ayemez

Hi,

Two days ago my Toshiba notebook's hard drive (MK8025GAS) started making screechy noises and before I had a chance to arrange backup media, it stopped working. I had a chance to get it running three-four more times but it didn't stay up enough to boot. I have already tried the freezing and shaking method, but it no longer works. The times it came back up was after drive sat in freezer for hours and with couple shakes.

Please listen to the sound at this URL:
http://www.mydatabus.com/5z/lnubb.pbz/ayemez/hard_disk_sound.zip

Can anyone tell me if this is a motor, head or logic board problem? I'm am sort of ruling out the logic board, since the original symptoms started with disturbing noises.

I have ordered two identical drives, just to compare apple to apples. I am planning to format one of the new drives, do error check, then open the drive, close it back up and error check again to see what happens. I have read about people doing this without a clean room and getting success. If the new drive doesn't go bad with couple attempts, I will open the old drive to see if anything inside got loose. If nothing is loose, then the next step is to try to see if I can swap the disks between the two new drives and see if I can still get them to work. If a few attempts work, then I will swap the disk from the old drive to one of the new drives.

Any opinions?

TheMatt

Hi,

Please download the manufacturer's utility, burn it onto a CD, and run it. This will tell the status of the hard drive. If it is failing, I suggest putting it in an external enclosure or hooking it up as a slave in another computer with an adapter and trying to recover data off of it.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...utilities.html