HDD not recognized

[ProjectBox153]

I need help with an old Western Digital Caviar SE drive I have. It has a lot of my data on it, but it's not recognized by any computer I try it with, and when I attempt to boot it, the computer restarts by itself. Does anyone know of a way to get it recognized so I can pull my data off it? Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

propably a dread drive. copy the data from your backups or send it to a data recovery service and pay the 300 ish dollars for a 90% chance of recovery

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

propably a dread drive. copy the data from your backups or send it to a data recovery service and pay the 300 ish dollars for a 90% chance of recovery

Yeah, the fee for data recovery is way too high for me. It's looking like I've just lost all the data on it. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Yeah, the fee for data recovery is way too high for me. It's looking like I've just lost all the data on it. 

That may be the only way, but yea you'd be paying anywhere from 75-300 dollars I'd assume.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

That may be the only way, but yea you'd be paying anywhere from 75-300 dollars I'd assume.

One place I called the other day quoted me $700+ for a drive that had the connector broken off. "Virtualizing controllers" was their reasoning. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

One place I called the other day quoted me $700+ for a drive that had the connector broken off. "Virtualizing controllers" was their reasoning. 

 

 Omg lol, you could probably find a cheaper place that'll do it but unless its very important family photos or for a business id say its not worth it.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

 Omg lol, you could probably find a cheaper place that'll do it but unless its very important family photos or for a business id say its not worth it.

The worst part was that the drive was less than two weeks old. Here is the link to that post: HERE

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The worst part was that the drive was less than two weeks old. Here is the link to that post: HERE

Oh that sucks

[ProjectBox153]

3 hours ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Oh that sucks

Totally. I'm actually about to destroy that drive and RMA it. 

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Totally. I'm actually about to destroy that drive and RMA it. 

How important was the data?

[Guest]

Just now, Abyss Gaming said:

How important was the data?

And will they take back a destroyed drive? (I know why you are destroying it)

[ProjectBox153]

37 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

And will they take back a destroyed drive? (I know why you are destroying it)

The customer service rep told me to drill a hole in it and send it in. The data wasn't too important (some Word docs and Rocket League)

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The customer service rep told me to drill a hole in it and send it in. The data wasn't too important (some Word docs and Rocket League)

Oh ok so as long as it isn't *too* important is fine although the hastle is annoying and the docs files are school files or something I'd assume. OK well as long as it's not busy important those price tags on recovery are astronomically high, what are you Donald Trump?

[ProjectBox153]

8 hours ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Oh ok so as long as it isn't *too* important is fine although the hastle is annoying and the docs files are school files or something I'd assume. OK well as long as it's not busy important those price tags on recovery are astronomically high, what are you Donald Trump?

The files aren't too important, so I'll just RMA it. And what about Donald Trump?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The files aren't too important, so I'll just RMA it. And what about Donald Trump?

I meant how expensive it is lol.

[ZackBarletto]

Ive had HDD's fail on me, but sometimes it ended u being that small board on the underside for the connections.

 

If you happen to have another HDD close to that same model. See if you can take the board off one and put it on the other.

 

The HDD's I done it with only has touching contact pins to connect the Disk to the board, so 4 screws let it come right off and replaced. (Sometimes other "broken" HDD's will have fine boards that can also be tested.)

Thanks to google for this image:

 

This only works for about 40% of the drives I do it with. just a last resort if you planned on drilling a hole in it. lol

[ProjectBox153]

6 minutes ago, ZackBarletto said:

Ive had HDD's fail on me, but sometimes it ended u being that small board on the underside for the connections.

If you happen to have another HDD close to that same model. See if you can take the board off one and put it on the other.

The HDD's I done it with only has touching contact pins to connect the Disk to the board, so 4 screws let it come right off and replaced. (Sometimes other "broken" HDD's will have fine boards that can also be tested.)

Thanks to google for this image:

This only works for about 40% of the drives I do it with. just a last resort if you planned on drilling a hole in it. lol

The drive is a USB SSD, and I can't get it opened. I'll get a free replacement, so why not. The HDD I posted this thread about is actually one of two I have that are nearly identical, so I could try that. They both came out of two separate Dell OptiPlex 330's (both from the same place).