Model: WD2500KS-00MJB0
MFG Date: October 31, 2005
DCM:DSBHNTJAH

The controller has a sticker with 2061-701335-C00 written on it.

The machine it was in had a Gigabyte motherboard, which got the "infinite turn off, turn on, turn off, etc." bug while I was asleep, so the machine had basically been powering up and down for 8 straight hours. Upon getting it sane again, the WD drive in it was dead. Its symptoms right now are when you power it on, it powers up and does 3 successive sort of click-click-click (like the heads are put on the disk and pulled off 3 times) and it powers down and won't power on again until power is removed from the drive and applied again. I removed the controller board carefully and the only visible damage were slightly corroded contact pins for the heads.

Since the drive is so old (and has around 300 bad sectors the last time it worked) I just want to get the data off the drive and dispose of it. If anyone has a loaner board they'd be willing to loan out and get returned, that would be great.

Chances your drive PCB at fault is 5%
Chances your drives Heads/Preamp failed 95%

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The drive won't stay running for the machine to detect it. If you leave the drive plugged in after it shuts off, the machine will lock up trying to detect it.

I had the motherboard that killed the drive running on a table with a different hard drive overnight stupidly and it did the same thing with the other hard drive (it was a different brand though). The other drive it killed does a similar thing where it sounds like its putting the heads on the platter and pulling them off quickly and it shuts down after a few attempts. I was irked that it took a second drive so I threw the motherboard away so it won't cause any more issues.

I have a feeling that the constant powering up/down rapidly is corrupting something on the controller rather than killing the drive internals. I'm not about to open the drive up though and lose all chances of recovering anything.

Anybody near Texas or not too far from there that can help this guy, He sounds smart enough not to try a DYI on this drive and is looking for some help. Anyone????

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If it spins down and stays spun down then it's much much more likely to be bad heads and/or preamp inside the drive.

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