what to do if your hard drive does not spin
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- if your drive stops spinning up and stays completely silent when power is connected - then this video is for you, my friend! today is your lucky day. Some data recovery companies will charge you thousands for this, but I am hooking you up for free. why? because we are bros, bro!!! to pay me back feel free to just drop a comment, thumbs up, subscribe and share this video on your socials and tell everyone how much it helped! thanks.
PS: oh and only use this technique to copy the recovered data out to a new device.
#datarecovery #tech
0:00 intro
0:04 test that the drive is silent
0:09 prepare tools for repair of non-spinning hard drive
0:13 remove the faulty PCB
0:15 check power surge protection components (diodes and fuses)
0:31 remove failed diode if there is one
0:39 check for burnt fuses and
0:50 if fuses don't show close to 0ohm resistance jump them
0:53 power up your drive and enjoy your recovered data 
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It's crazy how just 1 diode is enough for the whole disk to fail
Kinda has to. It's part of protection of vital components
@@hddrecoveryservices yeah I see
Crazy how a single main fuse breaks power to the whole house
@@DrDAC-go7hs you didn't have to do me like that bro 💀
@@waviation9 haha I'm sorry I couldn't resist. No hard feelings I hope?
I have the 500 GB one It's pretty slow for 7,000 RPM
@@WasherMotors1400 how so?
7200 rpm
@@WasherMotors1400 mine lasted over 12 yrs and it's still running
Western digital best
It’s not all about drive rpm
about 9 years ago, one of my drives stopped spinning up. put it in the freezer for an hour, it's been working great ever since! still use it in my NAS to this day lol.
Holy!
💀
im going to try that with one hdd xD
You are lucky but i don't recomended to do that. The water from icing freezer could make short circuit in Harddrive PCB
Yo tengo uno guardado desde hace mucho tiempo, este disco duro es un Websterdigital de 320GB, la falla que tiene es que al conectarlo el arranca y al rato deja de girar internamente, hace un sonido como si se desconectara de la parte interna es un como chasquido o un (clip) y se apaga, que será que le pasa, yo nunca he intentado he dado como repararlo he pensado buscar una placa que sea igual pero no he dado con una....Saludos 🇻🇪 👋👍
surface mount components that look like a resistor and has a "0" marking on them mean that they are a "fuse link" and not a actual resistor.
If it says 0 it's not a fuse afaik. They're a 0 ohm resistor, they serve the purpose of simply jumping two pins on the board. Why a 0 ohm resistor instead of a wire or jumper?
It's more convenient and cost effective for pcb assembly lines
If it looks like a resistor with a '0', then it's a zero ohm resistor and not a fuse...
@@nimamaster6128 I prefer dividing my schematics in different sectors, using zero ohm resistors as bridge in-between those sectors. ...
This makes prototyping a lot easier, as one can disconnect potential faulty parts of the schematic.
They're often left on in the final product, as they cost less than 0.002 cents a piece...
@@timmy7201 oh, that's cool!
@@nimamaster6128 _"oh, that's cool!"_
Without any shorts, yes then it's cool...
With shorts, it heats up until the magic smoke appears :-)
nice video, if your important data is stuck in it! thanks for telling
Hi bro i have a 500gb hitachi drive that after being disconnected from my desktop won't be recognized by windows even if its spinning, could be the sata connector? I checked the pins and they are fine
That's something different. Needs to be checked, there is no simple answer for your case
I thing it can be sata conector or sata cable or data cable And data conector
@@GamerTechCZ i already tried different cables, no luck
have you tried diskmgmt?
@@namesurname4666 it's not recognized by anything sadly
So amazing to see the insides of a hard drive! Thanks for sharing this with us
This is actually the outside..
@@beernutsonline 🤣🤣🤣
The inside of a drive is circular metal platters and an arm that oscillates across it to eead data (think a very small Vinyl record)
Just casually learn microsoldering, get the complete kit and repair the PCB of the hard disk. Good.
Yeah I casually learned microsoldering. Good fun, though a bit expensive to get started. 10/10 would burn myself again
It's not even that hard. I learnt Microsoldering as a hobby with literally no guidance and a cheap 20$ iron from Chinese site. It's all about patience, skills and using your brain. Especially this case? It's majority just plain simple soldering. Try repairing a fully specced USB C port or a QFN/TQFP package, that is actual tough stuff
Not sure what he did at the end, but for removing a diode you dont even need a solder, just some pliers or a small knife and multimeter. Multimeters can be found cheap and all it needs to have for this purpose is diode test, which most of them have.
Thank you for the educational video.
In my experience, Seagate Barracuda 2.5 and 3.5 inch beyond 2 TB are not really reliable hard disks.
I suggest to buy Seagate IronWolf if you want 4 TB capacity or more.
I would recommend to avoid Seagate as brand completely...
They're noisy and prone to failure...
@@timmy7201 Seagate EXOS are some of the most reliable drives in existence. Seagate Ironwolf Pro/Ironwolf drives are also insanely reliable so don't see your point
Only the cheap Barracudas have the problem with failures really
@@timmy7201 I'm using Seagate barracuda 1 TB and 500 GB for about 5 years+ and it's still performs good.
@@MaxC_1 Sure, they could've some good drives.
It however doesn't change the statistical fact, that they've some of the highest failure rates among all drive manufacturers.
Seagate being a failure, has been going on for at least a decade or so...
@@chalfinkamasi5132 That's a sample size of 2 x 1 drive.
Go search for blackblazes yearly sample size, they show that Seagate gets the highest failure rates among all drive manufacturers.
PS: Who buys an HDD of 500GB? That was even ridiculous 5 years ago...
The level of component level repair this guy does is amazing!👍
Thank you very much!
You are a life saver! 👍👍👍👍👍
You're welcome!
In 4 decades of troubleshooting, I haven't seen a 0 ohm resistor fail
Well, on these devices they failed very often :)
@@hddrecoveryservices a zero ohm smd resistor of that size can take some considerable amount of current, I am surprised that it fails before some other component fails. From my experience it dont make sense. You have a schematic of where they are used in your video?
i wish i had these skills
I got this problem on a new drive. 0 hours use, 0 GB written. Out of warranty, because some one who gave it to me bought it, did not work, waited for four years.
I had a 0 hour drive just decide to become a damn road flare. That's the first time I saw something like that in the dozens of computers I've built... like it was physically on fire, not just the magic smoke.
Very nice, thanks for the knowledge, cheers
No problem 👍
Ayyy you are the man. Thank you for the little shorts specifically the two about the diodes and fuses. Finally she's alive again. It's full and I'm moving what I can but should I trust it for future use? Maybe put it on the bench and stress test it for a bit and see what happens?
it will last until the next powersurge :) now the protection is off, so more critical components would get damaged. I would not recommend to keep using the drive. Dump data off it in priority order, and RMA it if you still have warranty. I am glad to hear that you got the data access now. Honestly this would cost a lot of money if it was sent to some "rip&run" data recovery companies :)
@@hddrecoveryservices I replaced all the chips so the diode and fuses. I had pulled the eeprom and the other 8 legged chip that looks similar to the eeprom from my board for the donor. All swapped 5 total chips moved around. I was up until 3 am and she was copying over smoothly and this morning everything seems successful, well no errors from the software.
If all of them were replaced with working components, then you are all set. It will be as good as "new"
Magnificent Explanation.
Glad you liked it. Simple yet very effective :)
u save my drive.
I thought he was gonna take the platters out and destroy it when he said t6
This might be a dumb question, but you can just cut a broken diode off and it works? Why is it there in the first place? Because the drive works when it's gone.
You actually cant. Its there for a reason and if it breaks you need to replace the diode. but even then just opening a drive is enough to completly destroy it because the shiny disk is like an old vinyl record and theres a tiny needle in there, opening the drive does change the distance the needle has very likely even if its just fractions of an mm completly destroying your drive
@@Tiwaz_ I'm pretty sure the board they are working on is housed separately from the disk and there is no damage to it. However, due to the risk and needing to solder a new diode on I'd just send it to a data recovery center or repair shop
@@Tiwaz_ The PCP board is screwed in and safe to remove. I take mine off about once an year to clear oxidation off the copper contacts, usually makes my cheap old drives run much faster.
@@Tiwaz_ You actually can just remove the diode and the drive will work normally. But since it doesn't have a diode to protect it from a current surge anymore, its best to use it in 100% working and tested PSU and cables, or just use it to move your data to a new drive. OR ofc get a new diode and replace it.
As for the PCB, its a whole separate thing from inner drive components. It's on the outside and can be removed easily.
Your content is worth subscribing 👍
Wonderful ! 😇😘😆👏🖒
Thanks for the tip.
Any time!
It sounded like my angle grinder !
Ah ah
Great job! (8 terabytes? Wow)
One slightly confusing detail of this video is that you initially only connect the power connector. Most SATA drives will only spin-up when commanded to do so by the SATA controller. Meaning you have to connect the data cable as well in order to test spin-up.
MOST? Lol name at least one that won't spin with SATA connection not hooked up
I have a windows XP embedded system sporting a Samsung spinpoint 40GB HDD from 2002, still spinning and functioning to this day, not even any reallocated sectors... It has proven to be more reliable than any Seagate drive I've ever owned
Samsung was amazing hard drive maker
Wow, that's very insightful 😍💖
Thanks
Nice! Thanks !
Thank you too!
Ok
I have work to do when I get home on about 4 HDD that would not spin up
THX!!
You are welcome!
Man, imagine if the hard drive problem has only to do with the components on the IC, not the drive platter
Интересно :) {Хорошая работа !!!
My hard drive older than some people making grinding noise and still reading data and going on a website on it to buy a new ssd 💀
Cutting a smd with pliers...
Good video!
Glad you enjoyed it
which cutter did you use to cut the diode off?
gotta check mine if its still spinning
My 500 gb segate harddisk is spinning but not appear in file manager of another pc 😔
You're hard drive is ready sir.
Not exactly sure what was done about the resistor. The 0ohm resistors showing zero is good right? So the resistors showing 120 were removed?
The easiest way to tell there's a problem, is if it says Seagate on the label.
that joke never gets old ... poor seagate
Yeah, fck Seagate, gt my drive fail all of sudden, fck Seagate
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I am starting in electronics and I have a question, should I buy a clamp meter or multimeter.
Отлично!
Jazaakallahu khairan
Just don't buy Seagate. Known to be crap for decades. Your drive is guaranteed to die even it is not used. Seagate quality
Toshiba and Hitachi/HGST have proven to be the only brands worth relying on. WD Red gets a pass too
Got a nearly 10 year old seagate here, with nearly 100,000 hours on the clock. The secret? ALWAYS dedicated airflow over my disks. Never above 45C. Above 50C the drives go into accelerated failure mode.That said, WD is my favorite, the seagate is just a flukle for me. None of my WD drivers have failed me, ever. Except for one with a few bad sectors (still running, it never got worse).
@@kleingib213 They all need proper airflow to keep them under 45C. Above that and failure rate goes up exponentially with every degree rise in temp.
Just don't buy HDDs. Known to be crap for decades. Your drive is guaranteed to die even it is not used. HDD quality
FTFY
What is the best way to store important files on pc ?
M.2 nvme vs ssd vs hdd
That my nightmare have filled up one of those big big drive all my pooo,,,rn. while looking around for a backup... that drive die...
Thanks, now what do I do when my ssd *is* spinning?
Run :)
Drop and run.
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0:50 if fuses don't show close to 0ohm resistance jump them - So I have to solder a wire through it?
Yes.
I thought you were gonna rip of the trace on the pcb when you cut it with the cutter.
I use hot tweezers to pull these under normal circumstances, but not everyone has these at home :) side cutters are more of a household item
Oh those Seagates, always with the strange little problems. I mean they are even backward in how they report some SMART values.
A diode really I usually change chips they go regularly
is it ok to remove short diode and not going to replace?
I have an old harddrive somewhere that clicks when i turned it on. Any idea what could cause that? I dont need that drive but it would still be mice if it worked, just in case
Yo tengo uno guardado desde hace mucho tiempo, este disco duro es un Websterdigital de 320GB, la falla que tiene es que al conectarlo el arranca y al rato deja de girar internamente, hace un sonido como si se desconectara de la parte interna es un como chasquido o un (clip) y se apaga, que será que le pasa, yo nunca he intentado he dado como repararlo he pensado buscar una placa que sea igual pero no he dado con una...Quiero saber que le sucede porque no funciona normal, entiendo que es de muy poca capacidad y ahora hay con más capacidad y precio.....Saludos 🇻🇪 👋👍
Mine randomly stopped working after years of no issue, it has a lot of very important data on it I really want to recover, I hope this works ^^'
I removed a shorted diode on my WD Blue and it still doesn't show any signs of life. What did you do to that zero ohm resistor and does it also work for WD drives ?
So whichever diode is bad just remove it right? I'm using a analog multimeter and if they're bad they'll spike? Sorry question might be dumb but never used a multimeter before.
Nice fixed HDD are spinned using Diode.
Good fix
I got a knew barracuda hard drive when i plug power to it my computer turns off then i have to turn off the power on the computer then turn it back on to get my computer to work and i did try another hardrive did same thing
I've a question and that will be my last shot
I've Seagate 2TB external HDD
It shows in Victoria a lot of bad sectors in the starting point, had to format it with 3rd party windows application, then tried to make it work after CMD configuration comands BUT it didn't work out !
Should i lose all hope in making it work again especially after i lost all the data or i should try another way ?
I used alot of softwares during this but nothing worked
Best option is to replace it with ssd
I have weired problem on old samsung hdd 300gb that spin on start then motor went down, nothing show on system, what it could be
Could it also sometimes be a problem with the motor that spins it?
I think so. It is a breaking point also
My Seagate 5 TB External hard drive just over a year old suddenly stopped responding on every laptop/mac. No external damage occured. Now on connecting the white light is on but doesnt come up on disc partition as well.. It's gone silent. Can it be fixed?
Teach me master
Can someone clarify what was done at the last step at 0:50 ?
I have a Flir one thermal camera, it's faster finding diode and mosfet faults because they light up like a Christmas tree.
A drive no less than 2 years old? Seagate is the plague
its a power related issues, hard drive could be brand new for all we know. Stick a wrong power supply in and magic genie will come out :)
i have 3 seagate 20 year old and all of them still work
@@hddrecoveryservices magic genie lmao
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Please reply, I don't know how but my hdd making clicking noise after that my pc doesn't recognize the hdd. I also contact a local shop, the told me the reason is smps. I have doubts on him. Do u know what is the problem?
Lmao and you probably charged your customer $800+ just for this simple fix 🤣
It's only simple to you because I showed you what was done. You would shell out 800$ if you were the client with important data
@@hddrecoveryservices
uh no. You don't know anything about me so don't make assumptions. I currently have a dead hard drive that has a lot of important files but I would never shell out that ridiculous sum of cash to scammer "data recovery specialists" that make a living off of people's desperation. They know that a simple fix like this shouldn't actually cost that much money but they charge people that much anyway because they know that they're desperate enough to pay. Awful practice.
@@beastinfection638it’s not because it a “simple fix” it’s the knowledge and having the equipment to to the repair properly to maximise the chances of getting g your data back.
@@beastinfection638 I hope you didn't recover any of your data.
i have the same hdd
Does anyone know why a hard drive would come up in device manager on windows and is on, but will not come up in file explorer or my computer ? Any help would be appreciated please thank you!
I have a same barracuda green drive. Except a 2TB one. Only two years old!Mine suddenly started making clicking sounds and windows fails properly to communicate to it.
Could i have a similar problem?
No, your drive has failed heads that's why it's clicking
Huge cringe that you cut off that component.
It's for the user who does not have hot air or hot tweezers bro. I take them off with JBC tweezers.
Yeah he's talking like we have a multimeter and a soldering iron and a microscope lying around. And we even try to mess with the PCB.
Well, you always have an option to pay 800-2000$ for drivesavers to do it for you.
Hey bro can you help
I have a HDD that is like 12 years old and has been on my dead laptop for years . After I connected the HDD to my laptop using a sata to usb adapter it said that the HDD is uninitiated and unknown , I tried initialing but I said cyclic redundancy check. I tried many software but none of them is able to get the data and is just stuck on 1% . Also the hard drive spins properly and makes some weird noise
If it sounds like something scratching or ticking the drive is most likely dead as the read/write heads are bad. You could spend some money and send it to a recovery expert to transfer the platers to a new drive and attempt a recovery but its not 100%
@@jo_bro666 problem is that there is no recovery expert nearby
Why would a diode or a resistor fail? Is that common at all?
power surge trips the diode and short caused by the diode burns up the fuse eventually.
Typically it's because of a crappy power supply.
Never cheap out on power supplies, they can fry everything inside your PC when it fails.
so just cut the diode, and boom? without change it?
ummmm ok... but how do you do that without the melting thingy?
Hello..how to retrieve photos in Windows OS once after shift+deleted it?
Is it possible to save a dead HDD on a PC?
Wow
I swap the disks inside the hdd, is my idea💡
Please tell me you didn't just run a jumper over a zero ohm...
:) not to use the drive for years to come, but good enough for data dumping. I don't think it will matter at all with TVS out. After all those fuses burn out because TVS is in short . My job is to get data out not to make the drive like new, there are many ways on how that can be done in this case.
Bro can u solve boot problem
Will you be able to recover data if it's drilled (as shown in Mr robot)
Nope :)
I plugged in a 19v charger on a 12v supported external hard drive, it has not been working since, do you think by cutting the diode will fix the problem? Also do you have a better picture which diode i have to cut off from the board? thanks
You better spend money on a basic multimeter before you start cutting anything. Layout on boards will be different for different drives, but the basic protection function is similar for all Seagate's
@@hddrecoveryservices
I have the same 8tb seagate hard drive. Did you jump the resistor that is showing 117 and 120 with a wire? Thanks
what could have been the root cause of the diode damage, bad psu? hmm
Ok let's try this again and that's the exact drive I have the same issue with
most likely the fuse ;)
hey quick question can i change head between different model have hitachi hts54xxxxx model 60gig hdd with crashed head and cant get exact model here so far i have sourced one hts72xxxxx model hdd only so i wanna know if i can change the mechanical reader head between the drives both are single head and single platter
I don't know. I honestly would not recommend swapping heads if you do not recover data for living. You'll end up with 2 dead drives on your hands
@@hddrecoveryservices what do i got to lose anyway its a really old hard drive and have been doing micro-level work every now and than just need to know if the heads would work. Honestly other than that its just trash bin than i can't send it ship to you and can't even buy exact model in my country easily
EDit :
just found a HTS541060G9AT00 ide and mines a HTS541660J9SA00 sata is there any possibility for it parts working only need to transfer head assembly
and does each drivs rpm effect compadibility
whats your loction?
also have 8tb faulty seagate hard drive
issue: pc dont turn on when hard drive is connected. Even connected as a secondary hard drive
Canada
So I cut any shorted diodes and can I just change the board
Changing the board will not work without adaptives
My 2GB HDD from 1997 didn't spin, so i just banged it on a desk and it started spinning.
I also had this butt its was 2tb drive
be honest, what would you do if 100 bitcoins were found in a flash drive that was repaired?
Im gonna spin the hdd with my hand
When i test my diodes they dont beep?