MK1031GAS Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 100GB and featuring a IDE interface. MK1031GAS Toshiba 100GB 4200RPM 8MB Cache IDE/ATA-100 44-Pin 9.5MM 2.5-inch SUPER SLIMLINE Laptop Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MK1031GAS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MK1031GAS Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1031GAS
• Disk Family: MK-1031GAS
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 100 GB (100 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 2
• Number Of Heads: 4
• Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 12 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
• Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
• Weight: 98 grams (0.22 pounds)
• Required Power For Spinup: 940 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 2.7 W
• Power Required (Idle): 1.0 W
• Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
• Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division

Toshiba MK1031GAS Hard Drives:

• MK1031GAS, B0/AA204C, HDD2A02 F ZK01 S, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MK1031GAS, A0/AA204A, HDD2A02 S ZK01 S, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MK1031GAS, D0/AA204A, HDD2A02 B ZE01 S, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MK1031GAS, A0/AA204A, HDD2A02 A ZK01 S, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MK1031GAS, A0/AA204A, HDD2A02 E ZK01 S, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• MK1031GAS, A0/AA204A, HDD2A02 U ZK02 T, Toshiba 100GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MK1031GAS 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 MK1031GAS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1031GAS 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:
G5B001283000-A, etc.