properly?

Can you explain based on what you say the probability of a success read is close to zero?

Hi guys,

do you have any idea on how big is the market share of
Samsung for HDD industry in USA? and also, do you happen to know the growth rate of it... do you have any estimates until 2014?

will look forward to the answers ASAP,

thanks,

jaycee

@fpereira,

You actually forced the drive to spin : you turned it on. Bad idea.
Anyway even if you get a donor and you manage to change heads correctly (have many doubts about it), new heads will be killed at first start as the platter(s) are scored.
You have no choice than a professional recovery that will cost much more because the drive was opened and because of that particular damage that require a lot of additional work to rebuild drive unique data.
BTW Samsung drives are mostly undocumented and even very few of us know exactly what goes on inside them. Good luck.

P.S. SP1614C is common despite "old" , it is not difficult to find a suitable drive for parts, but then how will you work with firmware (the part on the platters) and extract data ?