On 09/30/2020 05:40 AM, John Pierce wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 8:33 AM H agents@meddatainc.com wrote:
I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB connector that I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when connected and I could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the freezer overnight the motor spins but it is not recognized by my computer. I disassembled it and could see that the head assembly rests outside the disk but when it is powered on, the head first moves to the center of the disk, then to the periphery and finally back to the resting position. This happens every few seconds and leaving it connected overnight changed nothing.
That repeated seeking suggests it's not passing its self test, and is constantly retrying. It's probably searching for servo data on the disks, and not finding it.
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I see. I have not searched for any low-level disk utility from Toshiba, the manufacturer of the disk. Do you think that might be worthwhile to hopefully fix this?