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HWHacker
 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 28th, 2010, 18:23 
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Hello pinkST,
I find your problem interesting. Do you think this forum would care if you started dropping hints? Not knowing anyting about the HTS542516K9A300 except that it is a 160Gb drive i would only venture a guess. if the drive spins up with power only attached it probably is initializing. When SATA cable is connected one of two things may be happening. 1) Heads begin looking for data to supply OS. Servo fails to find requested track and firmware tries to recalibrate. 2) Hardware issues are causing drive to over travel sector area.

Just guessing, awaiting your clue.

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BlackST
 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 29th, 2010, 11:36 
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I think it begins to click when SATA is connected regardless of OS. So the problem is the disk itself :)
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 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 29th, 2010, 11:53 
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I think it begins to click when SATA is connected regardless of OS

That's it :good:
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HWHacker
 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 29th, 2010, 15:01 
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This drive has TFC and Bulk Data Encryption. Could it have lost the KEY?

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 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 29th, 2010, 15:26 
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PinkST says:

Heads Perfect
PCB Perfect

So it leaves us with:-

1: SA Damage (maybe)
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4: Non original PCB (that is the question)
5: I could go on :O)

Please fill in the gaps and add to it anyone

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unknown
 Post subject: Re: Friday diagnostic
PostPosted: May 30th, 2010, 5:45 
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Russwinters wrote:
No one here is really known for their "Great accomplishments" in Data Recovery. Most of those accomplishments are well kept secrets

Perfect. :good:

HWHacker wrote:
Doing the same thing over and over is practice. Expecting different results is Improvement. I hope we are all a little Insane.

Sorry, but I have to disagree.
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