computerwizard said:
hi,,,
I got a recent problem now... My 160 GB fell down while transportation...... Now i my pc is not dectecting it.. a tek....tek sound comes.. Its a western digital (WD1600) hard disk.... is it possible to repair it... I bought this hard disk from gulf... And a service center for
WD is not avaiilable over here... What should have happpened...People over here say "throw the hard disk out..!!!! "... What do i do......
This is pretty much toasted. Now you might be able to get an identical one and figure out if it is the controller or the hard drive itself that is bad. But once you get that ch-chung cha-chung form the heads trying to sync up and cant find data, it pretty much means its gone. They do not fix most electronics items. IE when you take in something in warranty either they replace the entire board as in a monitor it is made up of like 5 parts, IF the parts cost more than replacing it, they just give you a new one. For hard drives and CD/DVD drives/mother boards and stuff it is a straight replacement. Look at it this way, any tech able to fix this stuff makes around $25/$50 an hour. Even if he could do it in 30 minutes that would still cost the company more money to fix it than to just get a new one. I think 160GB's are less than $100 and prob cost them around $50.
This is why I like to go to flea markets and buy junk like this. You buy 10 of em hard disks and you can get 4-5 of em working by swapping parts and you got 4-5 of em working and it cost you the price of a new one but you have 4-5 of em instead.
IF the HD itself do not look damaged... You can try to RMA it to western digital and get a new one. They usually had 2 inch foam sponge not those foam molding around the HD for shipping so it do not get damaged. Maxtor I know is very specific that if you do not package the HD properly they will not honor their warrenty and will not be responsible for damage in transit. HD's are also able to withstand a drop of 2-4 feet normally if it is not running at the time. IE 50-100G's...
