scampc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

when puting the damaged platter into a new drive, does that drive need to be identical? or can if be same brand only? same size only? or similar model at least? basically, if i don't have a working identical drive, how can i improvise?

thetech250 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm trying to do a head replacement on a WD Caviar SE (SATA 80gb) Date: Nov 2004, its a single platter but i don't seem to find a match for this drive. All the ones out there are multy platter year 2005 and up. What can I do in this case, would WD have a differrent model with a complatible actuator arm? Thank you

busybjorn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I've once had 2 identical drives failing at the first run. They started spinning and then spin down again making the worst noises. There was no data on it yet but it made me think about RAID and solid-state disks.

seelivetiger (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I only buy WD drives and to this day i have had no problems, i have set up raid0's and switched back and fourth swapping in and out of different computers and to this day no problem :) btw great video

BIGIRISH1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually, it could be one of several problems. Most likely thuogh its the head hitting the platters. Do yourself a favor and watch all his videos till you undertand it all before you do anything. Btw, thank you SuperFlyFlippingA for posting these vids.

BIGIRISH1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Keep in mind the fact that he gets mre Western Digital dead drives could be as simple as the people who are willing to pay to get thier data recovered just happen to own WD drives. I have a WD drive tha still works, its the original 4.2 Gig drive from when 200 Pentium MMX was state of the ART, LOL. Unfortunatlly, I just lost alote of date and it was in a RAID O array. I think he just gets more WD drives because WD has alote more drives out there than the others do.

SolidSnakeSK (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yep

egonsky (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

when you get the spin-klick-klick...klick-cklick sound...is that a head problem ?

Dax47 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I had wd 60, 80 LB, 80 JB, 160 JB, 160 JS, and now 250 KS. They all still work. I lost : seagate 40 gb, samsung 160 gb sata II (in january 2008 - it won`t start).

vox2007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I agree, I have a WD drive in this 2001 Dell 8200, although I did buy another WD drive, the old one I took out still works, and this one I have now, that replace that one is still working. And it's 2008 folks, and I run my PC everyday to.