Hd suddenly not working, I got proofs. HELP

Tuexnovia

Tuexnovia

Tuexnovia

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Guys yesterday this HD was working and when I switch on the Pc today, LOL I could heard that weird sound. **** MY HD is gone...
it doesn't recognise my PC I know about computer so let's go straight to the point.

Let's start.

1.----- I'm going to leave here the link to the video in which you can perfectly hear the sound... then I explain what I think that it is...

2.----- When I plug it, the discs rotate but then it does that weird sound like if the needle wanted to read but it doesn't.
And then the rotation decreases a "little bit" and then before to make that sound the disc increase the velocity.
I don't know if it can be the needle or the mother board or what, and I want to leave the option to open it to the last one... You know what I mean.


I hope you understand what I mean, anyway you got there the proof of the sound.

Thanks any help will be appreciate...



LOL you can even hear the velocity increase of the disc when is trying to read.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgrIknpJmYA&feature=youtu.be
 
Just RMA it. Take it to a local computer shop first and see if they can recover the data on it if it has anything important on it since your last backup, then send it off.

That sounds like a mechanical fault and it's unlikely you'll be able to fix it on your own.
 
One spec of dust and its usually over for the drive. I highly doubt this method works on a high capacity drive with many gigs of data as by the time you may have solved any head sticking issues most of the platter is unreadable in any average domestic dwelling. This is not just something i 'read on the netz', i opened a 500gb once just to test this (drive was out of warranty with bad sectors) and it was unreadable in under one minute.
 
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Tuexnovia said:
Coz it doesn't sound to me contradictory I know of few of cases that people have open their hd and move the needle and was working, then you save the information and rubish...
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Opening up a HDD is a great idea if you want to ruin it entirely.

A speck of dust and it's had it.

They're not assembled in clean rooms for no reason.
 
Martini1991 said:
Another incorrect thing my College tutor said then? No shocker there.
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lol tell me about it... when i did electrics/electronics i was shocked by how wrong they were on some subjects. Can see them dumbing somethings down for the level of education, but some stuff was plain wrong.
 
Justintime said:
lol tell me about it... when i did electrics/electronics i was shocked by how wrong they were on some subjects. Can see them dumbing somethings down for the level of education, but some stuff was plain wrong.
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I knew about the dust thing, but he'd bang on about them being vacuum sealed etc.

I despised College.

It wasn't even limited to the College criteria, some of the crap he spewed.

As for OP, he's going to have to RMA at the very least for a working drive lol.
 
That's why they usually have a warning on the label not to cover any drive holes.

Looking at a WD drive now the breather port is clearly marked on the rear of the drive with an instruction not to obstruct.
 
Martini1991 said:
I knew about the dust thing, but he'd bang on about them being vacuum sealed etc.

I despised College.

It wasn't even limited to the College criteria, some of the crap he spewed.

As for OP, he's going to have to RMA at the very least for a working drive lol.
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Haha i find some of them are so boring they invent stuff, like one who 'sorted out Elton Johns swimming pool lights' 'fixed the aircon on Thatchers Jag' and co-wrote the text book we were using, nevermind his name was not on it! :D
 
It's not just opening the drive, but screwing it back together again with the correct torque settings, so even after using a clean room, a previously working drive will fail.
 
From the sound of that drive I think it's screwed. If you don't have a backup of your important data, then I guess you can learn a lesson from this experience.
 
Re the vacuum sealed thing, I believe back in mists of time hard drives were indeed sealed units, though not vacuum sealed for sure. The velocity and density of components has gone up and pressure becomes an issue, hence the holes, to equalise air presssure
 
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