I have a WD disk, with a broken head. So I ordered a spare, and replaced it. I've created a homemade tool to keep the heads from touching each other. I also replaced the PCB. Drive spins up normally again, without nasty clicks.
The drive failed to initialize in Windows, so I tried TestDisk. The weird thing is the size of the disk. TestDisk displayed it as 11TB. It should be 500GB. I must admit that the spare-drive didn't match exactly with the broken one. The model was ofcourse correct, but the DCM, DCX and LBA differs. Maybe that's causing the problem with the size?
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It didn't show any partitions, so I did a Quick Search. Read errors keep counting up. I calculated the current search-speed and it should finish in about 11 days...
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Do you think I have any chance in getting my data back? Is there any other method I should try?
Thanks!
Muloza