I have a 5TB White Label hard drive that started disappearing randomly. It got so bad that it rendered the drive unusable. It's out of warranty so I removed the board and cleaned the contacts. This seemed to make it worst. I then removed the board and took a jewelers screwdriver and pried up on the spindle motor contacts. This seems to have done the trick. I'm in the process of filling the drive up. It's 2/3's full and still going. Before surgery, it would not have lasted 30 sec's much less the 4 hours it's been going so far. Hard to believe this fix worked. After it's full I'm going to do a full format.
Also, when the drive is detected, HD Sentinel says health is 100%. With zero bad sectors I figured it was worth the effort to try and save it.
Also, when the drive is detected, HD Sentinel says health is 100%. With zero bad sectors I figured it was worth the effort to try and save it.