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Fujitsu MHS2040AT (40,0 GB) Data Recovery Information
Fujitsu drives fail and the MHS2040AT (40,0 GB) is no exception to this.
   
Can read data from the hard drive for the first 2 minutes, and then the hard drive does not respond. Physical hard drive can be seen, is this bad hard disk firmware?
Jack B
London, UK
Fujitsu's reputation has certainly improved since they admitted a few years ago that they had released around 9 million defective drives from their MPG and MPF hard drive series into the market with faulty chips (Cirrus Logic Chip). After several months of use hard drives usually failed to spin up, behave erratically, start clicking etc. This happened many years ago, but we still receive these old Fujitsu Hard Disks into our data recovery lab and in 100% of the cases we get all data back thanks our Fujitsu MPG Data Recovery Solution.
When these drives fail it is essential that you do not attempt to replace a faulty controller board with one from a working drive. Information on the board is specific to the drive it has been attached to and it will not function anywhere else. What's worse is that a different controller board can cause mechanical failure and dramatically increasing the risk of rendering your data unrecoverable. As soon as you suspect your Fujitsu drive may be about to malfunction, turn the drive off and remove it from the system as soon as possible. The sooner you power down the drive the better your chances of recovering lost data once you send the drive into us for diagnosis. These days, hard disk drives from Fujitsu (including 3.5", 2.5" and 1.8" notebook format) generally perform with higher than average reliability than is available from other manufacturers.
I've just been fixing my PC and bought a new motherboard, only to discover the hard drive was also to blame. Yesterday I tried a winXP cd on it in another computer (to check if I was able to keep my install after changing the motherboard), and it found the partition etc, as expected. The hard drive has been disconnected since then. When I plugged it in the new computer, it made whirring & clicking/scraping noises as though it was trying to spin up. The computer hangs at the "detecting ide drives" phase of bootup, presumably trying to find out what the disk is.
John Gordon, Nottingham
Fujitsu drive's can spin up and the head starts clicking right from the beginning with a regular clicking sound. More times than not this a sign of bad heads, if this is the case it is very important to perform accurate diagnostics and eliminate a chance of possible firmware corruption or PCB failure that sometimes could also cause clicking.
The last typical Fujitsu hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the disk platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear. freezing, scratching and sometimes even clicking. Whenever the drive attempts to read bad sector it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the Fujitsu drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from Fujitsu Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your Fujitsu MHS2040AT (40,0 GB) please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Fujitsu MHS2040AT (40,0 GB) hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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