HM040GI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM040GI Samsung Spinpoint M 40GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gbps 2MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HM040GI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HM040GI Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Samsung
• Manufacturer Website: www.samsunghdd.com
• Manufacturer Part No: HM040GI/D
• Product Series or Family: SpinPoint M80S
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 40GB
• Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
• Drive Interface: 2.5Inch
• Form Factor: SATA 1.5Gbps
• Cache: 2MB

Samsung HM040GI Hard Drives:

• HM040GI, HM040GI/D, FW AA100-12, M80S, Samsung 40GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• Saumsung HM040GI, 5400RPM, 40GB SATA 2.5″ HDD

Samsung HM040GI 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

Samsung HM040GI Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM040GI 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:
BF41-00105A, etc.