This video popped up on my homepage and just saved a broken Seagate external HDD. Thank you!!

you sir have just saved my hard drive. i had years of picture back when i was in the service with my family... i held on to the drive thinking i could save enough money to get it saved. Thanks a lot.. just brought back 10 years of memories.

My drive was "beeping" just like this one, and I followed these instructions without any kind of clean room. And it worked. I'm copying off the data now.

Did some reading about repairing stuck heads, but this convinced me it was actually worth a shot. Recovered 500gb of data I otherwise would've given up on. Thank you so much, Abraham Levit!

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO. YOU NOT ONLY HELPED ME GET BACK PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF MY SONS BIRTHDAYS, BUT YOU SAVED ME HUNDREDS. I'M DEFINITELY SENDING YOU A DONATION!

My friend, don't have how to thank you enough! My work's external HDD had fallen to the ground and it suddenly became unrecognizable, with the characteristic humming similar to the one you exposed in the video. I was able to fix it by setting the needle back to its starting position, and it is now working flawlessly! Thank you, thank you so very much! And all people seeing this, do it, it works wonders, like him, support him, acts of selflessness like this should be commended endlessly.

Tried this on a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 1TB Drive. The Drive was beeping and as explained the head was stuck. No Clean Room required. All data recovered. Many Thanks

It worked!!!! Thank you so much. After taking it to my nearest IT and data recovery shop and them "running tests" on it for two days, I followed your instructions, and now all I have to do is rescrew all the little screws into place and refasten the casing, and we are back to normal. Over £160 saved for a new 1TB Hdd, and my data recovered - priceless!!!!

Thank you very much for your tutorial and honesty. The world needs more people like you.

Just wanted to say thanks! My portable Seagate drive suddenly stopped working but had the beeps. I followed your instructions and was able to recover 90% of the data onto a new drive. Saved me a lot of money, so thanks!

This guy is too honest, brave and experienced. Well, it is important to mention that the hard drive is junk and does not matter what it happens to it. Good job!

Thank you!! My hard drive, which had all the files for my MA thesis, photos from the last 10 years, and basically everything I've worked on in the past years stopped working recently. I had exactly the beeping sound you described and found your video after searching for how to respond to this. Your solution worked and I got my data back! Thanks for explaining everything so clearly.

What if the head is not stuck on the platter, but just stuck and clicking?

You saved a drive that I truly thought was gone forever, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I had actually given up hope on my HDD when I stumbled on this instruction. Made it possible to recover all data from my drive. Really Great!!!

EXCELLENT video. I haven't yet tried to 'fix' my hard drive but still I really love your way of thinking. So, even though you recognise that making this video may cost you lost business, STILL you make it in order to help people. THAT is a fantastic way to be. Well done!

This just worked perfectly for me! Recovered all of my data! Thank you so much, Abraham!

Thanks Abraham, worked like a charm. I'm recovering my clients data as we speak. I used a paper clip bent at the end instead of the dental pick you used to park the heads. I wet wiped the table and shut off the furnace to reduce airborne dust.

Got the same hard drive Screwed up last night by dropping it. I thought i was gonna have to buy an entire new one, however this man acted as my Ángel from the heavens. Appreciate it man.

You saved my last week major breakthrough in my M.Sc. thesis. Many thanks!

I had the buzzing/whizzing sound and did this myself!!!!! FIXED IT!! I can now successfully navigate through my files like it was working before!! Awesome video man! Clicking that donate button now! You are a good guy! and very smart at that aswell!

I have a verbatim 1tb with the noise beeping problem. I followe your instruccions and everything worked as expected. All my info was there aswell. Thx so much for posting this tutorial. Your action shows that you are not only a person who know about this, also you are a great person by teaching others. Thx again, bests of luck!

This worked for me. I got all my important files backed up immediately and am ordering a new drive. Thank you so much. I am delighted to contribute to someone who really knows what they are doing are shares their knowledge.

Thank you so much for this video! My seagate fell from the table on the floor. Beeping noise. I opened it (in the living room, in gloves, face mask, glasses and hoodie). My drive was a bit older - different hidden bolts, needed additional torx to open. The head was stuck. I moved them to parked position. Closed. Connected to computer with sata USB 3 connector. And. Clicking sound. Next day connected again. This time I could see the disc, but not for long. A few days later my older computer was able to see it. I had to use piriform recuva to get my files off it. Magic. Thank you.

Praise God for this tutorial! This worked for me and the hard drive no longer beeps upon startup. I’m now gonna back up all my crap. Thanks again!!

My hard drive came back to live like magic!! Thank you so much. :)

Thanks alot! I have just recovered my entire data from my dead Seagate HD following your first video. Once again, thanks. J. Nock

Thank you! This helped me fix a teacher harddrive that unexpected wouldn't boot. She came in to start getting ready for the year and I told her I would look into it. It was making a beeping sound, though not a fast as yours. I opened it up and found the head stuck on the plate just like in your video. The disk was able to spin up and I'm currently backing up data from it while I have a chance.

Just chimed in to to say I attempted the fix on my external hard drive and IT WORKED! The whole repair was pretty straightforward and just as explained in the video. It dropped off my desk one too many times and it began to beep. I wouldn't trust it long term now that the case has been opened so it will be replaced asap.

Very clear, understandable video. Everything in focus. Sound is great. Good job.

Thank you for the easy to follow advice. I woke up to a BSOD this morning and a beeping computer upon restart. The heads on my hard drive were stuck just as you described and I was able to use your trick to return them to the home position and was able to recover all of my data. Thank you!

Hello Mr. Levit...I want to publicly Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Following your direction allowed me to recover my data from my buzzing HD. I viewed your first one; this follow up one was my complete answer. People who asked you questions, Thank you. I did need to purchase the USB to SATA cable set in order to do the transfer and the screwdriver set from HomeDepot.You are thorough and honest. Thank you for saying to the pros that we will NOT pay their high $ if we are willing to DIY. So true. With that said, I am honoring your integrity and kindness by sending you some $ in appreciation for it.

100% saved my hard drive that had my ps4 restore on it. Thank you so much. You don't understand just how amazing you are!!!! Donating ASAP!!!!!

You are a beautiful person, you saved me years of tears. 15 years of data saved and now backed up on 3 HDD! Dropped my hard drive on the floor while in use and it started beeping, so in fear of losing all my family's precious memories I thank god managed to find this video. Done this video step by step to my Samsung M3 1TB external hard drive in a clean and dry bathroom (as dust free as possible) and as quickly as possible whilst being careful. All went to plan, plugged it in and all my data was there. I backed it straight up. (A couple of tips from my experience doing this: Have confidence, don't take to long take the case off, carefully remove the heads from the platters then case straight back on. Try to copy data in segments don't try and copy 500gb at once. Your hard drive will get warm from reading/writing so much at one time and will start to transfer very slowly. Let it cool down by either ejecting the HDD safely then unplugging, or if you can't do that then shut down your pc and then unplug the HDD. Leave it in a cool place e.g. (window at night time) for an hour or so then try again. Will always transfer data faster when cooler, don't overwork it then burn it out once you have done the hard work and carried out this open heart surgery on a hard drive 😁 I will be donating money to this man 💯% what a an absolute gentleman this man is 🙏 oh and he has the same hands as me (skin condition: vitiligo) 👍

one more "THANKS, you saved my day - or rather, my entire week!" Had that beeping-thing, came across your video and decided that there's not much to lose with trying your method. And yes, it worked, I lost just a couple of kByte. Incredible, so happy!! Opened the drive in my living room, found the head stuck midways and broke it free as you describe. Funny that after reassembly and starting up the HDD made quite some noise, and namely that it decreased to almost normal after a little while in operation. Maybe that's because of particles getting trapped as you describe. Some suggestions to others: wipe down the HDD case before you start opening it. This could help reducing particles reaching the actual platters don't leave the inside exposed to ambient conditions for more time than necessary your breath contains particles, too (even more if you fancy cigarettes), so if you have a magnification-lamp available to do the surgery, it can't hurt using it so that your breath does not go straight onto the HDD. Of course, other tranparent shielding might work as well.

You just saved thousands of pictures and memories. Bless you and thank you so much you absolute saviour!

Thank you so much for making this video and being so honest. This video helped me recover most of our data (only lost a few videos vs years of memories). We tried taking it to a local lab but they told us the data was lost forever. You gave me the confidence to try/make an attempt at recovering our data. Thanks again!

This is so helpful, it had saved my data and my career, thank you very much Abraham! Hope you have a great day! Thank you very much again !

Thanks for the video! Got a co-worker back up and running enough to recover his data and trash the offending drive. Much appreciated!!!

I don't know you but you are now my friend! You my friend are a freaking genius! I had 2 TB in fear of loss and this just saved me 15 years of data collection AND OR $2000! I freaking love you!!!! YEAHHHHHHH BABBABABABBABAY! YOU THE MAN!!!

Amazing. You da man. I was hesitant to try this ... but I did ... and I got my data. Thank you soooo much. I had to pull the label off the hard drive to find that 7th screw. And of the six outside screws, one ended up being smaller than the rest. I think I had the back cover off for about 20 seconds total. Prayer definitely preceded the procedure. Worked like a charm. I plugged it back into my laptop and took care of a few things. Right now I am "ghosting" it hoping it will be a smooth transition to a new hard drive. Many thanks.

Very professional, dear Sir! Throughout out the video, I learnt a lot of wisdom, really instructive. Feels comfortable just looking what you're doing and listening to what you say. Rarely have I come across such a tutorial. Hats off and all due respect to you.

Thanks you so much Abraham, your very clear explanation gave me the confidence to take apart my HDD. I managed to recover all the data completely!! Very happy.

Man, thanks! You are a LIVESAVER. Works perfectly on my Transcend. Many more people should watch this Video first!

Our external hard drive fell off a table and onto a tile floor. I watched your video and gave your method a try. Success! We can't thank you enough. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

thank you so freaking much. This data wasn't SUPER vital but I'm glad I'm able to access it again. Couldn't have done it without you and I never could have afforded to do data recovery

The best of all thank you sir for this video i followed all the steps and now my hard drive is back..i managed to get back my data....MUCH RESPECT

Awesome! I have just done this and recovered my all my work and photos from a seagate back up plus which I dropped last night, it started beeping on start up and wouldn't work. Found this vid last night, bought a new hard drive today and am currently transferring my data across to the new drive!! Thank you

It works!!!! can't believe it, this hard drive of mine, has been sitting here for over 4 years, it had my whole life, hence i never threw it away, wow! Thank you.

Was able to fix a dropped "beeping" HDD with no damage and saved my kids movies with this method. Thanks heaps.

I viewed the other video of yours they were excellent and now this one it's even better I like the way you demonstrate & explain how to do this repairs!

Thanks a ton man! Saved my hard drive with this little stunt you taught me! Much appreciated!

Thank you so much. This video has helped me to "revive" my 1TB Samsung 2,5" HD. Besides that it saved me to pay € 200,- to a data repair/restore company. You are a true savior

I wanna thank u so much for this information. I had the exact problem as described in this video. I was about to be charged $1000 to recover my data. Recovered about 95% of my data and that was more than enough for me to be happy.

Thank you!! For anyone curious of the "success rate" of this process, I just finished doing mine and it fired right up, I'm copying the drive over to a backup drive as we speak. I can't speak for every hard drive problem, as I'm sure they are all different. But, in the event your problem is the read-write arm being stuck out over the platters and not allowing it to spin when you start it up, this is a very helpful video on how to fix it. FWIW, I went to plug in my daily use work drive yesterday and my computer didn't do anything. So I unplugged and tried again, and still nothing. I tried a third time and held it to my ear and could hear a distinct "beeping". Not a clicking, and could certainly tell the drive wasn't spinning. I went and bought a set of torx srew drived to get it opened, low and behold, arm was stuck out over the platter. I recommend doing the movement with two hands, and two tools. One, to turn the platter (with your same screw driver) and one to gently guide the arm back to the home position while youre turning. Good luck everyone! PS, I had the same (Silicon Power - Seagate 1 TB) brand of drive fail on me a couple years ago and I used Drivesavers.com I got most everything back, but it was a $2400 invoice. I took a chance on this one, and luckily it worked out.

FANTASTIC you saved me 250$ !!!!! and my data that is priceless!!!!!!!!! thank you very much!!!!

Most excellent! I so much appreciate your honesty...very refreshing. I didn't know about the 'once open...junk' . I opened it and have since closed it. My needle was exactly where yours was. I had moved it back to main starting spot as you did. Now I have to get my computer to recognize it, which I know how to do. Prior to your video, I was contemplating swapping platters...removing my Seagate platter and inserting it into a Toshiba ext. hd. I don't think I have to do that now, so many thanks!

Abraham, you are a good & generous person. You speak the truth. Some people are angered by truth. Keep up the good fight!

Is there anyone in Washington state that is as honest as this guy that I can go to?

I wish there was more people like you

"I think they are kids, just trying to say things". Couldn't have put it better myself. Whilst I'll use your videos here to take my first tentative steps into HDD repair, I thank you, Abraham, for sharing your skills and knowledge, but also giving me the benefit of my own common sense, when describing your approach to this all to common problem. In my case, I will attempt to purchase all the tools displayed here, use my static mat, and a clean room (the dining room), good lighting, and disposable gloves. If, indeed, I get a lucky break, I have a new Ext HDD and hope I get the chance to move as many files as I can over to it. Again, thanks for sharing.

Great video Abraham.. And for the record, whoever has any problems with how your doing things and explaining things then they are new to technology, we are much older and know/always remember words like molex as if it were a family member.. Keep up the great vids, without this vid and many other from long ago youtube would be pointless..

Thank you so much! It worked for me when I tried it. My hard drive works again now.

Thank you for a great, straight forward video and advice. Keep up the good work!

Worked for me.thank you so much for posting this DIY video.saved alot of time and money.

I ran a 3.5" drive open and mounted on the wall for several months. It was used as a file server and ran great. This was done as a test when I was first learning about recovery. I wanted to see just how true the whole clean room thing was.

may i say thank you - ive had so many seagate HDD that "click", so many... But never had i had a beeping one like the above video. I am going to open this HDD up and do what you did and hopefully get my data back! Appreciate your wisdom!!! 😍🙌🙌

Thanks!! Worked like a charm on a new Seagate 1tb HDD that fell off the table while working and got "stuck". All i got was the dreaded beeps. I moved the platter while VERY gently moving the head back in place just as shown in the video. Got all my data off without problems or costs.

as i am looking for sometime now how to fix-repair and recover data by myself,because i had an experience that i had to pay a lot of money for it,i will totally agree with you about helping people and make them happy,since i am a technician myself i want to inform people from Hellas(Greece)that they can contact me as well and help them in case they have any issue with an old hard disk.thank you for this useful video.

Awesome !! You are really genius. You know this is impacting your business but even though you are giving this valuable guide to all the users, like us. Thanks a lot !!

Awesome! worked and saved so many precious photos. Thank you!

Hey thanks for this. The arm was stuck and after putting it back in place I was able to recover the DATA. GRACIAS.

You are the MAN!! You just saved my bacon. Thank you a million times! Thank you.

Hi just came across this video and it just super. I feel confident to do as you have said without having to pay 2,500USD. My 13 year old son and I had purchased a 2TB drive and had transferred almost 1TB of data onto it from another drive, only to end up with this beeping noise on the new drive. I hope we had the success you had when we try your instruction, as we have most of his life memories on the drive. Many thanks in advance for the easy to follow video and valuable information. p.s. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2019. Murphy

Thank you! I'm about to do an autopsy on an external HD that went South, and this video makes for a great 101!

Many thanks man! Still saving hard drives at 2023 🙌

A lot of love from France for saving 10 years of data.

This worked perfectly with my POS Seagate ST1000LM024. I had tons of family photos & videos when it wouldn't read, getting fast beeps for about 15 seconds. Took no time, thanks again, beats the hell out of sending off for $300+!!!

Thank you for this; saved me a week's work and a fair chunk of money.

Thank you, very much. I send you a hug, from Mexico City. Happy New Year 2021.

Thank you! Recovered my files because of your help.

Watching this in 2020! Works! THANKS A BUNCH SIR!

Thanks for the video. Following your instructions, I was able to confirm that the arm of the 'beeping' drive (Seagate 500gb) wasn't stuck in the wrong position. I then purchased a hard drive case and inserted the faulty drive. It worked, which suggests a problem with the power unit on the Seagate drive case (which seems another common fault of the Seagate drives, from a quick internet search).

Very informative and comprehensive tutorial. You did an excellent job here. (Y)

Great video Abraham! It just saved me a couple of hundred bucks!! in just 10 min.

+1 to say thanks. This is great knowledge. Had no idea this could be done. Thank you so much from Spain!!

Your as good as my old car mechanic saving with good honest intentions people hard cash from being ripped off! 🙏 Thanks!

Thanks for you're help! Transparency is always the way

Thank you Abraham! This helped me a lot! I managed to get a Transcend working again, Copying files from it right now. You saved me! :D

I am thankful for you and this video and will now try it on a couple of hard drives I have that are not working. All I want is to get the data off and do not care if the hard drive never works again... JUST GET MY DATA!!!!!

Great job! I like your way to explain things and precautions to take. Responsible attitude of posting! Any recent video to recommend? I sent my failure HDD to a recovery expert after reading your post. Thanks!

"I'd rather people be happy than be in the dark-that's what KZfaq is for."

Thank you Abraham! Power to the people!

I tried it and this worked perfectly. Thanks for the tip!

"Honestly, I'm not wearing anything. And the reason for it: Experience. I know where to touch. and where not to touch."

Thank you for the video. Very informative, will try it on my next bad drive. Most people will not pay big dollars for their lost pictures. So this makes sense to try a quick fix and get lucky sometimes.

Many thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Your instructions are saved my data.

Thank you Abraham - I have a friend who's drive is beeping. Unfortunately I did not see this really good video sooner. He bought another identical drive so I could swap the control board which I did (exact match) but of course the old drive is still beeping. I will get a T-6 torx drive and try your method - I have some hope! Thank you again !!

Thanks a LOT! It helped me to recover all photos from an external drive. AMAZING!

This video just saved my 1.2 TB of data. THANK YOU!