MQ01ABC100 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ01ABC100 Toshiba 1TB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MQ01ABC100 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ01ABC100 Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Toshiba
- Manufacturer Website: us.toshiba.com
- Manufacturer Part No: MQ01ABC100
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 1TB
- Drive Interface: SATA
- Form Factor: 2.5Inch
Toshiba MQ01ABC100 Hard Drives:
- MQ01ABC100, AA00/AQ001U, HDKAB05AZA01 T, Toshiba 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ01ABC100 Failure Symptoms:
- Electrical Failure Symptoms:
Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize; - Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
Clicking, grinding sounds;
Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
“music” tone as the disk is powered up; - Logical Failure Examples:
Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more. - Firmware Failure Symptoms:
drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
Drive freezes during booting up; - Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
Unable to access folders or files which could be seen; - Complex Failure Model
Toshiba MQ01ABC100 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01ABC100 Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple PCB Number revisions:
G003138A, etc.