My best advice is DO NOT DO IT, the chances to recover your data through this method is very low, since open the board itself will indirectly expose the disk to surrounding air.
and the disk is VERY SENSITIVE to any particle in the air..

I wanna ask, if they return the same serial number of the old HDD when RMA return, this means they fixed the HDD? Or they took a random HDD and put in my old HDD serial on it?

I support your statement there.

damn...then i have no choice but to send to those data recovery company if i want to restore my data in that broken hdd...

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Added on March 20, 2012, 9:22 ami do not sure what you guys' hdd sound make if dun have enough power supply.
if mine, it will go as beep beep sound.
when my hdd broken, it will has click click sound. like the reader arm making noise..
a big difference there.

This post has been edited by arthur88: Mar 20 2012, 09:22 AM

It happened to me once....
I can said is click-click sound because i can felt the click-click (reader arm hit something) when my palm press gently on the hdd surface.
After that i plug out the usb cable, plug in again and no more click-click.
Maybe my hdd is older than yours, so no beep-beep instead of click-click.

usually no. just removing the board would not break the airtight seal. i've done a few myself. it's only worked twice.

1) it only works if it's the board that is damaged. Not the internal mechanism. Usually it isn't the board that's faulty. That only happens in some special instances, eg power surge, or technician's error accidentally shorting it out while connecting the hard disk without shutting down the power supply.

2) the board must be identical. This means it's not enough to just match the hard disk model number, as each model typically goes through a few revisions. It's practically impossible in a home environment. Where are you going to find another identical hard disk. It's sometimes possible in an office environment, where there are many computers lying around. Especially if you usually buy a number of hard disks at the same time. They will probably have the same board.

Maybe you can help arthur88 to change the HDD PCB as well

This post has been edited by sI Taufu: Mar 20 2012, 10:23 AM

yaya!
can?can?

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Added on March 20, 2012, 11:19 amya me too...i also put my palm on the hdd and felt it...but mine still giving beep beep sound...
maybe if you got one faulty hdd, then you'll know...hehehe

This post has been edited by arthur88: Mar 20 2012, 11:19 AM

I got once before, that's my sister's hdd and she dropped it to the floor before she gave me
It give the click of the death everytime i connect it to my laptop, after that i open the internal casing and try to manually move the reader arm but my laptop still cant recognize the spoiled HDD.

This post has been edited by sI Taufu: Mar 20 2012, 11:28 AM

Guys,I have a faulty toshiba hd with me.
Do anyone know how to check the warranty status for toshiba hdd online?

Is Teledynamics the only company to rma toshiba hdd & will they take hd which are posted to them?

Where did you bought from? Im very certain almost any store bough retailer will RMA it for you as long as your warranty is still valid and proof of purchase, no?

Shops normally only provide free 1st year warranty.After that we need to claim the warranty ourself.

any sign of hdd price decline? =.=

There's nothing to it. You just remove the screws. It comes straight off. The trick is in finding a matching board.

Hi guys, I've a Samsung 1TB hard disk which was bought from another lowyat forummer. During shipping, Poslaju dropped it quite hard i guess and there's a noticable large chip of plastic that broke off on the corner. Obviously it doesn't work anymore.

It's still under warranty until 2014. Is there any possibility of getting through RMA sucessfully in this circumstance?

You may get a "full replacement", since Samsung HDD product and manufacturing division have already been sold to Seagate so you have to RMA through Seagate.

They might return you a Seagate drive once completed the RMA process.

This post has been edited by Axalter: Mar 21 2012, 12:18 AM

Hi, got a question here..
my ladtop 2.5 HDD (Hitachi travelstar 40GB about 10 yrs old) can't load windows due to damage file.
but i dont want to re-install the windows

I want to retrieve the file inside the 2.5 HDD.. can i use my desktop IDE cable to connect to my ladtop 2.5 HDD to access files inside?
if cannot.. what other way can i use?

Laptop? You need to buy laptop IDE to USB in order to use it at any desktop PC, desktop PC's IDE is different from the laptop, SATA however is the same.
You may try to find friends who have it due to fact that your HDD might be spoilt if can't read from the converter you buy, it'll be a waste of $$.

This post has been edited by wildwestgoh: Mar 21 2012, 09:07 AM

u'll get a new one even if it's just bad sector~ it is now manufactured by Seagate since Seagate bought over Samsung in Dec 2011~

Guys, is this serious? It's my boot drive at the moment.