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0xC0CAC01A2019-01-12 17:40:17
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0xC0CAC01A, 2019-01-12 17:40:17

The hard drive is spinning, but not seen even in the BIOS. What can you do yourself to read the data?

The hard drive (WD 2TB 3.5") spins, but is not even seen in the BIOS. Since there is no wallet with a million bitcoins, there is no motivation to take it to specialists and pay a thousand dollars for the restored kilobyte. But there is a desire to pick up a soldering iron, a screwdriver and experiment. If it doesn’t survive, it’s not scary. What can I do myself except to unscrew the board and clean the contacts with an eraser?
I can open it, but it makes sense to open it if it spins and you hear how it moves its heads, and the sound - as usual with screws, there are no unhealthy notes.

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Boris Syomov, 2019-01-12
@kotomyava

Run from some flash drive with dos and mhdd, for example, and see what's up with the disk. What errors does it return, what with smart, etc.
Further, there are already a lot of options, and there are very few soldering irons with a screwdriver.
You need, at least, a com port and a lace with a level converter to get hooked on debugging. A digital oscilloscope with at least two channels, and not very slow. And a bundle of knowledge that is not easy to acquire. As well as expensive and difficult to get software, often.

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SOTVM, 2019-01-12
@sotvm

spinning?=this?
can you see the screw in bios?
if there is a sense of repair / docking the dough, then bring it to the service,
there is no knowledge = do not go yourself (not in this case) = you will kill the information irrevocably PS
well
, you need to start such a question with a description of the hardware

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lisenok425, 2019-01-13
@lisenok425

Only one option is to find the same disk and connect its controller to it, and so you need to look why it is not determined without normal diagnostics, it is unlikely to succeed.

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