Western Digital WD1600JB

[PM4EVER]

2day, in the morning it was a sad day, when I awaked by pc from sleep. I heard a strange noise coming form my HDD.

Yep, it's a Western Digital Carvier SE (WD1600JB@PATA) with all my 160GB full of pure stuff on it! I don't know what the real problem, but I checked it several times, it seams like it powers up the drive prefectly, it beginst to spin like normal, only it's unaccable anyway...if it not even connected. When I shaked it a little when it's turned off, I hear something inside, but let's HOPE not the head is broken. So that why my guess is:

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I need a working electronic panel for it![/center]

So, can someone help me with this? Does someone have for instance such nonworking/working drive? ...or does someone work for WD? :P
Can someone help me get such a panel?

I'm trying to get one from ebay, but there are none defect once right now! :(

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

If you're talkin' about one of the WD Passport drives, they are supossed to be as quiet as a mouse regardless of whether they sit idle/copy files,transfer files etc... Mine certainly is.

[zaphodz]

A 160GB hard disk drive will rattle if you pick it up and shake it. Almost all hard drives including laptop drives will do this.

Is your drive really dead? When they make a rattling noise in your computer (and turned on) it may be because the bearings are ruined and the drive needs replacing.

Unplug your computer. Unplug the hard drive. Now plug it back in and turn on the computer. Can you access the drive?

Maybe try different cables. Try a USB to IDE adapter.

If you can access the drive, quickly copy everything off it.

Replacing the circuit board on a hard drive works if the board is stuffed but won't help you if the internal parts of the spinning disk are ruined.

[PM4EVER]

A 160GB hard disk drive will rattle if you pick it up and shake it. Almost all hard drives including laptop drives will do this.

Is your drive really dead? When they make a rattling noise in your computer (and turned on) it may be because the bearings are ruined and the drive needs replacing.

Unplug your computer. Unplug the hard drive. Now plug it back in and turn on the computer. Can you access the drive?

Maybe try different cables. Try a USB to IDE adapter.

If you can access the drive, quickly copy everything off it.

Replacing the circuit board on a hard drive works if the board is stuffed but won't help you if the internal parts of the spinning disk are ruined.

Well, when I posted the message I allready did everything what you sad. Restarted. Nothing. I used my IDE2USB, nothing...it really seems to me, like the electronic is doing something right. And since the company where I bought it, just when bankrupt, they won't replace noir refund me for anything.

My only hope, is now to find some contact to Western Digital, and maybe they could send me a new electronic panel to it. Other hope I don't see. :(

Mission: To contact somehow Western Digital, so that listen to my problem!

PS: No, it's a desktop drive, 3"5 size, 7200RPM....so just regular!

[AYHJA]

How old is your drive M8..? It may be under manufacturers warranty from WD...But, if its ruined, if you can't access it...It might be time to start pulling teeth sadly to say...You can send it to someone to get it worked on I'm sure, but the people that have the parts you need, they know if you're trying to fix a drive instead of just replacing it, its time to break out the fucking machine...

Sorry to hear about your data loss M8, I've been there and done that, and I hope I never have to do it again...

[zaphodz]

Data recovery costs a fortune.

They'd take your drive, open it, pull out the platters and put them back in the exact same type of drive (all in a clean room).

You could buy another of the same type of drive and try it yourself if you wanted to. No guarantee.

Depends on how much the data means to you.

I'd thoroughly recommend buying two sata drives of at least 750gb to 1tb and doing your own double backups. You can just hook the drives up via esata, sata or usb (with sata to usb adapter) and copy stuff to them when you need to. You can even store one drive off site if it is that important.

Oh and you can encrypt the drives with Truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org) if the data is really important. Very nice program and open source.

[PM4EVER]

How old is your drive M8..? It may be under manufacturers warranty from WD...But, if its ruined, if you can't access it...It might be time to start pulling teeth sadly to say...You can send it to someone to get it worked on I'm sure, but the people that have the parts you need, they know if you're trying to fix a drive instead of just replacing it, its time to break out the fucking machine...

Sorry to hear about your data loss M8, I've been there and done that, and I hope I never have to do it again...

Well, regarding warranty i'm fucked...really....WD doesn't have any contact informations here in hungary. I did have warranty from where I bought it, but that place just closed down meanwhile. I bought it january 2007. Original I got 3 years on it, but where to go if there is nowhere to go. OK, I say fuck that, I don't care if they don't replace or refund...but I WANT MY DATA BACK! :curse:

But, as far as my knownledge in HDD-s go, this drive fuckin works. I turn it on, it spins the disk elegantly, no strange noises, no nothing...it seam to work. Well if the head is broken, then of course I can't do anything, but I rather think that electronic panel on outside is the course of all MADDNESS...so that's why I keep hoping to get somehow a proper panel, so that then I can save my data.

And yay, you are right...now days they really don't care about part, they just replace it, because it's cheaper...and I just ask one of the world famous "data recovery", and the price should be about 1000-5000$! OMG............they are crazy!

[PM4EVER]

Data recovery costs a fortune.

They'd take your drive, open it, pull out the platters and put them back in the exact same type of drive (all in a clean room).

You could buy another of the same type of drive and try it yourself if you wanted to. No guarantee.

Depends on how much the data means to you.

I'd thoroughly recommend buying two sata drives of at least 750gb to 1tb and doing your own double backups. You can just hook the drives up via esata, sata or usb (with sata to usb adapter) and copy stuff to them when you need to. You can even store one drive off site if it is that important.

Oh and you can encrypt the drives with Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org) if the data is really important. Very nice program and open source.

Yeah, sadly those data recoveries cost a fortune! But I will work on it, maybe I know some back doors or what ever...but right now, I try to get the exact same type of drive. I will try to replace my panel, I checked it, it's pretty simple 2 do.

I hope....hope....really hope that the problem is not mechanically nature! :oops:

[AYHJA]

Damn M8, let us know how it goes...

On the other hand, if this does work, you may have a new business idea..! :D

[PM4EVER]

Damn M8, let us know how it goes...

On the other hand, if this does work, you may have a new business idea..! :D

Sure, I will do that! Since it contains all my "hot" images, like my fav Orsi's, I just have to get it back! :P

Yep, it's would be really great idea to finally make a company that cares about tiny things too and tiny persons to! ;)