Hi all

i am wondering if anyone can provide some assistanc with an problem i have with a hitachi travelstar IC25N080ATMR04-0

drive clicks on power up and stops after about 10 seconds, BIOS does not detect the drive, MHDd, copyr dont detect the drive, i tried a swap of the board with an identical board and the same problem still happens.

Could this possibly be head damage ? or a firmware issue? is there a method to test the firmware and correct if nescessary ? i dont have a pc3000
if a head swap is required the only 80gb 2.5 inch hitachi i have is a HTS421280H9AT00 how can i verify if this head would be suitable as this is a newer drive ?

as a general question after a head swap is carried out will a drive boot normally or will i need to write some firware in order to image the drive to a new drive to recover the info?

thx for all the help

Read the Head stack article.

Hi Rameez

thx for the article, i have read the article in the past but was mabye after a bit more of specific info as to whether there are any kind of tools for testing the head.

thx

I haven't worked on Hitachi much but there is a head test option in WD pc3kpci that identifies the bad heads . If u have pc3k pci explore it may be u will find .

Bad heads.
Your donor is not suitable. Try to match Model name, P/N and ideally month when it was manufactured.