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Montreal, QC
kudos:3 | [hard drive] WD2500 Status BAD This is a SATA Western Digital WD2500JD Hard Drive manufactured 01 Aug 2004 that I brought at the end of september 2004. I had 3 partitions on it, the first one being my C: drive. (I also have another HDD with my music on it)
Motherboard: Asus P5AD2-Deluxe, CPU Intel 3.4Ghz HT 800 FSB, Memory: Kingston KVR 667Mhz DDR2 No-ECC 2Gb Kit (I know... not recommended but still works).
So, I never shut down my computer, except when I have visitors needing to sleep in the computer room (read: noise). Back in may 2007 when my visitors said goodbye, I powered on my computer and... click click noise from the HDD and I'm stuck in BIOS. huh hoh! I've put it in the freezer for an hour, let it unfreeze and tried it the next day, still click click. I stored it in a drawer and used an old PATA 26Gb drive then brought a SATA 160Gb drive...
Fast forward to today, I did plug it as a Sata Slave (data disk), power it on, I don't hear the "click" anymore but the BIOS and Windows take a hell lot of time. BIOS says "Status BAD", and once in windows, disk manager doesn't show it to me.
I've plug it as master sata, I get the Windows XP splash screen then a BSOD with an error message I forgot about. I then booted with the WinXP installation CD, it detects the HDD and tells me there's 3 partitions on it, sizes are ok, but C is x-1 Mb free and the 2 other partitions have 0Mb free.
I'm looking for ways to "Frankeinstein" my HDD in order to be able to get back some data I left on it, nothing precious but still interesting. I did unscrew the green card and noticed I can pull it away without tearing any wire.
If I do the same with another green card (other disk size), any chance? Or is the disk size info part of the chip? Thanks for any suggestion.
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| Swapping the circuit board only helps if the failure is due to a problem with the circuitry. The click-click-click indicates a physical issue (motor, bearings, crashed heads, etc.) that swapping the electronics won't fix. |
