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I believe the more the drive ran, the smoother it became, because if you recall, the platters were completely seized on this, but I was able to work them free. It finally got to a point where it would image 3 or 4 percent without even pausing like it had been. The drive gradually got better, and would go longer without stopping.
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You'd have to start the imaging process over again. And then about every 3 or 4 percent, it would just shut down. This drive sounded horrible, and it would image a few thousand a few thousand sectors.pause. As mentioned above, I imaged the last 10 million sectors or so at the end of the drive, and then I went back and picked up where I left off. Just to give a summary of the last few days. The frustration with this has reached an all-time high!!!! I feel like I'm missing a critical step here, and I'm not sure what it might be. Is there anything else I might be missing on this? It's a shame getting the drive functional again, and then not finding any usable data on it.
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Also, this drive is loaded with images, but in that 10% of scanning, it only finds a few text files and gzip files. I scanned about 10% into the drive, and not one sign of a partition. In WinHex, it locates a lost partition of 2TB, which doesn't make sense either. There's nothing that looks like a boot sector at all. On the patient drive, there's just garbage data at sector 2048, it looks exactly like you would expect it to, if it wasn't hooked up through the bridge. I looked at the donor drive while it was connected through the bridge, and found that the partition is located at sector 2048. However, when it is connected to the bridge, it shows up just like a normal hard drive. The drive shows up, but no partition data at all. I did find that when I just hooked up the donor drive to the system, without being connected to the bridge controller, I got the exact same results. I hooked up the patient drive, and again, no partition data. I tested it out with the drive from the donor first, and that came up and was recognized without any problem, so I don't believe there were any firmware issues causing the problem. I went ahead and transferred the initio chip along with u2, u3 and u5 to the donor controller. I was hoping maybe there was an issue with compatibility from one bridge controller to the other. This time the drive showed up and was not write protected, but there was still no partition. So I had another here, and it was an exact match. I thought maybe there was a problem with the controller, since the drive had been dropped so many times. I then hooked up the original drive, and while the WD Ware program launched, there was still no partition, and still got the same "media is write protected error". I tried to scan the drive and was getting "media is write protected". I went ahead and hooked up the cloned drive to the controller, and still nothing. I know that WD will use a type of encryption on these drives, so you have to run them from the controller. Unfortunately there is no partition data at all. I decided to just take a look at what I had so far, to see if we were getting any decent results. PC3K was repowering the drive about every 10 seconds, and if I selected any other reset method, it would just lock up completely.Īnyway, when it got around 15% into the drive, so roughly 150GB, it hit another bad sector and I had to reset the drive. The only problem was when it did hit a bad sector every few hours, you just had to restart the drive. I found that PC3K was not a good solution for imaging it, so I used Media Tools which seems to get better results. It images very slowly, but it does move along at an acceptable pace. Anyway, to make a long story short, the drive spins up, and is recognized without any problems. I was able to get the spindle free, and then spent a couple of days working out a couple of residual issues that I had with regard to bad vibration. The last drop essentially seized up the spindle tight as a drum.
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Had a case come in, where a lady had dropped her 1TB WD Mybook Essential, the bigger 3.5" disk, not once, not twice, but three times over the last couple of months.