WD7500AACS GreenPower 750GB HD issue

[TC10284]

I have a Western Digital WD7500AACS 750GB green drive that came from an external USB enclosure. The person tells me the enclosure was dropped a few times, and the last time the drive wouldn't recognize in Windows.

He pulled the drive out of the enclosure and gave it to me to recover the data. When I connect the drive to a USB to SATA adapter, Device Manager shows the drive as a "USB Drive" and shows up as 0MB when looking at the device properties and clicking on Populate on the Volumes tab (IIRC).

When I connect the USB cable to the system, I hear the drive spin up, but when Windows tries to read the capacity, the drive just clicks, spins the drive down and repeats this process once more before the drive stops spinning altogether.

It basically does the same thing when directly connecting the drive to the onboard SATA controller, except the drive doesn't detect when the BIOS scans through all SATA ports.

I tried leaving the drive in a sealed plastic freezer bag for an hour and had no luck. I'm going to try leaving the drive in the freezer overnight and try it in the morning.

Any other suggestions, tips, or software to try?

 

[kjv1611]

It's dead. Roasted. Grilled. BBQ'ed, whichever you prefer to call it. The only way that data is coming off that drive is via a data recovery service, which is probably more expensive than the data is worth.

I tried leaving the drive in a sealed plastic freezer bag for an hour and had no luck. I'm going to try leaving the drive in the freezer overnight and try it in the morning.

Um, that will NOT help. Freezing the drive, then thawing, and using again is not helping anything. When you freeze it, then thaw it, you're more likely causing more damage than helping. That can cause the individual spindles in the hard drive to warp, crack, etc. Or at the least, it could get moisture inside the disk. Either way, it's a no no, no matter how many Youtube videos you see where people do it.

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