Harddrive Motor = Dead

PinkFloyd · 9 Feb 2006 at 13:55

My 160GB Seagate 'Cuda died last night. Think the motor is shot, drive won't even spin up.
So I've lost all the music and other stuff on it (was a backup drive)

Is there any possible way of recovering the data?
If it was possible to take it apart I might aswell give it a go.... the data is gone otherwise.....

I've checked its not the actual SATA power cable, as My other drives still work fine. Any idaes on a cheap fix? if not how expensive for Data Recovery?

Skilldibop · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:01

for a physical disk recovery, £100+ probably £200+

not that it matters much, but, It probably isn't the motor as they tend to slow/speed up a bit before dying so you'd see problems before it died completely. Sounds like a lack of power from somewhere...

PinkFloyd · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:22

Skilldibop said:
for a physical disk recovery, £100+ probably £200+

Suddenly the idea of writing 50cds back onto a harddrive sounds quite exciting.

Will check all connections again, Looks like I will be making the most of Seagates 5 year warrantee.

thanks for the response though

yourmomma · 9 Feb 2006 at 18:54

You could try getting an identical working drive and swaping the printed circuit boards over as it may be a blown chip etc

Skilldibop · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:02

You could try getting an identical working drive and swaping the printed circuit boards over as it may be a blown chip etc

Very risky business. One in which you risk being left woith 2 dead drives and an empty wallet.