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jayku161
 Post subject: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
PostPosted: April 27th, 2015, 5:53 
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Hello,

My HDD is an old Hitachi Deskstar IDE drive.It spins up and produces a noise, I have opened them, the head is not stuck.

I have an 2 Videos of how it is rotating one normal and the other Zoomed , I have moved the head into the platter and taken three photos one normal

and 2 Zoomed. The sharp par is slightly lifted in the image.Can any on tell me the reason

http://goo.gl/zb7EU9
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northwind
 Post subject: Re: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
PostPosted: April 28th, 2015, 5:16 
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I hope this is a drive you wanted to experiment on and learn, and not a drive that contains important data...

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data-medics
 Post subject: Re: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
PostPosted: April 28th, 2015, 8:22 
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By opening the drive outside of a clean room and moving the actuator arm onto the platters you've dropped you chances of ever getting the data back from 80℅ to about 10℅.

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jermy
 Post subject: Re: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
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Spildit wrote:
The noise that you can ear is from your data trying to say it's last good bye while it turns intro dust...


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jayku161
 Post subject: Re: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
PostPosted: April 30th, 2015, 4:08 
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data-medics wrote:
By opening the drive outside of a clean room and moving the actuator arm onto the platters you've dropped you chances of ever getting the data back from 80℅ to about 10℅.


northwind wrote:
I hope this is a drive you wanted to experiment on and learn, and not a drive that contains important data...



Its is a very old Hard Drive, I have Two Exactly same HDD with same problem, I wanted to experiment with one, There not really any data in it, just wanted to know if that can be revived.So I can make the other work.

if it helps it is an 2004 DOM HDD.
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aravind
 Post subject: Re: [HELP] HDD Spins up with a noise
PostPosted: May 1st, 2015, 1:17 
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Its is a very old Hard Drive, I have Two Exactly same HDD with same problem, I wanted to experiment with one, There not really any data in it, just wanted to know if that can be revived.So I can make the other work.

if it helps it is an 2004 DOM HDD.[/quote]

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