Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive

sunblock90 · 04-09-2008, 06:05 PM

I have a 250gb Hitachi Deskstar drive that stopped functioning completely. It has a music collection of about 200gb that was given to me on it, so I am doing my best to recover it. Before it died, I was able to get some data off of it by plugging it in to 110volts, and then unplugging it seveal times. I finally ordered a used drive off the internet with an identical serial number. The boards inside also have identicla numbers on the chips etc. I am using the power supply and board etc from the guts of the iomega housing. The platters are intact and it spins at full speed. I thought it was the board or the arms, so I put in the parts from the new drive. No luck. When I plug it in, my computer recognizes it as a faulty usb device, and the arms snap back and forth continuosly. Iomega gave me a price of $1,000 to recover the data which is not worth it.
Any suggestions?

grig85 · 04-09-2008, 06:47 PM

your drive has dead head. dont swap the board - it has nothing to do with your problem.
did you open the drive? if you did, what have you done (tried to move or spin something)? how do you know that platters are intact? Did the head stack start do snap back and forth after you opened it? if you had problem with board - your drive wouldnt spin at all.

sunblock90 · 04-09-2008, 08:04 PM

I opened the drive and the arms looked like the part touching the platters was hanging by a thread. I installed the arms from the parts from an identical unit. Do you know what the jumpers are supposed to look like? begining near the power cord thenskip one?

Tks

grig85 · 04-09-2008, 09:20 PM

nothing you can do about it now, drive is dead. I sent you an email, did you read it?

sunblock90 · 04-10-2008, 04:36 PM

OK. No joy. Is there any other adjustments that I can make to fix it?

04-09-2008, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
sunblock90 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista	Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive I have a 250gb Hitachi Deskstar drive that stopped functioning completely. It has a music collection of about 200gb that was given to me on it, so I am doing my best to recover it. Before it died, I was able to get some data off of it by plugging it in to 110volts, and then unplugging it seveal times. I finally ordered a used drive off the internet with an identical serial number. The boards inside also have identicla numbers on the chips etc. I am using the power supply and board etc from the guts of the iomega housing. The platters are intact and it spins at full speed. I thought it was the board or the arms, so I put in the parts from the new drive. No luck. When I plug it in, my computer recognizes it as a faulty usb device, and the arms snap back and forth continuosly. Iomega gave me a price of $1,000 to recover the data which is not worth it. Any suggestions?

04-09-2008, 06:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
grig85 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 28 OS: xp	Re: Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive your drive has dead head. dont swap the board - it has nothing to do with your problem. did you open the drive? if you did, what have you done (tried to move or spin something)? how do you know that platters are intact? Did the head stack start do snap back and forth after you opened it? if you had problem with board - your drive wouldnt spin at all.

04-09-2008, 08:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
sunblock90 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista	Re: Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive I opened the drive and the arms looked like the part touching the platters was hanging by a thread. I installed the arms from the parts from an identical unit. Do you know what the jumpers are supposed to look like? begining near the power cord thenskip one? Tks

04-09-2008, 09:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
grig85 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 28 OS: xp	Re: Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive nothing you can do about it now, drive is dead. I sent you an email, did you read it?

04-10-2008, 04:36 PM	#5 (permalink)
sunblock90 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3 OS: vista	Re: Dead Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Iomega external drive OK. No joy. Is there any other adjustments that I can make to fix it?