HDD Swap

[tb582]

I have a hdd that starting making a screeching noise, it wouldn't even boot into windows. I tried putting it into my box as a secondary drive but windows starts to load off of my good hdd but only gets to the loading windows blue bar scrolling across the screen and wont go any further, the secondary hdd will just scrrech off and on, any other ideas, I have tried using ERD commander but no luck either. I have also tried the freezer trick and it seemed to calm the screeching down a bit but still wouldn't detect it.

Now I have a second hdd that is exactly the same as the one that doesn't work, I want to see if I can use the good hdd to get the one that doesn't work to work. Now do I switch out the platters? or just the hdd circut board?

 

[marcuri]

well definately don't attempt to swap out the platters unless you have a clean room (if you're not sure.. you don't). Any dust particle, even ones you can't see at all.. will ruin the entire platters. I suggest bringing it to a professional data recovery place (if you're willing to drop probably at least a hundred or two) or try using programs that recover the data on drives. Please note that using them (recovery programs) could make the data less recoverable as if its a head crashing on the platter it will ruin more parts of the drive. If you also do go that route you're better off doing a dump of all the data on the drive first as you could be making the drive worse and ruining more data on the drive everytime you turn it on.

someone else who knows more will probably respond.. but in short.. whatever the hell you do definately do NOT open the drive up and take the platters out. you will only ruin a good drive, and make a bad drive worse. as for swapping the curcuit board.. probably not gonna do much but its worth a shot if someone can confirm that its possible to do without screwing up stuff.

 

[tb582]

thanks for your reply, I'm pretty sure that the platters are still spinning around and that its the "arm" that reads the platters, if I swap out the ciructs do you guys think that it would fix the prob. with the arm?

 

[tb582]

anyone know?