Hello beautiful people from around the world!
I have a problem which i am searching for an answer and its about a 4TB WD blue hdd, making a click of death (two actually, to be precise) sound.
How it came to this; the disk had 6 partitions and i had windows on multiple partitions.
I almost always made a install on a new partition, so if i would later need some data, i might find it in the old windows folders.
It barely happened and the thing is, you cant just delete these folders later, the explorer doesn’t allow it.
And the computer is not really much in use, so i ignored the random restarts that happened each time I was using it, sometimes the pc would run for a whole hour or more, sometimes it would restart in couple of seconds, meaning where could be two three restarts, before you could start using it.
And I was tired of it and wanted to make i clean install of windows, on a separate ssd, but I was cleaning the thrash from the hdd and removing games and files I don’t need.
I copied the data to another partition and made a format of the partition, that how i also got rid of the windows.old files and folders.
And be the time i did that to the last partition, the explorer froze, and a hear two clicking sounds, after that, the disk stops spinning, starts spinning again, two clicks, stops spinning and so on. one circle of spin, click, click, stop spinning is about 5 seconds long.
I restarted the computer, because I could not get the explorer to run again, but the clicking continued and the drive is not seen by windows, not bios.
Great, and there are a lot of photos from kids, and no backup…
After i tapped it hard for some time, I opened the disk up, nothing there, the heads were in perfect position. there i bought a new (second hand) pcb, with same code and revision, put it on the disk, plugged it in.
The disk did not spin, but it showed up in bios and had 0 data on it. I already googled this beforehand in it was a good sign, i just need to swap the bios chip. The pcb has three almost identical chips, out of which one is the bios.
With the help of work colleagues the bios chip was successfully swapped, but now the tragic part, the disk makes the same clicking sound it did before, the new pcb with old bios chip, is repeating the error.
Is there something else i could do, except give the disk to expensive data recovery specialists (which i made already more expensive, given i already played with the disk)?
should I swap another chip, does anyone know what they do?
Appreciate any help
DISK: WD40EZAZ
PCB: 2060-810011-001 rev P1
Thank you, Ichy
