Fix Clicking Hard Drive And Recovery Data From Your Hard Drive
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2018
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I this video I show a way how to take apart your hard drive and fix the click sound that is coming from it.
This problem can occur just like that (hard drive failure) or by dropping your hard drive.
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Dude.... dudeeeee I freakin love u. I just fixed 3 of my hard drives using this method and one that wouldn't work with all the screws in only the middle screw tight made it work I was able to recover all my old pics and movies this is incredible!!!
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 .
Caribbean? St Thomas here.
Thanks for the vid.
I have a WD Passport 5TB drive, its making the clicking noise , I opened up the drive arm goes back and forth a few time power light is on but it wont read this happened after i dropped the drive on my basement floor it fell out of my hand, can i recover the DATA on my own the plates are clear like a mirror, OR do i need to replace the arm reader?
That's exactly what mine's doing and I have a lot of valuable information on mine and I don't have the money to send out so I'm watching your video
wait so what exactly did you do ? can you be specific what you did to fix the hard drive ? i have the same problem
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.
Hi! Thank you so much for this video. So you just need to screw that one center screw in extra tight?
sometimes all depends
respect my yute.. this video helped me
Anytime :D
Super informational. Thanks so much for this!
You are so welcome!
Nice tip, will try it out as my one of the function hard drive makes clicking sound. One more thing LENZ V28 -4 k manual describe many. Function, but non of them I can use
I do all setting. Correctly for each function but Does not work pse guide me, how about Air play for example???
Good place to get the type of screwdriver for the screws on the hardrive?
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
If my 1tb HGST HDD reading head is faulty, can i replace the head with an old 160gb wd scorpion blue reading head? would it work? thanks
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.
Interesting video, Lenz. Do you have any suggestions for an IDE Seagate ST3120A hard drive that touched metal and then gave off a bit of smoke? I don''t see any burn marks on the circuit board, but that's where it touched bare metal and where the smoke came from. All it does not is click, then stops clicking after a few seconds.
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 UA-cam allows me to send you pictures. Let me know if you know how to send pictures.
Thanks!
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Hi! I have an Adata Nobility NH03 (samsung hdd inside) which is sounds (sipping) like yours. It spins and clicks during this time it appears in "safely remove hardware.." but not in my computer. After this, stops moving and appears in device manager with exclamation mark at usb mass storage device but not in disk drives.. What can it be? Thank you
I have tried what you said but didn't work
fantastic info I'm gonna try it out in over 10 dead harddrives
no
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My started clicking after spraying the key board with the dusk spray. Is there a chance for mine?
hello, so with this you undid it then push it towards the back a little then screwed the first screw back on that's it and fixed it? am i right?
no that does'nt fix anything except you not getting your data back.
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Will this work with any external harddrive mine is clicking when I connected the zilkee recovery converter to it ?
maybe.
Bet, i thought i lost my ffx save file homie thx for the info
you're welcome
BAM BAM , where mi hear dat before
Nice video man! I did move it back but it keeps going in the same position and keeps clicking. What do you suggest me to do? Tx
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
Great vid mi bredren 💯
thanks
Tried it, worked! Thanks!!
But my hard disk is now dead slow, like less than 10 Mbps transfers. Any idea why this might happen?
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
I have an external hd and it has a faint clicking sound. It won't read on my laptop. Will this method work too?
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.
nice video my dude, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
This worked for me, had to do it a couple of times but it did work 🥳
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
@lenzwalters Did you really open the Disk in the free space and got it to work?.
According to the experts it has to be in a clean Workspace to minimize the risk of dust and static damage.
Can you confirm that your disk worked after this Operation?
do it at your own risk. very risk
Hello from france every body,
My hard drive make same noise but once opened, the heads are well parked.
Any idea to fix the problem?
now drive is open did you get your data back off that drive?
Thanks
Welcome
didn't work for me but my drive was done anyways, wouldn't format then disapeared etc. you can use a tiny flat headed screw driver too, at least I got to see what it all looked like inside
it didnt wor because the method used by this guy is WRONG
Nice video
Thank you helping me fry to fix my dead harddrive
Mine I had in a JBOD (Samsung) forever , I took it out (off) set it on it's side and backed up 2 other discs in the thing. Finally put it back in and there goes the click , so far hasn't come back and doesn't appear to have a parkable area :( ie 500 gb out the window for some stuff that oh well.. Still clicks...
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....
That helps
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.
what about if it just spins rough but never reads. my IDE hard drive just all of a sudden failed
can be different issue board, connection etc
That should help the problem.
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.
What's the song in the background?
tell me if you find out!!
let me know if you find out
It's from Minecraft.
sir mere pas laptop ke 3 harddisk hai sabhi me clicking sound a rha hai kaise thik karu solution batao
sabko hindi aati kya ab??
good video
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 a similar problem but the reading middles keep on clicking back and forward and then the drive shuts down....
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
You said to align the arm, but didn't show how to do that, you just skipped over it. I'm not sure what you did other than open it, move the arm and close it up tightly. That didn't work on mine..
Great video Mr Lenz, my only observation is that since you are manipulating sensitive hardware you should clip your nails to avoid any scratch on its surface. Thank you again for that very useful video
thanks a lot will do that :)
What if I don’t have the right tool what can I do
Buy it on Amazon or ebay
@@hennayatsu6969 dont do it at all...
The general rule of HD's is this: Unless you have a "CLEAN ROOM" type environment - don't open the f_ckin' drive! Dust and "air" WILL kill the drive!
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.
Is it ok to reuse hdd with this problem? Even if its repaired?
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.
how to align it...........
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.
Came for advice, stayed for the accent
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.
You shouldn't oopen your hard drive unless you know exactly what you are doing, hard drives are very sensitive and easy to fuck up.
Thats true
@@Lenzwalters yet your doing it lmao
@@burgerparty maybe he knows what he's doing like the op said
sad to say didnt work. all the best bruh!
didnt work, are you suprised?
Any advice for my WD 4 TB clicking noise Issue? Thanks.
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my hard drive making some noise then i made a clone with stellar data recovery professional and send it to service.
Any idea what's wrong with this drive? ua-cam.com/video/CZbmyx_tb8A/v-deo.html
If you look you can see the lens is not on the disk
@@Lenzwalters `any idea how to fix this?
back ground music a bit loud. Reduce maybe 6dB
Good info, pls no music, hard enough to understand your english
I see lebron james in screen disk
I dont have the roght screw for it man fuck
didnt matter tho did it?
Didnt he just ruin this hard drive by exposing the platter?
No he didnt he used a dust free clean room
Don't take it apart because once you do, you're not getting that drive back. The disks are clean for a reason: once a fingerprint or piece of dust gets on it, it won't work.
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?
LOL
MIND NOT READING
Well that didnt work and alas i have lost about 5 years worth on work.
me 17 years
no kidding
3:40 I screwed it down very tight and now it's broken.
Do not recommend.
do it as your own risk. sorry
3,25 what a bam bam
Its better to buy a new. Haha
😜
Wtf 4:10?!
turn off that awful music
this is exactly something you should never do, if an hard drive is exposed to air, it will die
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
everyone trying this trash from this witch doctor will ruin their hard drive forever
1- decide if the data you need to save is worth 500 -1000 dollars
2- if it is worth take the drive to a PROFESSIONAL data recovery company