...there aren't too many other sounds from modern life that can evoke the same rippling spine chills and horrific gut twisting as those from a failing or failed HDD. *_Especially_* when they occur after a reboot and you realize just how long it has been since your last backup... **shivers**
Great video ,can you not build yourself a pwm circuit using a relay then set the on/off contacts to short and adjust the frequency of the relay contacts to get around what you need .that way you get 10 20 or 50 short contacts per second .or do you need to hold the short state for a time to work just an idea if you do this procedure regularly.
Brings back memories. I was the guy who was in charge of a TI 990/12 with two DS80 'platter' drives (only 20Mb each!). I used to change heads on those. The head units were the size of a large soup ladle.
I have a 2.5" 320gb seagate hdd, that is very loud when it is seeking, but it spins up normally, and I haven't experienced any data loss. Should I worry? the last time I checked it reported like 10k hours of power on on s.m.a.r.t.
All The recovery company in my area, are really bad. I wish we have someone like you in here, to help us deal with failing hard drive. You're probably the greatest ever to do recovery in the world.
Seagate has their own Data Recovery Service. I wonder if they have their own backdoor commands to unlock the drive. I doubt they have to go through the same hack of shorting the terminal read pins which is different for every pcb.
How much to recover a Seagate Baracuda 1TB HDD with that clicking sound?? I am really only interested in recovering picture, video and audio files. I am not interested in full restoration.
I bought 5 of these drives as backup to my RAID. The only time they got used was when I filled the drive from my RAID, then left it to one side for when I ever need to restore my RAID if the RAID ever failed. A year later I needed to recover my RAID and tried to offload all my data from the Seagates. All 5 drives failed like this and Seagate claimed they were all out of warranty. Now I don't buy Seagate ever again. They are the worst manufacturer of hard drives I have ever come across. How they can make drives which don't even last the time it takes to read off all data just once is beyond me. How are they still in business?
I used to be a Seagate fan boy.. I've bought hundreds of their drives over the past 15 years. I would tell everyone that their drives were the only reliable drives available. (Going all the way back to the SCSI days) After buying 7 of these ST3000DM001 drives and having all but 1 fail I will never buy Seagate again. They have permanently lost me as a customer. And their response to the ST3000DM001 debacle has been to sweep it under the rug. Worst company ever. Now I go out of my way to tell everyone to never buy from this company.
What tools did you use to safely remove the headstack? I've taken a few broken or obsolete drives apart to mess with the neodymium magnets. I've always really destroyed the head stack in the process sometimes even scraping the disk surface...ouch.
Where do you get your head combs from and how do you know which one to use with a particular hard drive? I've seen people using homemade ones but they seem very unstable to me. Good video..
Hi, I have the same problem with clicking sound on Seagate Barracuda 3 TB. I wonder how to follow this video and i am wondering about that metall peace he put over the heads where can I get this? Is it nececarry to have that to change unit?
This is exactly the problem i have on 1 of the drives in my NAS ! I set it up as a RAID so both drives are seen as 1 to maximise my storage capacity ! Bad Idea. I have zero redundancy and stand to loose all 6tb of data. What i need to know is how do i identify which drive is faulty ? Where i can get the little tool to sepearte the reading heads and what level of clean room conditions i need and how to achieve them before opening my HD ? Thanks from Scotland.
Ive spoken with Adam and explained to him that my drive is in a NAS. I have two 3Tb Segate Barracudas but only one is faulty with the clicking head problem mentioned in this video. He asked if it was Raid 0 or Raid 1 and im sorry but i cant remember. I set it up for maximum capacity with zero redundancy. :/ I know bad choice and im regretting it now. Anyway Adam went on to explain that recovering the data from these drives is very unlikley with a 1 in 10 success ratio. He said its the plater thats the problem and not the heads and that even if you replace the heads due to the problem with the platter it will within a few minutes damage the new heads which is not long enough to recover the 6Tb of data. Also when asked for a quote on a successfull data recovery he said it would be £800 or about $1200 I guess which is not feasable for me in my current financial situation. So what are my options ? How expensive would it be to attempt this myself ? I looked for the Head seperator tool and its crazy money for all it is. As for a PC3000 im expecting it to be horrendously expensive also. What can you suggest for someone interested in the topic of data recover with maybe an interest in making a living out of it from your own personal experiances ? Thanks for your advice and time dude. You rock btw. Cheers from Scotland.
this is not a DIY job dude, not on this drive. You will just end up killing it completely and killing the donor also. since this is a RAID0 you would to have an image of the failed unit made, that will take some sweating over PC3k
That's so funny, I've been watching your vids, since I've always been super fascinated with low-level hardware access, and I just now realized that you're about ten minutes from my house! I live in Vanier. Internet is such a huge place, and yet sure enough, I end up watching vids of someone who lives here in Ottawa. If ever you give live demos, please let me know.. I'll bring some Timmie's. :) Cheers
haha thats so odd, I know exactly how you feel. Just today I was watching a review of a camera lens and the guy had shots of Landsdowne (old market building)
Could you give some ballpark pricing examples? I'd just like to know roughly what things cost. I'm in Canada. I may send some people your way. Also an idea for a video 'Why and how to storage devices fail'.
Just ask any of your contact: Internal Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive spins up and spins down and then stops spinning. It causes NTLDR is Missing Error. HDD intact and was never dropped.
this happened to me yesterday. i have to admit ive had this for more than 10 years, but now my important data, some of backup photos and videos that are important to me are inaccessible :( im not sure if i should give it to a person to recover my data, or try it myself. im a technician but I've never worked on drives.
I have a Hitatchi 232gb laptop hard drive with a similar issue, but I don't have any donners and don't want to spend any money on a new head. Any help?
I have the same problem but its a 2TB Seagate barracuda and Found 3 Seagate barracuda with the same firmware CC27, first question is if send these 2TB Seagate barracuda what will it cost to recover an get it back to work. These seagate driver never been open at all. Fill free to contact me throw my youtube inbox.
i have a 3tb external/portable disc with adapter. in pluged in the wrong adapter to disc and now its not working. is there a way to fix it or what could be wrong?
ST3000DM001 is the worst HDD I ever had. The first couple of days I used it, it made me lose like 2 TB of data. Then, only two years later, it started to develop an increasingly amount of bad sectors...
Hi, nice video. I'm in trouble with my Seagate barracuda 1tb. I have a donor but not own the weird wrench to move the header pins (I'm from Italy, no idea how that disk surface readers are called; we call them "testine", small heads). Can you tell me please the name of that small grey tool to separate pins form disk? Best Regards Al
'Im just using SSD and my main drive now and i store alrge files and back up to a spinner which gets disconnected soon as iv'e backed up. Spin time will eventually kill a drive.
I lost a file, and I have run date recovery on it. But the customer still saying there are still files missing and I have copy the recovery ones back to the Harddrive. What the solution to get them back??
Please I opened my hard drive the head wasn’t on the plater or the round disks, something feel on it and it doesn’t show up again, PLEASE I NEED TO RECOVER MY DATA, help me please , please
Hi, i didn't catch your name, i think it is Akin? Please forgive me if i am wrong. These videos are a godsend and EXTREMELY interesting to me. Thank you SO MUCH for providing them, i am technically interested and have been all my life. I would just like to know if you might be able to share some insight as to how one starts off in the Data Recovery business as i would love to start up here in Aus but don't know what to buy first. i have basic tools ie dmm, soldering iron, magnification fluro loop lol, all types of screw driver bits etc. Basically just after a heads up on what to get and how to learn. i have learnt quite a bit from a few online tubers so far and SOME experimentation here but i don't want to go wrecking customers drives starting out. Thanks so much mate and i always look forward to your posts!!
Hi, do you know what exactly was the problem of this drive with the original heads? In your video, you had a look through the microscope, but I couldn't see any damage. And are you sure that the heads were damaged? May Be there was just this one Firmware problem?
port29dr led:00000047 problems with media cache. Overwrote 3x346 sys files on both copies and modified SMP flags - result full image with like a handful of bad sectors
port29dr originally the drive was just clicking and spinning down after 12 clicks or so. As soon as new heads were placed in, it stopped clicking and it would stay BSY, but idle.
Hi. My needle/head goes back and forth and it looks like the disc doesn't spin at full speed. I can't read the harddrive on my PC. Any ideas? Regards Andrew.
I’ve got a 2TB Seagate Pipeline HDD, spins up then makes 2 of those exact clicking noises then spins down. This happened randomly one day, the previous day it was fine, would it also need a replaced set of heads as in the video? It’s only been used for 2 years. Thanks for your time
haha from one dr engineer to another after a day in my cleanroom and staring at PC3K its nice to see how other engineers work... and yes finding the time to short the read channel out can be frustrating.... good stuff mate
haha, its kinda like watching paint dry and turn to money isn't it. I am actually working on something with my dad that should take out all of the frustration out of the channel shorting once and for all, to a point where a toddler can do it. :) something that is in the works, along with other cool perks for monolith dr. I'll make show it off here once its ready
That is true and would you believe I got a DM001 in today hanging BSY through term and I thought of you and your tin foil finger sorted it though but cloning like a pig on PC3K. Also did a platter swap on the new 2.5" 4TB WD blue drive it had a high fiction bearing from being dropped, I havnt powered that bad boy up yet a little nervous....! Other than that the usual degraded rubbish. Hope your day was more interesting lol
Don't you have to vacuum out the air from a reclosed HD before resealing it? I thought they were made that way and filled with some neutral gas to protect the platters.
I am currently studying advanced data recovery and I love your channel! Great info! Have you ever had to do a recovery on one of these new Helium filled drives where you had to open the drive? Can the drives adaptives adjust to working without the Helium?? Just curious...
I've been looking around and I can't find out how to remove write protection from my micro sd card. Sandisk website says to use the adapter they provide. But mine is broken is there any way I could remove the protection. A reply would be tons of help. Btw love the videos!
@@hddrecoveryservices Thanks mate!! Just curious is there somewhere I can order in a single head replacement tool? I looked around and they only come in sets.
I have the same drive (ST3000DM001) that began to fail suddenly and now is clicking the same way. It showed a few thousand reallocated sectors and I was attempting to remap them but gave up and now the drive is not detected in the bios. I opened it up and verified the heads were not stuck. I was thinking about ordering a donor drive to swap head assemblies. Will this require terminal work and rechanneling the drive? Not sure if its possible to just swap the assembly only or not? The data is not critical but its worth 50 bucks to me. Great video BTW!
You have to transplant eprom which contains platter calibration registers even same firmware. It works most cases but if handling of eprom changed between firmware change, it will not work.
If I or anyone else has the same Seagate 3tb ST3000DM001 with the same click of death and you have to do the same work as this video, what would be the cost?
My hard drive is dead. I tried getting someone to retrieve the data from it in my country (Mauritius) but in vain. A guy i know opened the hard disk and tried to move the move the actuator on the platter to kinda read it atleast but it failed. he put everything back and told me it's gone. But watching your videos kinda give me hope, will I be able to send you the hard disk through DHL or something, then you can quote me. Is it possible? Thank you
Hi friend, I follow your channel My name is Zenilto I'm from Brazil I have this Toshiba 750gb laptop HD Mk7559gsxp Hdd2j51 Z SLOT1 T His fault is the click of death. The doubt that I have is whenever I have this defect the only solution would be to change the reading head or am I wrong? Thank you for your attention.
I am genuinely interested in data recover but what learning path or course did you take to get going with data recovery? Google searches are vague and I would prefer something more specific. Thanks for any advice...
i have seagate Momentus 1 TB external sata drive it was working fine but was dropped some how and after that there is no sound in the drive it is not even turning on when i plug it in the computer it do sound as some thing is attached and if i see in the device manager the name is shown for some time and then it goes and hard disk light stops what could be the problem ?
I have a same model drive. I can hear that platters spin without clicks but it's not being detected by any computer's BIOS. Do you think it could be a physical issue or a PCB issue? Thank you very much for being so generous and open-handed with your knowledge!
I feel very sad, the exactly same drive died with all of my family pics and important data. I left a comment on your other video. could you please gimme some advice. Thank you
so the head replacement is absolutely necessary? i have the SAME EXACT hard drive SAME EXACT sound. should i just short it? data isnt necessary but itd be nice..
My laptop beeps on startup and says no bootable device found.I removed it and put it into an external enclosure to test it and it just clicks.Will replacing the Pcb work to get my data off?
Hey HDD I figure out that my hard drive head broke when my external hard drive fell. everything else works but the reading head. How do I get the part to replace the head for my 8tb Seagate HDD thank you?
So this exact model I have was in a external case. I had a power outage and it formatted the harddrive into .RAW format. I took the case out and plugged it directly into my computer because via USB would not work. I used easeus Data recovery software and was able to get most of the data to appear in the software but at the time I did not have another harddrive to switch it over. Now, the harddrive will never connect/be recognized by the computer. It turns on, spins, and does not make odd sounds. Disk manager doesn't list it, Bios doesn't either, I can not find drivers for this harddrive. I can not get the harddrive to connect so I can do recovery. I fear the harddrive is dead dead. Do I have to just do what you did in this video and get a exact model harddrive that is healthy and start switching out the parts in hope that it fixes it? Just so I can recovery it all to another harddrive that isn't this god awful product by seagate. Thanks if you reply.
Thanks for the awesome videos! Its the beginning of 2022 and seems like you have focused a lot content on rescuing Flash Memory and seems like your HDD recovery work has taken a backseat. Does that mean the HDD recovery is becoming a thing of the past? Or has the HDD progressed so that it no longer possible for third party repair? Are He filled 18TB HDDs impossible to repair now? Wishing you continued success!
HDD Recovery Services , HI great channel , so how do you tell the right time? i assume its like windows boot up to safe mode within 2-3 milli seconds before the spin up right surge of the motor can you be a bit specific i want to try this thanks.
I have been reading articles about mechanical hard drives. The Seagate, 3 terabyte hard drives were * FAMOUS * for dying. Back in 1992, there was a labor dispute between Seagate and the Thai workers, which started when some fat fingered employee entered the wrong amount on a computer. Pay receipts said employees were entitled to more money than they actually were. Instead of working things out with their employees, the Seagate managers fired 600 people! In 2000, Seagate incorporated in The Grand Cayman Islands, a well known tax haven. Even though their headquarters was actually in Scotts Valley, California.
I tried about 30 or 40 times last week to get the right moment to short one of these, eventually got it :) Nice vid man. So, there was no media damage on this drive, patient heads looked OK, so just a bad preamp then? Do you first try disabling heads in ROM, or go straight for the headswap?
Nick Parsons yeah I think this one took at least 20-30 attempts :) I trust the microscope for inspection of heads. They will reveal if there is any platter damage, and then I decide to clip and cut from ROM if needed. If the head stack looks good I go for the swap. I try not to take a risk on partial recovery via head disabling on these, just to avoid the risk of potential platter damage during the imaging. As you know if he had is filthy, even when disabled, it can and most likely will create some ruckus on that platter side. This case went smooth overall. Specially after head adaptive import
Very useful video. I had a seagate SSHD drive start clicking on me about 6 months ago, it still worked but I was worried. Luckily it was covered under warranty still. I sent it in to seagate and got a replacement only a couple days later. I now have a 2tb WD Green drive that works, but it clicks every 10 seconds pretty much on the dot. Luckily, I replaced it with a 6tb WD Black drive this week. I'm going to reformat that 2tb drive and see if the clicking stops. Just found your channel today and subscribed, your videos are very helpful. Thank you for the content.
I also did a little googling and found that it's most likely the heads trying to park. This drive is not within warranty anymore unfortunately, but 2tb drives are cheap nowadays.
sometimes it is not necessary to open the case to manually position the needle.. the problem may be in the power supply or in the connectors under the pcb, which oxidizes with time... you probably know that ( as i can see, you have a lot of hdd there on your shelf to be fixed ) let me ask you a question ? don't you worry about dust sitting on top of the disk while they are open ? your environment is far from being perfect for handling this type of device.... On the other hand, I heard that when the drive is spinning, the dust or any particle just goes away. anyway... nice video anyway !!!
saying is one thing, but getting the drive that is dead to a point where that same drive gives proper ID and puts out data is another thing. That other thing without being properly equipped for the job just does not happen :)
...there aren't too many other sounds from modern life that can evoke the same rippling spine chills and horrific gut twisting as those from a failing or failed HDD. *_Especially_* when they occur after a reboot and you realize just how long it has been since your last backup... **shivers**
When I have a need for this I wont even look anywhere else. This is so great that you are demonstrating this behind the scenes stuff
Dude you are the greatest, I can believe how clear and well explained this tutorial is.
Thanks so much
Specialists as yourself are well accomplished by your own determination
Great video ,can you not build yourself a pwm circuit using a relay then set the on/off contacts to short and adjust the frequency of the relay contacts to get around what you need .that way you get 10 20 or 50 short contacts per second .or do you need to hold the short state for a time to work just an idea if you do this procedure regularly.
Brings back memories. I was the guy who was in charge of a TI 990/12 with two DS80 'platter' drives (only 20Mb each!). I used to change heads on those. The head units were the size of a large soup ladle.
This is great video! Awesome lab and equipment! Thank you so much for adding quality content!!!
I have a 2.5" 320gb seagate hdd, that is very loud when it is seeking, but it spins up normally, and I haven't experienced any data loss. Should I worry? the last time I checked it reported like 10k hours of power on on s.m.a.r.t.
All The recovery company in my area, are really bad. I wish we have someone like you in here, to help us deal with failing hard drive. You're probably the greatest ever to do recovery in the world.
Is the locking of the terminal a proprietary defence mechanism ?
Why do they lock the drive after failure and not a simpler means than shorting the board. It sounds like either bad design or subterfuge?
Seagate has their own Data Recovery Service. I wonder if they have their own backdoor commands to unlock the drive. I doubt they have to go through the same hack of shorting the terminal read pins which is different for every pcb.
Hi my hard drive 2 terra is not reading. I am suspecting power surge. Once it is plugged unto power, it beeps, constantly what do I do?
How much to recover a Seagate Baracuda 1TB HDD with that clicking sound?? I am really only interested in recovering picture, video and audio files. I am not interested in full restoration.
Are you familiar with the disk clicking sound epidemic causing a fast onset of Load Cycle Count SMART value due to head parking?
I bought 5 of these drives as backup to my RAID. The only time they got used was when I filled the drive from my RAID, then left it to one side for when I ever need to restore my RAID if the RAID ever failed. A year later I needed to recover my RAID and tried to offload all my data from the Seagates. All 5 drives failed like this and Seagate claimed they were all out of warranty. Now I don't buy Seagate ever again. They are the worst manufacturer of hard drives I have ever come across. How they can make drives which don't even last the time it takes to read off all data just once is beyond me. How are they still in business?
I used to be a Seagate fan boy.. I've bought hundreds of their drives over the past 15 years. I would tell everyone that their drives were the only reliable drives available. (Going all the way back to the SCSI days) After buying 7 of these ST3000DM001 drives and having all but 1 fail I will never buy Seagate again. They have permanently lost me as a customer. And their response to the ST3000DM001 debacle has been to sweep it under the rug. Worst company ever. Now I go out of my way to tell everyone to never buy from this company.
Bought another after the first one failed. It worked for around 7 hours then died. I put the first one back in and its working again. ??
What tools did you use to safely remove the headstack?
I've taken a few broken or obsolete drives apart to mess with the neodymium magnets. I've always really destroyed the head stack in the process sometimes even scraping the disk surface...ouch.
HDDSurgery
I had this problem with an old Seagate drive, and simply turning the drive to vertical orientation helped and I could recover my data...
Where do you get your head combs from and how do you know which one to use with a particular hard drive? I've seen people using homemade ones but they seem very unstable to me. Good video..
HDDSurgery is where I get my combs
awesome, have a great one. have a great trip and safe travels! thanks again.
That's feature of Seagate drives...
Actually mine are still running. In raid 1 of course ;)
Hi, I have the same problem with clicking sound on Seagate Barracuda 3 TB. I wonder how to follow this video and i am wondering about that metall peace he put over the heads where can I get this? Is it nececarry to have that to change unit?
I don't know anything about data recovery but this seems like something I might want to get into.
hi ...2TB seagate ...spins and make clicking sound once ... as she did normally when she was ok ... only difference is ...HDD not detected at all ...
In disk manager ...sometimes it shows ...DISK 1 initialize ...but no other info like no size info etc......what seams to be the issue
Hello , what kit low price you recomend ?
Kit data recovery PCIE or USB .
Thanks
Héber from brazil
This is exactly the problem i have on 1 of the drives in my NAS ! I set it up as a RAID so both drives are seen as 1 to maximise my storage capacity ! Bad Idea. I have zero redundancy and stand to loose all 6tb of data. What i need to know is how do i identify which drive is faulty ? Where i can get the little tool to sepearte the reading heads and what level of clean room conditions i need and how to achieve them before opening my HD ? Thanks from Scotland.
ScotsFurian you should call my friend Andy Watson from Databusters in Glasgow
Thanks HHDRS. Got any contact info ?
ScotsFurian www.datarecovery.co.uk/
Ive spoken with Adam and explained to him that my drive is in a NAS. I have two 3Tb Segate Barracudas but only one is faulty with the clicking head problem mentioned in this video. He asked if it was Raid 0 or Raid 1 and im sorry but i cant remember. I set it up for maximum capacity with zero redundancy. :/ I know bad choice and im regretting it now. Anyway Adam went on to explain that recovering the data from these drives is very unlikley with a 1 in 10 success ratio. He said its the plater thats the problem and not the heads and that even if you replace the heads due to the problem with the platter it will within a few minutes damage the new heads which is not long enough to recover the 6Tb of data. Also when asked for a quote on a successfull data recovery he said it would be £800 or about $1200 I guess which is not feasable for me in my current financial situation. So what are my options ? How expensive would it be to attempt this myself ? I looked for the Head seperator tool and its crazy money for all it is. As for a PC3000 im expecting it to be horrendously expensive also. What can you suggest for someone interested in the topic of data recover with maybe an interest in making a living out of it from your own personal experiances ? Thanks for your advice and time dude. You rock btw. Cheers from Scotland.
this is not a DIY job dude, not on this drive. You will just end up killing it completely and killing the donor also. since this is a RAID0 you would to have an image of the failed unit made, that will take some sweating over PC3k
That's so funny, I've been watching your vids, since I've always been super fascinated with low-level hardware access, and I just now realized that you're about ten minutes from my house! I live in Vanier. Internet is such a huge place, and yet sure enough, I end up watching vids of someone who lives here in Ottawa. If ever you give live demos, please let me know.. I'll bring some Timmie's. :) Cheers
haha thats so odd, I know exactly how you feel. Just today I was watching a review of a camera lens and the guy had shots of Landsdowne (old market building)
Could you give some ballpark pricing examples? I'd just like to know roughly what things cost. I'm in Canada. I may send some people your way. Also an idea for a video 'Why and how to storage devices fail'.
I love your channel alot! keep up the goodwork bro! new knowledge every new video :D
Just ask any of your contact:
Internal Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive spins up and spins down and then stops spinning. It causes NTLDR is Missing Error. HDD intact and was never dropped.
this happened to me yesterday. i have to admit ive had this for more than 10 years, but now my important data, some of backup photos and videos that are important to me are inaccessible :( im not sure if i should give it to a person to recover my data, or try it myself. im a technician but I've never worked on drives.
i have the same model it don't show up and in disk management it's statues is Disk Unknown Not initialized
what should i do with that ?
I have a Hitatchi 232gb laptop hard drive with a similar issue, but I don't have any donners and don't want to spend any money on a new head. Any help?
This is really interesting stuff :D
thanks
@@hddrecoveryservices yep indeed but music is to "heavy" i mean somebody has to put it little bit down to match level of voice. Just sayin ;>
I have the same problem but its a 2TB Seagate barracuda and Found 3 Seagate barracuda with the same firmware CC27, first question is if send these 2TB Seagate barracuda what will it cost to recover an get it back to work. These seagate driver never been open at all. Fill free to contact me throw my youtube inbox.
i have a 3tb external/portable disc with adapter. in pluged in the wrong adapter to disc and now its not working. is there a way to fix it or what could be wrong?
do you also repair the iomega 100mb zip scsi?
ST3000DM001 is the worst HDD I ever had.
The first couple of days I used it, it made me lose like 2 TB of data.
Then, only two years later, it started to develop an increasingly amount of bad sectors...
It's the hard drive with the highest failure rate in the past 20 years. So yeah, believeable.
Mine, too
Hi, nice video. I'm in trouble with my Seagate barracuda 1tb. I have a donor but not own the weird wrench to move the header pins (I'm from Italy, no idea how that disk surface readers are called; we call them "testine", small heads). Can you tell me please the name of that small grey tool to separate pins form disk? Best Regards Al
'Im just using SSD and my main drive now and i store alrge files and back up to a spinner which gets disconnected soon as iv'e backed up. Spin time will eventually kill a drive.
Do you sell the head tool to seperate heads?
No sorry. Hddsurgery does
I lost a file, and I have run date recovery on it. But the customer still saying there are still files missing and I have copy the recovery ones back to the Harddrive. What the solution to get them back??
Why it has this shield over the platter?
Please I opened my hard drive the head wasn’t on the plater or the round disks, something feel on it and it doesn’t show up again, PLEASE I NEED TO RECOVER MY DATA, help me please , please
Hi, i didn't catch your name, i think it is Akin? Please forgive me if i am wrong. These videos are a godsend and EXTREMELY interesting to me. Thank you SO MUCH for providing them, i am technically interested and have been all my life. I would just like to know if you might be able to share some insight as to how one starts off in the Data Recovery business as i would love to start up here in Aus but don't know what to buy first. i have basic tools ie dmm, soldering iron, magnification fluro loop lol, all types of screw driver bits etc. Basically just after a heads up on what to get and how to learn. i have learnt quite a bit from a few online tubers so far and SOME experimentation here but i don't want to go wrecking customers drives starting out. Thanks so much mate and i always look forward to your posts!!
Hi,
do you know what exactly was the problem of this drive with the original heads? In your video, you had a look through the microscope, but I couldn't see any damage. And are you sure that the heads were damaged? May Be there was just this one Firmware problem?
port29dr led:00000047 problems with media cache. Overwrote 3x346 sys files on both copies and modified SMP flags - result full image with like a handful of bad sectors
port29dr but also original heads were toasted
port29dr originally the drive was just clicking and spinning down after 12 clicks or so. As soon as new heads were placed in, it stopped clicking and it would stay BSY, but idle.
Is there info about the clicking number. For example if drive is clicking 5 times and stop and you have terminal ?
Hi.
My needle/head goes back and forth and it looks like the disc doesn't spin at full speed. I can't read the harddrive on my PC. Any ideas? Regards Andrew.
Hi, I have a Seagate barracuda 3tb that show 16384.00 GB on windows disk management, any ideas what could it be??? Regards
sorry I don't know. was this a standalone drive? or was it maybe a part of the array?
HDD Recovery Services standalone drive
Sooo, the broken hard drive and the donor only have to share the Model Number to be compatible ?
I’ve got a 2TB Seagate Pipeline HDD, spins up then makes 2 of those exact clicking noises then spins down.
This happened randomly one day, the previous day it was fine, would it also need a replaced set of heads as in the video?
It’s only been used for 2 years.
Thanks for your time
do you know if the heads on these drives are compatible with the heads on the later version using the 100724095 board?
Hi can I use heads from ST3000DM001 to read a 3 platter ST2000DM001? Thanks
haha from one dr engineer to another after a day in my cleanroom and staring at PC3K its nice to see how other engineers work... and yes finding the time to short the read channel out can be frustrating.... good stuff mate
haha, its kinda like watching paint dry and turn to money isn't it. I am actually working on something with my dad that should take out all of the frustration out of the channel shorting once and for all, to a point where a toddler can do it. :) something that is in the works, along with other cool perks for monolith dr. I'll make show it off here once its ready
That is true and would you believe I got a DM001 in today hanging BSY through term and I thought of you and your tin foil finger sorted it though but cloning like a pig on PC3K. Also did a platter swap on the new 2.5" 4TB WD blue drive it had a high fiction bearing from being dropped, I havnt powered that bad boy up yet a little nervous....! Other than that the usual degraded rubbish. Hope your day was more interesting lol
setting up 2 HP workstations today, ready to burn them
if u change only disks will it work
Don't you have to vacuum out the air from a reclosed HD before resealing it? I thought they were made that way and filled with some neutral gas to protect the platters.
some new drives are filled with Helium
I am currently studying advanced data recovery and I love your channel! Great info! Have you ever had to do a recovery on one of these new Helium filled drives where you had to open the drive? Can the drives adaptives adjust to working without the Helium??
Just curious...
How create environment for HDD part replacement, I mean dust free. :-)
where i can get (Buy) a Head lock for remove the harddisk head module?
I've been looking around and I can't find out how to remove write protection from my micro sd card. Sandisk website says to use the adapter they provide. But mine is broken is there any way I could remove the protection. A reply would be tons of help. Btw love the videos!
How much does it cost to repair this exact drive? Mine failed and is clicking the exact same way.
my hard just started to spin at 100% usage and made the clicking sounds. Whats the likelihood of saving the data?
What is the Cost in the the same case scenario ? my hard drive is doing the same exact thing .
how much cost with that heads holder that you temporary hold heads?
Is this the same process for the ST2000DM001? I just ordered in a donor drive waiting to replace the head.
Good luck
@@hddrecoveryservices Thanks mate!! Just curious is there somewhere I can order in a single head replacement tool? I looked around and they only come in sets.
I have the same drive (ST3000DM001) that began to fail suddenly and now is clicking the same way. It showed a few thousand reallocated sectors and I was attempting to remap them but gave up and now the drive is not detected in the bios. I opened it up and verified the heads were not stuck. I was thinking about ordering a donor drive to swap head assemblies. Will this require terminal work and rechanneling the drive? Not sure if its possible to just swap the assembly only or not? The data is not critical but its worth 50 bucks to me. Great video BTW!
Great video!.
Can I change the hd's mainboard from an "identical" hd but with different fw?
You have to transplant eprom which contains platter calibration registers even same firmware.
It works most cases but if handling of eprom changed between firmware change, it will not work.
How much should we be charged for s recovery?? What does it depend on???
If I or anyone else has the same Seagate 3tb ST3000DM001 with the same click of death and you have to do the same work as this video, what would be the cost?
My hard drive is dead. I tried getting someone to retrieve the data from it in my country (Mauritius) but in vain. A guy i know opened the hard disk and tried to move the move the actuator on the platter to kinda read it atleast but it failed. he put everything back and told me it's gone.
But watching your videos kinda give me hope, will I be able to send you the hard disk through DHL or something, then you can quote me. Is it possible? Thank you
Yes i do have the donor for all the dead hdd...but the problem now is the so expensive pc3000 tools software...dammnnnn...
can we also swap pcb too from the working one?
I have a drive with comics of it it about 25 gigs of data on a 500 gb drive it's clicking what to do? I put drive in sealed ziplock
How do you know the donor drives head is not broken?! İ mean you don't actually donate a head out of a fine hdd ?! Or do you?
Hi friend, I follow your channel
My name is Zenilto I'm from Brazil
I have this Toshiba 750gb laptop HD Mk7559gsxp Hdd2j51 Z SLOT1 T
His fault is the click of death.
The doubt that I have is whenever I have this defect the only solution would be to change the reading head or am I wrong?
Thank you for your attention.
Hard to say without inspection. But most of the clicking sounds on modern drives are related to the heads
HDD Recovery Services Grateful for your attention. I'll see if I can find any specialized company in my country.
How much do you guys normally charge?
I am genuinely interested in data recover but what learning path or course did you take to get going with data recovery? Google searches are vague and I would prefer something more specific. Thanks for any advice...
I'll have an episode on how I started soon.
What is that "garbage" for what ? What is't?
My hard drive clicking is much softer, barely audible and my files are all in RAW format. I have no idea what to do!
i have seagate Momentus 1 TB external sata drive it was working fine but was dropped some how and after that there is no sound in the drive it is not even turning on when i plug it in the computer it do sound as some thing is attached and if i see in the device manager the name is shown for some time and then it goes and hard disk light stops what could be the problem ?
How much did this particular service cost??
I have a same model drive. I can hear that platters spin without clicks but it's not being detected by any computer's BIOS. Do you think it could be a physical issue or a PCB issue? Thank you very much for being so generous and open-handed with your knowledge!
if the drive spins and does not click, then 99% it is neither. Most likely something either related to bad sectors, or firmware
And if it were bad sectors related would it be possible to get it back to life or it'd be a lost cause? Thanks for your response!
I feel very sad, the exactly same drive died with all of my family pics and important data. I left a comment on your other video. could you please gimme some advice. Thank you
Nizzy Niz try 300 data recovery
do you repair the disk?
so the head replacement is absolutely necessary? i have the SAME EXACT hard drive SAME EXACT sound. should i just short it? data isnt necessary but itd be nice..
Logan Benson it is the only way to get access
Where do you get those hard drive storage boxes on your shelf??
U-Line
My laptop beeps on startup and says no bootable device found.I removed it and put it into an external enclosure to test it and it just clicks.Will replacing the Pcb work to get my data off?
Mitch Maguny maybe not might be damage heads
Hi. Could you list the software you use please?
You clear the smart list?
Hey HDD I figure out that my hard drive head broke when my external hard drive fell. everything else works but the reading head. How do I get the part to replace the head for my 8tb Seagate HDD thank you?
This happened to my laptop hard Drive, is the problem maker just the same?
hi! my hard drive makes this rumble and grinding noises what might be the problem please help my hdd is wd2003fyps
grinding noises is the worst thing you can have happen to the drive. Heads might be grinding the platters away at this point
+HDD Recovery Services but its a new drive and what about rumbling noises?
+HDD Recovery Services also I contacted the people that made my pc and said its normal because its a enterprise drive
+HDD Recovery Services please reply soon so I can get a new drive if thats the problem
What's the name of your scanning software?
So this exact model I have was in a external case. I had a power outage and it formatted the harddrive into .RAW format.
I took the case out and plugged it directly into my computer because via USB would not work.
I used easeus Data recovery software and was able to get most of the data to appear in the software but at the time I did not have another harddrive to switch it over. Now, the harddrive will never connect/be recognized by the computer. It turns on, spins, and does not make odd sounds. Disk manager doesn't list it, Bios doesn't either, I can not find drivers for this harddrive.
I can not get the harddrive to connect so I can do recovery. I fear the harddrive is dead dead.
Do I have to just do what you did in this video and get a exact model harddrive that is healthy and start switching out the parts in hope that it fixes it? Just so I can recovery it all to another harddrive that isn't this god awful product by seagate.
Thanks if you reply.
Thanks for the awesome videos!
Its the beginning of 2022 and seems like you have focused a lot content on rescuing Flash Memory and seems like your HDD recovery work has taken a backseat.
Does that mean the HDD recovery is becoming a thing of the past? Or has the HDD progressed so that it no longer possible for third party repair?
Are He filled 18TB HDDs impossible to repair now?
Wishing you continued success!
Olá, sou do Brasil e trabalho com Informática! Gostaria de aprender com vocês! Tem algum curso que posso fazer com vocês?
Where do I find the tool that you use to protect the heads ? Thanks in advance.
Hddsurgery
HDD Recovery Services , HI great channel , so how do you tell the right time? i assume its like windows boot up to safe mode within 2-3 milli seconds before the spin up right surge of the motor can you be a bit specific i want to try this thanks.
hey man thanks for all your videos !
i want to start the same job as u are so where should i start from? am from algeria
I have been reading articles about mechanical hard drives. The Seagate, 3 terabyte hard drives were * FAMOUS * for dying.
Back in 1992, there was a labor dispute between Seagate and the Thai workers, which started when some fat fingered employee entered the wrong amount on a computer. Pay receipts said employees were entitled to more money than they actually were. Instead of working things out with their employees, the Seagate managers fired 600 people!
In 2000, Seagate incorporated in The Grand Cayman Islands, a well known tax haven. Even though their headquarters was actually in Scotts Valley, California.
I tried about 30 or 40 times last week to get the right moment to short one of these, eventually got it :)
Nice vid man. So, there was no media damage on this drive, patient heads looked OK, so just a bad preamp then? Do you first try disabling heads in ROM, or go straight for the headswap?
Nick Parsons yeah I think this one took at least 20-30 attempts :) I trust the microscope for inspection of heads. They will reveal if there is any platter damage, and then I decide to clip and cut from ROM if needed. If the head stack looks good I go for the swap. I try not to take a risk on partial recovery via head disabling on these, just to avoid the risk of potential platter damage during the imaging. As you know if he had is filthy, even when disabled, it can and most likely will create some ruckus on that platter side. This case went smooth overall. Specially after head adaptive import
Very useful video. I had a seagate SSHD drive start clicking on me about 6 months ago, it still worked but I was worried. Luckily it was covered under warranty still. I sent it in to seagate and got a replacement only a couple days later.
I now have a 2tb WD Green drive that works, but it clicks every 10 seconds pretty much on the dot. Luckily, I replaced it with a 6tb WD Black drive this week. I'm going to reformat that 2tb drive and see if the clicking stops.
Just found your channel today and subscribed, your videos are very helpful. Thank you for the content.
I also did a little googling and found that it's most likely the heads trying to park. This drive is not within warranty anymore unfortunately, but 2tb drives are cheap nowadays.
4 percent fragmented disk check fails at 40 percent and I can’t move some of my game files don’t know what to do it says can’t read source file
How much would this type of recovery cost?
sometimes it is not necessary to open the case to manually position the needle.. the problem may be in the power supply or in the connectors under the pcb, which oxidizes with time... you probably know that ( as i can see, you have a lot of hdd there on your shelf to be fixed ) let me ask you a question ? don't you worry about dust sitting on top of the disk while they are open ? your environment is far from being perfect for handling this type of device.... On the other hand, I heard that when the drive is spinning, the dust or any particle just goes away. anyway... nice video anyway !!!
all internal work that we do is done inside of a laminar flow cabinet. conditions inside of the cabinet are perfect for the work like this.
HDD Recovery Services I just couldn't say it by the record you showed. But anyone can say you are very well prepared for this job.
saying is one thing, but getting the drive that is dead to a point where that same drive gives proper ID and puts out data is another thing. That other thing without being properly equipped for the job just does not happen :)