Sorry if this is a very long post, but I want to be as detailed as possible. Forgive me if the english is bad, it is not my mother tongue.. Here I go:
I have a 2.5" seagate harddisk (lets call this HDD-1) which originally came in an external enclosure (now HDD-1 is outside of the casing) that was working fine and very suddenly died on me. It happened while in the process of copying files from internal laptop to the HDD-1, and i was not attempting to format it or anything weird.
Tested on a desktop PC & notebook, in the OS mode (win 8.1) the HDD-1 is not detected from "USB+casing" or even when it is connected by "SATA+no casing". When booting into BIOS sometimes HDD-1 would be detect while "SATA+no casing", but as soon as I try to boot into bootcd like hiren's, the HDD-1 is no longer detected/available.
I thought that it was the pcb that was broken, and happens to have a spare identical 2.5" seagate hdd (lets call this HDD-2), so I tried moving the pcb from HDD-2 to HDD-1, but afterwards it still will not read.
The weird thing is, the HDD-2, with the pcb from the "broken" HDD-1, will operate and read normally. HDD-2 will of course work with its own original pcb as well.
HDD-1(BROKEN)
MODEL: ST1000LM024
HDD P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV1
REVISION: REV.A
F/W: 2AR20003
S/N: S2ZPJ9ED621087
PCB #: WC REV.6 20130517 U4B 1F38
HDD-2(WORKING)
MODEL: ST1000LM024
HDD P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV1
REVISION: REV.A
F/W: 2AR20003
S/N: S2ZPJ9ED621518
PCB #: WC REV.6 20130516 U3A 01HM
Warranty is void on both HDD-1 and HDD-2 because i take both out of the USB casings of each. Don't really mind that much if HDD is broken and cannot fix, I think data inside is possible more importance.
I'm not sure if there is data on HDD-1 that is quite important, so I am confused whether will take to a recovery expert technician. This will be last option.
It would help a lot even if i could just see a list off all names of files & folders. This is so I can decide if worth to take for expensive data recovery or not. Want to make sure I have exhausted all possibilities which I can remedy myself before taking the HDD-1 to a pro, bacause in my country, this service is very expensive and many tech will try to get as much money from you.
thankyou in advance, very grateful for any ideas.
what is wrong
I have a 2.5" seagate harddisk (lets call this HDD-1) which originally came in an external enclosure (now HDD-1 is outside of the casing) that was working fine and very suddenly died on me. It happened while in the process of copying files from internal laptop to the HDD-1, and i was not attempting to format it or anything weird.
Tested on a desktop PC & notebook, in the OS mode (win 8.1) the HDD-1 is not detected from "USB+casing" or even when it is connected by "SATA+no casing". When booting into BIOS sometimes HDD-1 would be detect while "SATA+no casing", but as soon as I try to boot into bootcd like hiren's, the HDD-1 is no longer detected/available.
I thought that it was the pcb that was broken, and happens to have a spare identical 2.5" seagate hdd (lets call this HDD-2), so I tried moving the pcb from HDD-2 to HDD-1, but afterwards it still will not read.
The weird thing is, the HDD-2, with the pcb from the "broken" HDD-1, will operate and read normally. HDD-2 will of course work with its own original pcb as well.
HDD-1(BROKEN)
MODEL: ST1000LM024
HDD P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV1
REVISION: REV.A
F/W: 2AR20003
S/N: S2ZPJ9ED621087
PCB #: WC REV.6 20130517 U4B 1F38
HDD-2(WORKING)
MODEL: ST1000LM024
HDD P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV1
REVISION: REV.A
F/W: 2AR20003
S/N: S2ZPJ9ED621518
PCB #: WC REV.6 20130516 U3A 01HM
Warranty is void on both HDD-1 and HDD-2 because i take both out of the USB casings of each. Don't really mind that much if HDD is broken and cannot fix, I think data inside is possible more importance.
I'm not sure if there is data on HDD-1 that is quite important, so I am confused whether will take to a recovery expert technician. This will be last option.
It would help a lot even if i could just see a list off all names of files & folders. This is so I can decide if worth to take for expensive data recovery or not. Want to make sure I have exhausted all possibilities which I can remedy myself before taking the HDD-1 to a pro, bacause in my country, this service is very expensive and many tech will try to get as much money from you.
thankyou in advance, very grateful for any ideas.
what is wrong
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