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Why can’t other you tubers be as straight to the point and explain perfectly like this chap instead of waffling on about something that has no bearing on the case in point? Great job my friend.
I tried your technique, and it worked. You hit the problem right on the head! The disk head was on the platter just like in your video here! I pushed the disk head back to the landing zone. It took a lot of restarts, shut downs to power back up, and prayers on my Mac to get that led light back blinking again! I almost jumped through the ceiling with happiness! Brother, you was a blessing indeed! And, I subscribed to your channel out of appreciation!
The explanation for why the arm gets stuck was really helpful, as it helped me determine that this is probably my issue before having to open up the hard drive to see. Your thorough walk through was much more helpful. I saw this same fix with someone who relied more on the demonstration, and I was totally lost. After this tutorial, it's so straightforward to me now.
@@EasyTechsyo man my laptop is not turning on its beeping from the speaker and i hear clecking and a little beep from inside i didnt my laptop for like 2/3 months and was in a slanted position anyway i can fix it without opening?
Amazing stuff can't say it works since I don't have the screwdriver but I definitely have the same clicking sound and completely abandoned the idea of having my hdd working. Thanks a lot for that video and where were you in the 2000's ? I feel like this should have existed way before 2018.
This is how you make a tutorial! Thank you for the quality here. Can't wait to try it! Love your accent - sincerely a photographer with too many harddrives from Texas!
just this weekend I had the same disk problem, I used and old trick because I'm old and I've been doing these repairs for a long time, I put the drive in the freezer for 2hours, this shrink all the components, then as fast as you can you plug it on your interface, and many time this work because the shrinking brings the data head away from the stuck place, and yes I've been able to restore the data without opening the drive casing. hope this can help some others whom are affraid to open the casing, your video is fantastic but for sure you are not the average tech, you are a ppro sir, continue with those great video
Saw another video where the same thing was done. However, that person turned it anti-clockwise and also moved the needle clockwise spinning them both at once to dock the needles out of the disk area. I haven't opened my HDD yet, But Now I'm super confused. Any help?
You are the first person I have seen who does it by turning the record in the opposite direction. So far, everyone I have seen uses the screwdriver to secure the record and pushes the needle out with another object. I think your method is cleaner. I will try it.
Thank you! Dropped my hard drive and the connector was fine, there was spinning and crunching sounds when on and the computer didn't recognize it (even on disk utility - macbook air). I can't fork out 1K for a data recovery and this is worth a shot. Thank you so much!
I have a WD Passport 5TB drive, its making the clicking noise , I opened up the drive arm goes back and forth a few time power light is on but it wont read this happened after i dropped the drive on my basement floor it fell out of my hand, can i recover the DATA on my own the plates are clear like a mirror, OR do i need to replace the arm reader?
Brother, you're such an MVP. Thanks for the video. Guys if you have relatively new hdds that still have its light on but not detected and sounds stuck, definitely do it in this video carefully.
Please heed the warning to do this only as a last resort as once you open the drive in any environment other than a "clean room", particles of dust will enter the drive and destroy it over a relatively short period of time. This is because the read/write heads on the end of that swinging arm float on a microscopic cushion of air just above the delicate surface of the spinning platters. A dust particle is relative to the size of a boulder compared to the space between the platters and the heads and scrapping of the magnetic material will occur releasing more particles which will continue to cause more damage. If you are able to access data on the drive after doing this, I highly recommend that you copy whatever you need off of it as quickly as possible before total failure inevitably follows.
SUBBED!!!! I just tried this on a Lacie external drive and it WORKED!!! I opened the drive and the disc head was in the parked position. I thought that it must be the motor or something else causing the issue because the disc heads weren't parked in the middle of the platter. After putting the hard drive back together, I called FileSavers. They quoted me a 100 dollar consultation fee since I had already opened the drive and that it would be another 700 to 2500 to recover the data! I thought I'd try plugging in the drive one last time and EVERYTHING WAS THERE!!!! I'm currently backing it all up to an external SSD just to be safe. Thank you so much!!!!
I had a similar hard drive which has clicking sounds. First I took it to the repair shop and they did initial checks for a small fee. Then they came back and said they cannot guarantee data recovery but will not charge me full in that case. The minimum fee is really expensive and I don't really have that much critical data (only MP3 songs and holiday photos). I then took the risk of doing it myself and it worked! Thanks but I used a hook to move the reader to the side.
Thank you bro. Every single service centre in my area said it is impossible to service and the only option is to recover data (which will cost me $350 minimum and just to check if it will work or not I have to pay $50). I took the leap of faith.
EXCELLENT! I can't tell you how many times I've opened a drive to find this, and tried to manually move the arm! that is NOT the way to do it!! LOL. thank you, I have 11 drive waiting for me back at the shop to try to save!
Great video and explanations on repairing broken hard drives with beeping or clicking noises! I like the video because one of my backup drives got soaked into the water. It got into the water because I spilled one time a lot of water from a water bottle in my backpack when going to an Apple store in San Francisco, California, U.S. for some broken technology issues. After it spilled, I still can recover my data, takes about a week to recover my backup drive data, meaning that all my photographs and videos, from all over the world and childhood. After that, yesterday my backup storage drive started making beeping or clicking noises similar like yours, so I researched on RUclips and saw your video. I hope it will work on my backup drive.
@@dncontent3091 What is the best way to backup files in this cases ? I have seen some hdd readers that transfer data. Or just connect a usb to pc and transfer it there ?
I have previously attempted a similar fix (I moved the head itself rather than the platters)and it still doesn't work. The drive spins up but it still makes the clicking sound and under careful observation, I saw the arm is not even moving. Is there a way to fix this - either myself or a repair shop - or is it the end for my drive?
Can you please advise what to do if the arm goes back and forth? It moves on the plate and then back, and it keeps repeating all the time. My wife is devastated but I don't know what to do in this scenario.
Hi...What if my portable hard disk makes continuous clicking noise while it still can flash up my folders unfortunately cannot read or open any files at all. Should I attempt your stunt which I think I should keep this attempt to the last when all else fails to help. By the way my hard disk became faulty because of premature removal from USB. Hope you can help. 0:24
I m having this same beeping scenario with one of my portable HDD after it topple over to its side on desk. After you have taken it apart and all that, did any of the files get damaged or lost?
@EasyTechs What size screwdriver did you use? I think I heard T6 torx? Is that the size to use for the Lacie WD Scorpio Blue? Thanks for your help in advance!!
Excellent demo, very easy to understand. Mine just makes regular clicking, scratchy noises. 1st, I cant see any physical damage to any of the fuse's or components using my magnifying glass and 2x pairs of glasses! Have now taken the other side off to reveal the platter which had some tiny dust? particles. Used a blower brush to remove them without touching the platter. On the faulty 2.5" the needle is in the parked position. and when I rotate clockwise the needle is not moving. I can see a thin, delicate leaf spring that runs along the length of the needle which is attached to the top and bottom mountings. I'm not bothered about the drive contents. I always make backups on several other drives, so nothing was lost here. Will keep researching - thanks for a very helpful video on this. 👍
Will opening the hard drive cover corrupt my platter , I have a desktop top Toshiba 1tb hard drive which stopped working few days ago and it is also making a tik tik pendulum sound please guide
hi, when i move the platter, the disk head does not move. it is stuck pointing very close to the centre of the platter. should i use force to move it out of the platter? i guess not. any ideas? there is no clicking noise, btw. more like a rattling or wheezing noise. like loud snoring :D thanks
Did all this, but sadly the external recognised the connection but didn't open any data... so I'm not sure if this is all lost data or if there is still hope of recovering what was on it.
In my case I did the same carefully moved the head to the orange pocket with utmost care and almost dust free environment and then tried to power it on. Then every time it starts the head moves three to four times and gets back to the orange area, The disk rotates for sometime and then everything stops. It happens every time tried to power the drive.. What could be the issue, is it power issue? Need to replace the PCB?
whatt if there is that click noise and the start but the heads were at rest when opened? also move in and out of the disc when motion is set with the screwdriver clock wise and vise versa ? but the disk does not recognized form system > any clues ?
@@EasyTechs I have a question, i followed your tutorial and the disk is running, but now it's telling me that the drive is "uninitialized", is there any hope i recover the data on it?
since that problem has happened in my laptop hard drive, it makes the exact same noise but even louder, at that point im thinking it would blast inside my laptop. i've started experiencing major problems like extreme stuttering, lagging, infinite loading or crashes on the most of the games, and file explorer gets completely frozen for some seconds. my data are hopefully safe in my online vault, but still disappointing, any other way?
What is connecting the disk you hear 3 clicks for a WD Easystore 4TB HDs. Does it sounds like the same symptom where the head had problem going back to the landing zone or the had is completely toast?
hi, I have a drive that doesn't spin but I opened it and the head was on the landing position. if I plug it and put my ear really close to it, it makes a very soft click like noise once every second, almost impossible to hear. It's still not spinning, what could it be? it gets a bit hot after just a few seconds of plugging it in
Happy to see video like this! Could this be the reason why my hard disk is very very slow and always hook up ? I can't even use it to browse smoothly talk more of installing apps that I needed to install.
Hi Sir. Can you help me to repair my 1 TB HDD Transcend, that was detected but it does not appear on My computer. It creates clicking sound. When I tried this video and found out the platter is place on its original location so I put back and tried to plug in. When I open Disk management, it appears that the disk shows "unknown" and "not initialized".
Same! When it prompt me to "initial disk" to GPT, it says "The Device is not ready". It's working in the first place, but I decided to try it on a new 4 Port USB 3.0 hardware with external USB power. Realised the other 2 HDD and 1 Thumbdrive worked, except for this one (sounding like not enough power). And then later when I disconnect it, it can't be detected as a drive already, only showing on "Disk Management" as a drive as "Not Initialised".
Ok I think I am going to give a really "bad" advise.... I was giving up on my hdd, so I end up shaking it gently when it's off the plug, and plugging it back, it started to work again....... mechanical parts shouldn't introduce any of such motion (worst scenario is to try knocking on if as if it's jammed part), but somehow my Toshiba 1TB drive worked again after this....
Ok when I try to access the folders within, it hanged my windows 10 system, so when I force disconnect it (since I can't eject it anymore), the problem came back.... will just leave my comments here, see if anyone can explain what is this about if they happen to know...
Thank you! Just found this video. I know this is an old video but I highly recommend getting your thumb nail checked out. A long line like that on the nail could be a bad sign.
Hello. Thanks for the explanation, mine was also stuck in the middle of the platter and i fixed it like you showed in the video, its not beeping anymore but it still doesnt work when i connect it to the pc. It makes some strange clicking or vibrating sound but PC doesnt recognize the hard disk. What can i try now?
Its dead. You can only use it once. Once you opened it for the first time. So if you do this method as last resort, be prepared to back everything up from the device, cause once it's done and disconnected. I won't be the same again.
Mine wasn't stuck, nor on the disk. I took the hard drive enclosure off and plugged it in to my PC (it's an external), and it seems that it's getting stuck on the orange piece that catches it. It also seems to be sporadic, or it could just have more than one issue. Any suggestions?
Hi. I followed the steps shown in the video on my external seagate backup slim plus hard disk. However the beeping sound is still audible and the hard disk stops spinning after a minute from being connected to the laptop. Can you please help?
Clockwise or Anti-clockwise? Every video suggests different one... If someone here was successful, can you please tell which direction you turned the head platter. Thanks.
When my hard drive was making some noise, my friend told me its an indication of hard drive failure. It can become cause of data loss situation. Although we can recover with third-party programs like recuva or stellar data recovery.
Thank you for this video! My hard drive clicks a couple of times when you plug it and then the read and write head stops reading... What should I do about it?
You are amazing! I believe this is the exact issue I'm having with my hard drive. I have to go to work to get the correct tool to get the screws off, but I will surely report back if it works, here's hoping! Subscribed!
Hi, I followed the exact instructions of the video, but when I opened the drive the head wasn't moved on the disc and it was in the same place where it has to be. Since I had the exact same clicking noise coming from the hard drive, I followed your instruction from the video. Prior to that, I also check if the hard was working in a different computer and other ports but still the same. Can you please advice what else I can do to fix this?
Hi I have hard disk error (EF0). The hard disk broadcasts noisy sound when plug it through USB cable. It seems the hard drive needs repair such your procedures. My question is: can i use it again in the laptop after the hard being repaired?
Have same problem, clicking sound with no possibility to make it run. Disk head is right next to central circle of the platten, don't know is it landing zone or not. Hdd is Seagate baracuda 1Tb. If I could send you picture somewhere to look if it's sits ok or not.. Thanks
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I have a buzzing sound kinda comming from my hdd a should i give this a try?
if happen in 3.5" hardrive it is same with this situation ?
Please may I have your email address?
Why can’t other you tubers be as straight to the point and explain perfectly like this chap instead of waffling on about something that has no bearing on the case in point? Great job my friend.
They get paid only when the video is a certain length and has ads, but agreed they should be straight to the point regardless.
because they want us to hear their beautiful voices :D
@@afnanfaris8071 lol so it seems
I tried your technique, and it worked. You hit the problem right on the head! The disk head was on the platter just like in your video here! I pushed the disk head back to the landing zone. It took a lot of restarts, shut downs to power back up, and prayers on my Mac to get that led light back blinking again! I almost jumped through the ceiling with happiness! Brother, you was a blessing indeed! And, I subscribed to your channel out of appreciation!
I can understand that jump thru the ceiling completely🤣
or you can hit the hdd into a table with the right angle and force, to assist the head into going off the disk
Is that drive still usable? Or is rhis just for recovery?
@@insomanic100 absolutely not, you have a better luck hitting it on a table to assist the head to move and fully save the drive
After success open , u transfer the file or juat leave it ? if not transfer , files still there or just gone ?
The explanation for why the arm gets stuck was really helpful, as it helped me determine that this is probably my issue before having to open up the hard drive to see. Your thorough walk through was much more helpful. I saw this same fix with someone who relied more on the demonstration, and I was totally lost. After this tutorial, it's so straightforward to me now.
Clear, concise, straight to the point. Subscribed! 😁
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
And edited + fake. That is not the error with that drive.
@@EasyTechsyo man my laptop is not turning on its beeping from the speaker and i hear clecking and a little beep from inside i didnt my laptop for like 2/3 months and was in a slanted position anyway i can fix it without opening?
This was fantastic - thank you! I really appreciate that you named the screwdriver needed - saved me some hard googling.
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
@@EasyTechsGood jobs!
Great explanation and demonstration. Much appreciated!
I spent a lifetime suffering with failing HDDs this is the very first video that offers a real solution
Glad it helped!
Amazing stuff can't say it works since I don't have the screwdriver but I definitely have the same clicking sound and completely abandoned the idea of having my hdd working. Thanks a lot for that video and where were you in the 2000's ? I feel like this should have existed way before 2018.
This is how you make a tutorial! Thank you for the quality here. Can't wait to try it! Love your accent - sincerely a photographer with too many harddrives from Texas!
just this weekend I had the same disk problem, I used and old trick because I'm old and I've been doing these repairs for a long time, I put the drive in the freezer for 2hours, this shrink all the components, then as fast as you can you plug it on your interface, and many time this work because the shrinking brings the data head away from the stuck place, and yes I've been able to restore the data without opening the drive casing. hope this can help some others whom are affraid to open the casing, your video is fantastic but for sure you are not the average tech, you are a ppro sir, continue with those great video
Saw another video where the same thing was done. However, that person turned it anti-clockwise and also moved the needle clockwise spinning them both at once to dock the needles out of the disk area. I haven't opened my HDD yet, But Now I'm super confused. Any help?
You are the first person I have seen who does it by turning the record in the opposite direction. So far, everyone I have seen uses the screwdriver to secure the record and pushes the needle out with another object. I think your method is cleaner. I will try it.
Hi… did you get to trying it and how did it go? I’m also curious on the clockwise rotation.
Thank you! Dropped my hard drive and the connector was fine, there was spinning and crunching sounds when on and the computer didn't recognize it (even on disk utility - macbook air). I can't fork out 1K for a data recovery and this is worth a shot. Thank you so much!
This is why YT created for. Thanks sir.
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
I have heard this dialog in some other video too
I've saved so many thousands of dollars just this year from ppl like this. Thanks
AGREED!
Thanks!
Thanks Jeff
I have a WD Passport 5TB drive, its making the clicking noise , I opened up the drive arm goes back and forth a few time power light is on but it wont read this happened after i dropped the drive on my basement floor it fell out of my hand, can i recover the DATA on my own the plates are clear like a mirror, OR do i need to replace the arm reader?
Brother, you're such an MVP. Thanks for the video. Guys if you have relatively new hdds that still have its light on but not detected and sounds stuck, definitely do it in this video carefully.
Can this still fixed when theres no light on because my external drive is not functioning
Please heed the warning to do this only as a last resort as once you open the drive in any environment other than a "clean room", particles of dust will enter the drive and destroy it over a relatively short period of time. This is because the read/write heads on the end of that swinging arm float on a microscopic cushion of air just above the delicate surface of the spinning platters. A dust particle is relative to the size of a boulder compared to the space between the platters and the heads and scrapping of the magnetic material will occur releasing more particles which will continue to cause more damage.
If you are able to access data on the drive after doing this, I highly recommend that you copy whatever you need off of it as quickly as possible before total failure inevitably follows.
I 100% percent agree.
Simple, straightforward and effective. Exactly how a tech video like this is upposed to be. Great job. Thanks a lot.
so concise! I wish all youtube videos are like yours. I subscribed!
SUBBED!!!! I just tried this on a Lacie external drive and it WORKED!!! I opened the drive and the disc head was in the parked position. I thought that it must be the motor or something else causing the issue because the disc heads weren't parked in the middle of the platter. After putting the hard drive back together, I called FileSavers. They quoted me a 100 dollar consultation fee since I had already opened the drive and that it would be another 700 to 2500 to recover the data! I thought I'd try plugging in the drive one last time and EVERYTHING WAS THERE!!!! I'm currently backing it all up to an external SSD just to be safe. Thank you so much!!!!
I had a similar hard drive which has clicking sounds. First I took it to the repair shop and they did initial checks for a small fee. Then they came back and said they cannot guarantee data recovery but will not charge me full in that case. The minimum fee is really expensive and I don't really have that much critical data (only MP3 songs and holiday photos). I then took the risk of doing it myself and it worked! Thanks but I used a hook to move the reader to the side.
Thank you bro. Every single service centre in my area said it is impossible to service and the only option is to recover data (which will cost me $350 minimum and just to check if it will work or not I have to pay $50). I took the leap of faith.
did it work
EXCELLENT! I can't tell you how many times I've opened a drive to find this, and tried to manually move the arm! that is NOT the way to do it!! LOL. thank you, I have 11 drive waiting for me back at the shop to try to save!
Hoping you all well mate,How did it go with the 11 hard drives you were planning on saving
Great video and explanations on repairing broken hard drives with beeping or clicking noises! I like the video because one of my backup drives got soaked into the water. It got into the water because I spilled one time a lot of water from a water bottle in my backpack when going to an Apple store in San Francisco, California, U.S. for some broken technology issues. After it spilled, I still can recover my data, takes about a week to recover my backup drive data, meaning that all my photographs and videos, from all over the world and childhood. After that, yesterday my backup storage drive started making beeping or clicking noises similar like yours, so I researched on RUclips and saw your video. I hope it will work on my backup drive.
Thank you! This is so useful! My external hard drive just begun to tick.
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
Did it work for u
@@TeeWoods_ it did for a time. I backed up all my files then after, it just stopped working. This solution is your last resort to save your files.
@@dncontent3091 What is the best way to backup files in this cases ? I have seen some hdd readers that transfer data. Or just connect a usb to pc and transfer it there ?
Legend. Awesome video dude!
You hit the nail at the Centre. Thank you for this video, it was really very helpful.
great it worked... tried once... i now transferring the whole files.. thank u thank u soooo much...a big help....
Thanks so much. Worked for me. Was about to loose 2TB of data
How did you fix it? Congrats btw !!
Thanks, I was able to recover 95% of my data.
Good to know it helped you out, thanks for the feedback
What happened with the rest of 5%?
@@humblehostile7946 lost due to bad sectors.
@@nil12285 what do you think caused that? Dust? Arm scratching the surface?
@@terrancegerber8902 my disk was dropped while in use. Do arm scratch mostly
So simple! And bold! Thank you sir!
I like how you explain everything in detail you're appreciated sir
I have a 2TB that's been chirping at me for months, bought an SSD to transfer files over to...but now I know I could save it. Thank you!!
I have previously attempted a similar fix (I moved the head itself rather than the platters)and it still doesn't work. The drive spins up but it still makes the clicking sound and under careful observation, I saw the arm is not even moving. Is there a way to fix this - either myself or a repair shop - or is it the end for my drive?
Can you please advise what to do if the arm goes back and forth? It moves on the plate and then back, and it keeps repeating all the time. My wife is devastated but I don't know what to do in this scenario.
Hi...What if my portable hard disk makes continuous clicking noise while it still can flash up my folders unfortunately cannot read or open any files at all. Should I attempt your stunt which I think I should keep this attempt to the last when all else fails to help. By the way my hard disk became faulty because of premature removal from USB. Hope you can help. 0:24
That's exactly the noise I'm getting from my hard drive, cheers man
I m having this same beeping scenario with one of my portable HDD after it topple over to its side on desk. After you have taken it apart and all that, did any of the files get damaged or lost?
Great video! Thank you for your guidance. External HD fixed.
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
You Just gained a new subscriber 🎉🎉😊
no bs short and sweet, instant sub
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
Thank you kindly for taking the time to make this video, I am attempting the repair today.
Dude Your A Data Life Saver Thank You So Much
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
@EasyTechs What size screwdriver did you use? I think I heard T6 torx? Is that the size to use for the Lacie WD Scorpio Blue? Thanks for your help in advance!!
Excellent demo, very easy to understand.
Mine just makes regular clicking, scratchy noises.
1st, I cant see any physical damage to any of the fuse's or components using my magnifying glass and 2x pairs of glasses!
Have now taken the other side off to reveal the platter which had some tiny dust? particles. Used a blower brush to remove them without touching the platter.
On the faulty 2.5" the needle is in the parked position. and when I rotate clockwise the needle is not moving.
I can see a thin, delicate leaf spring that runs along the length of the needle which is attached to the top and bottom mountings.
I'm not bothered about the drive contents. I always make backups on several other drives, so nothing was lost here.
Will keep researching - thanks for a very helpful video on this. 👍
Hi what did u end up doing to ur hdd
@@notwithout6878 Just sitting there on the shelf. When i get time I'll take a another look. No worries.
did you it ever start back working?
Guys I dont get it, other guy talking about counter clockwise, but you mention to do it clockwise, what is the right way?
Amazing video - will attempt this next week. Thank you - thank you for this excellent video and knowledge !!
Will opening the hard drive cover corrupt my platter , I have a desktop top Toshiba 1tb hard drive which stopped working few days ago and it is also making a tik tik pendulum sound please guide
Really helpful bro ! Great information 👍🏻
When I opened my hard drive the platter is in normal position what else can I do because I need to retrieve my data
Same here please help
Can you hear the platter spins? if it`s spins and the arm don`t move you need a new actuator arm or board.
Wolf_Boy my hard drive spins and the actuator slams into the landing zone creating the click
@@Jboops how did your story end
A BOSS. RIGHT TO IT. THANK YOU SIR. SUBBING RIGHT NOW.
I recently lost a 8TB drive, its making the same noises, you sir have given me some hope, luckily I still have the drive
I have this problem (clicking) and will try this fix! Thank you for the very helpful tutorial, regardless of whether or not is solves my problem.
Do you solve the problem?
This will not fix a clicking drive. This is for the opposite problem. A stuck drive doesn't click.
@@nathankarras2715 is there a fix on a blinking white light but nothings happening?,btw it's a portable hard drive...
@@rogervidal5723did you ever figure out how to fix it ?
Thank you, I need to get the right screwdriver, could you mention which one you used here? Thank you.
hi, when i move the platter, the disk head does not move. it is stuck pointing very close to the centre of the platter. should i use force to move it out of the platter? i guess not. any ideas? there is no clicking noise, btw. more like a rattling or wheezing noise. like loud snoring :D thanks
Awesome, subscribed 😊😊❤❤
Clear concise and straight forward and demonstration.
I just saved myself $100 worth of repair. Thank you
Thank you! You might have just saved my sanity!!! You also might have saved me $2,000!
Did all this, but sadly the external recognised the connection but didn't open any data... so I'm not sure if this is all lost data or if there is still hope of recovering what was on it.
In my case I did the same carefully moved the head to the orange pocket with utmost care and almost dust free environment and then tried to power it on. Then every time it starts the head moves three to four times and gets back to the orange area, The disk rotates for sometime and then everything stops. It happens every time tried to power the drive.. What could be the issue, is it power issue? Need to replace the PCB?
That sigh of relief and accomplishment at 2:50 😄👌
😂😅🤣🤭👏👏yeah that was a hard work man!!!
Most videos say to rotate counter-clockwise you went clockwise? Which way?
whatt if there is that click noise and the start but the heads were at rest when opened? also move in and out of the disc when motion is set with the screwdriver clock wise and vise versa ? but the disk does not recognized form system > any clues ?
What if same BRAND drive, but 1 terabyte. It spins head moves back & forth and then it shuts off after a few moments.
Waiting on your reply... thx 😁👍🏻
Same for me if u find a solution pls tell what it is
You sir are a hero, well deserved sub.
So generous of you
@@EasyTechs I have a question, i followed your tutorial and the disk is running, but now it's telling me that the drive is "uninitialized", is there any hope i recover the data on it?
since that problem has happened in my laptop hard drive, it makes the exact same noise but even louder, at that point im thinking it would blast inside my laptop. i've started experiencing major problems like extreme stuttering, lagging, infinite loading or crashes on the most of the games, and file explorer gets completely frozen for some seconds. my data are hopefully safe in my online vault, but still disappointing, any other way?
Thank you so much ... Worked for me 🎉
What is connecting the disk you hear 3 clicks for a WD Easystore 4TB HDs. Does it sounds like the same symptom where the head had problem going back to the landing zone or the had is completely toast?
hi, I have a drive that doesn't spin but I opened it and the head was on the landing position. if I plug it and put my ear really close to it, it makes a very soft click like noise once every second, almost impossible to hear. It's still not spinning, what could it be? it gets a bit hot after just a few seconds of plugging it in
Happy to see video like this!
Could this be the reason why my hard disk is very very slow and always hook up ? I can't even use it to browse smoothly talk more of installing apps that I needed to install.
Hi Sir. Can you help me to repair my 1 TB HDD Transcend, that was detected but it does not appear on My computer. It creates clicking sound. When I tried this video and found out the platter is place on its original location so I put back and tried to plug in. When I open Disk management, it appears that the disk shows "unknown" and "not initialized".
Same! When it prompt me to "initial disk" to GPT, it says "The Device is not ready". It's working in the first place, but I decided to try it on a new 4 Port USB 3.0 hardware with external USB power. Realised the other 2 HDD and 1 Thumbdrive worked, except for this one (sounding like not enough power). And then later when I disconnect it, it can't be detected as a drive already, only showing on "Disk Management" as a drive as "Not Initialised".
Ok I think I am going to give a really "bad" advise.... I was giving up on my hdd, so I end up shaking it gently when it's off the plug, and plugging it back, it started to work again....... mechanical parts shouldn't introduce any of such motion (worst scenario is to try knocking on if as if it's jammed part), but somehow my Toshiba 1TB drive worked again after this....
Ok when I try to access the folders within, it hanged my windows 10 system, so when I force disconnect it (since I can't eject it anymore), the problem came back....
will just leave my comments here, see if anyone can explain what is this about if they happen to know...
Ok but my laptop makes a kichick sound from the 500 gb hard drive under it i tried every fix but doesn’t works so should i open it ? Pls reply
could this happen from dropping it? I just dropped my drive and now it is clicking like this and wont mount. Where can I get those drivers?
Thank you! Just found this video. I know this is an old video but I highly recommend getting your thumb nail checked out. A long line like that on the nail could be a bad sign.
Lol let the man live
my clicking hdd is D: drive buty my C: drive filling up with files! its a virus? My windows get slow
Hello. Thanks for the explanation, mine was also stuck in the middle of the platter and i fixed it like you showed in the video, its not beeping anymore but it still doesnt work when i connect it to the pc. It makes some strange clicking or vibrating sound but PC doesnt recognize the hard disk. What can i try now?
Same happened with me... Anyone would like to explain
Its dead. You can only use it once. Once you opened it for the first time. So if you do this method as last resort, be prepared to back everything up from the device, cause once it's done and disconnected. I won't be the same again.
Thanks for the info. By the way... it's funny when you said "carefully" and handleled the drive like a cookie, lol
I actually had an hard drive which I used by it's mistakenly Fall on floor and refused to come up on system again.
Stright to the topic n precise explaination....❤
If it fails to work can the disc be removed and placed into another working drive case (of same design)? Thank You
Fantastic video, thanks for doing this!
Thank you for your time and for help us to show how to repair a hard drive...
Mine wasn't stuck, nor on the disk. I took the hard drive enclosure off and plugged it in to my PC (it's an external), and it seems that it's getting stuck on the orange piece that catches it. It also seems to be sporadic, or it could just have more than one issue. Any suggestions?
Hi. I followed the steps shown in the video on my external seagate backup slim plus hard disk. However the beeping sound is still audible and the hard disk stops spinning after a minute from being connected to the laptop. Can you please help?
Same
Clockwise or Anti-clockwise? Every video suggests different one... If someone here was successful, can you please tell which direction you turned the head platter. Thanks.
When my hard drive was making some noise, my friend told me its an indication of hard drive failure. It can become cause of data loss situation. Although we can recover with third-party programs like recuva or stellar data recovery.
dude thank you so much for your simpplicity
Good to know it helped you out, thanks so much for the feedback!
hearing the clicking sound, and was not able to boot, no bootable devices found. Big Help brother you are the best !
Thank you for this video! My hard drive clicks a couple of times when you plug it and then the read and write head stops reading... What should I do about it?
either the platter is so messed up or the read head is dead
@@mjyanimations1062 hello , what if showing letter on pc BUT clicking & not reading
You are amazing! I believe this is the exact issue I'm having with my hard drive. I have to go to work to get the correct tool to get the screws off, but I will surely report back if it works, here's hoping!
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Did it work?
@@gvshriram Oh wow I had forgotten about this. No, it did not work unfortunately.
That pin in my hdd seems to be in the correct position but it still makes clicking noise. What could be the problem?
having same problem
@@lfeever Mine got fixed automatically. I don't knwo how, I did nothing. Though it still makes some noise sometimes but it works now
@@md.mazharulalamsanvi7047 same here...but the problem will occur again definitely...so backup the data immediately
Hi, I followed the exact instructions of the video, but when I opened the drive the head wasn't moved on the disc and it was in the same place where it has to be. Since I had the exact same clicking noise coming from the hard drive, I followed your instruction from the video. Prior to that, I also check if the hard was working in a different computer and other ports but still the same. Can you please advice what else I can do to fix this?
Same thing here. Any fix yet?
@@abdusalamolamide no fix I’m afraid
Thank you so much i got the same problem im gonna try like u have said in the video❤❤❤❤❤
My disk doesn't make contact with the handle thing so spinning it doesn't move it.. is there a way around this?
Great info! Thanks for the post…question, if the disc is just clicking, is this the same fix?
Hi
I have hard disk error (EF0). The hard disk broadcasts noisy sound when plug it through USB cable. It seems the hard drive needs repair such your procedures. My question is: can i use it again in the laptop after the hard being repaired?
Have same problem, clicking sound with no possibility to make it run. Disk head is right next to central circle of the platten, don't know is it landing zone or not. Hdd is Seagate baracuda 1Tb. If I could send you picture somewhere to look if it's sits ok or not..
Thanks