Please advise most likely problem - IBM Travelstar hit the floor, clicks while "spinning."
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Posted by -Lost on September 1, 2008, 10:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options Please advise most likely problem - IBM Travelstar hit the floor, clicks while "spinning." What is the most likely culprit in this situation? When I would plug it in I could hear it spinning with a noticeable "click, click, click" during each revolution. Now, a few minutes later it has stopped clicking altogether. Does it sound like something an adept EET (electronics engineering) student could handle? Thanks for all your guesswork! -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Sjouke Burry on September 1, 2008, 10:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options -Lost wrote: quite reasonable after that fall. Also the disk might have a lot of bad blocks, due to surface damage. As the bad blocks get re-assigned to the spare tracks reserved for repair, those clicks become less and less. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by -Lost on September 2, 2008, 10:34 pm
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> Those clicks are the result of recalibration attempts,
> quite reasonable after that fall. > Also the disk might have a lot of bad blocks, due to > surface damage. > As the bad blocks get re-assigned to the spare tracks > reserved for repair, those clicks become less and less. Thanks, Sjouke. In my reply to Jon I touched on what you said here (I'm always so confused as to how to reply to a thread where I had numerous responses.) Any thoughts on leaving it powered on and seeing if it corrects its own problem? Or did I totally miss the point? Thanks! -- -Lost Remove the extra words to reply by e-mail. Don't e-mail me. I am kidding. No I am not. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Sjouke Burry on September 3, 2008, 9:44 pm
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-Lost wrote: >
>> Those clicks are the result of recalibration attempts,
>> quite reasonable after that fall. >> Also the disk might have a lot of bad blocks, due to >> surface damage. >> As the bad blocks get re-assigned to the spare tracks >> reserved for repair, those clicks become less and less. >
I think that in such cases you are lucky if you can get
> Thanks, Sjouke. In my reply to Jon I touched on what you said here > (I'm always so confused as to how to reply to a thread where I had > numerous responses.) > > Any thoughts on leaving it powered on and seeing if it corrects its > own problem? Or did I totally miss the point? > > Thanks! > your files off it. Dont gamble on a "maybe" recovery, the price of disks has become so reasonable, that the gamble is not worth it. I would try to clone it with GOST2003 and an usb drive. Make a clone swap drive and hope for the best result. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by GT on September 2, 2008, 4:39 am
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> Please advise most likely problem - IBM Travelstar hit the floor,
> clicks while "spinning." > > What is the most likely culprit in this situation? When I would plug > it in I could hear it spinning with a noticeable "click, click, > click" during each revolution. Now, a few minutes later it has > stopped clicking altogether. If the hard disk was dropped on the floor it is more than likely physically damaged - not an electrical problem. The clicking you hear is obviously physical parts touching which is a very bad sign! I would put it in the bin and restore your backups to a new drive! | |||||||||||||
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> clicks while "spinning."
>
> What is the most likely culprit in this situation? When I would plug
> it in I could hear it spinning with a noticeable "click, click,
> click" during each revolution. Now, a few minutes later it has
> stopped clicking altogether.
>
> Does it sound like something an adept EET (electronics engineering)
> student could handle?
>
> Thanks for all your guesswork!
>