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midnight1111 · Officially active! Joined: 21 May 2010 Posts: 4

The mybook we bought a while ago is clicking about once a second. It has some vacation pictures I want to recover. I am a newbie to hard drive repair but pretty good with tools and my hands, and I don't want pay 100's of $s to fix this. I would really appreciate any pointers anyone can give me about attempting or implementing a fix. I hear the PCB goes out on these but another article said that clicking means I need new "heads"... sounds complicated but I am game to try. I took apart the mybook and it has a wd4000ks dated 17 aug 2006. Does anyone have a pcb close to this date?

Thx ahead of time,
M-

sunnydreamspace · Deadharddrive regular +5 Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 540

hi,
it's back one. right? perhaps i can sure your drive got crash head. i got much of this type hard drive for data recovery. most is WD5000KS. have you check the drive on others PCB? does it recognized in bios/device manage?
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harddrivespecialist · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, this does not sound like a PCB problem.
You should get good diagnostics done prior to any attempts of recoveries, otherwise you most likely will create a bigger problem.
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midnight1111 · Officially active! Joined: 21 May 2010 Posts: 4

So I got a PCB from another WD4000KS-00MNB0 and it was about 6 months newer. I replace the U12 from the clicking drive on the new PCB and put this new pcb back on the clicking drive.... no joy still the 3 or so clicks and the driver is dead. The BIOS does not recognize the hard drive at all. I am considering switching the heads. I watched a couple of videos on youtube, but still I don't have a clean room or a special toolset.

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:12 am Post subject:

If you care for your data even a little, you should not try head replacement on Western Digital. This is a very difficult task even for a pro.
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deadhardrive · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:15 am Post subject:

Hi,
A bit late for the reply but might help someone else....if your drive is clicking you can see here the possible reasons and the free and cheap way to get your data back:

http://deadhardrive.blogspot.com/2011/05/clicking-noise-of-hard-drive.html

Very Happy

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