Hi,
there are some serious experts on this board and I've learned a lot by reading fzabkars posts. Hope he sees this thread and chimes in. A month ago three of my drives failed. Five were running. A SSD survived along with a SATA drive, WD 20EFRX. I lost two Samsung HD204UIs and a WD 20EFRX. I don't know what happened. Drives were on mixed power leads so it couldn't have just been a power spike on one cable.
At this point in time I'm really only trying to save the WD 20EFRX. It contains all my study data, 10 years worth of photos, bank certificates and other things I accumulated over the years. Really, it's everything I care about in digital form.
The thing is that the drive will not spin up. I have ordered a replacement PCB from hdd-parts and swapped the BIOS chip. Well I had it swapped. Still NOTHING. If I plug the drive into the PC, it detects it in BIOS. When I started looking into things a month ago before I ordered the PCB I even downloaded a linux distro with hard drive tools and somehow, I have no idea how with the drive not spinning, I was able to BROWSE the drive. Every folder, every file was there. Since replacing the bios I only tested if it's still detected in BIOS and it is. Haven't yet tried to browse the contents again. Of course I wanted to copy the data the moment I saw I was able to browse the contents but I got an error. Probably expected since the drive wasn't spinning.
Does anyone have any idea what I could try doing to get the drive working? I am seriously desperate.
Thanks to anyone in advance.
there are some serious experts on this board and I've learned a lot by reading fzabkars posts. Hope he sees this thread and chimes in. A month ago three of my drives failed. Five were running. A SSD survived along with a SATA drive, WD 20EFRX. I lost two Samsung HD204UIs and a WD 20EFRX. I don't know what happened. Drives were on mixed power leads so it couldn't have just been a power spike on one cable.
At this point in time I'm really only trying to save the WD 20EFRX. It contains all my study data, 10 years worth of photos, bank certificates and other things I accumulated over the years. Really, it's everything I care about in digital form.
The thing is that the drive will not spin up. I have ordered a replacement PCB from hdd-parts and swapped the BIOS chip. Well I had it swapped. Still NOTHING. If I plug the drive into the PC, it detects it in BIOS. When I started looking into things a month ago before I ordered the PCB I even downloaded a linux distro with hard drive tools and somehow, I have no idea how with the drive not spinning, I was able to BROWSE the drive. Every folder, every file was there. Since replacing the bios I only tested if it's still detected in BIOS and it is. Haven't yet tried to browse the contents again. Of course I wanted to copy the data the moment I saw I was able to browse the contents but I got an error. Probably expected since the drive wasn't spinning.
Does anyone have any idea what I could try doing to get the drive working? I am seriously desperate.
Thanks to anyone in advance.