WD 1TB WD10EADS-00L5B1

Drive spins up sounding normally, but does not detect at all in BIOS/Windows.

It then powers down totally before starting up again.

Anything I can do with HyperTerminal? I have yet to get PC-3000

3 threads about 3 different drives in 1 hour or so... You have to wait for your PC3000 to come and learn to master it, I'm afraid...

u will get it 1st. then will destroy many many then if you were lucky enough u Might fix it on ur deadline

good luck

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Noted, so I will mark this as irrecoverable until I get the PC-3000 and master it.

Yes, I have been posting a few threads because I am now interested in this whole data recovery thing. Any advise would be much appreciated and humbly accepted. (Be nice!)

Does anyone have a second opinion if this could be done without complex tools and skills?

Are these clients drives you are working with? Without proper tools and knowledge any diagnostic / recovery attempts could actually be harmful to a degrading hard disk.

The frank effect.

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Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

From what I've seen of the data recovery profession, Dunning and Kruger would be best placed to understand them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

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An interesting read, not heard of that one before. Lmao.

Well I'm learning 'loads' from 'everyone' here.

What different types of failure there are, what information is required for at least a preliminary diagnosis, what can be acheived by a DIYer with some basic skills (TVS, fuses, pcb and rom swap, on unimportant data/own drives), what can't be achieved by a DIYer, and most importantly, when to give up and hand off to the Pros. It's all good.

S

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It's always somethin, and if it ain't somethin, it's somethin else - Cptn. Paul Watson.

Your posts here and other places on the net encourage this Dunning and Kruger effect. They give people a glimpse into the DR business and make it seem like a quick buck. Then these people open shop with claims of outrageous recovery rates and clog the data recovery market with lower prices. These lower prices naturally catch many unsuspecting people. The lesser qualified DR person/business picks and chooses the easy drives and rejects the more difficult ones as unrecoverable by them. When a drive finally goes to a real DR lab it’s usually on its last leg or unrecoverable due to the previous actions taken on it or from suggestions freely available on the net. For someone who claims not to be in the DR business and only performs electrical work, I fully understand the reasoning behind your response.

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Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

This is exactly what happens. And with affordable (but ineffective) tools like Salvation Data products and the perception that its easy money things only get worse.