Motor spindle issues are very common recently with high capacity drives, specifically any drive over 250 GB is prone to suffer such a situation. These problems usually occur after a sudden or sharp shock inflicted to a drive while it is in motion, it can also occur while the drive is not in motion, it usually occurs on external drives that are accidently knocked over a desk or hit and kicked by mistake, in other words human error. We are at Helpdisc Greece encounter these cases quite often; clients usually come in with a weird look on their face “I dropped it” can we fix it

It’s very important to read some hdd error codes when you are using some Seagate hdd repair tools like pc3k or hd doctors within their cmd mode.  If an error is detected, a drive outputs to terminal its code and brief additional information.  E.g.:    “Code – FE  Track 19A1.3.06E  Sns E00  Rty F7FF.FF.80FF  Rtf 1C00” – “FE” error. The error codes are explained as follows: 00: No error 03: Calculated CRC doesn’t match the expected value 11: Spin error 12: Ramp load error 13: Offtrack 14: Write fault 15: Rd/wr seek timeout code 16: Seek timeout 17: “False” AMDET (mis-timed) 18: Bad burst error code 19: Bad Grey code 1A: Early sync code 1B: Missed am 1C: Failed the servo defect screen threshold 1E: Target generator sector error 1F: Physical sector error 20: Skip write detected using servo burst 22: NRZ freeze occurred (A=A’)&(B=B’)&(C=C’)&(D=D’) 29: Thermal Asperity errors padded in test 36.

The problem can be caused by a short circuit on PCB or a spindle controller malfunction. One contact of the Master jumper is connected to the ground circuit, the other is linked through a resistor array to pin 59 of the SH6950 spindle controller chip, i.e. if the voltage at the contact is = 0V, the drive will act as Master, 5V – Slave.

Why do I get NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED?

Usually to recover data from dead hard drives is not a easy thing and it requires some professional data recovery work and usually cost a lot like over USD1000. When we talk about dead hard drive, we usually connect this case to clean room data recovery opening hard drives and swapping heads or platters. But the following data recovery cases, you don’t need to have clean room or open the hard drives, you just need to follow some simple steps to get the drive restored.

One of the most common data recovery cases we have met is drives with a lot of bad sectors. How to repair and recover drives with a lot of bad sectors ? The following information will help to understand fully about it

There’s always a clue of how to recover data from failed hard drives . There are many failed hard drives from which you have a high success rate of recovering lost data, it depends on your options of recovery once you know exactly the failure of the failed hard drives. Ask yourself some questions about the failed hard drives before performing data recovery.

When you are using some USB devices like USB pen drives, iPod or external hard drives, have you ever met one problem that your USB devices are not detected in the computer? The following are some useful tips to fix such kind of problem before these USB devices are severely damaged and must require to pay to recover lost data from the chips with some professional flash data recovery tools by data recovery super heroes. Usually, within the ability of DIY data recovery, when you think your system is not detecting pen drives, it could be a case when your computer detects your pen drive but does not show up in my computer or their system was successfully detecting USB devices, but may be after some kind of virus attack their system now does not detect any type of USB devices.

Sometimes your hidden files and folders are not visible even when they are explicitly enabled by Show hidden files and folders in Tools > Folder options > View menu. This failure is usually due to the attack of a virus or some malicious scripts. The following troubleshooting tips will tell you how to fix this problem: First and foremost is the point that the user has enabled the Show hidden files and folder 1.

When you are sometimes clicking on the folder or drive in your computer, you may have one Search Window as following: The annoying problem shown in the above window is very common and this failure is usually caused by some virus called ‘PET32.exe’, or it can also occur due to some other viruses which disrupt the windows registry. The following tips will show you the way to fix this annoying problem: **How to fix if search opens when you double click on folder in windows explorer: We need to repair some registry entry damaged by virus corresponding to windows shell