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Toshiba MK1011GAH HDD1789 100GB Data Recovery Details


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Toshiba hard drives fail and the MK1011GAH HDD1789 100GB is no exception.

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I have 3 Hard drives in my PC. They have been running for me for over 3 years. Last night, I hear some weired noise from my hard disk and I feel the operating system became so slow and sluggish. I then installed HDD Health to check the health and temperature. So I really have no idea what makes my computer slow down. The only thing I can think of is I set the page file on the critical HD. So I changed it back to system disk. After I reboot my pc, it went though CHKDISK and I saw a lot of index error there... after that, I was able to use my pc again, but still so slow. I tried to reboot one more time and this time, I cannot even boot. ..Jane Smith, London, 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.
    The Toshiba(model MK1011GAH HDD1789 100GB)Hi I have a computer that when I boot it up it gives me an error stating. "Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Not Found" Strike F1 to continue or F2 to run setup I have tried another HDD, another IDE cable and still get the same error. I have also tried a master and slave combination with no success. I also reset the NVRAM through the BIOS and checked all cables. ..Paul Bryne, Newcastle, 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.

    Drive does not spin up. I attempted to swap the PCB from another drive of the same model and the drive does spin up with the new board but then clicks a little and spins back down. Does this repeated as if it were looking for the firmware and can't find it.
    Stanley J.
    Aberdeen, Scotland

    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 Toshiba 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 Toshiba 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 Toshiba MK1011GAH HDD1789 100GB please call us on 0207 112 1770.

    If you hear your Toshiba MK1011GAH HDD1789 100GB hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.