Awesome , software and hardware skills, your are the complete technician and something to be proud of man !

Awesome video! Thanks again for posting! I've taken HD's apart knowing they would be destroyed in the process, and it's baffling how easy you make it look. I've struggled removing the head arm most of time and again, I wasn't the most gentle while doing so either. :)

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Really enjoying these videos, keep em rolling!

Awesome as always. Thank you from Portugal.

Well done!!! Hands steady like a surgeon!

Your videos are extremely helpful. Thank you!

your pumping these videos out man.

Dude , you're absolutely a genius ...wow!

You are a genius! Congratulations!

Thanks a lot man , I wish you best .

Thank you for the video. Very clear.

Hi, Thanks a lot for all your details and your explains. You do very easy. I discovered you 2 months ago and I'm seeing all your videos and learn a lots. Thanks so much.

Man I can't stop watching your videos. I have taken a leap of faith and brought a dozen or so hard drives to have a bit of a look and have a go at taking them apart. I know it is not going to be easy as you show it in your videos, but you never know unless you have a try and see what happens. Is there any other real tips or even just some basic info in like what say toshiba drive parts are compatable with other toshiba drives? or for any other brands? Thanks again for your great videos

You're the best of data recovery.... Nice job man.... 👍👍👍👍 BGM: ukiyo feat herbi - home

I have an issue with a dead toshiba laptop drive, its does not spin up or read at all, on the inside the motor moves freely, platters look good, the heads look fine, and the pcb has no damage? Any idea what could be the problem!

My hdd dropped from the table there is clicking sound.swap head will it work?without going through pc3000 tool software.

Subbed as well - brilliant!

help: i unstuck the head of my expansion drive but when i connect it to the pc, the head can't go on top of the disc?

Awsome job sir,well done,i really enjoyed this,very much indeed,thankyou.

My WD 4tb passport will work fine then all of a sudden i'll hear this click sound still can open files ect but as soon as i try to write from it it'll not do anything & everything on my pc will stop responding...

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Great videos I'm learning a lot thank you. 2 questions: 1) I have a WD20EADS Black ext backup drive that dropped on a carpeted floor. Now it spins up but windows can no longer read. I looked for another new drive to use parts from but I notice the MFG date and DCM# is different. What are the chances that this drive's board and internal parts will work for repair? 2) I'm comfortable learning anything technical and would like to persue leaning hard drive repair. I have about 50 drives (and several computers) I've accumlated over time and would like to teach myself as much as possible. My question is, what is the best place t0 buy the CORRECT tools, adapters, clean environment cabints etc. ? Thanks!

Great video bud!!!!

Hi, i just found about you, and you are doing a great job, i'm a big fan.. keep going. My question is that i want to know what do i need as head replacement tools because i'm really getting confused about which tool for which HDD. And last what your advice for starting a data recovery businnes. Thank you

Hi, Do you use new hard drives as "organs donor" (i don't know how I should call that in english) to fixing the broken ones? And if you do, those new hard drives can be reassembled and work fine? Also it's securely possible to use parts of broken HDs to attempt to recover the HDs of clients? Thanks.

Interesting and informative Thanks

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Hey man...! I want to know that which software do you use to check HDD.

Amazing. Bravo.

greeting! when replacing the disc cue head must be all from the same hard disk manufacturer or can it be a cache of any one? but with the assumption that electronics and electronics have changed?

nice, enjoyed the music as well. =)

I have one question, if ur drive has a read head with multiple layers u put some kind of plastic inbetween them. Is that plastic always specifically big or of specific material? I want to try swapping the read head of my hdd.

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I have a 2.5" drive that just makes a constant loud click, what do you think the most likely problem is with it? Stuck head, bad board?

I have a wd wd10jmvw and the hard drive heads go over the platters but then go park to park and it does this over and over again. What would the solution be to get the data off. Move the platters to a working drive.

Hello, just a theoretical question; how similar is heads from different manufacturers? i assume there will be some difference, but from afar, they look rather alike. Do HDD manufacturer make their own heads or do they reuse latest standards so to say?

I did learn soming today..thanks

assume that i have a laminar flow clean room , and i performed a successful head swap, can i recover the data without the need of a pc-3000 device\software but only using some regular data recovery softwares ?

very interesting video! just a small question Do you make calibration for the buttom head screw? in case 1& 2 after add the donor head

Finally decent music in one KZfaq channel kudos to the owner of this channel 👍

Thanks for the video My question is I opened my hard drive and the problem is the head is not moving fast as it usually doo

Wait, so you could plug/unplug internal hdd while the computer is on?

Hi nice your skills, complete technician

Thank you for the interesting video. May I ask you some questions? 1) Why are you actually moving the U12 IC from one PCB to another? With PC3k you can read the ROM of the passport drive with the Serial Interface and write it with the SATA Interface to the SATA PCB. I think, it's much faster then the chip transfer. And you can reuse the SATA PCB more times. 2) On the first WD Blue drive you did't use the HDD Surgery Ramps, but just heat shrink tubes. Is there a reason? 3) May be you can help me a little bit with one case. Currently I have a WD Passport drive with the wd20nmvw-11AV3S0 HDD inside. This drive has 8 heads. One (afaik 7 of 8) is not reading at all. I tried to get a cheap donor drive, but it was impossible. The price is about 200-300$ for a working drive. On the other hand you can get 2TB Notebook drives for about 60$. How are you handling such cases and finding a donor?

Thanks!

do you have any videos that show different types of symptoms of HD failure like diagnosing board or head failure or motor etc?

how did you check compatibility of those two ?

Hello bro, I've got a simple query when you switch your read head in a hard disk with a new one outside the damaged Does showing the information from the damaged hard ...... I have heard there is a special device that extract the files from my hard do you know what is the device

Are these head separators homemade. Did you make them yourself

My hard drive arm keeps moving back and forth and beeping sometimes. It's like it's trying to find something. In disk management it was black so I did whatever to turn it blue but it never completed so I gave up. Kept saying formatting but it never finished. A 1 foot drop in a box killed it.

Cool work. I have still a WD Green (WD10EARS) with the same issue and a Data recovery company told me, that they could just recover 2 % for about 1200$.

Hello. Great Video. I have a few broken head HDDs which I would like to play with could you please tell my what sort of material (plastic, rubber) are you using to separate the heads. I'll be really grateful for your answer

Hy.I'm from Croatia and would like to know a few questions if possible.BTW just found about you and just subed!Amazing skills and video.About the qustions.I have a Hitachi 3.5" 640gb hdd and its doing that famous death clicking.Opened it up to see and it's scratched circularly from the head and the scratch is at the inner end of the disc,almost at the very end.My conclusion is that theres alot of data before the end to be recovered so thats why I kept the drive for so long waiting for the tech to get better.Seeing you it did!So can some data be recovered and what would be the price?On the drive its not more than half on it to be recovered maybe arround 200gb.P.S.The data to be recovered its all pics and videos of my dearest memories of my life and a majority of my ex girlfriend and me.Thanks in advance.Zoki.

which programs do ypu use after head swap? to recover data

Good video....keep it up....

Should I put my hdd upside down to ease wear and tear? I know you do it to put less strain on the arm/heads?

Can you tell me What hardware and software is use i want to buy...

thanks

Hi i have a hard drive that make sound even wen i connect to the Pc it makes a sound like same thing is plug in but it doesn't work. Help please...

i have 2 hdd seagate 1tb sata, af and another which is 500gb. both are showing up in my comp. sometimes there is a clicking sound. but doesnt get detected even when it seems to spin smoothly. any ideas?? i wont be able to send it to u or something as im in india.

Is "clicking" definitely a damaged head? ThQ brother

Can I work with you guys? I already do some data recovery, but I'd love to work with your team and learn more :) Great videos!

How do you get power to your external hard drive which won't show up on desktop and keeps making beep sound?

My 2.5" Seagate 500gb laptop drives when connected shows only 3.8GB space n doesn't allows POST test to complete n BIOS gets stuck on blinking cursor. HDD get's detected with my primary HDD of 1TB Seagate HDD in Dell Precision M4800 workstation laptop. How to fix my defective drive that doesn't spins. please suggest.

Got a question got a new 4tb hard drive and it is an external hard drive but my computers are not recognizing it. Running Window s 7 pro on one computer Windows 7 Ultimate on another and Windows 8.1 on another. The drive spins up but it is not recognized by any of my computers. Any suggestions would be apreciated. It is also not recognized in Disk Manager.Thanks .

U fix hdd hard drive from Sony hanycam? If the silver disk is broken a little bit can it still be recovered

Excellent video. I have a question, and thanks in advance: You recommend R-Studio in the description. During the last couple of days I have been playing with its demo and some other data recovery programs. The GUI looks indeed very technical focused, but I have not found it superior than other programs like for example Getdataback in what it can find on different data-loss situations. Do you think that R-Studio is really that good compared to the other offers for rescuing data from logical failures? What do you think it is that makes it so special? I really value a professional opinion like yours on this topic. You find too much rubbish on the review lists published on the internet. Most of these articles with review ranking lists are already payed upfront by one company.

sorry my external hdd 500gb fell and stop working and it is where i had my working document how can i go about it for recovery

Do you do the repair in dustfree area or? Because I have heard alot about that just opening a disk can destroy it.

Hdd is showing on computer but it makes computer hand and search but hdd not opening why what could be the problem?

Hi bro i want to replace my laptop HDD header it not working it 1 tb hard disk does it differently in 1TB HDD and 500GB HDD header how can get header kindly to suggest me waiting your reply

what the price would be if person lost 3tb of data

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Nice work. Do you know about compatibility of head for WD5000BEVT with donor WD5000BPVT? What about circuit? Thank you for answer

I have a seagate freeagent Goflex 1 TB external Hard drive which has a very very strange issue. It gets detected by the computer and I am able to open the drive too. But browsing through the files is very very slow and I am unable to even play a single video. I can merely see what files are present within the disc. The disc keeps making a small clicking sound every 5-10 seconds even when its not being accessed. The only advice Ive got is to format it but i wish to try and save data. What could be the problem?? Thnx in advance

Hi! what sofware do you use?

Question.. what would be the issue of doing a head swap and trying to run the drive without using those fancy utilities like building a head map or imaging the drive. Why not just run it?

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much would you recommend I try this at home (I also have that 2tb WD)? I would build a filtered and sealed box in which to conduct the operation. I also have very steady hands and high attention to detail.

What price u actually take,, for some hdd with hardware issue.. Any average? Just asking because my bro doing business of computers,. So we also got many hdd with hw failure.

Tweezer brand at 12:00? I like the long reach these have! I use qianli tweezers right now.

hi hdd recovery I have a question for you, I have a 1 TB hard drive how big can a 1 TB image hard drive? , which software tool to use for the correct image hard disk? ,ftk images or someting else ?what do you recommend me to use hdd tools? ..... How much space on a hard drive should I have to create an image hard drive. ???

I have a friend whose hard disk trays to spin and then shuts down followed by trying to spin and then shuts down. Click of death. Is there any way to repair the hard disk and recover the data?

how much do you charge for something like this?

that's Good!

how to repier relocate sectors

my hard drive hitachi... the platter spins, then head moves, but then it beeps... i thinks head kept moving back and forth cant find where to stop on the platter..what to do?

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can you please help me with my external hard drive... windows 10 does not read it anymore but reads others

How is it possible to swap 1TB heads on a 750GB hdd, there are no difference between them? And if so, when it's possible and when not? Thanks

Hi I have a hardisk with the Rom (Bios burned - in the sense that PCB's rom is missing) Reason I had buying a card to do the swapping but the repairman lost the original card) Do you think it is possible to recover my Seagate Hardisk? In short, the HD has never been opened and card that has does not have the original BIOS- I feel the engine turns but it doesn't see any data windows with new pcb donnor Thx Franco Italy

Internal Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive spins up and spins down and then stops spinning. It causes NTLDR is Missing Error. HDD intact and was never dropped.

Hi Mate, I have the clicking noise with my WD external 4404a, I can see the drive in device manager but unable to see it in c drive, anything you can recommend to try please. Thanks again

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Please help me HDD recovery services, I have a hard drive with 6 heads 3 discs that I want it's data recovered, but the donor hard drive i got it's 4 heads 2 discs, can I do that, at least to recover some data?

Good day ... can you share what program do use...

ahhh don't say that u r not going to upload videos in future, my heart brake's sir!

I have a HDD where the heads have crashed onto the drive and created a large scratch. Is there still any way of recovering any of the other data? Do you have a video on how you recovered data from such a drive?

Good afternoon I really liked the video I'm Brazilian and I would like you to give me a hd recovery course and where I buy the tools and how the laboratory should be. I'm sorry I do not know how to speak English and I did not use Google Translate.