It had problems being detected by the system lately, until today it cannot be detected at all. These marks look concerning, like burn marks. The disk is very old, from like 2011 I think.Sorry for blurry picrel my phone is shit
This is beautiful
>>107526006it is but once you open it up, it's dead weight
>>107526043That's as far as I went and I'm not gonna sell it or anythingI wanted to open one up at some point
>>107525819its missing a few bits
>>107526083Are you trolling or are you actually retarded? Once you've opened the disk in a dusty room (we can see the huge dust particles on your pic) it's mostly fucking done. Now even if you replaced the board it would turn on and maybe read data for a while but not for long before the platter was ruined (unless you took it to a specialized lab that would charge you $10000 to get the dust particles out of it with a special machine that knocks the particles out of the disk with an instrument that hovers nanometers from the surface while the disk spins).
>>107527566Wait I didn't knowIf this happens I'll make a thread
>>107525819Usually you buy the same board and swap this little fella first.Time to build a DIY mini cleanroom.
>>107526043>>107527566Not necessarily, it is possible to run them with a lifted case as long as there is enough tension on the screw
>>107527566Well as of right now, it is reading and writing normally. Thread update btw, it works well after cleaning
>>107528504Pics or it didn't happen
>>107525819use a pencil eraser on the contacts and/or alcohol with a swab to clean. make sure the contacts are clean, reassemble and try again. if it's not going then you've got a potential short on the board. could be input protection diode. They tend to fail after a power surge and then the drive will not power. you can remove the input protection diode and it will work but it will not longer be protected from power spikes.
>>107525819i should clarify. the crap you ahve on the row of contacts on the top left (biggest pads shown upper left) have crud on them. the motor controller will not work without proper connection to those pads. you will note the pins on the hard drive that interface with them. clean those first. the winbond chip the other guy is mentioning is the firmware for the drive. don't fuck with that. try the simple things first.
>>107528617The disk is in its tray inside the pc, you'll have to take my word for it
>>107529642This is just crud? They look burnt. I wish I would've tried it to see but I didn't want to touch anything sensitive. For now the disk hasn't shown any signs of problems again, maybe just general dust was the problem. Or maybe the sata connection had loosened. If problems arise again I will try what you are saying
