I'm A+ certified and have worked in the IT industry for over 25 years...I never would have thought of this fix. Goes to show you that there's always something to learn regardless of your experience
I cant believe this worked perfectly. I had 1.5 TB of data on a Samsung desktop drive that had all of my lifes work family photos and music on it. I was at the point of just throwing it all away. Please like and subscribe to this channel he is actually giving good acurate information in a way anyone can understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Excellent video and tutorial, I hope everyone knows that you should do this to get your data off your drive onto a new drive and no longer use the drive, and you should also run a DOD 7 pass secure wipe on the failed drive before donating it to a e-recycler.
That is so true. 🥲 Young people think we discovered a solution overnight or in a Reddit Post. But some of us started with MS-DOS and a 286DX computer with 8 colours. I didn't, but my friends did. I started with Win 3.1 and a 486DX and 256 colours. 😅
I don't know who you are, but I thank God that you exist! By using your method, I have fixed my old laptop HDD! And recovered all my data! Thanks again!
Thank you sooo much!!!! I have saved loads of precious work and also fixed my old hard drive which was sat in the drawer for ages and was quoted £750 to fix by specialists a while ago. You are a legend!!!
I saw an old IT fellow who spinned the intact drive on the floor couples of times and fixed the defective drive. No sure if it actually moved the head back to sitting position. But it did work that time.
One of my laptop harddrives was doing the same thing I never threw it away it's been just sitting there for almost a year I saw this video and tried it and works now I had pics of my father-in-law who past away on it moved them to another harddrive. your awesome thanks for the video👍
Is their a special screwdriver or is it just the normal star screwdriver? That we use to open the hard drive. Glad to hear you recovered your data back.
Stumbled across this video accidentally. Had a Samsung 500g drive beeping. Opened, moved heads to home position and fixed. So simple. I was about to throw it away. Many thanks
@@diyconstruction1147 with the sort of repair shown in this video, I'd never consider that drive to last any longer than required to get the data off of it. (Maybe not even that, that's why he gave all the warnings.) Buy a fresh new drive to put your data onto and never open it up.
@@andrewjokbalan6267 I can’t see clearly in the video what screw heads he’s got but they look like they could be torx heads on the screws. So you just need to go and get one of those little screwdriver sets with multiple removable bits that go in the end of the driver and make sure that it has torx bits of different sizes in it If that is the type of bit that you need for yours (Torx bits have a star cross-section)
Ran across this today. I have a 500 gig external HD that looks identical to this one except for the connector. My HD froze several years ago and I have some good stuff on it that I can't get off. I tried this and opened the cases and sure enough, the arm was stuck as in the video. I freed the arm, put the cases back together and it worked. It took 3 attempts for my laptop to repair the HD functioning and now it functions very well. Only problem was finding the 7th hidden screw under the label in order to open the case top. Thanks for the remedy you provided.
The head is supposed to park off to the side of the platter. After some time the head can get stuck in one position because of wear on the bearing shaft from the many millions of movements of the head arm. The bearing shaft starts to have some uneven surface (in microns of tolerance). It is like the bearing surfaces hit a sort of a burr and got stuck. By moving the head assembly the burr may be cleared, but will eventually come back because of the wear. After freeing up the head, it may actually operate for a fair amount of time before it gets suck again. Best to get the data off the drive and then bin it. The position of the head is sensed. The head position is sensed because it knows (reads) the track number it is sitting on as soon as the power is applied. If in the event the head is out of position while the drive is powered off, the program in the firmware will know the position of the head and is supposed to zero it back to its start point when the drive is re-started. The start point is first to park, and then immediately go to to track "0" to start reading at sector "0". My take, is to make sure you have an image of the drive on a USB or another internal drive unit. In the case of failure you simply swap out the drive and re-image back to the new drive. These small laptop drives are usually fairly dependable, but do have a higher frequency of failure than the full height full size drives. They are also mechanically more fragile. If you are replacing a boot drive it is best to replace it with an SSD. The SSD will outlast any mechanical drive and are is a lot less fragile.
When I saw you removing the screws I was sure this was a video on how to destroy your hard drive in five minutes, I always believed the moment you expose the platter to air and dust that it will never work again. You proved me wrong
You should open harddrives in dustfree areas (airfiltered room/hood). Dust inside the case is very bad for the lifespan of a HDD. However if you just want to rescue the data and dispose the HDD afterwards(or use it for nonimportant datastorage until it kicks the bucket), doing this in a normal room with a bit of care is fine unless you are are a very unlucky fellow and a grain of dust finds itself between plate and head right away.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been doing computer repair and tech support for over 10 years now and I NEVER knew we could open these hard drives. Amazing! You truly learn something new everyday!
Only for a short time, if your lucky enough time to make an image. The drive is sealed and letting atmosphere in creates friction when the platters spin and the heat builds up.
@@thadtheman3751 nope, they are not. well, there are drives which are sealed, some special helium drives, but most of the normal hdds are not sealed and even have a hole to pressurize. you should open them in clean room conditions, because of all the dust and specs flying around. the read heads fly so low over the platters (they fly, because the disc creates a cushion of air throught he spin), that even a small dust particle can crash and damage the head.
Tell us after 2 months if it's still running properly. The HDD was filled with the inert superclean gas with practically 0 dust particles. After opening, you contamined it. So make sure it will get rusty soon.
Jaromír Anděl most consumer grade drives aren't gas filled but have small breather holes to allow filtered air to circulate through them. Opening it outside of a clean room isn't a good idea, but it won't brick the drive right away.
Thanks for the video! I have several “crashed” hard drives in a drawer in my desk. All of them have been pronounced DOA at some point in the past. Now looking forward to seeing if the dead can be revived. I also want to compliment the quality of your microphone, which brought very subtle sounds to life, like screw extraction, and hard drive case cracking. Awesome!
Thanks for the video! I have several “crashed” hard drives in a drawer in my desk. All of them have been pronounced DOA at some point in the past. Now looking forward to seeing if the dead can be revived. Also want to compliment the quality of your microphone, which brought very subtle sounds to life, like screw extraction, and hard drive case cracking. Awesome!
I am by no means some kind of PC expert but i have worked in field service for 32 years and I would do a repair like this in a heartbeat, I would then copy the image and replace the drive. Over the years not only have I but many of my fellow techs have done some crazy things to get a drive working again,. You do what you have to do. Thanks for your video
I've had drives in the freezer, tried to setup a clean area to work on them etc, this video shows roughly what you can get away with if you just want to pull the data. Saves spending the $$ that the experts want ;-)
I have asked people at computer store and they say: YOU HAVE to have a clean room... OR : if you do this the drive is is trash and it won't work, OR the drive will NOT last a day because it is now contaminated. What do you think, Are the full of carp and how long have you had a hard dive last after doing this?? Thank you if you reply.
My father and I did a drive that lasted 5 years until it was thrown out... On the flip side there is a decent possibility that opening the disk will kill it on the spot, if you don't have the $$ to pay a data recovery specialist you don't have much to lose ;-)
Thanks very much, most appreciated. I went and saw many Technicians here in S. Korea and they said that nothing could be done about this problem, but for a fee they could try and retrieve some of the data from off the HDD, but no guarantees! Thanks again for sharing & God Bless!
My Dell 380 desk top failed to reboot after a power failure last night. All day with tech support trying different things. There answer was bad hard drive. Technically correct however this procedure fixed my problem.. You are awesome !!!! Thanks !!
You should have showed up the monitor screen to see the hdd responding to processing programmed information to see if there's some errors or not until it gets to the Windows Operating System. One time, back in late 1990s I opened up one hdd that was not responding but it's spinning quietly. The arm head pin was stuck up in the center of the hard disk. I just move like the way you did and put it back together. There you go, it works. I wonder why most hard drives happen that getting stuck up in the center. This like DIY is the best way to experience which saves you money and precious memories then get another new HDD to duplicate/clone in case happens again. Good video, thanks for sharing.
Use to work in this industry. Sound like what they would call a "stiction" problem where the heads adheres to the disks. Basically lack of lubricant..supper thin. The disks are dipped and allowed to dry vertically. Also good to mention to turn it the right way, or the heads will be ripped off or bent. You can hear the sticking as the disk is turned. Lastly, some designs have the heads parked at the inside diameter. Good video!
I appreciate that you post this with good intentions, but you missed some things in your explanation, such as inspecting the heads to ensure that they aren't damaged or contaminated with debris. You should also inspect the surface (at least the top that you can see) to verify that there are no head slaps or scratches from the heads landing down. The first step after closing the drive is to get a full sector-by-sector clone of the drive, avoiding the heads from thrashing and compounding any surface damage. As a data recovery professional, we get these drive almost daily. If unopened by user, 95% of the time, we recover the data without a head change for $350CAD. But, of the drives that are previously opened, we usually need to change heads on about 80% of the cases, making for a more expensive recovery and a less than perfect recovery result.
If this permits the hdd to be accessed for long enough to copy it's data to another hdd then that is all that matters. He is not saying this is a long term solution, but a possible technique to permit you to read the disk and save your precious memories. 👍🏻
and what everyone else is saying is congrats numb nuts if there ever was a chance of recovering that data youve just halved that and potentially fucked it up so that even a proffesional might not be able to get it back
Online Identity: Excellent advice. If the drive has an operating system and programs, try cloning the problem drive to another HD. I now keep clones of the HDs in my desktop and two laptops BEFORE I have problems. If I have a drive failure, I just swap out the problem drive and insert the clone. That way I am back in business in 15 minutes or less. Then, when I have the time, I run the recovery software on the problem drive. To make this even quicker, I partition all my HDs into several logical drives and keep data off Drive C, usually drives E and F. That way, even if drive C has problems, I can still access the data on drives E (work) and F (personal). Of course to access the data I must place the problem HD in an external case and access it by USB cable.
That works sometimes. An opened HD is promised to die soon. So the best is to recover the data immediately. Never rely at 100% on a lone HD. In fact, the best is to do is to have two external disks with all your data backup. With the price of HDs nowadays it is a fairly cheap and rather fast solution. It's best to do that backup with a linux OS as it is far more robust than Windows for reading and writing data, and it is not bothered by Windows viruses.
There are no words! Exactly what I was looking for and makes sense in my particular scenario where I had installed a new battery and in the process of calibrating battery cycle.
I am surprised those tiny specs of dust right after you opened it didn't cause an issue. Maybe there is some small filter inside the drive to catch those? Would it have been better to give it a quick blast of spray air before closing it back up? (Not sure if that would do more damage or help.) You can get a cheap PM2.5 counter and some even show number of particles per liter of air. (Basically a sub-PM2.5 amount.) With such an air quality meter, you should be able to get "pretty close to clean room". Don't forget that moving clothing, moving hair, etc can cause more dust particles to shed. Also don't forget to control humidity.
Exposing the platter and other internal hard drive components to open air will result in eventual (if not immediate) hard drive failure. This technique should only be done as a last resort and if successful any readable data should be extracted from the drive immediately afterwards. If the data is valuable, the drive should be handed over to a professional so that any attempted hardware repair of the hard drive in a clean room.
100% agree as this should have been done in special clean room hint reason why data recovery so expensive and should always back up your important files so don't ever have worry about this or even cloud now.
Finally something useful. I kept telling people i Just want to recover the data onto a new drive and they're telling me about software and all this crap and that it's "Too risky" to take it apart and they refused to help. I have 2 laptop drives that I know the heads are stuck. Thing is, now I have to find a screw driver for them lol
288 / 5000 Wyniki tłumaczenia I don't think he knows what he's doing. He said nothing about the fact that the hard disk should be opened in a laminar chamber. Additionally, dirt from the plate should be removed. If you want to play with the disc like a toy, this is a good method, but it definitely doesn't fix anything as the author suggests in the title.
OMG!!!!!! Thank you so much move my hdd from transcend to ugreen hard disk case and face this problem too omg follow your tutorial i fixed it!!! thanks again and again ~!!!!!!
Thumbs up. i solve my harddisk problem with this way. Everything is the same except model (Seagate.). Windows 7 on this HDD working. Now I am trying disk repair because my opening may cause on HDD.
Most reasons for unparked heads is sudden loss of power.....I.e. Battery dies before shutdown...then you leave it without recharging battery and rebooting within a day or two.....
Xenon777 Most of the time, that is what happens. However, the inevitable can and sometimes do occur when the read/write heads does a hard touchdown often referred to as a crash when it lands on an occupied area or does not glide to a safe zone.
In my area we get power loss all the time, my couple of hdds are going off power like 400 times a year and yet this never happened to me. btw I need an ups cuz I bought ssd . Got power loss on it couple times and no errors for now. Bit late for a comment but I wanted to share my experience. Maybe this is just samsung hdds firmware fault. (I never had samsung hdd)
When you do something like this and fix it in this manner the next thing you should do is clone that drive or backup whatever you have on it that you want. Unless you're doing this in a clean room, you run the risk of getting dust or other foreign material in your HDD and that can really mess the heads up even more.
Your right about a clean room, however I have done this several times successfully without a clean room. What you have is what they call "the click of death". The read/write head is stuck. A person has to take the drive apart, rotate the data platter and move the heads back to the park location. From there you will need an external hard drive to recover the data. When you plug the hard drive back in the computer with the cover either on or off you plug a USB hard drive in the computer. If things go right you will see the computer boot up as normal. From that point you start copying files from the defective hard drive to the USB drive or thumb drive you have plugged in. Hope this helps.
@@beeman596 You got it. How big is the hard drive? Does it fit in a desktop computer or a laptop? I purchased some 500gig refurbished WD Blue 3.5" drive from Technocycle here in Houston for $14 each. technocycle.com/ The best thing to get now is solid state hard drives. They aren't that expensive and there is no moving parts.
Well, I have to question this as a permanent fix. When you open a hard drive case you expose it to the elements moister, dust, and don’t even touch the platter. The oil from your finger is thicker than the tolerance between the head and the platter as well as dust particles. At best it might get you some quick data recovery. Hard drives are meant to be opened in a clean room or chamber to prevent contamination if you really want to get lost data back....you will pay a price for this recovery. Here is another non invasive trick for quick short term data recovery. Put the hard drive in a ziplock bag and put it in your freezer. Leave it there for 4 to 5 hours. Take it out hurry and hook it up to a cable and hope that it reads it. The cold shrinks the metal allowing the head to move across the platter. If your drive has a faulty controller neither of these fixes will work. My experience.....senior computer technician since 1985. Good luck.
Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!! It helped me sooo much and not only saved me money but also let me keep my info which the manufacturer had told me had to be formatted. My computer was not even recognizing the disk but now it works again THANKSS!!!
Now I feel I shouldn't have thrown out my hard drive a few years ago. I kept my broken hard drive for a decade, hoping someday I would be able to recover its data. Eventually, I gave up hope and let it go. Wish I hadn't. There were no such videos on RUclips back then. My HDD had this same problem. It's so sad. I am never gonna get my data back now...I had made peace with it. But nowadays I feel I made a big mistake. It even feels worse than losing the data itself. Life sucks.
Agree, but I think this is more for a one time retrieval for less important data. He should put more warnings (the only one is in the description). I did this as a project on an old unused 40 gig HDD and it worked for about an hour. Wasn’t a clean-room, so results are definitely not accurate but it does show that this isn’t permanent.
Put mine in a plastic bag then bubble wrap and placed it in the freezer for about half an hour, got the heads released so I could extract the data, surprisingly it still works 5 years later!
Back in the 90's hard drive heads became magnetized and stuck to the platter. I used to take them to the clean room and rotate the platter as you have shown. Then with the heads removed, gently flick them with plastic tweezers wich demagnetized them. This fault was known as stiction.
Older drives used to have a problem they called stiction. The head would land on the platter while the drive was warm, then stick to it when the drive cooled. I was visiting our IT department one day when they had a drive exhibiting the problem. The tech shocked the hell out of me when he took the drive in his hand and slammed it down flat, quite hard, on his work bench. He plugged it in and it worked perfectly. Sometime later I had a similar problem with a piece of equipment and tried the trick myself. It worked! I wouldn’t recommend putting the drive back in service again after doing that but the one I smashed worked for years after.
Well this method does work but you have to be really careful that no dust particles get in the drive. After this operation you should not trust the drive i.e you should not store any important data on the drive from there on because sometimes the read head could scratch the platters and you will not be able to ever recover data out of it.
Copy everything from it to a safe place and then forget that hdd. If you open it and dust gets inside (which inevitably happens if you don't do it in a specialized dust-free clean-room) the dust from the air will stuck between the head and the plates, will scratch the plates and the hdd will not work anymore and data will be lost. Good for a fast data recovery, but the opened hard drives even fixed by professionals with specialized equipments and lab are not guaranteed to work for long time.
I've had Hard drives die that were 3 months old. This started when they went to 500gb. I just replace them with an SSD and then a portable back up. Works great.
As an I.T. Expert i say this..... it's one thing to post a video like this i'ts another thing to give people the impression that it will ALWAYS WORK, this is not the case. This can work, and at other times it may not for various reasons. opening a hard drive like this without having a clean environment is not a good idea usually now in saying that, IF IT WORKS.... THEN GO FOR IT but I WOULD STRONGLY STRONGLY SUGGEST you back up your data immediately and buy yourself a new drive after doing this. if this method serves to save someone's data.. THE GREAT but it is certainly not a method that should encourage one to keep using their drive permanently. and i would also stress to someone to limit the amount of time that the cover is off the drive, get it off and back on as quickly as possible if you must do it this way. but.. there is merit to this method and there are also down sides.
Since many years, I did it many times and saved a lot of HD this way. So I agree on what you say, but generally, once I restart my fixed HD, my first operation is to backup its data ;-)
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Put your thumb on one side of the hard drive and the rest of your fingers on the other. Hold tight and spin the drive in one direction and very quickly in the other direction (about 1/4 rotation). The quicker the better. This usually frees up stuck drives. At least that is how we used to do it years ago.
_Hold tight and spin the drive in one direction and very quickly in the other direction (about 1/4 rotation)._ But wouldn't you have to have the cover off in order to do that? The disks are completely housed inside the drive.
Same thing happened to my Seagate 2TB 2.5, it beeped with no spin. Luckily it was still under warranty so I sent it in and got a new one back, pain in the A about the data but I have an external I back up to so all of it was not lost. EDIT: Great video BTW Thanks...
OK, you should note that the drive should not be relied upon after this kind of repair. (At least) two reasons: 1. These things are manufactured in a dust free environment. Opening the case in this way will dramatically increase the risk a disk failure in the near future. 2. The disk platters are supposed to spin at high speed BEFORE the read write heads on the arm(s) go anywhere near the data portion of the platter (the discs inside the drive). The spinning effect means that the heads don't actually touch the surface, instead they "fly" above the surface (similar to a hovercraft). Disk drives are far more resilient than they use to be years ago, but spinning-up the disc whilst the heads are still on the data area or dragging the heads across a disk that is not spinning at high speed is not recommended should only be attempted when there is no other way. If you have some files on the drive that you would like to get back, but don't want to spend out for an expensive repair, do this, back up and then (whether you get the data back or not) dismantle and destroy the platter(s) to prevent any one else getting at your potentially sensitive data. The level of destruction should be proportionate to the sensitivity of the data. For most domestic data a drill hole or even bending the disks out of shape with a hammer or pliers is enough to discourage a would-be data thief. You might also want to recover the neodymium magnets (mind your fingers the magnets are VERY strong) HOWEVER, if you have mission-critical data on the drive then spend some money to get the data recovered by a professional in a dust-free environment. Note your average PC repair guy does NOT have these facilities. You need a data recovery specialist and these are not cheap. You should also ask yourself WHY you were not backing up mission-critical data in the first place!
Why not backing up? I'm just a home experimenter and usually backed up stuff over my network. However since Windows 7, after manweeks of effort and research, I'd never found how to get 7 and 10 PC's to totaly share over the network - I think things went sideways when sharing copyrighted media because necessary. XP networks worked like Swiss watches. But I digress....
If you manage to get it working, copy everything you want off of the drive whilst it is still working (temporarily). If it is a boot drive, clone it, so you also get the boot info.
I wish I had paid more attention when trying to get the cover off the drive. He knew there was a screw hidden under the label. You have one area normally that is raised, and another area indented on the cover. The screw is under the label in that inward dimple. But, unknown to you...is there is another silver round piece of thick foil that is stuck over the screw head in the indention under the white label with black writing . In my haste...I nicked the surface of the platter trying to twist off the cover. Sad lesson learned. Hope you paid attention.
Hello sir. Thank you very much for sharing this video with us. I was having the same problem for 2 months. But now I fixed it thanks to you. really thank you so much 🙏🙋🏼♂️
Worked like a charm :) My disk head was parked correctly. But chkdsk, wmic could not do anything with the disk. I opened the case and spun the disk a bit, closed the case and hey presto!! the disk was working again. I don't know if the motor was stuck, or opening the case clear some state on the disk, but who cares, it worked!!! Safe to say, I am copying the data off and once the data is safe, this disk will be retired. (FYI, this was a seagate green drive)
not ecessarily "save" a hard drive, it is more like a LAST CHANCE effort, only to save whhat you can as fast as you can... that´s it. I have been repairing/ building computers for over 20 years and I would never EVER give an opened drive back to a customer... never
1. i just happend to stumble on your video 2 i thought about my wife's "broken" 2.5' HDD 3 My reaction was "HOLY SHIT" its the same model as yours and i also believe the same problem that u had on this video where the pin parked itself on the plate. 4 thank you for the video. i also "simply want to get the data" and toss the drive away.
I've seen lots of HDs that have this problem: no spin, no clicking, turns out most HDs run warm to hot, this tarnishes contact pads on the PCB to spring contacts for motor and read heads. Remove the PCB, locate contact pads and carefully burnish/polish with clean ink eraser, then blow off debris, wipe with q-tip and reassemble, drive usually works again!
@@tinoashari6251 There are erasers for ink pens, I use a clean one for polishing the PCB contact points, typically an ink eraser holds old dry ink when used for it's original purpose, that would transfer to the PCB of the drive, which I do not want to do. I hope that helps!
Bro! Your vid scared the bejesus out of me! Almost had a mini heart attack! There is a blemish on your vid that made me feel like dead pixels on my odyssey G7...Lol But thank you very educational.
@@brianwnc8168 If you watch the video, you will notice that there is a small dot in the middle of his camera. Some of us scratched our monitors thinking that a particle had stuck on it.
I'm A+ certified and have worked in the IT industry for over 25 years...I never would have thought of this fix. Goes to show you that there's always something to learn regardless of your experience
I have an MCSE and I have never considered it....not once.
..there are things they need to be touched...😅
And there was I feeling weird that I have never seen inside a hard drive before.
Such a rare moment of experience, when a youtuber is actually really useful and makes all the difference - thank you very much!
Finally Someone Who goes straight to the point 👍🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I cant believe this worked perfectly. I had 1.5 TB of data on a Samsung desktop drive that had all of my lifes work family photos and music on it. I was at the point of just throwing it all away. Please like and subscribe to this channel he is actually giving good acurate information in a way anyone can understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Not just you, in the same situation rn😣
Excellent video and tutorial, I hope everyone knows that you should do this to get your data off your drive onto a new drive and no longer use the drive, and you should also run a DOD 7 pass secure wipe on the failed drive before donating it to a e-recycler.
It takes 5 minutes to fix but the knowledge is gained after a few years of fixing PCs.
That is so true. 🥲
Young people think we discovered a solution overnight or in a Reddit Post. But some of us started with MS-DOS and a 286DX computer with 8 colours. I didn't, but my friends did. I started with Win 3.1 and a 486DX and 256 colours. 😅
Another computer life saving youtube video. I don't know what I would do without you guys.
Thank you (and I already clicked thumbs up)
did not work for me.
I don't know who you are, but I thank God that you exist! By using your method, I have fixed my old laptop HDD! And recovered all my data! Thanks again!
Thank you sooo much!!!! I have saved loads of precious work and also fixed my old hard drive which was sat in the drawer for ages and was quoted £750 to fix by specialists a while ago. You are a legend!!!
You could buy another decent performing pc with £750 😂
I got a quoted of 1400 USD amazing!
@@poorpizzamonke7612 data can be worth more at times. i can get this stuff much cheaper here
I saw an old IT fellow who spinned the intact drive on the floor couples of times and fixed the defective drive. No sure if it actually moved the head back to sitting position. But it did work that time.
One of my laptop harddrives was doing the same thing I never threw it away it's been just sitting there for almost a year I saw this video and tried it and works now I had pics of my father-in-law who past away on it moved them to another harddrive. your awesome thanks for the video👍
Is their a special screwdriver or is it just the normal star screwdriver? That we use to open the hard drive.
Glad to hear you recovered your data back.
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@@NatBeez5430 Its is a special screwdriver that can be purchased at any hardware shop. Star (Philips head won't fit)
@@NatBeez5430 Depends on the make , they use different ones on different manufactures
Pleased to hear it worked for you and you have those photos back , well done
Stumbled across this video accidentally. Had a Samsung 500g drive beeping. Opened, moved heads to home position and fixed. So simple. I was about to throw it away. Many thanks
So it worked!! Good
how do i open the case bc i dont have the suitable screwdriver
Does your hdd last long?
@@diyconstruction1147 with the sort of repair shown in this video, I'd never consider that drive to last any longer than required to get the data off of it. (Maybe not even that, that's why he gave all the warnings.) Buy a fresh new drive to put your data onto and never open it up.
@@andrewjokbalan6267 I can’t see clearly in the video what screw heads he’s got but they look like they could be torx heads on the screws. So you just need to go and get one of those little screwdriver sets with multiple removable bits that go in the end of the driver and make sure that it has torx bits of different sizes in it If that is the type of bit that you need for yours (Torx bits have a star cross-section)
I never would have guessed there is a cover screw under the label. Nice video.
yes...there are hiddn retaining screws under the hdd label
its the warranty indicator if its opened before i think
It's interesting still, but once ya 1st SSD has been booted would ya consider apart from Caddie one, use to perform??????
That's common, as a warranty safety. If the label is damaged, you opened it, thus voided the warranty.
Ran across this today. I have a 500 gig external HD that looks identical to this one except for the connector. My HD froze several years ago and I have some good stuff on it that I can't get off. I tried this and opened the cases and sure enough, the arm was stuck as in the video. I freed the arm, put the cases back together and it worked. It took 3 attempts for my laptop to repair the HD functioning and now it functions very well. Only problem was finding the 7th hidden screw under the label in order to open the case top. Thanks for the remedy you provided.
So far the only video that explains very well.. and in "English" big plus from me. Thank you
The head is supposed to park off to the side of the platter. After some time the head can get stuck in one position because of wear on the bearing shaft from the many millions of movements of the head arm. The bearing shaft starts to have some uneven surface (in microns of tolerance). It is like the bearing surfaces hit a sort of a burr and got stuck. By moving the head assembly the burr may be cleared, but will eventually come back because of the wear. After freeing up the head, it may actually operate for a fair amount of time before it gets suck again. Best to get the data off the drive and then bin it.
The position of the head is sensed. The head position is sensed because it knows (reads) the track number it is sitting on as soon as the power is applied. If in the event the head is out of position while the drive is powered off, the program in the firmware will know the position of the head and is supposed to zero it back to its start point when the drive is re-started. The start point is first to park, and then immediately go to to track "0" to start reading at sector "0".
My take, is to make sure you have an image of the drive on a USB or another internal drive unit. In the case of failure you simply swap out the drive and re-image back to the new drive.
These small laptop drives are usually fairly dependable, but do have a higher frequency of failure than the full height full size drives. They are also mechanically more fragile. If you are replacing a boot drive it is best to replace it with an SSD. The SSD will outlast any mechanical drive and are is a lot less fragile.
When I saw you removing the screws I was sure this was a video on how to destroy your hard drive in five minutes, I always believed the moment you expose the platter to air and dust that it will never work again. You proved me wrong
You should open harddrives in dustfree areas (airfiltered room/hood). Dust inside the case is very bad for the lifespan of a HDD.
However if you just want to rescue the data and dispose the HDD afterwards(or use it for nonimportant datastorage until it kicks the bucket), doing this in a normal room with a bit of care is fine unless you are are a very unlucky fellow and a grain of dust finds itself between plate and head right away.
Don't attempt this repair if you have a pet nearby which is cleaning its fur ;)
Yea what I was always told or read 👀👀
Thank you so much for this video. I have been doing computer repair and tech support for over 10 years now and I NEVER knew we could open these hard drives. Amazing! You truly learn something new everyday!
Me too never knew they open hard drives
Only for a short time, if your lucky enough time to make an image. The drive is sealed and letting atmosphere in creates friction when the platters spin and the heat builds up.
You can't be serious
How did you not know as a computer tech that you couldn't open hard drives?
@@thadtheman3751 nope, they are not. well, there are drives which are sealed, some special helium drives, but most of the normal hdds are not sealed and even have a hole to pressurize. you should open them in clean room conditions, because of all the dust and specs flying around. the read heads fly so low over the platters (they fly, because the disc creates a cushion of air throught he spin), that even a small dust particle can crash and damage the head.
Wow! My laptop drive failed...expert says no repairs, no recovery...but now I know how to fix it. Cool trick! Thanks.
This is truuly amazing. ive been having a headache because of my harddrive and almost ordered a new one. So so thankful for this.
you should still order a new one and move the data to there....this is just a fix to save your data, not using the harddrive.
This helped me fix my hard drive that has been lying around for five years. Thanks a lot man!
unless you open them in a dust proof booth its likely to wear out now. So its recommended to just get everything off that you want , onto a new drive.
That did the trick! I dropped my little hard drive and wasn't recognized by my computer anymore but you are an IT God. Thank you so much!
Tell us after 2 months if it's still running properly. The HDD was filled with the inert superclean gas with practically 0 dust particles. After opening, you contamined it. So make sure it will get rusty soon.
Should use IT expert rater than IT God
Jaromír Anděl most consumer grade drives aren't gas filled but have small breather holes to allow filtered air to circulate through them. Opening it outside of a clean room isn't a good idea, but it won't brick the drive right away.
Thanks for the video! I have several “crashed” hard drives in a drawer in my desk. All of them have been pronounced DOA at some point in the past. Now looking forward to seeing if the dead can be revived. I also want to compliment the quality of your microphone, which brought very subtle sounds to life, like screw extraction, and hard drive case cracking. Awesome!
Thanks for the video! I have several “crashed” hard drives in a drawer in my desk. All of them have been pronounced DOA at some point in the past. Now looking forward to seeing if the dead can be revived. Also want to compliment the quality of your microphone, which brought very subtle sounds to life, like screw extraction, and hard drive case cracking. Awesome!
How'd that work out for ya- - 2021 calling . . . . .
@@peterdarr383 I think he pepsi
I second this. I came here just because I have 2 hard drives that everyone is telling me I cant use. Well, I will try a few tricks from RUclips first.
i am not even sure if this will work but i like how straight up you get into the solution.
I am by no means some kind of PC expert but i have worked in field service for 32 years and I would do a repair like this in a heartbeat, I would then copy the image and replace the drive. Over the years not only have I but many of my fellow techs have done some crazy things to get a drive working again,. You do what you have to do. Thanks for your video
I would use this fix only to retrieve data, then discard the drive.
I've had drives in the freezer, tried to setup a clean area to work on them etc, this video shows roughly what you can get away with if you just want to pull the data. Saves spending the $$ that the experts want ;-)
I have asked people at computer store and they say: YOU HAVE to have a clean room... OR : if you do this the drive is is trash and it won't work, OR the drive will NOT last a day because it is now contaminated. What do you think, Are the full of carp and how long have you had a hard dive last after doing this?? Thank you if you reply.
Zero Quanta I would do what ever it took to get the drive working, copy the data and replace the drive ASAP.
My father and I did a drive that lasted 5 years until it was thrown out... On the flip side there is a decent possibility that opening the disk will kill it on the spot, if you don't have the $$ to pay a data recovery specialist you don't have much to lose ;-)
Thanks very much, most appreciated. I went and saw many Technicians here in S. Korea and they said that nothing could be done about this problem, but for a fee they could try and retrieve some of the data from off the HDD, but no guarantees!
Thanks again for sharing & God Bless!
My Dell 380 desk top failed to reboot after a power failure last night. All day with tech support trying different things. There answer was bad hard drive. Technically correct however this procedure fixed my problem.. You are awesome !!!! Thanks !!
Did you buy a battery back-up yet ?
Really
By the time I had finished watching this video I had fixed it. Thanks a lot
You should have showed up the monitor screen to see the hdd responding to processing programmed information to see if there's some errors or not until it gets to the Windows Operating System. One time, back in late 1990s I opened up one hdd that was not responding but it's spinning quietly. The arm head pin was stuck up in the center of the hard disk. I just move like the way you did and put it back together. There you go, it works. I wonder why most hard drives happen that getting stuck up in the center. This like DIY is the best way to experience which saves you money and precious memories then get another new HDD to duplicate/clone in case happens again. Good video, thanks for sharing.
Use to work in this industry. Sound like what they would call a "stiction" problem where the heads adheres to the disks. Basically lack of lubricant..supper thin. The disks are dipped and allowed to dry vertically. Also good to mention to turn it the right way, or the heads will be ripped off or bent. You can hear the sticking as the disk is turned. Lastly, some designs have the heads parked at the inside diameter. Good video!
Useful stuff, cheers mate.
I appreciate that you post this with good intentions, but you missed some things in your explanation, such as inspecting the heads to ensure that they aren't damaged or contaminated with debris. You should also inspect the surface (at least the top that you can see) to verify that there are no head slaps or scratches from the heads landing down. The first step after closing the drive is to get a full sector-by-sector clone of the drive, avoiding the heads from thrashing and compounding any surface damage.
As a data recovery professional, we get these drive almost daily. If unopened by user, 95% of the time, we recover the data without a head change for $350CAD. But, of the drives that are previously opened, we usually need to change heads on about 80% of the cases, making for a more expensive recovery and a less than perfect recovery result.
Ur the best
It worked a million times
I jx recovered 2 hard drives in 10minutes
So happy I ran into this in 2020 my jailbroken PS3 wudnt read the hard drive and ive been searching 4 ways to fix it and this worked out thanx alot
I also like the word platter 2:48. When it contains food. 😂😂
If this permits the hdd to be accessed for long enough to copy it's data to another hdd then that is all that matters. He is not saying this is a long term solution, but a possible technique to permit you to read the disk and save your precious memories. 👍🏻
I think the confusion is the title of the video. This is of course not a fix, but a procedure to allow the data to be rescued.
@@booboo699254 It "fixes" my problem, if all I want is just to have access to the data so I can move it or copy it to another disc
and what everyone else is saying is congrats numb nuts if there ever was a chance of recovering that data youve just halved that and potentially fucked it up so that even a proffesional might not be able to get it back
That what normal should be... Once harddrive gone bag... it don't worth the time using fail harddrive.
Online Identity: Excellent advice. If the drive has an operating system and programs, try cloning the problem drive to another HD.
I now keep clones of the HDs in my desktop and two laptops BEFORE I have problems. If I have a drive failure, I just swap out the problem drive and insert the clone. That way I am back in business in 15 minutes or less. Then, when I have the time, I run the recovery software on the problem drive.
To make this even quicker, I partition all my HDs into several logical drives and keep data off Drive C, usually drives E and F. That way, even if drive C has problems, I can still access the data on drives E (work) and F (personal). Of course to access the data I must place the problem HD in an external case and access it by USB cable.
so many negative comments. my HDD worked. thanks a lot :)
Don't forget to replace it as soon as possible
That works sometimes. An opened HD is promised to die soon. So the best is to recover the data immediately.
Never rely at 100% on a lone HD. In fact, the best is to do is to have two external disks with all your data backup. With the price of HDs nowadays it is a fairly cheap and rather fast solution. It's best to do that backup with a linux OS as it is far more robust than Windows for reading and writing data, and it is not bothered by Windows viruses.
Seen plenty of disassembled hard drives, but never seen anyone hand move the armature over by hand. Nice!!
There are no words! Exactly what I was looking for and makes sense in my particular scenario where I had installed a new battery and in the process of calibrating battery cycle.
I am surprised those tiny specs of dust right after you opened it didn't cause an issue. Maybe there is some small filter inside the drive to catch those? Would it have been better to give it a quick blast of spray air before closing it back up? (Not sure if that would do more damage or help.)
You can get a cheap PM2.5 counter and some even show number of particles per liter of air. (Basically a sub-PM2.5 amount.) With such an air quality meter, you should be able to get "pretty close to clean room". Don't forget that moving clothing, moving hair, etc can cause more dust particles to shed. Also don't forget to control humidity.
the drive has external dust emitters blows any loose dust away .
Exposing the platter and other internal hard drive components to open air will result in eventual (if not immediate) hard drive failure. This technique should only be done as a last resort and if successful any readable data should be extracted from the drive immediately afterwards. If the data is valuable, the drive should be handed over to a professional so that any attempted hardware repair of the hard drive in a clean room.
100% agree as this should have been done in special clean room hint reason why data recovery so expensive and should always back up your important files so don't ever have worry about this or even cloud now.
Nope,.not agree,..
If it's a newer Helium drive, opening it would kill it immediately, regardless if you're extremely careful and have a dust-free environment/etc.
The way I fix my hard drive is with a hammer
ha-ha! 😆😆
Funny enough I also fixed my hard drive with a hammer but my laptop went to heaven first
😂
Hhhhhhhh
How
Wow is the only word I will use. Thanks for sharing. Saved me years of headache. Respect
Finally something useful. I kept telling people i Just want to recover the data onto a new drive and they're telling me about software and all this crap and that it's "Too risky" to take it apart and they refused to help. I have 2 laptop drives that I know the heads are stuck. Thing is, now I have to find a screw driver for them lol
Holly shit that is genius...finally a youtuber who knows what he's doing
288 / 5000
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I don't think he knows what he's doing. He said nothing about the fact that the hard disk should be opened in a laminar chamber. Additionally, dirt from the plate should be removed. If you want to play with the disc like a toy, this is a good method, but it definitely doesn't fix anything as the author suggests in the title.
OMG!!!!!!
Thank you so much
move my hdd from transcend to ugreen hard disk case and face this problem too
omg follow your tutorial i fixed it!!!
thanks again and again ~!!!!!!
Thank you for the fix. Had a client with a dead laptop and important files. This fix did the trick. Happy client.
Thumbs up. i solve my harddisk problem with this way. Everything is the same except model (Seagate.). Windows 7 on this HDD working. Now I am trying disk repair because my opening may cause on HDD.
I will be using your style today on my Qsee system hard drive. I hope I'm as good as you were. Thanks for making this clip.
thank you ,I just did this & got back my data ..nearly 10 year photos & videos
Thanks bro when i saw this vid and open my hdd it looks kind a that thing too keep up the good work m8
Most reasons for unparked heads is sudden loss of power.....I.e. Battery dies before shutdown...then you leave it without recharging battery and rebooting within a day or two.....
When my hard drives are powered off suddenly, they make a loud click and the head moves off the disk. It parks its self at the side.
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Most of the time, that is what happens. However, the inevitable can and sometimes do occur when the read/write heads does a hard touchdown often referred to as a crash when it lands on an occupied area or does not glide to a safe zone.
In my area we get power loss all the time, my couple of hdds are going off power like 400 times a year and yet this never happened to me. btw I need an ups cuz I bought ssd . Got power loss on it couple times and no errors for now. Bit late for a comment but I wanted to share my experience. Maybe this is just samsung hdds firmware fault. (I never had samsung hdd)
dude u just save all of my precious data , thank u very very much
Very Helpful, 5 mins you won't want back! Please remember CLEAN ROOM !!!!!
The sound of the screws coming out on this video is extremely satisfying lol
you're right..lol
LOL LOL!!!
lol! i thought the same!
Same asf yoo😭🤣🤣🗣
Exactly LOL
When you do something like this and fix it in this manner the next thing you should do is clone that drive or backup whatever you have on it that you want.
Unless you're doing this in a clean room, you run the risk of getting dust or other foreign material in your HDD and that can really mess the heads up even more.
Good advice, man. Thanks for sharing
Your right about a clean room, however I have done this several times successfully without a clean room.
What you have is what they call "the click of death". The read/write head is stuck.
A person has to take the drive apart, rotate the data platter and move the heads back to the park location. From there you will need an external hard drive to recover the data.
When you plug the hard drive back in the computer with the cover either on or off you plug a USB hard drive in the computer. If things go right you will see the computer boot up as normal. From that point you start copying files from the defective hard drive to the USB drive or thumb drive you have plugged in.
Hope this helps.
@@dhansel4835 after that the hard disc won't be useful anymore.
@@beeman596 You got it. How big is the hard drive? Does it fit in a desktop computer or a laptop?
I purchased some 500gig refurbished WD Blue 3.5" drive from Technocycle here in Houston for $14 each.
technocycle.com/
The best thing to get now is solid state hard drives. They aren't that expensive and there is no moving parts.
@@dhansel4835 you said it. Today, The best buy is a ssd. Hhd are only cheaper. But if the money isn't a problem go for a ssd
Well, I have to question this as a permanent fix. When you open a hard drive case you expose it to the elements moister, dust, and don’t even touch the platter. The oil from your finger is thicker than the tolerance between the head and the platter as well as dust particles. At best it might get you some quick data recovery. Hard drives are meant to be opened in a clean room or chamber to prevent contamination if you really want to get lost data back....you will pay a price for this recovery. Here is another non invasive trick for quick short term data recovery. Put the hard drive in a ziplock bag and put it in your freezer. Leave it there for 4 to 5 hours. Take it out hurry and hook it up to a cable and hope that it reads it. The cold shrinks the metal allowing the head to move across the platter. If your drive has a faulty controller neither of these fixes will work. My experience.....senior computer technician since 1985. Good luck.
THANK YOU , VERY HELPFULL IVE THROWN MANY DRIVES AWAY BEFORE SEEING THIS!!!
Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!! It helped me sooo much and not only saved me money but also let me keep my info which the manufacturer had told me had to be formatted. My computer was not even recognizing the disk but now it works again THANKSS!!!
Now I feel I shouldn't have thrown out my hard drive a few years ago. I kept my broken hard drive for a decade, hoping someday I would be able to recover its data. Eventually, I gave up hope and let it go. Wish I hadn't.
There were no such videos on RUclips back then. My HDD had this same problem.
It's so sad. I am never gonna get my data back now...I had made peace with it. But nowadays I feel I made a big mistake. It even feels worse than losing the data itself. Life sucks.
-How destroy a HDD?
-It's simple, just open it.
Agree, but I think this is more for a one time retrieval for less important data. He should put more warnings (the only one is in the description). I did this as a project on an old unused 40 gig HDD and it worked for about an hour. Wasn’t a clean-room, so results are definitely not accurate but it does show that this isn’t permanent.
Put mine in a plastic bag then bubble wrap and placed it in the freezer for about half an hour, got the heads released so I could extract the data, surprisingly it still works 5 years later!
Love this guy , straight to the point no nothing else 😊😊😊
Back in the 90's hard drive heads became magnetized and stuck to the platter. I used to take them to the clean room and rotate the platter as you have shown. Then with the heads removed, gently flick them with plastic tweezers wich demagnetized them. This fault was known as stiction.
Older drives used to have a problem they called stiction. The head would land on the platter while the drive was warm, then stick to it when the drive cooled. I was visiting our IT department one day when they had a drive exhibiting the problem. The tech shocked the hell out of me when he took the drive in his hand and slammed it down flat, quite hard, on his work bench. He plugged it in and it worked perfectly. Sometime later I had a similar problem with a piece of equipment and tried the trick myself. It worked! I wouldn’t recommend putting the drive back in service again after doing that but the one I smashed worked for years after.
You don't want to bang to hard on a laptop HDD because the disc plates are plated glass
Well this method does work but you have to be really careful that no dust particles get in the drive. After this operation you should not trust the drive i.e you should not store any important data on the drive from there on because sometimes the read head could scratch the platters and you will not be able to ever recover data out of it.
Ya a last resort toss it after that.
um he clearly says at end of vid "now its ready to recover data" fucking cock slap
Thanks to Mr Levit's video, and a $5 screwdriver set from Walmart, our 120gB, with all our vacation photos is saved. Thank you, Mr. Levit
Always keep multiple backups of data that's difficult/impossible to replace
I keep the data from photos i have taken on the original SD cards, two external hard disk drives and at least one computer.
rianariani
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Copy everything from it to a safe place and then forget that hdd. If you open it and dust gets inside (which inevitably happens if you don't do it in a specialized dust-free clean-room) the dust from the air will stuck between the head and the plates, will scratch the plates and the hdd will not work anymore and data will be lost. Good for a fast data recovery, but the opened hard drives even fixed by professionals with specialized equipments and lab are not guaranteed to work for long time.
Very good arrangement idea, at least to pass the information to another hard drive, thanks
I've had Hard drives die that were 3 months old. This started when they went to 500gb. I just replace them with an SSD and then a portable back up. Works great.
Yeah, make sure you leave all the dust and dirt particles on the platter while you put the lid back on so that the drive can fail properly next time.
Hey, he just needs to wash it with plenty of clean water, and a brush! 👍🤣😁
@@MightYoungJoe i heard from an IT expert that steel wool works great!
@@RhysBoyce lol it will destroy it
the second it spins the dust till fall off, BESIDES this is just to get the drive functional so you can pull data off it. Nothing more NOTHING less!!
it will fall off instantly when is spins up at 5Kplus rpm. thats why there is a venthole and a filter.
As an I.T. Expert i say this.....
it's one thing to post a video like this
i'ts another thing to give people the impression that it will ALWAYS WORK, this is not the case.
This can work, and at other times it may not for various reasons.
opening a hard drive like this without having a clean environment is not a good idea usually
now in saying that, IF IT WORKS.... THEN GO FOR IT
but I WOULD STRONGLY STRONGLY SUGGEST you back up your data immediately and buy yourself a new drive after doing this.
if this method serves to save someone's data.. THE GREAT
but it is certainly not a method that should encourage one to keep using their drive permanently.
and i would also stress to someone to limit the amount of time that the cover is off the drive, get it off and back on as quickly as possible if you must do it this way.
but.. there is merit to this method and there are also down sides.
That was a very long-winded way of Captain Obvious saying the drive may still be suspect.
Since many years, I did it many times and saved a lot of HD this way. So I agree on what you say, but generally, once I restart my fixed HD, my first operation is to backup its data ;-)
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This video is the definition of a great tutorial so it has 1. The depressed sleep deprived voice and is a in depthe description
I spent 3 minutes trying to remove that piece of dirt off of my screen LOL
I remember some coworkers would pop open a dead hard drive just to grab the magnets. They stuck them to their cubicle frames like trophies.
We used to do a quick wrist spin in one direction and then the other. That would free up the stuck platter in most cases. No need to open the case.
any video?? not understand exactly
Put your thumb on one side of the hard drive and the rest of your fingers on the other. Hold tight and spin the drive in one direction and very quickly in the other direction (about 1/4 rotation). The quicker the better. This usually frees up stuck drives. At least that is how we used to do it years ago.
Or a tap on it just at the power hits it, Can sometimes be just enough to get it to kick back. Milage may vary as with all tech hacks. lol
_Hold tight and spin the drive in one direction and very quickly in the other direction (about 1/4 rotation)._
But wouldn't you have to have the cover off in order to do that? The disks are completely housed inside the drive.
The Hard drive is sealed so you can't do what you suggest.
Same thing happened to my Seagate 2TB 2.5, it beeped with no spin. Luckily it was still under warranty so I sent it in and got a new one back, pain in the A about the data but I have an external I back up to so all of it was not lost. EDIT: Great video BTW Thanks...
You helped me save my Xbox 360 hard drive. Thanks
Wow ! Thanks so much : I've just rescued one HD using your fixing and it worked !!!
A life saver. Thank you very much for this great tutorial.
Thanks - promising, along with the first rule of computing: always backup your important data files.
You saved me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna try this with all my other dead hard drives!
OK, you should note that the drive should not be relied upon after this kind of repair. (At least) two reasons:
1. These things are manufactured in a dust free environment. Opening the case in this way will dramatically increase the risk a disk failure in the near future.
2. The disk platters are supposed to spin at high speed BEFORE the read write heads on the arm(s) go anywhere near the data portion of the platter (the discs inside the drive). The spinning effect means that the heads don't actually touch the surface, instead they "fly" above the surface (similar to a hovercraft). Disk drives are far more resilient than they use to be years ago, but spinning-up the disc whilst the heads are still on the data area or dragging the heads across a disk that is not spinning at high speed is not recommended should only be attempted when there is no other way.
If you have some files on the drive that you would like to get back, but don't want to spend out for an expensive repair, do this, back up and then (whether you get the data back or not) dismantle and destroy the platter(s) to prevent any one else getting at your potentially sensitive data. The level of destruction should be proportionate to the sensitivity of the data. For most domestic data a drill hole or even bending the disks out of shape with a hammer or pliers is enough to discourage a would-be data thief. You might also want to recover the neodymium magnets (mind your fingers the magnets are VERY strong)
HOWEVER, if you have mission-critical data on the drive then spend some money to get the data recovered by a professional in a dust-free environment. Note your average PC repair guy does NOT have these facilities. You need a data recovery specialist and these are not cheap. You should also ask yourself WHY you were not backing up mission-critical data in the first place!
Why not backing up? I'm just a home experimenter and usually backed up stuff over my network. However since Windows 7, after manweeks of effort and research, I'd never found how to get 7 and 10 PC's to totaly share over the network - I think things went sideways when sharing copyrighted media because necessary. XP networks worked like Swiss watches. But I digress....
It's better to hold the drive upside down during the procedure to minimize dust contamination.
Underwater.
Better yet, bolt it under a table and work on it upside down. LOL
if dust gets in... just wipe the platter with a kitchen rag.. /s
If you manage to get it working, copy everything you want off of the drive whilst it is still working (temporarily). If it is a boot drive, clone it, so you also get the boot info.
I wish I had paid more attention when trying to get the cover off the drive. He knew there was a screw hidden under the label. You have one area normally that is raised, and another area indented on the cover. The screw is under the label in that inward dimple. But, unknown to you...is there is another silver round piece of thick foil that is stuck over the screw head in the indention under the white label with black writing . In my haste...I nicked the surface of the platter trying to twist off the cover. Sad lesson learned. Hope you paid attention.
Hello sir. Thank you very much for sharing this video with us. I was having the same problem for 2 months. But now I fixed it thanks to you. really thank you so much 🙏🙋🏼♂️
Worked like a charm :)
My disk head was parked correctly. But chkdsk, wmic could not do anything with the disk. I opened the case and spun the disk a bit, closed the case and hey presto!! the disk was working again. I don't know if the motor was stuck, or opening the case clear some state on the disk, but who cares, it worked!!!
Safe to say, I am copying the data off and once the data is safe, this disk will be retired.
(FYI, this was a seagate green drive)
1:23 See the particles? Can you count on the hard drive to work
Enough to get the valuable DATA, that'll do.
I saw ur video first time , and I'm stunned, this is Amazing,
This is Greta idea for save the hard drive😘😘😘😘😘
not ecessarily "save" a hard drive, it is more like a LAST CHANCE effort, only to save whhat you can as fast as you can... that´s it. I have been repairing/ building computers for over 20 years and I would never EVER give an opened drive back to a customer... never
great idea to destroy the drive,you mean
@@gen-x_dude 1:41
1. i just happend to stumble on your video
2 i thought about my wife's "broken" 2.5' HDD
3 My reaction was "HOLY SHIT" its the same model as yours and i also believe the same problem that u had on this video where the pin parked itself on the plate.
4 thank you for the video. i also "simply want to get the data" and toss the drive away.
awesome!!!!
Excellent tutorial, I am very impress ..
You are a genius!!!. Thank you so so much
POV: You searched up that your harddrive wasn’t working and then youtube recommended this to you
I've seen lots of HDs that have this problem: no spin, no clicking, turns out most HDs run warm to hot, this tarnishes contact pads on the PCB to spring contacts for motor and read heads. Remove the PCB, locate contact pads and carefully burnish/polish with clean ink eraser, then blow off debris, wipe with q-tip and reassemble, drive usually works again!
Ok I'm gonna try it
@@TheBullzYT Remember to leave the actual harddrive cover on when servicing PCB. Good luck!
Clean ink eraser? What is that?
@@tinoashari6251 There are erasers for ink pens, I use a clean one for polishing the PCB contact points, typically an ink eraser holds old dry ink when used for it's original purpose, that would transfer to the PCB of the drive, which I do not want to do. I hope that helps!
Anyone else try scratching that speck off your screen only to realize it’s on his camera lens?
what?
I thought I had a dead pixel
Yep... 🙄😬
Thank you, you just saved me $500 in data recovery.
Bro! Your vid scared the bejesus out of me! Almost had a mini heart attack! There is a blemish on your vid that made me feel like dead pixels on my odyssey G7...Lol But thank you very educational.
Blemish in the video?
what are you talkin about?
Please explain
@@brianwnc8168 If you watch the video, you will notice that there is a small dot in the middle of his camera. Some of us scratched our monitors thinking that a particle had stuck on it.