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Fujitsu MHV2080AT (80,0 GB) Data Recovery Information
Fujitsu drives fail and the MHV2080AT (80,0 GB) is no exception to this.
   
My iBook's hard drive failed yesterday, it won't boot normally. What I get is a flashing question mark. The night before, the hard drive suddenly started clicking alot and then the system crashed. I have tried a few options to get to the drive, but the drive will not mount. Tried resetting the PRAM, booting up from a repair CD, using the 'x' key, and connecting the iBook by firewire as an external drive. It won't mount.
..James Watson, Bucks, 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.
About 4 years ago I bought a new hard drive new at a computer show. Two weeks later I dropped it to a hardened concrete floor. Now it rattles inside. Now after a long time I am want to recover the files I backed up onto it. It sort of sounds like a little piece of plastic bouncing around inside when I shake it.
..Jim Saunders, Manchester, UK
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 MHV2080AT (80,0 GB) please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Fujitsu MHV2080AT (80,0 GB) hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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