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Toshiba MK1001MAV HDD2710 1 Data Recovery Details
Toshiba hard drives fail and the MK1001MAV HDD2710 1 is no exception.
   
I have been using a laptop hard drive in a sabrent 2.5" external enclosure for a few months to move files around from one computer to another. The enclosure came with usb cord which has two usb plugs; one for data, one for power. It sometimes craps out when transfering files. In which case I just unplug, reattach and try again. But yesterday when this happened, I plugged the drive back in, the unit powered up but windows no longer recognises the drive. I get a message "usb device not recognised." I have also tried the drive in a couple computers running windows 2000. I get a similar error on these machines "unknown usb device." The drive worked on these computers before as well.
..Mark Dennis, Avon, UK
Toshiba is a notable manufacturer of 2.5" and 1.8"" for laptop and notebook and its storage technology is now synonymous with the groundbreaking capacities offered by Apple's iPods. In fact Toshiba's 100GB hard drive, the world's smallest, is now finding its way into the latest iPods. Toshiba has also managed to shrink its microdrive to an astonishing 0.85" in diameter, which is now considered to be as small as a massed produced HDD will ever get. Bearing or motor probelms occure when drive spins up with loud grinding/buzzing/rattling/whirring noise , or in worst case it appears to be dead and doesn't spin up at all drive is not found in BIOS. If you attempt to boot up from a Toshiba hard drive or read any data from it you could get "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail" or "No operating system found" or "S.M.A.R.T. Capable But Command Failed" or some other Toshiba hard drive error on boot. - A distinctive Toshiba failure is a distinctive whining sound which can be heard just before the drive stops working. It is also common to hear the sound of the motor attempt to spin up, fail, and then retry repeatedly. Toshiba drives can also suffer surface damage caused by the heads being exposed to excessive heat, the heads will begin to adhere to the disk's surface leading to scratches and the manifestation of bad-blocks.
After about a month of working my hd stop working. Its an old Fujitsu 1gb drive, from a Compaq PC.
On the scsi setup menu i can see it but on boot i get the following message:
Symbios Inc. SDMS(TM) V4.0 PCI SCSI Bios, PCI Rev. 2.0, 2.1
Copyright 1995,1998 Symbios, inc.
PCI -4.10.01.HP
Press F6 to start Symbios Configuration Utility... Originally known as MK1001MAV HDD2710 1(Toshiba).
..M Lawrence, Middlesbrough, UK
Another issue typical for Toshiba hard drives is damage to the components on the PCB board. Toshiba 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 chips on the PCB burn out you would smell smoke in the air. On next boot your Toshiba hard disk will probably not even spin up. To recover from this type of problem we need to modify a new PCB board with rom information from original drive.The Toshiba 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.
The last typical Toshiba 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.If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your Toshiba MK1001MAV HDD2710 1 please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Toshiba MK1001MAV HDD2710 1 hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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