Hi all,

Recently I bought a new NAS with the idea to put all my data from my Home Made Server to that NAS.
But, ... I was in the proces of checking what to keep and what to trash, my girl said last week... Is there a bird on you're computer-room? I said a bird what? So I went to my computer-room and the hard drive was clicking.
Turned off the PC, turned it back on, 12 clicks...
I thougt, dammm why just before going to backup everything :S

I connected a terminal to the disk.
I have 2 ST2000DL003 disks, so already did a PCB Swap.

Well, I checked the other drive and that one is OK, also the messages in the terminal, so my terminal connection is OK to begin with.

But the dead drive, when I connect the Terminal to it, is says:

Boot 0x40M
Spin Up

And that's it... nothing more, nothing less...

So, maybe I am lucky that the heads / pre-amp and platters are okay, but not the motor of the drive itself.

Can that be a good conclusion? I am also thinking of a head swap (drive is already dead, so... why not)
If I can get data back it would be superb!

But, How do I get passed the :
Boot 0x40M
Spin Up

....

Any ideas?

99% not a PCB problem.
90% chance it is a heads problem
5% chance only a firmware problem
Highly confident it is a heads + firmware problem.

Less than 5% chance you will recover data on your own, because of lack of experience and proper equipment to maximize success.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

True, It is not aan pcb problem. And I do not think it's a firmware problem because terminal stucks at spin-up.

So, heads/pre-amp/spindle motor...

I am very interested in data recovery this way and want to learn about it...

So any suggestions?

Not a preamp or motor problem.

Practice on failed drives and purchase good tools. Read (viewforum.php?f=16) and experiment a lot on practice drive (Not real customer's drives).

Taking some training could help.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts