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Samsung SpinPoint V80 Data Recovery Details
Samsung Hard Drives fail and the SpinPoint V80 is no exception to this.
   
Dead Hard Drive. I put in a spare power supply and it booted up (no monitor or keyboard, just heard it power on). I got the new power supply today, but when the computer boots up it does not detect the hard drive. I put the hard drive in another computer and it is not detected. When the machine powers on I can feel that the drive is not spinning up.
...G Millar Luton
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.
I'm upgrading due to a raid controller failure on a windows small business server on a dell poweredge 1900. It is on a raid 0. The setup will allow me to install the raid controller software and will allow me to see the drives but after it completes the setup will not load and states that the system cannot see the boot files.
..C Harker, London, 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.
Yesterday my hard drive started making a loud buzzing sound of varying intensity for about 10 to 15 seconds periodically. It then stops. This happens at varying intervals - there may be anywhere from one to several hours in between occurrences. The sound is like rapid seeking. Drive is Samsung - SpinPoint V80.
..J King, Sussex, 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 SpinPoint V80 please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Samsung SpinPoint V80 hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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