rokket opened this issue on Nov 18, 2014 · 25 posts
pumeco posted Sat, 22 November 2014 at 7:15 AM
Hey Rocket, don't know if you still have the drive, but if you've tried everything here is something that has worked for me in the past (more than once).
I used to have some Samsung drives. To be fair they lasted well and were always super-quiet when running, but being mechanical they were always going to fail sooner or later. The death of both those drivers were that they eventually refused to spin-up, and beileve it or not I was able to repair both of those drives and recover may data by dropping them carefully against a hard-flat surface using a certain technique.
Basically, I removed the drive, stood it 'on end' on a table, then knocked it over so that it landed 'right way up' against the surface with a nice even slap. That's all I did, stuck it back in the computer and it was fine. Did exactly the same when the second one eventually failed, and again, it worked. I recovered the data from both drives and those drives are still working to this day although I just use them for messing around with Linux stuff these days.
I'm not recommending anyone do this, but it worked for me where the failure was the drives not spinning up, they just appeared to be dead.