Western Digital Hard Drive Recovery AC23200-75LC DCM:BRABRRCA0ACG

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Configuration: Dell Desktop computer, Pentium 4, 500 Meg RAM, Western Digital Caviar AC23200-75LC hard drive.

OS / Filesystem: Novell 4.11, NFS

Failure: Bad Heads, clicking hard drive, not drive ready.

Data Recovery procedure

• step 1: Find yourself an identical hard drive for parts. The hard drive must match exactely, MDL:AC23200-75LC and DCM:BRABRRCA0ACG, a close date code would be good also for good mesure (16 APR 98).
• step 2: A proper clean room will be required for the next steps.
• step 3: Minimum tools: WIHA torx screwdriver set, surgical quality tweezers, a precise X-Acto knife and a decent set of high quality needle nose pliers, and a hammer.
• step 4: Dust off the drives removing as much excess dust and dirt as possible so as to not contaminate the clean room
• step 5: Remove the seal on the side of the drive and all screws including the screw under the label, remove the hard drive cover.
• step 6: Using the drive case as leverage, remove the hard drive magnet with the needle nose pliers.
• step 7: Remove the plastic head travel stopper.
• step 8: Rotate the platters slightly while sliding the heads off the platter surface.
• step 9: Remove and replace the head assembly. Reverse all steps to re-assemble the hard drive.
• step 10: Almost done, clone the hard drive to a suitable destination hard drive equal or greater in capacity ignoring all bad sector(s), use COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery, inc..
• step 11: If there are too many bad sector(s) you will want to run some data recovery software to recover your files otherwise you should be able to just boot the cloned hard drive.