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Major problems of hard disk drives
 

 
SPINDLE MOTOR
 
POWER SUPPLIER BAD

PCBA power supplying pin and power supply cable connecting node might be bad. and PCBA power connector might be broken

PCBA BAD
If PCBA chip is bad, we can change controller which handle spindle motor
But the problems might be caused by other chips, it is strongly recommended to change good working PCBA

HEAD STICTION
Magnetic head in head assembly unit and media might be sticked together, a little shock would the head to far away from media, but it would cause media to have a scratches, thus a highly trained technician's work is required. Sudden rapid power supply is also possible to solving the above problem, but it is still dangerous.

HARD DISK SERVICE AREA DATA CORRUTION
Service area of hard disk drive contains very important information for hard disk operation, it is usually hard to access. In order to access into this area a special tools and a p°³gram of factory level is demanding, The corrupted data coould be recovered

SPINDLE MOTOR BAD
Defection in the motor itself could be repaired
SPIN-DOWN
 


PCBA BAD

A defection in PCBA would caused this problem. the non working
PCBA could be replaced by good working PCBA.

SERVICE AREA DATA CORRUTION
Which might be caused by service area data, this problem could be fixed by service area data.


MAGNETIC HEAD BAD
Defection in the head disk assembly would cause problem,
it can be cured by replacing magnetic head.


NOT READY
 
If power reached to hard disk drive, a spindle motor would start spinning , it the spinning reached to a stage, the hard disk would start calibration, the terminology "Not Ready" means the hard disk do not performing any calibration work.

PCBA BAD
Defection in the PCBA would cause problem, this problem could be cured by replacing good working PCBAs

HDA BAD
This problem could by caused by errors in magnetic head and/or media, This could be cured by replacing good working HDA.


SERVICE AREA bad
If part of modules in service area is defective, the corruption could be cured by broken module
NOT DETECT
 
The calibration would work, but the hard disk drive could not be detected in a CMOS setup utility and/or system initialization.

PCBA
BAD
An error might be caused by defection in PCBA chip or data connector pins, this errors might be cured by replacing good working PCBAs

SERVICE AREA BAD
If part of modules in service area is defective, the corruption could be cured by broken module. .
HARD DISK FAIL
 
In some case, during system initialization the model name would not appear, or the above error message would aprea and system might be freeze. For example the name of Maxtor would appear as family name of hard disk drive development like "Athena", "N40F" and "Romulus" ,

SERVICE AREA BAD
If part of modules in service area is defective, the corruption could be cured by broken module..

HDA BAD
This errors might be caused by other parts, it might be cured by good working HDA
BAD SECTOR
 


Bad sectors would be divided into physical errors and logical erros, If one stoe many programs on hard disk drive and have been using it for a while, an error might be happened on searching the very data

Physical bad sectors would happened by shock on scratches on the media, and the bad sectors cannot be removed by end users. A special devices and program would solve this problem and make the hard disk to a factory level.

Even though a product is new, it might have some invisible bad sectors, but the manufacturer have hidden those bad sectors, in this case the end users would think the hard disk have no defection, After a physical level correction, a hard disk might have a quality of newly manufactured product. In case of severe scratches, the repairing process might be hard and even though a hard disk is repaired a long term use would cause problems

ALL BAD SETOR
 
A hard disk drive might be recognized, but one cannot access into user data, the total hard disk would be appeared as bad sectors. This kind of phenomenon would appear corruption in service area data, a modification of service area module would cause one to access into service area.
PASSWORD LOCK
  If a user password is set on hard disk drive, one cannot access into user data. In this case the hard disk would appear as all bad sectors, we can repair this errors by special equipment and programs. A modification of PCBA chip would correct this problem, but a special facilities and software and analysing skills are required
 
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