Will apsence of smiley at the end give it more credibility? I don't think so. Stick around in data recovery for few years and you will be saying the same thing, because there is a lot of variables in this trade.

Do you think its not "tiering" to retype same info over and over again, because someone does not want to do a research?

As far as I know, people on this forum, will help you or will point you to a right direction, but not many people, if any, would like to "spoonfeed" others.
Just search and read, search again and read again and your happiness will come eventually.

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ty all. close thread plz.

with my experience some of these case i will pass head replacement first. why make it more complexity
@Alexii you should do more and think more. these kind of drive no hard to understand.

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hddguy,

Alexii has not enough experience...



Agreed, but alternatives require knowledge and experience...



Alexii has confidence it will work....

Yes. I did succesfull head swaps before. And I did head swap on a trashed drive we had in our bin with same specs as the one in question. That drive also had the access to SA only , no lba. To test myself i removed those heads and put them back in. Same access to SA only after the procedure. Going to source the drive and try to put good heads in. Now like i already explained myself , i maybe misundertood HddSpazes reply here, but what trigered me was "why not both " part. If i do the head swap - there is absolutly no need for a HOT swap ... So i felt like i am being yanked a bit... On another note we hav 3 drives that fail in exactly the same way. That usually indicates specific problem with a specific drive. Faulty batch came from the factory with weak heads or smth. Or logical issue with adaptives or smth. Thats why i requested help. Not for the purpose of general diagnostics. Yet it seems that nothing is specific. Like i was told , a gentleman here did some of em with head swap , some with hot swap , and some with no "swap" at all ( that last part intrigues me , but i guess ill be told to do my own research into the problem, so ill just drop it ) Anyway , if there is nothing specific about that drive model going on and its all just random fails - ill treat it as such. Ty all again.


PS Just got a wd1600JS-40mvb1 to play with. Removed heads and put em back =) Still working. Going to do it till it dies on me.