I have been bashing my brains with this hdd.

Initially plugged into DC and it went Ready- opened explorer read the partitions i could see the file structure selected the files and started to recover- after 1s sector(PIO) hard drive buzzed and did not respond.

Plugged in HD doctor. did not go ready-- tried many times- spins up 2 minutes down and twice like that.

I got it to PCB mode and read the ROM- the head map is 0,2,3,4 - is that normal?
I checked with donor and its head map is 1,2,3,4

After messing about with res file conversions and all that i tried the hot swap procedure. read patient p/glist write to donor.
The drive went ready for a while and i could read a few modules of the patient and then died completely

Using the donor pcb the drive spins up but clicks- and cannot access data.

Another thing is i cannot find the proper PCB donor based on FW xxVAxx ..

Drive does not spin up with original PCB now- stays in PCB mode in HD Doctor. can only read/write rom..

Any tips on how to rule out PCB or Heads.

Thanks for looking and for any helpful replies.

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good work.

This case was easy, but now it is not.
Seek for professional help (and for professional tools) ....

Janos

Thanks

PS
But my psychiatrist no longer want to help me.I am driving him nuts.

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