WD5000BEVT Scorpio Blue

[PrinceOfAbyss]

Hello to all.

Yesterday I turned off my laptop, but unfortunately when I turned it on today, my disk was clicking. I took it off the laptop, connected it externally through an E-quip USB adapter to my desktop, but it was still clicking. After the advice of a member here I connected it internally to my desktop with still no luck...

The disk untouched, unopened, unfrozen, unhit, etc of course, and full of precious data for me (mostly family, and some professional files). So, who is willing to give it a try? Please, the one who is going to get it, be sure about your capabilities.

Thanks in advance.

Petros.

[DR-Kiev]

Don't you care on distance, cost of delivery service and recovery price?
If yes, you should be a sample for every customer

BTW, your drive , sure, has damaged heads , so DR will cost a bit high.

[PrinceOfAbyss]

I'm far from being a sample to every customer...

I have only learnt my lesson to not deal with things I'm not familiar with. Unfortunately, I haven't learnt the lesson to backup my data too.

So, I'm left with a clicking disk full of my last year's life in it... Two funny things here: i) Last week, the laptop suddenly turned off due to overheating... So I thought it would be wise to backup my data just in case... But disaster came quicker than I could imagine. ii) Until yesterday the disk was working just fine... It just didn't turn on today... And I had SO much faith in WD...

So, any takers?

[DR-Kiev]

I'm far from being a sample to every customer...

There is progress, that you didn't open this drive as first.
Check PM

[PrinceOfAbyss]

My problem had a happy ending. DR-Kiev was able to recover 100% of my files. I'll be downloading my drive's image soon. And all that at a reasonable price, at least compared to the importance of my data.

No, I'm not advertising DR-Kiev. I just wanted to let newbies, like I am, get to know that most of the problems a disk can face are not a DIY matter unfortunately.

Like the problem I faced a year ago with another disk, where I spent almost the same money I paid DR-Kiev this time, in buying donor drives, tools, etc, and in the end I was not even able to recover my data either.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the great transaction Vlad.

[drc]

Great

[pcimage]

Nice work Dr-Kiev

[PrinceOfAbyss]

Guys, this is totally offtopic, but since the problem was resolved, I'd like to use the same topic to ask another question. As I'm downloading my recovered disk's image at the moment, and since I'm gonna keep my laptop (initially I saw this incident as a chance to buy a new laptop), I'm gonna have to buy another 500GB disk to put in it.

Would it be wise to buy again a WD5000BEVT Scorpio Blue? I mean, a disk that lasted only a year, without EVER having even the tiniest vibration while working, isn't a good sign for its quality, is it? Of course there is the overheating factor, as my laptop was overheat for the last month due to dust preventing the fan to work efficiently.

But now, I've taken my laptop apart, thoroughly cleaned every area that had dust, and it's waiting patiently for its new disk...

So, any recommendations/thoughts please?

[PrinceOfAbyss]

Recently I'm reading good things about the Hitachi's... What do you think about this one: HITACHI 500GB TRAVELSTAR H2IK500854SE SATA2 (H2IK500854SE)?

[hddguy]

All models have their own unique good and bad points. Eventually all will fail.

Most important thing is not choosing best HDD, but choosing best backup process.

If you get failure in the future restoring data from backup will be easier, cheaper and less painful than another professional service