@@LynxLeader No, because if its already damaged, like the platter or the actuator, then simply resetting wont fix the problem. However, if its a minor mechanical problem, then resetting everything so it starts as it did when first powered might get it working enough to recover.
There are many ways to fix a drive. This is only one of them. Thing is once a drive has started going bad. No need to fix it entirely youll be changing it anyway. There is no easy fixing a crashing hdd.
I have four hard drives to recover from machines that go back quite a few years. I also have a Seagate external drive that failed as well. Thanks for the help.
Dear Cars And Cameras! I have a Toshiba external HDD, but it sounds like it doesn't spin at all. I'm just wondering - may I try to disassamble just like you in this video? I'm looking forward to your answer!
Mine suddenly shows the requirement to Initialize when attaching via the sata cable. Seemingly attaching it also causes the system unstable. Windows cant detect the HDD via the HDD box. Can I try this method?
1:10 I can see two specks of dust at approximately 1 o'clock about 1/4" from the hub, when you hit them you'll probably get a crash. You might have been better off tapping it on the lower right corner. Let us know how many errors turn up.
Thank you, the video was informative. Would having a drive that is spinning when plugged in, but not showing up on the pc be the same issue. I have a WD passport external hard drive that is not showing up on anything that I am plugging it into. It was working a few days ago.
Can I use the butt of the header to push it right while rotating the disc? if you look behind the shell with 2 blue dots, the neck of the head got a butt.should be pretty safe to touch there, no?
I am having a Dell Vostro 15 from 2017, last year due to some motherboard issue it stopped working and was abandoned for a year now I have give it for repair and they were telling that it's hard drive failed, but after some procedure that HDD came back into life but all it's data are gone, that repair shop technician are telling that they are unable to recover it's data, please tell me is it possible to recover my precious memories and data, it is having many photos and videos from a long time, please help 🙏🏻😢
Hi i am from India I have one hard disk which is clicking sound getting from it and not reading while connecting to the computer. i have whole life memory there please let me know how to recover
Does this fix work in my case as looking similar and I am hearing beeping sound from hardisk error and this is my error (boot device not found please install an operating system on your hard disk (3f0))
i have a seagate external that fell off the top pf my computer case to the floor, after that incident i get zilch from the computer about him. i hear spinning when drive is (re)inserted into usb some clicking like heads are trying to position kind of clicking and then motors shut down
I have a question my laptop hard disk is damaged and it doesn't work at all i can't a new latop is there any way to fix this so i can use this in future
I will try this today. I had a power glitch and the drive start making the clicking sound. If I get it to work again. Does that mean the drive is damage and I should move all the files to another drive. Or the arm stuck is mostly cause by the power glitch and I should continue to use it. Guess I need to run a drive integrity software to check the drive huh.
Bro i had hard disk which was corrupted i visited a shop to show my hard disk they said this hard disk is fully gone and data cannot be recovered.so i had these hard disk 8 years with me but now i threw that hard disk.i want to ask that is my data recovery possible? I am affraid that someone will misuse it.but shopkeeper told me that my hard disk was completely hopless corrupt and that data recovery is not possible? So whats the truth? Is data recovery possible from fully gone harddisk i threw it already but now i am feeling little worried?
You should always destroy hard drives or other electronic devices before throwing it away because there is no way to ensure that equipment sent for recycling or thrown away will not be accessed by information thieves. And destroy as in take a hammer to the drive and my favorite drill through the hard drive case. There are many ways to extract data from the drive and I would have no idea what the shops methods were. I hope this helps
@@carsandcamera yes bro today I asked my shopkeeper and he said he completely formatted the hard disk so there was no data on it.he said he did it 2 times but still the hard disk was not working he said he tried every method he knew but harddisk still not worked he said it was out of recovery and hence he returned it to me and it was with me for 8 years and now I thrown it.
Clicking sounds. My hard drive just went down it tries to spin up then makes an odd noise and stops trying to run. I lost everything I deem as important and for some reason, my backups are missing the important directories. I will not let this happen again. I was thinking of trying to remove the platter and drop it in another drive, but, if this sound means the heads are just stuck as you demonstrated, I might be able to get it running long enough to grab the data. Something I find interesting just happened. I have hot disk turned on in bios so I can add and remove drives while my PC is running. So I opened Fdisk plugged in the drive and it saw it and it said it's not initialized. This tells me the circuit board is working and that the motor is not spinning up the platter. I think there could be 2 reasons the motor is dead or the heads are stuck, right? If the motor was dead, it wouldn't try and spin at all, but it does and it makes a beeping noise. I think I might stand a chance at recovering the data in the way you just demonstrated. what do you think?
Your heads may have clamped down on your platters if you notice these warning signs: Weak, regular beeping noises. Beeping is one of the most common signs of damaged read/write heads preventing a hard drive from spinning up.
@@carsandcamera It just all of a sudden made that beeping sound when I restarted the computer as soon as I heard it I shut down and removed it. I then tried it using my recovery data cables with windows running and windows kinda sees rather fdisk sees it but says it's not initialized it's not like any other hard drive failure I've ever experienced. I think it's probably worth a shot taking the cover off and trying to recover the data what do you think?
I have similar problem with my HD. It is showing not initialized but its running and making rythmic noise. Before It became dead, It was working properly for months even after making this sound but I was not aware about it and one day it started to show disk is not initialized and its capacity is 0 bytes.
what do i do if the "head" (what you called it idk what its named) is broken and i have a 2nd hdd where the head is fixed? is it possible to switch it, if yes can you do a tutuorial please
What you would do is a platter swap. Now this is very involved so take a look at this www.wikihow.com/Swap-Hard-Disk-Drive-Platters also when doing the swap the hardest part is finding the replacement drive as not only does it need to be the exact one because the defective one but it has to have the exact same firmware. And not having the exact same firmware it will not work as they have to be exactly the same. This is why I never made a video on doing this as finding the same hard drive with same firmware is like finding a needle in a haystack. Doing this job is very involved and what I provide here is for hobby and entertainment purposes only
My 3 year old daughter walked over my laptop which led to hard drive damage. Can I retrive my data from the hard drive? Which agency will be helpful in doing this. Kindly suggest.
I've looked up other videos where you got to take a pic and stick it through the magnetic record needle saying that is in between all the discs, and there is a place where you can pull and make the needle click back into place.. that is a good solution but it didn't work for me but I'm going to go ahead and try this because I have not seen this video yet as of today.. I will let you know my results
And yes I make sure I wear some very tight dust repelling or should I say dust attracting gloves anything I can do to keep the dust out I turn off all my fans I close off all my AC vents I open my window and let the air breathe out some and then shut everything down. And then I'll wait 15 minutes before I even open the hard drive to try to make it a clean room in quote Out quote Edit. " make it a clean room"
hey, if anyone is trying to do this its very risky. if one s p e c of dust lands on the hdd when you open it up, its fucked. as another comment said it really is up to chance no matter how tech savvy or technologically advanced you are. so ofcourse do this at your own discretion
This is engineer-level difficulty. I mean, the one I think about, that isn't shown in the video. It's like these people have the ability to lockpick vacuum-sealed treasure troves of the modern era without leaving a single trace.
@@user-rd6tuYuf Engineer level difficulty? I had hard drive that was filled with photos that I didn’t want to loose and I was quoted $1,500 by a data recovery. I decided to try this tutorial as it didn’t seem difficult at all. I followed the instructions and it worked perfectly for me and it is explained very well.
hey if i get no sound at all from the hdd sata hdd. its the bigger one i dont know what the technical term for it is but its not a laptop size hdd it was an external 4 Tb drive Baracuda. anyways i hear nothing when i put it in the docking station. could it be as simple as the pcb that needs to be replaced. i dont want to have to open it up if i can avoid that. if there is no sound at all no humming nothing does anybody think its just the pcb on the drive? any help would be appreciated.
@@carsandcamera I'll look into it thanks for the reply it is appreciated. they make a 4 TB drive that seems to on average last 4-5 years what a scam. i only filled half of it but it had everything on it. what a racket none the less. Thanks again
I will admit i open the drive to see whats wrong. The arm was stuck on the platter but not moving. Long story short I tried a few of my own fixes😮 then tried to send it away. They sent it back saying it was too badly damaged. I even bogan identical seagate thinking i could just swap disc to just get my data i failed miserably.@carsandcamera
Well buddy it’s not going to work 100% percent of the time. But it worked for me multiple times and if you read the comments there are so many people that this genius man has helped. And with UA-cam and in life nothing is a guarantee
Do not do this, I followed this video and lost everything, computer shops will not touch the hard drive if it's been opened as it has to be in a dust free environment, don't do it or you will regret it like I did.
I find a lot holes in your story. Did you listen to what he says at the beginning (I’m not a hard drive technician do this at your own risk) and when you opened the drive was the arm sitting on the platters as in his example. This trick will only work if the arm is stuck on the platters. And then it’s dependent on if the arm is possibly damaged. And he warns you that this should be done in a clean room. Then if you were thinking of using a data recovery service that could run in the four figures why would risk your valuable data to youtube video. I see big holes in your story. I have opened a hard drive that are old and left them open to see how long they wii last applying read and writes to it. It was fun watching the heads race back and fourth and the drive continued to work. His video has over 500 likes so it must be working and then comes my final thoughts. You lost everything? Silly you didn’t have your data backed up. Hard drives are cheap and you didn’t have your data backed up. As I said big holes in your story
Why would you want to recover data from a dead hard drive? ... Smash the drive with a hammer, to protect the data, and simply use one of your BACKUPS! You DID backup, right? ... If not, you DESERVE to lose your data! 🤣
Nah man you're a legend. You literally saved my life right now. Thank you so much
your data 's safe?
i might ber %50 right or %50 wrong , in order to work this you need %99.999999 lucky even if you are %100 technically master
To not damage the hard drive?
@@LynxLeader No, because if its already damaged, like the platter or the actuator, then simply resetting wont fix the problem. However, if its a minor mechanical problem, then resetting everything so it starts as it did when first powered might get it working enough to recover.
There are many ways to fix a drive. This is only one of them. Thing is once a drive has started going bad. No need to fix it entirely youll be changing it anyway. There is no easy fixing a crashing hdd.
One of the ways to deal with this, after you feel that you have enough significant data on the working hard drive, is to clone it.
I have four hard drives to recover from machines that go back quite a few years. I also have a Seagate external drive that failed as well. Thanks for the help.
finally one that speaks normally thanks this video was good
Dear Cars And Cameras! I have a Toshiba external HDD, but it sounds like it doesn't spin at all. I'm just wondering - may I try to disassamble just like you in this video? I'm looking forward to your answer!
Try it bro I will be doing the same
Load error Hdd Motor
Dude, another life saved by this video.... Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 🙇♂ 🙏
ok so my hard disk drive heads moving left to right CD is moving but still not detectable on my PC so what is the main issue there
Nice to c someone included the tools being used.thank you
Phew! ..I needed this tutorial - 2TB drive caput last night...buying a Torx set tomorrow
Hi. What is the name of that cable you are using to connect the hard drive to the computer?
I PRAY that this works on my dead HD! You are AWESOME!
did it work??
@@Noname-di3yz Sadly .... NO!
Saved 1 Hdd. 5 to go. Wish me luck. Thanks a lot, man.
Updates?
any updateee broooooooooo
@@VakidaGaming any update???
Mine suddenly shows the requirement to Initialize when attaching via the sata cable. Seemingly attaching it also causes the system unstable. Windows cant detect the HDD via the HDD box. Can I try this method?
Did the same step as you suggested. Still the clicking sound continues, and drive not detected. Help please
Same problem and this is crucila
Did you find the solution pls
My hard drive doesn't show in bios setup and not sound coming in hard drive. So can i recovered data from hard drive ?
yes
This helped me to recover my old HDD. Thank you !!!
1:10 I can see two specks of dust at approximately 1 o'clock about 1/4" from the hub, when you hit them you'll probably get a crash.
You might have been better off tapping it on the lower right corner.
Let us know how many errors turn up.
I successfully removed all the data and no errors on the drive.
@@carsandcamera Whew! 😅
Drives spin at 5400 or 7200 RPM. The act of spinning alone will usually cause dust specks to fly off. Not always, but usually.
@@FlavoradeRambler Yup, always gotta' buy 10K/15K drives. :)
Holy crap this worked! Thanks man!
Huge help. Thank you.
Thanks I'll try to do this very informative video. 🎉
would this work if my hard drive is making a clicking noise? ive got a couple forums saying theres no recovery for it.
Quoted 600 euro to recover 3TB Toshiba portable drive. Mechanical failure, do I have any hope with this method?
Thank you, the video was informative. Would having a drive that is spinning when plugged in, but not showing up on the pc be the same issue. I have a WD passport external hard drive that is not showing up on anything that I am plugging it into. It was working a few days ago.
lmk bro please
Can I use the butt of the header to push it right while rotating the disc? if you look behind the shell with 2 blue dots, the neck of the head got a butt.should be pretty safe to touch there, no?
They read with a needle not a laser so no matter where you touch it it wouldnt damage the disk
I am having a Dell Vostro 15 from 2017, last year due to some motherboard issue it stopped working and was abandoned for a year now I have give it for repair and they were telling that it's hard drive failed, but after some procedure that HDD came back into life but all it's data are gone, that repair shop technician are telling that they are unable to recover it's data, please tell me is it possible to recover my precious memories and data, it is having many photos and videos from a long time, please help 🙏🏻😢
Hi i am from India I have one hard disk which is clicking sound getting from it and not reading while connecting to the computer. i have whole life memory there please let me know how to recover
Does this fix work in my case as looking similar and I am hearing beeping sound from hardisk error and this is my error (boot device not found please install an operating system on your hard disk (3f0))
Same of mine
Verify boot sequence, bcd/gpt/mbr first if possible. This is a last resort and not a good permanent fix.
Hi i have problem with my hard disk when i turn on my pc it shows a read eror hard disk ouccured what should i do?
i have a seagate external that fell off the top pf my computer case to the floor, after that incident i get zilch from the computer about him. i hear spinning when drive is (re)inserted into usb some clicking like heads are trying to position kind of clicking and then motors shut down
What adapter did you use to connect the hard drive to the pc?
This one. www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Cable-Support-Black/dp/B07S9CKV7X/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Hard+drive+to+usb&qid=1596587362&sr=8-3
External hard disc connector
does this method will also remove the bad sectors and repair the drive?
Seems it simple, will try on mine, thanks buddy, good luck !
Did it work?
wow, i cant believe it actually worked!
I have a question my laptop hard disk is damaged and it doesn't work at all i can't a new latop is there any way to fix this so i can use this in future
I will try this today. I had a power glitch and the drive start making the clicking sound. If I get it to work again. Does that mean the drive is damage and I should move all the files to another drive. Or the arm stuck is mostly cause by the power glitch and I should continue to use it. Guess I need to run a drive integrity software to check the drive huh.
Does this work only for specific sized drives?? My drives are from 2017 and are bigger or thicker
It can work on any drive as long as its not a SSD
How can I recover the files and data from a corrupted external hard drive disk ?
my external Hdd not see after plug in ? how to fix even i changed the usb wire and update deiver .
hey do you any good tool kitsto do something like this?
Bro i had hard disk which was corrupted i visited a shop to show my hard disk they said this hard disk is fully gone and data cannot be recovered.so i had these hard disk 8 years with me but now i threw that hard disk.i want to ask that is my data recovery possible? I am affraid that someone will misuse it.but shopkeeper told me that my hard disk was completely hopless corrupt and that data recovery is not possible? So whats the truth? Is data recovery possible from fully gone harddisk i threw it already but now i am feeling little worried?
You should always destroy hard drives or other electronic devices before throwing it away because there is no way to ensure that equipment sent for recycling or thrown away will not be accessed by information thieves.
And destroy as in take a hammer to the drive and my favorite drill through the hard drive case. There are many ways to extract data from the drive and I would have no idea what the shops methods were. I hope this helps
@@carsandcamera yes bro today I asked my shopkeeper and he said he completely formatted the hard disk so there was no data on it.he said he did it 2 times but still the hard disk was not working he said he tried every method he knew but harddisk still not worked he said it was out of recovery and hence he returned it to me and it was with me for 8 years and now I thrown it.
Clicking sounds. My hard drive just went down it tries to spin up then makes an odd noise and stops trying to run. I lost everything I deem as important and for some reason, my backups are missing the important directories. I will not let this happen again. I was thinking of trying to remove the platter and drop it in another drive, but, if this sound means the heads are just stuck as you demonstrated, I might be able to get it running long enough to grab the data. Something I find interesting just happened. I have hot disk turned on in bios so I can add and remove drives while my PC is running. So I opened Fdisk plugged in the drive and it saw it and it said it's not initialized. This tells me the circuit board is working and that the motor is not spinning up the platter. I think there could be 2 reasons the motor is dead or the heads are stuck, right? If the motor was dead, it wouldn't try and spin at all, but it does and it makes a beeping noise. I think I might stand a chance at recovering the data in the way you just demonstrated. what do you think?
Your heads may have clamped down on your platters if you notice these warning signs:
Weak, regular beeping noises. Beeping is one of the most common signs of damaged read/write heads preventing a hard drive from spinning up.
@@carsandcamera It just all of a sudden made that beeping sound when I restarted the computer as soon as I heard it I shut down and removed it. I then tried it using my recovery data cables with windows running and windows kinda sees rather fdisk sees it but says it's not initialized it's not like any other hard drive failure I've ever experienced. I think it's probably worth a shot taking the cover off and trying to recover the data what do you think?
@@KoolBreeze420 Did it work ?
I have similar problem with my HD. It is showing not initialized but its running and making rythmic noise.
Before It became dead, It was working properly for months even after making this sound but I was not aware about it and one day it started to show disk is not initialized and its capacity is 0 bytes.
Can you do this with ssd?
Mine needle not stuck , picked by computer but won't let me see files.
Is there another way to recover it ? Thanks.
If disk is appearing in file explorer. You can easily recover any formated/cleaned/deleted/Existing data using a command line tool called Test Disk.
what is that you inserted ?
what do i do if the "head" (what you called it idk what its named) is broken and i have a 2nd hdd where the head is fixed? is it possible to switch it, if yes can you do a tutuorial please
What you would do is a platter swap. Now this is very involved so take a look at this www.wikihow.com/Swap-Hard-Disk-Drive-Platters also when doing the swap the hardest part is finding the replacement drive as not only does it need to be the exact one because the defective one but it has to have the exact same firmware. And not having the exact same firmware it will not work as they have to be exactly the same. This is why I never made a video on doing this as finding the same hard drive with same firmware is like finding a needle in a haystack. Doing this job is very involved and what I provide here is for hobby and entertainment purposes only
@@carsandcamera okay thanks
My 3 year old daughter walked over my laptop which led to hard drive damage. Can I retrive my data from the hard drive? Which agency will be helpful in doing this. Kindly suggest.
What does age have to do with anything.
I've looked up other videos where you got to take a pic and stick it through the magnetic record needle saying that is in between all the discs, and there is a place where you can pull and make the needle click back into place.. that is a good solution but it didn't work for me but I'm going to go ahead and try this because I have not seen this video yet as of today.. I will let you know my results
And yes I make sure I wear some very tight dust repelling or should I say dust attracting gloves anything I can do to keep the dust out I turn off all my fans I close off all my AC vents I open my window and let the air breathe out some and then shut everything down. And then I'll wait 15 minutes before I even open the hard drive to try to make it a clean room in quote Out quote
Edit. " make it a clean room"
Thank you IT saved my Toshiba 1tb HDD thank you
Some don't have that screw in the center.
hey, if anyone is trying to do this its very risky. if one s p e c of dust lands on the hdd when you open it up, its fucked. as another comment said it really is up to chance no matter how tech savvy or technologically advanced you are. so ofcourse do this at your own discretion
if you sent this drive to a professional data recovery company I can guarantee they would come up with all sorts of bs to charge you a fortune...
This is engineer-level difficulty. I mean, the one I think about, that isn't shown in the video. It's like these people have the ability to lockpick vacuum-sealed treasure troves of the modern era without leaving a single trace.
@@user-rd6tuYuf Engineer level difficulty? I had hard drive that was filled with photos that I didn’t want to loose and I was quoted $1,500 by a data recovery. I decided to try this tutorial as it didn’t seem difficult at all. I followed the instructions and it worked perfectly for me and it is explained very well.
@@thevintagelens good for you
would this work on ssd drives too?
An SSD has no moving parts, so no.
hahaha ...
don't you need a torque wrench to do that???
hey if i get no sound at all from the hdd sata hdd. its the bigger one i dont know what the technical term for it is but its not a laptop size hdd it was an external 4 Tb drive Baracuda. anyways i hear nothing when i put it in the docking station. could it be as simple as the pcb that needs to be replaced. i dont want to have to open it up if i can avoid that. if there is no sound at all no humming nothing does anybody think its just the pcb on the drive? any help would be appreciated.
Try the PCB. But you will need find one made in same lot as the one your replacing or it will not work
@@carsandcamera I'll look into it thanks for the reply it is appreciated. they make a 4 TB drive that seems to on average last 4-5 years what a scam. i only filled half of it but it had everything on it. what a racket none the less. Thanks again
Am going to try this.
I am going to try this. The thought scares me shitless, but at this point I'm out of options.
Did it work?
@@rubas3310 didn't try it.
Please help ive lost 10 years of data and photos on my drive. No one will touch it.
You need to keep checking there are people out there that are very successful with recovering data. Search "hard drive recovery service"
I will admit i open the drive to see whats wrong. The arm was stuck on the platter but not moving. Long story short I tried a few of my own fixes😮 then tried to send it away. They sent it back saying it was too badly damaged. I even bogan identical seagate thinking i could just swap disc to just get my data i failed miserably.@carsandcamera
There can be recovery in the truth.?
Thanks bro
Nice! 👌
It'll work for ps4 slime??
Thank you!!!!!!!
Thanks
Nice
I was quoted $400 - $2500 to repair the drive enough to get the pictures off it. Smh
That’s why I created this video to help them do it themselves
good
save my life!!
My hard disk is not repair dog
👌🏻
Can you fix this actuator moving issue? ua-cam.com/video/XXm8DPTD61I/v-deo.html
oh ho booyy.
That’s just removing dust pfffttt….😂😂😂
No work....fack video..... misleading report chanal
Well buddy it’s not going to work 100% percent of the time. But it worked for me multiple times and if you read the comments there are so many people that this genius man has helped. And with UA-cam and in life nothing is a guarantee
that's life and it's worked for other people so it's not fake and there's no need to false report. also LEARN HOW TO SPELL "fake" AND "channel"
another indian ranting here
Do not do this, I followed this video and lost everything, computer shops will not touch the hard drive if it's been opened as it has to be in a dust free environment, don't do it or you will regret it like I did.
I find a lot holes in your story. Did you listen to what he says at the beginning (I’m not a hard drive technician do this at your own risk) and when you opened the drive was the arm sitting on the platters as in his example. This trick will only work if the arm is stuck on the platters. And then it’s dependent on if the arm is possibly damaged. And he warns you that this should be done in a clean room. Then if you were thinking of using a data recovery service that could run in the four figures why would risk your valuable data to youtube video. I see big holes in your story. I have opened a hard drive that are old and left them open to see how long they wii last applying read and writes to it. It was fun watching the heads race back and fourth and the drive continued to work. His video has over 500 likes so it must be working and then comes my final thoughts. You lost everything? Silly you didn’t have your data backed up. Hard drives are cheap and you didn’t have your data backed up. As I said big holes in your story
Why would you want to recover data from a dead hard drive? ... Smash the drive with a hammer, to protect the data, and simply use one of your BACKUPS!
You DID backup, right? ... If not, you DESERVE to lose your data! 🤣