drive recovery

[Technomage Hawke]

Kevin (and others of the list)
thanks for the suggestions. I've been told that this is very likely a
hard disk HEAD crash, which would make any data on the drive nearly
impossible to recover without spending $$$ to get at it (lowest price
I found so far was $499.00 and it would take a week). I can see now
why there is such big moeny in data recovery. I can do the software
stuff easily enough, but some hardware may be out of my reach (HD
sugery requires a class 100 clean room and I don't have $2 million to
invest). Now, I wouldn't mind working for one of more of these places.
they do tend to pay well and I could learn rather a lot.



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Kevin Faulkner <kondor6c at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>  > >  >  >
>  > >  >  > does anyone happen to have a spare electronics package laying around
>  > >  >  What do you mean by electronics package?? I hope your not just planning on
>  > >  >  swapping the PCB (Printed Circuit Board or Primary Controller Board, it varies).
>  > >  >  If you swap with the wrong one you could be worse off. When swapping those out
>  > >  >  you need to be very precise with Western Digitals you need to be aware of the
>  > >  >  Site Code as well as the top number/letter combo, i think with yours it might be
>  > >  >  something like: AMR <number here> or AMK I don't remember something like that
>  > >  >  though. I know what its like to loose data, keep us informed.
>  > >
>  > ok,
>  > here the numbers I do have:
>  >
>  > S/N: WCANU1419620
>  > WWN: 50014EE2AAB5FB6D
>  > MDL: WD500ks-00MNB0
>  > DCM: HCACAJAAB
>  >
>  > does any of this help?
>  Really your on your own unless you have a buddy that has something very similar
>  to your board. I would start looking at Ebay for those specs. At the place I
>  used to work at we kept thousands of drives even if the head were bad, because
>  then you could swipe the PCB from it.:w If you look around there are specific
>  companies that cater to this situation and they have warehouses full of drives
>  and they charge (easily) $400 for say an 80 gig drive.
>  But keep in mind your not 100% sure that it really is the PCB, it could be that
>  the heads are failing (which is probably more likely). What I think is happening
>  is that when you power it on your heads are failing and its trying to initialize
>  but it can't so it keeps on trying. Finally the BIOS just says "whatever man,
>  I'm moving on" and the drive doesn't show up. Head swaps are hard to do. take
>  the PCB off and visually inspect it, looking for any burn marks also smell too.
>  good luck
>  -kevin
>
>
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