Hi all,
I am a student. This HDD contains my entire coursework. The data is very important but I cannot afford professional data recovery service.
Brand : Samsung
Model : Momentus (Spinpoint)
Model No: ST2000LM003
Part No: HN-M201RAD/D
F/W: 2BC210002
Hard drive suddenly started giving problems a week ago. I could boot into OS with a 'No bootable device found' error. I reset the bios adn then I was able to boot again. I thought it should have been some bios issue.
Yesterday, there was an windows update, when I applied it I laptop failed on restrart. HDD gets detected in bios but won't boot. Tried Windows Startup Repair, no help. I booted onto a live linux usb, I could see that a 2TB HDD attached in the disks manager but I no other information about the drive was present, I was able to see the partition but couldn't mount it.
What have I done so far:
1) Tried running ntfsfix from ubuntu. Didn't help
2) Connected HDD to a different laptop/desktop. Can confirm issue is with the HDD.
3) Disk does not show in diskpart or disk management so couldn't run chkdsk.
Finally I decided to open up the HDD to inspect it as I cannot afford a professional DR anyways. Opened up the HDD in a reasobably clean room. No dust on the platter. Closed it carefully.
Here are the observations:
1) The platters spin properly.
2) The head moves between the resting bay and platter for a few seconds initially on powerup but gets stuck to the edge of the platter after that. Makes a beeping sound and squeakish noise.
3) No visible scratches/damage on the platter.
Here is a link to video showing how the drive behaves -
https://streamable.com/jlnoqiHow should I go about troubleshooting this and possibly recover the data? Is there a tutorial or wiki for some basic ATA commands/troubleshooting that I can follow?
I need to copy my coursework info from it and idc if it fails after that. Size of the enitre coursework is around 30gigs.
What I have?
1) A western digital drive that spins for few seconds and stops -- WD500LPVX
2) 3 Seagate drives that are perfectly working -- ST1000LM010,ST9500420AS, ST320LT020
3) Multimeters and few other basic electronic stuff.
4) USB TTL Adapter
Thank you for your time.
Edward