WD 80GB unknown issue

[odedshankar]

Hi Folks,

Hope all is well your side of the world
I need your assistance in a case i've got - please see images:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/495 ... ve-img.rar

Drive was inside an XP machine and stopped working, it clicked when i got it.
I tried hot swap with an exact donor drive to try and read the FW but during re-calibration the donor PCB also clicked on the patient drive so i assumed heads are bad.
I opened the drive in a clean room and haven't seen any obvious damage to platters or heads.
I swapped the heads from the donor drive but the behavior stayed the same, still clicks.

Any ideas or can you assist here?

Please advise,

[GuideRecovery]

swap back heads to patient drive and see if they are ok ?

[odedshankar]

i did swapped them back and aligned the screws and it woks good on donor but not on patient.
Probably micro scratches on the platters.

[AJ2008]

Probably your drive is pre-Royl and has some level of complications regarding alignment?

[odedshankar]

yes looks like it, i swapped heads and try to align - no luck with this one