Click of Death

[ComputerSlayer]

Hi All,

I have an Hitachi deskstar 60Gb hard drive. Its no longer recognised by BIOS and clicks every second or so when l boot the computer. I opened it up in a clean room and the armature is just sweeping across the platters from the parked possition and clicking. I have tried the Hitachi drive fitness test but it can't find the drive. From what l understand, the drive can't find the MBR or there are corrupt sectors at the begining of the drive which is preventing the drive from operating. There is a lot of data l need of the drive. So, my question. how can i get the drive recognised by bios so l can recover my data. The drive is only 2 years old!!!!

 

[paparazi]

As I understood it, the faults that IBM were having on there GXP60 and 75 ranges were down to a third party supplier of a type of resin used to bond controller chips.
Also that there had been a counter claim from former IBM against said company.
I've also read several other interpretations of events so it's difficult to be certain with any conviction what exactly happened.
Your options I would have thought are quite limited:

Circuit board replacement is possible with another identical hard drive (I've had a few successes myself)

Specialized retrieval company (expensive)

Martin

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