Awesome :)

what? no! you shouldnt do that , the head should be positioned in the inner disk , this video is wrong and stupid , the reason it fixed your drives is that it unstuck the heads , but doing that probably destroyed the outer disk area .

You are so welcome!

Anytime :D

Thanks for the sub!

thanks

Glad you liked it!

you're welcome

no !

he cant cuz he didnt fix anything

@@Sertdatarecovery That's what it looked like to me. He never showed the drive being faulty to begin with.

​@@jeffwads The clicking noise is telling you that is faulty. I honestly don't recommend anyone fixing a hard drive this way. I believe he got lucky being able to "fix" the hard drive and use it again. What he did was he "aligned" the loose head by putting it at the extreme of the platter. Then, that middle screw that he emphasized, he just tightened it. Again, he got lucky. In any data recovery shop, the fix is to swap the entire head system with the PCB. If that doesn't work, then as a last resort, take the platters out and install them in a different HDD that is of the same brand, with same specs, etc. I'm pretty sure that HDD died afterwards causing massive data loss, only if he didn't move the data on time. But yeah, don't try it his way. If your data is very important, then always have 3 back ups. HDDs cost less than $100.00 USD now. Otherwise, for the data recovery and forensics pay up $1000.00 to $2000.00, depending on your area. If you can't pay that, your data isn't worth as much you think. Just illusions, wishes, and what not.

@@Sertdatarecovery ​ @jeffwads The clicking noise is telling you that is faulty. I honestly don't recommend anyone fixing a hard drive this way. I believe he got lucky being able to "fix" the hard drive and use it again. What he did was he "aligned" the loose head by putting it at the extreme of the platter. Then, that middle screw that he emphasized, he just tightened it. Again, he got lucky. In any data recovery shop, the fix is to swap the entire head system with the PCB. If that doesn't work, then as a last resort, take the platters out and install them in a different HDD that is of the same brand, with same specs, etc. I'm pretty sure that HDD died afterwards causing massive data loss, only if he didn't move the data on time. But yeah, don't try it his way. If your data is very important, then always have 3 back ups. HDDs cost less than $100.00 USD now. Otherwise, for the data recovery and forensics pay up $1000.00 to $2000.00, depending on your area. If you can't pay that, your data isn't worth as much you think. Just illusions, wishes, and what not.

​ @jeffwads The clicking noise is telling you that is faulty. I honestly don't recommend anyone fixing a hard drive this way. I believe he got lucky being able to "fix" the hard drive and use it again. What he did was he "aligned" the loose head by putting it at the extreme of the platter. Then, that middle screw that he emphasized, he just tightened it. Again, he got lucky. In any data recovery shop, the fix is to swap the entire head system with the PCB. If that doesn't work, then as a last resort, take the platters out and install them in a different HDD that is of the same brand, with same specs, etc. I'm pretty sure that HDD died afterwards causing massive data loss, only if he didn't move the data on time. But yeah, don't try it his way. If your data is very important, then always have 3 back ups. HDDs cost less than $100.00 USD now. Otherwise, for the data recovery and forensics pay up $1000.00 to $2000.00, depending on your area. If you can't pay that, your data isn't worth as much you think. Just illusions, wishes, and what not.

sometimes all depends

Hi plug it in open for a few seconds to see where the smoke it coming from. Are you able to access anything on it?

Thanks for responding. It only smoked when it touched bare metal somewhere on the circuit board near one of the corners. It doesn't smoke now when given power. I want to open up the drive to see if possibly the head is stuck or the "arm" that reads the head is stuck. Nothing can be accessed on the drive itself when hooked back up to my computer...it just clicks for a few seconds and then stops clicking. Removing the power and then hooking the power back up starts the clicking again, only to stop a few seconds later. I'm guessing I might have fried one of the diodes or a chip on the circuit board, but there is no discoloration and nothing seems burnt. Maybe I burnt something inside the drive itself, not visible on the outside of the circuit board. I'm open to trying anything. Next step I think is to open up the drive and see what damage I've done and try to put the "arm" back to its "park" position in hopes that's all that's wrong. No loss in any event. Kinda fun to play around with it in fact. Thanks again for responding. jt

Lenz, I think I found where the smoke came from. I've compared the "burnt" HD with a new one I bought on Ebay, exactly the same HD as the one I smoked, and I see where two solder points are missing (were burnt off?) in the same corner of the drive where the smoke came from. I'd send you pictures of both drives and let you see for yourself to determine if you think it could be the cause of the smoke, but I can't find where KZfaq allows me to send you pictures. Let me know if you know how to send pictures. Thanks!

​@@GetRealBabyUse Imgur to send pictures!

it didnt wor because the method used by this guy is WRONG

do a backup of the hard drive. About how old is it ?

​@@Lenzwalters It is less than a year old. It'll take forever for the backup.

@@VibhorAgarwal8m maybe because disassembling a hard drive will likely damage it

Without the proper facility, the second you open it, dust/contaminants are likely to give issues later.

@@Mullikia Exactly. The moment you take a hard drive apart, you're not going back. The hard drive's already dead

there is nothing you can do. its dead. you should send it to a data recovery center here they wil extract the data from the damaged platterss

Did yours keep reverting back? Doing mine now and I heard windows recognize it. Then the clicking came back. Taking it apart again. Curious to what your experience was.

@@mattsjambox well mire started some buzzing noise first, i reopened and moved the needle around, them clicking again, so i move the needle back again, and decided to run the hard drive without the cover to see the actual disk and needle spinning, i put the screw in the needle, saw no errors there but it wasn't working still, so i played with how tight the screw was and finally when it seems it was spinning and reading correctly i put the cover back and it started to work 😃, granted im just doing data recovery i dont trust it enough to use it for normal use again 🤣

@@rikutaku9 good to know! Thanks man. I'm gonna try that. I noticed my needle does wiggle.

@@mattsjambox yeah i guess play with the tightening of that screw

@@rikutaku9 in fact, it cant be used again, doing this you damaged thhe ultra sensitive disk, even if it works it wont last long

Hi check on ebay. These would do, www.ebay.com/itm/31-In-1-Screwdriver-Set-TE-6036C-Electronics-Mobile-Phone-Hard-Drive-Repair-Kit/132546847628?epid=6016959735&hash=item1edc68638c:g:gRwAAOSwXBVasn~A

dont think so

@@morgorth3242 definitely so .......

i have that drive , that isnt clicking , let me make things clear. THIS IS WRONG , the reason the clicking sound is gone is why the heads have been unstuck , but this guy positioned in the outer disk , destroying the outer track . in this case the drive heads are supposed to be in the inner disk , on the PARKING AREA. or on the ramp . and moving the arm assembly oround like that probably caused much more damage toi other areas of the disk. this disk survived because it is old , old drives are more touchable , but if this dude scans this drive , it would have lots of bad sectors. IF YOU WANT TO UNSTUCK HEAD , YOU SHOULD FIRST ROTATE THE DISK AND SLOWLY MOVE THE HEADS ON THE PLASTIC RAMP , IN OTHER DRIVES IN THE INNER DISK , NEXT TO THE CENTRE. NOT THE OUTER , DRIVES ARE FRAGILE.

No, it would have to be the exact same part from the exact same model of hard drive which is known to be good. So you are potentially destroying a known-good drive but hey, if your data is worth it go for it. Chances of success are low.

I have tried what you said but didn't work

i have that drive , that isnt clicking , let me make things clear. THIS IS WRONG , the reason the clicking sound is gone is why the heads have been unstuck , but this guy positioned in the outer disk , destroying the outer track . in this case the drive heads are supposed to be in the inner disk , on the PARKING AREA. or on the ramp . and moving the arm assembly oround like that probably caused much more damage toi other areas of the disk. this disk survived because it is old , old drives are more touchable , but if this dude scans this drive , it would have lots of bad sectors. IF YOU WANT TO UNSTUCK HEAD , YOU SHOULD FIRST ROTATE THE DISK AND SLOWLY MOVE THE HEADS ON THE PLASTIC RAMP , IN OTHER DRIVES IN THE INNER DISK , NEXT TO THE CENTRE. NOT THE OUTER , DRIVES ARE FRAGILE.

no that does'nt fix anything except you not getting your data back.

do it at your own risk. very risk

i have that drive , that isnt clicking , let me make things clear. THIS IS WRONG , the reason the clicking sound is gone is why the heads have been unstuck , but this guy positioned in the outer disk , destroying the outer track . in this case the drive heads are supposed to be in the inner disk , on the PARKING AREA. or on the ramp . and moving the arm assembly oround like that probably caused much more damage toi other areas of the disk. this disk survived because it is old , old drives are more touchable , but if this dude scans this drive , it would have lots of bad sectors. IF YOU WANT TO UNSTUCK HEAD , YOU SHOULD FIRST ROTATE THE DISK AND SLOWLY MOVE THE HEADS ON THE PLASTIC RAMP , IN OTHER DRIVES IN THE INNER DISK , NEXT TO THE CENTRE. NOT THE OUTER , DRIVES ARE FRAGILE.

i have that drive , that isnt clicking , let me make things clear. THIS IS WRONG , the reason the clicking sound is gone is why the heads have been unstuck , but this guy positioned in the outer disk , destroying the outer track . in this case the drive heads are supposed to be in the inner disk , on the PARKING AREA. or on the ramp . and moving the arm assembly oround like that probably caused much more damage toi other areas of the disk. this disk survived because it is old , old drives are more touchable , but if this dude scans this drive , it would have lots of bad sectors. IF YOU WANT TO UNSTUCK HEAD , YOU SHOULD FIRST ROTATE THE DISK AND SLOWLY MOVE THE HEADS ON THE PLASTIC RAMP , IN OTHER DRIVES IN THE INNER DISK , NEXT TO THE CENTRE. NOT THE OUTER , DRIVES ARE FRAGILE.

Welcome

maybe.

You won't know until you try.

When the arm is on the disk it doesn't turn. I tried to manually turn it it was difficult. Had a grinding sound. I'm simply trying to pull the data off it.

I did try your method but it made a buzzing sound. I believe the arm or mechanism with it is the problem.

thanks a lot will do that :)

now drive is open did you get your data back off that drive?

can be different issue board, connection etc

omgosh Lee this isnot good information btw

@@Sertdatarecovery I believe I was reacting to the video and thanks for reminding me of a horrid day....

Thats true

@@Lenzwalters yet your doing it lmao

@@burgerparty maybe he knows what he's doing like the op said

tell me if you find out!!

let me know if you find out

It's from Minecraft.

did you end up finding a solution? the same thing happened to me :/

Damaris there are a couple of things you can do. I found an exact same hard disk on eBay. It has to be same exact model, so you need to tale the hard disk out of the metal case. You can then try to replace the motherboard with the new one you have purchased. But it is a trial and error. I did it and the motherboard was working fine but unfortunately the problem was with the reading heads. In this case you need to take your hard disk to someone who knows how to swap them. But you need a donor hard disk to be used for spare parts. I have opened the donor hard disk and put it back together and all still works fine contrary to what some people says. All you do is loose the warranty but it is an old dick anyway. At the end I remembered I did a back up a couple of years ago on google drive and it was all still there as I only kept old files on this hard disk. Good luck.

@@tomstopper5281 at least you were on the right track. Did you get your data bacK? anyone?

@@Sertdatarecovery yes

sabko hindi aati kya ab??

didnt work, are you suprised?

Buy it on Amazon or ebay

@@hennayatsu6969 dont do it at all...

I saw some russian blogger(master), he said that you can align it by tightenning the bolt, and you can even not open the disk. First, scrue it out, then thight it not strongly, then give the power, check, should work. If not, little by little try to tigh the bolt and try again. Then listen an amplitude of clicks, if it quick, then use bolt tight the bolt back and forward. Another guy said that from his seven disks he was able to run five of them. I have a lot of clicking disks, but did not try yet, just share the info.

Oh, sorry, forgot. Before of all, I would screu out the motherboard checking, cleanning contacts between the board and the disk.

True because once one spec of dust gets in, might as well never use the hard drive again because it won't work. Although I would take the magnets out cuz they're fun to play around with (just be careful, they're neodymium)!

Lol no

@@Sabercon No that's the lie that Data recover centers tell you. Dust will damage the HDD for sure but not make it completely unusable at all. Because of the dust there will be a lot of bad sectors in the HDD that's why such repair methods are good only for recovering the data as soon as u repair the HDD and not for reusing the HDD

@@stevebarbosa151 So how can I recover my data? Because I already opened it and did the same method this guy In the video did. And no fortune on nothing smh.

@@1MuzikMedia Hi! I'm thinking of taking mine HDD apart now, does it worth a try?

best back up data just incase

i have that drive , that isnt clicking , let me make things clear. THIS IS WRONG , the reason the clicking sound is gone is why the heads have been unstuck , but this guy positioned in the outer disk , destroying the outer track . in this case the drive heads are supposed to be in the inner disk , on the PARKING AREA. or on the ramp . and moving the arm assembly oround like that probably caused much more damage toi other areas of the disk. this disk survived because it is old , old drives are more touchable , but if this dude scans this drive , it would have lots of bad sectors. IF YOU WANT TO UNSTUCK HEAD , YOU SHOULD FIRST ROTATE THE DISK AND SLOWLY MOVE THE HEADS ON THE PLASTIC RAMP , IN OTHER DRIVES IN THE INNER DISK , NEXT TO THE CENTRE. NOT THE OUTER , DRIVES ARE FRAGILE.

No he didnt he used a dust free clean room

If you look you can see the lens is not on the disk

@@Lenzwalters `any idea how to fix this?

me 17 years

no kidding

didnt matter tho did it?

do it as your own risk. sorry

😜

this video should be removed asap! many people's hard drive could have be saved by professionals , this video is causing them to totally messed up