"Surged" hitachi 250gb IDE Drive

[gclg2000]

a long shot guys...basically i had a power surge from my PSU and now my 250gb IDE hitachi Desktar makes a steady click..the drive was fairly new...i still have it....

I'm thinking (or hoping) its the controller on teh HDD itself.....

If i got another Controller from another Desktar (i realize another 250gb IDE) would be best....you think i could swap them out and recover the data????

I don't care about voiding warranties and etc...

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Since you didn't get any replies here's my two cents. You probably do have a bad drive. A click about one per second indicates a drive that can not read. The clicks are the heads being recalibrated by going to the first track and then stepping back out to the one it is trying to read. You are right that another PC board might do it, but chances are about 50-50 that either the heads or the PC board may be bad. The PC board probably will have to be exact including the Version Number. Good Luck and I hope this helps a little, Jim

 

[Greenman]

I don't think it would work at all, but thats just a guess. And it sounds like more work than getting a new drive. Is the old one under warranty?

 

[gclg2000]

Originally posted by: Greenman
I don't think it would work at all, but thats just a guess. And it sounds like more work than getting a new drive. Is the old one under warranty?

Yes the drive is under warranty..

I have valuable pictures i don't want to lose....i'm willing to void the warranty if i have too...

 

[gclg2000]

just started really looking into this...

Picture of the Info for drive

The drive model # is 14R9249, i search of this # via froogle comes up with a couple trusted vendors that have this drive in stock...(Tirgerdict.com for example).....now assuming its the same part #....and $100 i guess isn't too bad of a price (willing to spend it)....does this appear to be the best match to give it a shot....thought i'd look for a used one in the FS/T section, but its a long shot finding that exact model #....

scroll down teh page some, and it shows the info on TgerDrct's page..

 

[Bozo Galora]

changing the hdd pcb is a 2 minute project with a torx screwdriver - so no harm
you might try the drive in another pc to make sure its not mobo controller
however, i might say that clicking is not usually controller on hdd pcb
the first hing always to try is getdataback software from CD or floppy

hdd failure:

bad hdd controller
bad mobo IDE controller chip
bad mobo SATA controller chip (if separate)
frozen bearing
head crash - scratching platter
platter warped
head separation
servo coil fried

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: gclg2000

Yes the drive is under warranty..

I have valuable pictures i don't want to lose....i'm willing to void the warranty if i have too...

just wondering, are you a photographer?

 

[thegorx]

try running the fitness test and have another drive and a boot disk image program ready
something simple like a ghost floppy or ghost dos CD

sometimes you can get the drive past the clicking by scanning with the fitness test and ghost it right after
if you can exit the fitness test and got into the image program that might have a chance

Well I just tried the fitness test, I thought it use to go back to pc dos when you exit but this version doesn't

I'm curious about this surge you're talking about
Do you have a real crappy PSU ?
I remember with my old deathstars the fitness gave me a error code that said it was caused by a power surge or something like that

this is why I'll never buy deathstars again ..... IBM or Not they're still the same.

I could be wrong because I don't really know the situation but I don't think switching the pcb is gonna work, you'll probably just end up giving these guy more of your money for junk

 

[gclg2000]

no it was a OCZ 600w....

I was testing out a EVGA SLI (piece of ******) mother board...all i did was transfer all the parts to the EVGA...somehow...the EVGA and OCZ didn't mix...my raptor nearly caught on fire....it was smoking very badly...then i just pulled the plug....

After that the HDD stopped working...