Friday 28 February 2014

Seagate ST3320820AS Knocking Sounds Data Recovery





Make:

Seagate Hard Drive
Model:
ST3320820AS
 
Capacity:320GB
Firmware:3.BQE
Interface:3.5 SATA
Failure:Magnetic heads problem
Symptoms:
 Knocking Sounds on read
 
 
The drive was crashing on attempt to read, one of the magnetic heads was crashing and making a knocking sound. we adjusted the firmware and stabilised the drive on a special equipment, the problem heads was disabled. Majority of the data was recovered.