MK5059GUXP Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface. MK5059GUXP Toshiba 500GB 7200RPM USB 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK5059GUXP hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK5059GUXP Technical Details:
Toshiba MK5059GUXP Hard Drives:
- MK5059GUXP, A0/GN001U, HDD2J73 Z SD01, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK5059GUXP, A0/GN001U, HDD2J73 Z SD01 T, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK5059GUXP, A0/GN001U, HDD2J73 Z SD91 T, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK5059GUXP 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 MK5059GUXP Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK5059GUXP 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:
G003054A, etc.