Hello everyone.
After many tries to fix it by myself, following different advices found online, i have decided to post my problem here.
The problem is: i have an old hard drive, wd800bb - 80gb. Few years ago it stopped working, along with power supply. So i left it and bought a new one. Then my friend told me that its probably only the circuit board that is broken, and if i can find a new one, which is the same as the original, my hard drive can be saved. Btw, its not the hard drive i want, but all the data that was on it. Anyway, i finally found the same circuit board (1.5 dollars here in Serbia), but from a different hard drive. Its also wd800bb, but the next set of numbers doesnt match, since its a 2 years newer hard drive. But, i looked online, and i found out that these numbers must match, written on the circuit board, which are 2060-701292, and they are matching. I think that is not the problem, but lets mention it.
Now i needed to find the way of recovering my data. First, i tried on my friends pc if i can use it as a secondary hard drive, mainly to see if Windows can see it. It cant, but it can be seen in Disk managment (or smtng like that). It says the model, and tells me its unallocated. Also, wants something called initialization (i hope i spelled right). Howewer, it cant be done, due to an i/o error. Ofc, i was searching for a solution, and tried tens of things and softwares i have found as a possible solution. Recuva, Testdisk, Wondershare etc, i cant recall them all atm. Neighter of these couldnt approach my disk, and some of them were telling its a "bad disk" (i think it was mini tool partiton program). So, my question is, if its possible to know based on the informations i wrote, can i know if the hard drive is still alive or not, i can give some more infos probably if needed. Just to mention i have tried to install Xp or W7 on it, but it couldnt be done, although i also tried every trick i could find on Internet.
Thanks in advance, and i hope this is the right place on the forum to put this tread.
After many tries to fix it by myself, following different advices found online, i have decided to post my problem here.
The problem is: i have an old hard drive, wd800bb - 80gb. Few years ago it stopped working, along with power supply. So i left it and bought a new one. Then my friend told me that its probably only the circuit board that is broken, and if i can find a new one, which is the same as the original, my hard drive can be saved. Btw, its not the hard drive i want, but all the data that was on it. Anyway, i finally found the same circuit board (1.5 dollars here in Serbia), but from a different hard drive. Its also wd800bb, but the next set of numbers doesnt match, since its a 2 years newer hard drive. But, i looked online, and i found out that these numbers must match, written on the circuit board, which are 2060-701292, and they are matching. I think that is not the problem, but lets mention it.
Now i needed to find the way of recovering my data. First, i tried on my friends pc if i can use it as a secondary hard drive, mainly to see if Windows can see it. It cant, but it can be seen in Disk managment (or smtng like that). It says the model, and tells me its unallocated. Also, wants something called initialization (i hope i spelled right). Howewer, it cant be done, due to an i/o error. Ofc, i was searching for a solution, and tried tens of things and softwares i have found as a possible solution. Recuva, Testdisk, Wondershare etc, i cant recall them all atm. Neighter of these couldnt approach my disk, and some of them were telling its a "bad disk" (i think it was mini tool partiton program). So, my question is, if its possible to know based on the informations i wrote, can i know if the hard drive is still alive or not, i can give some more infos probably if needed. Just to mention i have tried to install Xp or W7 on it, but it couldnt be done, although i also tried every trick i could find on Internet.
Thanks in advance, and i hope this is the right place on the forum to put this tread.
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