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kenshutt97
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 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: Help troubleshooting Dead Drive |
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I have a Western Digital WD1200.
MDL: WD1200JB-00CRA1
Date: 09 Aug 2002
DCM: DSFANA2AA
The drive contains a ton of important information like family photos, music, etc. Nothing that I would spend $1000 to replace, but stuff that really can't be replaced.
Drive can't be detected in bios. Drive emits a loud repetive clicking sound. About 1 click per second (click clack) noise. I tried all the normal tricks of hitting, freezing it, etc. I also tried to swap out the board with one of the same model number. The board I switched had the same number on the board itself 2060-001102-003. Both Rev. A. Hard drives were same model, but the date was one year later on the functioning drive.
When trying it with the newer board, I get same results.
What more can I do? I don't have a safe room, so I can't swap the disc itself out, but if very very very careful not to get even 1 dust particle on the platter, is it possible to swap out mechanics? What else could I do? |
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dav82
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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You need to swap the ROM chip from bad PCB to good PCB.
I'm not really sure for older HDD, but the new ones it's U12 chip (8 legs). |
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kenshutt97
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| dav82 wrote: | You need to swap the ROM chip from bad PCB to good PCB.
I'm not really sure for older HDD, but the new ones it's U12 chip (8 legs). |
Is this going to require sodering of some sort? |
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dav82
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| kenshutt97 wrote: | | dav82 wrote: | You need to swap the ROM chip from bad PCB to good PCB.
I'm not really sure for older HDD, but the new ones it's U12 chip (8 legs). |
Is this going to require sodering of some sort? |
Yes, desolder and solder back. |
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harddrivespecialist
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
"You need to swap the ROM chip from bad PCB to good PCB.
I'm not really sure for older HDD, but the new ones it's U12 chip (8 legs)."
What he means is: Sometimes you have to remove flash memory chip and place it on a new board, so your ROM on a chip would match a ROM stored on a disk itself.
In your case it won't help.
Unfortunately, it seems like one of the heads in your drive has failed.
When this happens, head is going back and forth searching required info, but can't find it.
That is why it's clicking.
You need to replace failed heads and probably will require special equipment to do it. There is many more details that has to be taken care of. As you can imagine it is not an easy thing to do. Otherwise Data Recovery would not cost that much.
If you have more questions, please ask.
I do data recovery for past 5 years.
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HdSoEasy
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| harddrivespecialist wrote: | Hi!
"You need to swap the ROM chip from bad PCB to good PCB.
I'm not really sure for older HDD, but the new ones it's U12 chip (8 legs)."
What he means is: Sometimes you have to remove flash memory chip and place it on a new board, so your ROM on a chip would match a ROM stored on a disk itself.
In your case it won't help.
Unfortunately, it seems like one of the heads in your drive has failed.
When this happens, head is going back and forth searching required info, but can't find it.
That is why it's clicking.
You need to replace failed heads and probably will require special equipment to do it. There is many more details that has to be taken care of. As you can imagine it is not an easy thing to do. Otherwise Data Recovery would not cost that much.
If you have more questions, please ask.
I do data recovery for past 5 years. |
Agree. It looks like a HEAD problem.
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