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
March 7th, 2020, 12:06
Some time ago I bougt usb external backup disk with 2x ST3000DM001 3TB. I had them in my NAS for couple years but after some time I started to get info about bad sectors. One drive had gone from the system and second was working without problem. I took them out and didnt use them for around a year. Yestarday I copy data from one drive and started with second one. Unfortunately he didnt want to work - problem is the same like on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGBWlNtubnA - it spins up, move head couple times and stops. I swaped bios from first working hdd to check is it going to work but it is still the same ( connected by usb hdd case or directly by sata to pc)- spins and stops. What should I do to make it work? Should I swap also the head or some other part? I'm curious if I can recover data some home way (I won't need them anyway and I don't even know what is on that broken hdd)
March 15th, 2020, 11:08
You did wrong
The ST3000DMxxx acts like you say when heads are bad
More in general, when Seagate drives do click and stops , heads are bad
Except some particular rare cases
when a Seagate drive makes repeating sounds after spinup , its heads are bad
What is worse is that Seagate drives made after 2011 , when issues begin, go worse and worse in few spinup attempts
March 15th, 2020, 15:28
ruffpl wrote:Some time ago I bougt usb external backup disk with 2x ST3000DM001 3TB. I had them in my NAS for couple years but after some time I started to get info about bad sectors. One drive had gone from the system and second was working without problem. I took them out and didnt use them for around a year. Yestarday I copy data from one drive and started with second one. Unfortunately he didnt want to work - problem is the same like on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGBWlNtubnA - it spins up, move head couple times and stops. I swaped bios from first working hdd to check is it going to work but it is still the same ( connected by usb hdd case or directly by sata to pc)- spins and stops. What should I do to make it work? Should I swap also the head or some other part? I'm curious if I can recover data some home way (I won't need them anyway and I don't even know what is on that broken hdd)
In short drive heads are gone, if there is critical data that you want, must consult a DR Pro.
These DM series drives as already mentioned are really bad drives.
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