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Samsung P80A Data Recovery Details
Samsung Hard Drives fail and the P80A is no exception to this.
   
My drive Samsung(model P80A) Using the Computer Management/Disk Management utility I deleted the 1st Partition (oops?) and the disk does now not appear anywhere. I know the firewire is working because I installed the hard disk software and this fires up when the button is pushed. I also tried over USB and same result.
..G Laurie, Greenford, UK
Samsung hard drives are well-known for their factory firmware problems. Factory Firmware is stored on the disk platters in the so-called System (Service) Area of the hard disk. If one of the disk modules becomes corrupted the whole hard disk micro-operating system can't boot up, the drive cannot initialise correctly and thus stops working. If you attempt to boot up from such a Samsung hard drive or read any data from it you would get "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter" or "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail" or "No operating system found" or "USB Device malfunctioned" error or "S.M.A.R.T. Capable But Command Failed" or some other BIOS error.
Currently there is no way to fix this type of firmware corruption at home. It is quite a complicated procedure and requires use of specialised expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology.
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
Another issue for Samsung hard drives is damage to components on the PCB board. Samsung Hard Drives are vunerable to overheating and power surges which can lead to a burned out motor or blowing a controller chip on the logic board. If the micro chips on the PCB burn out you would smell smoke in the air. On next boot your Samsung hard disk will probably not even spin up at all!
The Samsung drive 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.
Can a power surge destroy a HD? I have a motherboard that was fried as was well the power supply when the pc was moved from one location to another. I shutdown and attach the HD and the system will not power up. I remove the HD and the system powers up. Its the only HD and the jumpers are set to master. The system wont power up.
..Julie Hunter, London, UK
The last regular Samsung 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 platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear. Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors 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 Samsung 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 Samsung 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 Samsung P80A please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Samsung P80A hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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