PC-3000 Forum

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,

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

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.

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

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