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Samsung VICTORPLUS (V40P) Data Recovery Details
Samsung Hard Drives fail and the VICTORPLUS (V40P) is no exception to this.
   
My Samsung - VICTORPLUS (V40P) made and repeated a skipping sound about 5 or 6 times followed by a system shutdown and restart. It's not really a click or grind sound. Sounds like maybe it stops then starts spinning again.
L.Ferdinand
Liverpool, England
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.
A power failure two nights ago took it off line. I noticed the next morning as I scanned my Windows Explorer that it was not listed along with my other 2 disks. The blue light was flashing, which has happed in same circumstances before. Following the Lacie recommendations, I took it off line (turned the blue button off, unplugged the drive and removed the USB cord). I then reinstalled the drive power cord 1st followed by USB cord to Disk then to CPU. I did not plug the USB cord into the same port of the computer as it was prreviously plugged into. Since then the blue light is still flashing and I have no access to all my Photography including my main portfolio. Any help would be greatly be appreciated. It's a Samsung, p/n: VICTORPLUS (V40P).
..M Davies, Durham, 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.
I boot up my pc and one of my hard drives start beeping and the bios wont recognised, I try setting the hard disk jumper in different ways but no luck , I try the Hard drive in another pc but same thing, it beeps and I need to get my things out of it!! any ideas!!! Drive is Samsung - VICTORPLUS (V40P).
Rob Lynch, Dorset
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 VICTORPLUS (V40P) please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Samsung VICTORPLUS (V40P) hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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