- Apr 3, 2008
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Hi everyone,
Thank you for reading my post. I just recently one of my computers not boot. When I opened it up, I heard the clicking sound. The drive in question is a WD Raptor 150 (Feb 2007). I decided to take the drive out, and attach it by USB to another computer, trying different USB ports, by using one of those kits that has a power supply and hookup external. The drive does detect in windows, with the 3 partitions I have on it, however when clicking into each, no info can be seen.
Since the drive has an open top, I am able to see the head move, and click. It is not moving all of the way across to the spindle, so the clicking is a lot less faint than examples I have seen on the internet. If I do not hook up the data cable, the head does not click at all. I was thinking of trying out a PCB board, if anyone thought it might help. I would love to hear any thoughts short of freezing the drive.
Second issue I have, is with a Blu Ray data disc I burned using a Sony Burner (Nero) and media is Optical Quantum. When placed in the drive, it can read many of the files burned to the disc, however, it stops reading them after a certain point, no more thumbnails show for the videos, the green loading bar in windows explorer slows to a crawl, and it never loads those files, nor can they be launched.
Again, thank you for reading my post, and any help is much appreciated!
Thank you for reading my post. I just recently one of my computers not boot. When I opened it up, I heard the clicking sound. The drive in question is a WD Raptor 150 (Feb 2007). I decided to take the drive out, and attach it by USB to another computer, trying different USB ports, by using one of those kits that has a power supply and hookup external. The drive does detect in windows, with the 3 partitions I have on it, however when clicking into each, no info can be seen.
Since the drive has an open top, I am able to see the head move, and click. It is not moving all of the way across to the spindle, so the clicking is a lot less faint than examples I have seen on the internet. If I do not hook up the data cable, the head does not click at all. I was thinking of trying out a PCB board, if anyone thought it might help. I would love to hear any thoughts short of freezing the drive.
Second issue I have, is with a Blu Ray data disc I burned using a Sony Burner (Nero) and media is Optical Quantum. When placed in the drive, it can read many of the files burned to the disc, however, it stops reading them after a certain point, no more thumbnails show for the videos, the green loading bar in windows explorer slows to a crawl, and it never loads those files, nor can they be launched.
Again, thank you for reading my post, and any help is much appreciated!
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