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harddisk clicks, not recognized by BIOS
Hello everybody,
I've got a problem with a harddisk. It's a 20 GB Seagate harddisk. After a mega computer crash (power supply defect), it didn't work again. It won't be recognized by the BIOS during the startup proces and you hear a regular click everytime. There is some data on it which I would recover if possible. I tried several recovery software (also Seagate software), but because the harddisk isn't being recognized by all of these programs, I can't recover anything. The next step was to open the harddisk and when I turned it on I saw that the arm with the heads didn't go all over the platters, but stayed at the inside of the platters (near the center), then it moved a little bit to the outside and then go directly back to the inside. This gives that clicking sound. It looks like the arm stuck. Can it have anything to do with automatic head parking? Does anyone from you have another idea to make this disk work again? Thanks in advance, Jeroen |
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wrote in message ... Hello everybody, I've got a problem with a harddisk. It's a 20 GB Seagate harddisk. After a mega computer crash (power supply defect), it didn't work again. It won't be recognized by the BIOS during the startup proces and you hear a regular click everytime. There is some data on it which I would recover if possible. I tried several recovery software (also Seagate software), but because the harddisk isn't being recognized by all of these programs, I can't recover anything. The next step was to open the harddisk and when I turned it on I saw that the arm with the heads didn't go all over the platters, but stayed at the inside of the platters (near the center), then it moved a little bit to the outside and then go directly back to the inside. This gives that clicking sound. It looks like the arm stuck. Can it have anything to do with automatic head parking? Does anyone from you have another idea to make this disk work again? Thanks in advance, Jeroen Well first off, unless you opened it in a cleanroom you probably caused more harm than anything. Once a HDD clicks it is typically dead. There are places out there that say they can "switch platters" or some such. I have found all of them to be pretty much, a waste of time. So I would personally say that no...no way to retrieve data at this point. |
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wrote in message ... Hello everybody, I've got a problem with a harddisk. It's a 20 GB Seagate harddisk. After a mega computer crash (power supply defect), it didn't work again. It won't be recognized by the BIOS during the startup proces and you hear a regular click everytime. There is some data on it which I would recover if possible. I tried several recovery software (also Seagate software), but because the harddisk isn't being recognized by all of these programs, I can't recover anything. The next step was to open the harddisk and when I turned it on I saw that the arm with the heads didn't go all over the platters, but stayed at the inside of the platters (near the center), then it moved a little bit to the outside and then go directly back to the inside. This gives that clicking sound. It looks like the arm stuck. Can it have anything to do with automatic head parking? Does anyone from you have another idea to make this disk work again? Thanks in advance, Jeroen As mentioned before it is unlikely you will be able to retrieve any data from this drive, one thing i can suggest for you is to put the drive aside untill you get hold of another system (whether it be a friends computer or new) and try and run it as a secondary there, its unlikely that this will help at all but i have had some interesting experiences with certain hardware, unexplainable experiences, so i dont usually rule anything out! Good L |
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As a last resort you could try freezing it !!!
Colin |
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wrote in message ... Hello everybody, I've got a problem with a harddisk. It's a 20 GB Seagate harddisk. After a mega computer crash (power supply defect), it didn't work again. It won't be recognized by the BIOS during the startup proces and you hear a regular click everytime. There is some data on it which I would recover if possible. I tried several recovery software (also Seagate software), but because the harddisk isn't being recognized by all of these programs, I can't recover anything. The next step was to open the harddisk and when I turned it on I saw that the arm with the heads didn't go all over the platters, but stayed at the inside of the platters (near the center), then it moved a little bit to the outside and then go directly back to the inside. This gives that clicking sound. It looks like the arm stuck. Can it have anything to do with automatic head parking? Ok...you need not worry about the comments that a drive must be opened in a clean room. the drive is already defective so that will hardly matter at this point. if you *gently* wiggle the arm a bit you *might* be able to free it up long enough to get it moving again and retrieve your data. i have tried that trick quite a few times and though it probably won;t work...i did get it working on one occassion... the drive actually continued working for several days after that. |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:49:32 -0500, "philo" wrote:
Ok...you need not worry about the comments that a drive must be opened in a clean room. the drive is already defective so that will hardly matter at this point. if you *gently* wiggle the arm a bit you *might* be able to free it up long enough to get it moving again and retrieve your data. i have tried that trick quite a few times and though it probably won;t work...i did get it working on one occassion... the drive actually continued working for several days after that. Thank you all for your reactions. I already tried the freezer trick, but that didn't work. When I wiggle the arm when the drive isn't on, it looks like the heads stick to the surface of the platters, but when I put the drive on and the platters are turning round, then I can move the arm and the head much easier. Is this normal? (still the same problem eventhough). Rescueing the data from this disk isn't very important, but now I'm this far, I found it a challenge to make this drive working again, so other suggestions? Or is there a piece of software that can "see" defective harddisks that the BIOS isn't able to see? Jeroen |
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Ok...you need not worry about the comments that a drive must be opened
in a clean room. the drive is already defective so that will hardly matter at this point. if you *gently* wiggle the arm a bit you *might* be able to free it up long enough to get it moving again and retrieve your data. i have tried that trick quite a few times and though it probably won;t work...i did get it working on one occassion... the drive actually continued working for several days after that. Thank you all for your reactions. I already tried the freezer trick, but that didn't work. When I wiggle the arm when the drive isn't on, it looks like the heads stick to the surface of the platters, but when I put the drive on and the platters are turning round, then I can move the arm and the head much easier. Is this normal? (still the same problem eventhough). Rescueing the data from this disk isn't very important, but now I'm this far, I found it a challenge to make this drive working again, so other suggestions? Or is there a piece of software that can "see" defective harddisks that the BIOS isn't able to see? Jeroen well if the drive is physically defective to the point that the bios won't detect it there is not a heck of a lot you can do you could try slaving it to another drive and try to read the data... but it's not very likely you'll see anything |
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