Hello,

I have a Hitachi 120GB HTS541612J9AT00 that was in a Dell Latitude D610 (less than a year old). I had left the computer running and when I came back the screen was black. I restarted the computer and received an Internal HDD Hard Error message. The drive was not detectable by the BIOS. I pulled the drive out and put it in a USB caddy, and connected it to another computer. Windows failed to detect the drive. However, File Scavenger 3.2 recognized the drive as a two terabyte drive (as opposed to the 120 GB actual capacity). The scan recovered nothing, of course. The drive spins with no clicking.

I’m a student and fairly broke. This drive contained research and some rough drafts of my first article I want to get published. I am wondering what kind of damage I’m looking at and what sort of cost if I seek a professional? Should I start considering selling my car now?

Thank You for any assistance.

You should looking for platter and/or SA damages.
It should be diagnosed by pro at least.
At this point it is not necessary to start selling your car if you have not planned this already of course....

Janos

Failing heads seems to be the main issue with this series, but since yours isn't clicking, it's probably something else like firmware or a PCB issue.

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