04 July 2007, 20:49 | #1 |
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My Western Digital Caviar SATA HD (Model WD2000JD-00GBB0) has died completely.. One minute is was working hunky dory and the next completely dead.. No spinning up nothing.. I have tried connecting with diff power sources and it's the same. It's imperitive I get this working, it contains 90% of my amiga stuff (150GB) including ISO's I didn't have backed up.. I don't care about tosec etc as that can be re-gotten! |
04 July 2007, 20:54 | #2 |
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Wow, a worst case scenario. That's terrible, bippy.
I'm a bit paranoid and do backups frequently. You don't activated the S.M.A.R.T. feature in your BIOS? |
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yeah it was activated
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Never seen this in my life, fortunately. The most hard disks dies slowly.
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Hmmm, not good at all when you say that it's not spinning up at all...
Was going to suggest plugging in another bootable HDD as the master (SATA or IDE if your motherboard supports it), then installing recovery software on this and trying to recover any data from the dodgy HDD. If the drive is totally stuffed and won't power on / spin then... Well, used some data recovery specialist companies for work purposes but they can be expensive |
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I tried it in sata primary 0,1 and secondary 0,1. Tried diff power leads etc and nothing.. It just died..
Might be the controller board, though would need to find identical drive to check |
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Can't remember the exact name of the company we used at work when something like this happened but here's one if it comes down to that: http://www.datarecoverydirect.co.uk/ |
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Just read this in a german forum:
1. Get a second, absolutly identical, hard disk. 2. demount the controller from the dead hd 3. mount on the controller from the new hard disk and try to boot. This works only if the controller is broken, otherwise it is like Damien said. You need to contact some data recovery specialist companies. LOL, your was faster, bippy. |
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at £335 for the cheapest option I think i'll pass... I have seen the identical HD on ebay for £35 so might go for that in a few days
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A similar problem in some random thread after Googling:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...-dead-hdd.html /me laughs at the original poster's reason on the above forum for wanting to get the data back so badly... "great collection of " |
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Also I have all this backed up on a HD at methanoids (hint hint)
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Have you checked the power connector of the HD. I had a HD where the soldering point of the power connector was broken. Soldered it back on and the HD worked again.
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Damn, I've got a WD 300gb and Seagate 250gb SATA drives and one of'em is clicking randomly. Not very often, I usually hear a click sound - the same when turning the comp off - every 1-3 days. Both work perfectly all the time - after that click I usually go fast to my drives and browse a little deeper into the directories but they load normally...
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Has anyone ever had success with the Freezer trick? though I suspect it isn't that
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just a long shot have you gone into device manager to see if its there still??
as it just might need re mounting |
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it's not recognised in the bios, says there is no drive and it is definatley not powering up, I put my ear next to it
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Right i've taken the controller board off and there is no sign of any damage or over-heating (my pc is suitably cooled anyway).. so looks like it might be a lost cause!
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what a bummer sounds like its a deadn
i learnt my lesson once, now i backup regulary ( cdrw & dvdrw) sounds like you will have to buy that drive and try the swapping the curcuit board over. |
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