Re: HDD misbehaving - Aspire E5-572G

Techpumpkin_WD — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:19:01 GMT

Hello,

Normally the drive should not spin down so often. Usually it would just park the head when idle. My personal laptop is an older Aspire with the WD Blue 750 GB and I have never experienced such behavior. And I haven't seen any similar issues with the Blue drives in general. It's really hard to tell what exactly is causing it. I guess the only way is to start checking the possibilities one by one. To exclude the HDD itself from the suspects list you can contact WD support for ideas and run the WD testing tool – http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810&sid=3&lang=en .

Re: Hello jstplncrz, Some Aspire 3820T models are equipped...

Techpumpkin_WD — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:13:05 GMT

Hello,

Recovering data from a broken drive would require different approaches for different cases. It really depends on exactly how broken is the HDD. In general taking it to a data recovery company/specialist would give the best results. In most cases if the drive is physically damaged data recovery services might be the only option. You can tell that there is such kind of damage if the HDD/laptop has been dropped before it stopped working or if the drive is making unusual noises. But it could be a problem caused by a bad partition or something else that could be fixed with software tools. It really depends on the particular case.

You can check the list of WD data recovery partners here: http://support.wdc.com/recovery/index.asp?lang=en

Techpumpkin_WD Tracker

Re: HDD misbehaving - Aspire E5-572G

Re: Hello jstplncrz, Some Aspire 3820T models are equipped...