I was wondering if there is a knowledge base on troubleshooting HDD failures and when it might be viable to try certain repair/recovery techniques.
I recently got a WD20EARS 2TB Drive from a customer in hopes of retrieving data. The drive reads as zero size, I can't hear any head activity but it does appear the platter is spinning I can feel some gyroscopic action picking up the drive.
As a shot it the dark I bought a donor board and swapped the rom chip. Same issue zero byte drive.
I'm assuming that the armature is no longer functional internally so no data can be extracted from the Drive without clean room data recovery services, but would like any second opinions on whether or not there is anything else I can try.
Thanks.
I recently got a WD20EARS 2TB Drive from a customer in hopes of retrieving data. The drive reads as zero size, I can't hear any head activity but it does appear the platter is spinning I can feel some gyroscopic action picking up the drive.
As a shot it the dark I bought a donor board and swapped the rom chip. Same issue zero byte drive.
I'm assuming that the armature is no longer functional internally so no data can be extracted from the Drive without clean room data recovery services, but would like any second opinions on whether or not there is anything else I can try.
Thanks.