Hello
I came to this forum with the hope that I can find a solution to recover my data from my hdd.
The hdd that I'm talking about(WD3200BEKT, 320gb, 7200rpm) was in my laptop, it crashed with a BSOD yesterday and since then I can't do anything.
The drive is not recognised in BIOS anymore. I took it out of the laptop, connected it to a SATA-USB bridge and then connected it to another laptop. It spins up clicks 3-4 times and then it spins down.
In this time the OS detects it, installs the drivers, but doesn't allocate any drive letter and shows the capacity of the device 0MB.
Each time I connect and disconnect it does the same thing. I even tried it on Live Ubuntu and still nothing.
Can you please tell me if it can be fixed, of course just to recover the data from it. Will this be expensive?
I have no idea what can be done to it, maybe the platters inside will be moved to another identical drive.
L.E. My bad I corrected the name of the hdd now.
Thank you for help!
Best wishes
Alex

I am sorry to inform you but this is not a DIY job on this one. Clicking WD drives and 0MB with spin down means problems. This one you are going to have to have a pro who understand these drives and has the proper equipment to work on them and more than likey change out the heads on it. That means head alignment issues and a few other things that you can not do yourself. You have to have access to areas of your HDD that are not possible without the proper tools in order to read them. You best best on this one is to contact Sean from PCimage he is in your area and also very good with this type of repair and reocery work. You can search for him here and send him a PM he will be more than happy to look at your drive and give you a price on fixing this one. He can look at it for free but the repair is not. Good luck and hope that you will contact Sean if your data is important to you

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