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cajuncalibration
- Jan 1, 1970
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I have a harddrive, a seagate barracuda 7200.7, model st3120022a, that
stopped working. I was doing a routine virus scan and got a blue
screen (I'm using XP, so this was abnormal), and the drive was broken.
It wouldn't detect it in bios, and the drive was spinning and clicking
periodically. Same thing on a different computer. I figured the
controller board had gone bad, so I bought an identical working drive
and switched out boards, and still the same thing. Since I could hear
the platters spinning, I knew they weren't locked up, but the periodic
clicking got me thinking that the heads were possibly stuck on
something (made sense at the time, I don't know why). In a last ditch
effort to get a few files off this drive, I opened it to see if the
platter/heads were free, and both were. I know this drive is now
ruined, I just hoped that the heads had gotten stuck or something, and
I could get it running for a minute or two to get a couple peices of
info off of it and then send it on it's way to the junk box. The
heads just move out onto the platters from the center and immediately
return to the center, about once a second. Now I'm just curious what
could cause this? Any Ideas?
Thanks
Steve
stopped working. I was doing a routine virus scan and got a blue
screen (I'm using XP, so this was abnormal), and the drive was broken.
It wouldn't detect it in bios, and the drive was spinning and clicking
periodically. Same thing on a different computer. I figured the
controller board had gone bad, so I bought an identical working drive
and switched out boards, and still the same thing. Since I could hear
the platters spinning, I knew they weren't locked up, but the periodic
clicking got me thinking that the heads were possibly stuck on
something (made sense at the time, I don't know why). In a last ditch
effort to get a few files off this drive, I opened it to see if the
platter/heads were free, and both were. I know this drive is now
ruined, I just hoped that the heads had gotten stuck or something, and
I could get it running for a minute or two to get a couple peices of
info off of it and then send it on it's way to the junk box. The
heads just move out onto the platters from the center and immediately
return to the center, about once a second. Now I'm just curious what
could cause this? Any Ideas?
Thanks
Steve