We had a WD disk last year (7 years old) that crashed, and of course there was very important data on there.
The thing was making a ticking sound like the heads baching into everything.
So we changed the pcb with that from a disk we knew worked, no change.
So our technician said : " why don't I take out the heads from this good disk and place them in the bad disk"
After declaring him mad several times, he started working on it about an hour later he called me to connect the drive I connected the thing, booted from another disk, copied all files we needed from the bad disk to the other one, and picked up my jaw from the floor.
That technician has my total respect since that moment.
I ran the WD for 2 more weeks after that before it collapsed completely
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We had a WD disk last year (7 years old) that crashed, and of course there was very important data on there. The thing was making a ticking sound like the heads baching into everything. So we changed the pcb with that from a disk we knew worked, no change. So our technician said : " why don't I take out the heads from this good disk and place them in the bad disk" After declaring him mad several times, he started working on it about an hour later he called me to connect the drive I connected the thing, booted from another disk, copied all files we needed from the bad disk to the other one, and picked up my jaw from the floor. That technician has my total respect since that moment. I ran the WD for 2 more weeks after that before it collapsed completely