Comments on: Hitachi Laptop Hard Drive Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/ Hard drive recovery data recovery resource center with how to guides for windows RAID Snap server file system repair NTFS partition recovery tools tips and tricks to recover data Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:31:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Raveen http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-7358 Raveen Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:42:10 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-7358 Hi! I'm after some advice... I installed a Hitachi Travelstar 160GB SATA (5400rpm) hard drive, in my HP NX7400 laptop about 18months ago. It has been working fine on XP Pro since day one, until yesterday. I swtiched the laptop on like usual last night, and all I get is "Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart". Can you please advise me what the best way is to get back into the swing of things! I have years worth of photos and music and documents on there that I cannot afford to lose. Please help :( Raveen x Hi! I’m after some advice…

I installed a Hitachi Travelstar 160GB SATA (5400rpm) hard drive, in my HP NX7400 laptop about 18months ago.

It has been working fine on XP Pro since day one, until yesterday. I swtiched the laptop on like usual last night, and all I get is “Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart”.

Can you please advise me what the best way is to get back into the swing of things! I have years worth of photos and music and documents on there that I cannot afford to lose. Please help :(

Raveen x

]]> By: Winfred Tipton http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-6823 Winfred Tipton Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:02:25 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-6823 After by daughter hit the laptop in the area of the hard drive it quit working, as near as I can tell the har drive is not working ie; it say the operating system cannot be found.. Any ideas ??? After by daughter hit the laptop in the area of the hard drive it quit working, as near as I can tell the har drive is not working ie; it say the operating system cannot be found.. Any ideas ???

]]> By: MD Faruk AHamed http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-6808 MD Faruk AHamed Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:08:36 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-6808 I lost my motherboard Cd or Data Recovery CD. For this reason I can Reinstall My Laptop. If u plz tell me how can i get that cd. I lost my motherboard Cd or Data Recovery CD. For this reason I can Reinstall My Laptop. If u plz tell me how can i get that cd.

]]> By: Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-4496 Michael Stankard Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:52:17 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-4496 SuperDave - It sounds like your drive has the click of death. A clicking drive usually means that the heads can no longer read the platters. They go into a seek pattern and that causes the clicking. We have to open the drive in or clean room and replace the heads to recover the files. This is expensive, around $900 depending on how many gb's the drive is. If the drive is still recognized by the bios you might try to clone it with Speed Clone which would allow you to get the data off to another drive, but that will only work if the drive is recognized. SuperDave –
It sounds like your drive has the click of death. A clicking drive usually means that the heads can no longer read the platters. They go into a seek pattern and that causes the clicking. We have to open the drive in or clean room and replace the heads to recover the files. This is expensive, around $900 depending on how many gb’s the drive is. If the drive is still recognized by the bios you might try to clone it with Speed Clone which would allow you to get the data off to another drive, but that will only work if the drive is recognized.

]]> By: David http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-4492 David Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:48:02 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-4492 I have the same problem as Hasan, although my model # is IC25N020ATMR04-0. it started out as my main drive and once it failed (thinking that it was simply a memory overflow) I connected it to a computer, externally, via USB and the drive would click and nothing would appear as to what the drive holds. Please help superd@ve I have the same problem as Hasan, although my model # is IC25N020ATMR04-0. it started out as my main drive and once it failed (thinking that it was simply a memory overflow) I connected it to a computer, externally, via USB and the drive would click and nothing would appear as to what the drive holds.

Please help

superd@ve

]]> By: Hasan http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-1061 Hasan Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:51:48 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-1061 Hi, I feel shattered right now because the disk that I was using as an external/movable usb isn't working. Here is the model number IC25N040ATMR04-0 When I plug it in the USB, it gives the read light and then turns light green but doesn't show any data at all. The taskbar shows that there is something connected but then data isn't available Please help Hasan Saleem Hi,

I feel shattered right now because the disk that I was using as an external/movable usb isn’t working. Here is the model number IC25N040ATMR04-0

When I plug it in the USB, it gives the read light and then turns light green but doesn’t show any data at all. The taskbar shows that there is something connected but then data isn’t available

Please help

Hasan Saleem

]]> By: Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-525 Michael Stankard Sun, 06 May 2007 00:08:12 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-525 Sorry for the delay in getting back to this comment. Here is the response from Malcolm our chief data recovery engineer: It’s not a matter of running a diagnostic tool on one of these drives if the drive is clicking or your machine is starting to freeze up or behave erratically... If the data is important I would recommend not going any further & DO NOT run the CHKDSK utility on the drive. It is common practice to go through 3 donor parts drives to recover data from one of these drives so playing around with one of these in a volatile state is not a good idea. Then if this is for educational purposes... the first sign of trouble is the indication of bad sectors... Many tools including winhex or Norton’s can detect if a drive has bad sectors. Bad sectors can be caused logically through system area corruption, or physically by sector timeouts or bad read\write heads or Catastrophic Platter damage. There are common faults appearing in the IC25N030ATCS04 family of drives. Many are related to fine rings around platters and the failure of one or more read\write heads. Hitachi also provide a downloadable application called Drive Fitness Test Version 4.09 The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (Note: other DFT restoration utilities may overwrite data.) Downloads <a target="blank" href="http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm?linkto=QL" rel="nofollow">Hitachi Drive Diagnosis Tool</a> Sorry for the delay in getting back to this comment. Here is the response from Malcolm our chief data recovery engineer:

It’s not a matter of running a diagnostic tool on one of these drives if the drive is clicking or your machine is starting to freeze up or behave erratically…

If the data is important I would recommend not going any further & DO NOT run the CHKDSK utility on the drive.

It is common practice to go through 3 donor parts drives to recover data from one of these drives so playing around with one of these in a volatile state is not a good idea.

Then if this is for educational purposes… the first sign of trouble is the indication of bad sectors…

Many tools including winhex or Norton’s can detect if a drive has bad sectors.

Bad sectors can be caused logically through system area corruption, or physically by sector timeouts or bad read\write heads or Catastrophic Platter damage.

There are common faults appearing in the IC25N030ATCS04 family of drives. Many are related to fine rings around platters and the failure of one or more read\write heads.

Hitachi also provide a downloadable application called

Drive Fitness Test

Version 4.09

The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (Note: other DFT restoration utilities may overwrite data.)

Downloads
Hitachi Drive Diagnosis Tool

]]> By: Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-474 Michael Stankard Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:45:53 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-474 Tomas, I am sending a request to our engineers for an answer to your question. It will be posted here when I receive the info on Hitachi Hard Disk Diagnostic tools. Tomas, I am sending a request to our engineers for an answer to your question. It will be posted here when I receive the info on Hitachi Hard Disk Diagnostic tools.

]]> By: Tomas http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-473 Tomas Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:19:27 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-473 My laptop's drive is a IC25N030ATCS04-0. I'm looking for a hard drive utility/diagnostics tool similar to Maxtor's Powermax for the IC25N030ATCS04-0. Does Hitachi or IBM provide such a tool? I've been to their sites and it wasn't much help. I need to check if the hard drive is busted or not and I'd prefer a manufacture-specific diagnostic tool for the hard drive (i.e., Hitachi diagnostic tool for Hitachi drives; etc.) Thanks. My laptop’s drive is a IC25N030ATCS04-0. I’m looking for a hard drive utility/diagnostics tool similar to Maxtor’s Powermax for the IC25N030ATCS04-0. Does Hitachi or IBM provide such a tool? I’ve been to their sites and it wasn’t much help. I need to check if the hard drive is busted or not and I’d prefer a manufacture-specific diagnostic tool for the hard drive (i.e., Hitachi diagnostic tool for Hitachi drives; etc.)

Thanks.

]]> By: Davedata99 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-41 Davedata99 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:36:45 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comment-41 I believe the CSO4 models are now getting rings or minor scoring because of heads degrading over time and old age in general. Especially the 20,30 and 40gb models which have been around for years now. I believe the CSO4 models are now getting rings or minor scoring because of heads degrading over time and old age in general. Especially the 20,30 and 40gb models which have been around for years now.

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