How to fix a broken hard drive Beeping noise or clicking RECOVER GET DATA BACK FOR FREE! BEST TRICK
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- If your hard drive or a computer is beeping, it may have heads stuck on a platter. Just take it apart and move heads off the platter. Drive will work again and you can recover your precious stuff from it FOR FREE! Carefully turn the Disk platters in the normal spin direction and move heads carefully out and into park position. No clean room necessary, no special tools.
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As per some of your questions: the screwdriver I use is a TORX pick one with several blades, one will fit. I don't remember exact size. Go to the Home Depot and get the tool you see me use.
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OMG I was almost in tears, tried a few other options and they didn't work. saw your video did as directed, and the drive kicked in again... had 7 years worth of work on here... I owe you big time, God bless you.. I need to save my harddrive now, just in case it happens again...
hello, did the heads resist a lot when you tried to move them to the parking position? I applied reasonable force but they refuse to move beyond the platters. I'm afraid to break something if I apply more force.
VuHien2011 use the screw driver to spin the disk at the center and push the stuff on the plate to the correct position while spinning it gently.
Thank you for sharing
save your data quick, without a clean room, simple dust converts your drive into a x100 time bomb.
always save data you need in 3 separate locations. physical locations, not drives.
anything else means.
a. you don't need the data.
b. you need the data and you are a human like amoeba.
he is a liar ... he is changing the hdd during the 4 : 31 4 :37 buffring. he is totally liar.
You saved my hard disk, you saved my vlog, you saved my youtube channel, you saved my life! Thank you!!!!!!!
+Egon Wong Oh and I donated 10USD.
10USD? Your life sure isn't worth much!
Kidding...
You have 73 subs
+Ryan Walker And you only have 5. Got to start somewhere yeah?
what a sad life you have.
Wow, what would I do without this video?! A huge thank you! Prevented me from spending a lot of money on a workshop-repair.. The heads were stuck just like in the video and now it works perfectly! Thanks!
You're the real MVP dude. I was about to lose a lot of movies I had placed on my hard drive. You came through in the clutch. Thanks a million!!!
Just a quick tip: if you are really worried about dust, or are in such a dusty area that you feel it might be a serious issue, one way to minimize dust is to first run a hot shower with the door to the bathroom closed, until the room is rather steamy. Turn off the shower and then wait until the air clears of steam. Then use that room to disassemble the drive.
The water particles in the steam from the shower accumulate around dust and hair particles floating in the air until they are too heavy to remain suspended, at which point they fall out of the air. While this will not get you a 100% clean room, it will greatly reduce dust in the air, and thus dust that can accumulate on your platter.
@@KoljaBeckmann_music youtube knowledge surprises me. hahaha
That won’t work even a breath can destroy the HDD
@@staycgirlsitsgoingdown2 The story goes that a person coughed onto a floppy disk, and the pc got a virus while reading it.
Dieter V. G bitch I’m not dumb
@@staycgirlsitsgoingdown2 replying to an obvious joke in a way that seems like you think he is trolling, means ur probably pretty dumb
got to admit I was a little nervous as my hard disk had all my family photos on it, but it worked like a charm! thanks buddy!
I just want to say a big thank you! I was very skeptical about the fact that an hard disk open in a "normal" environment could continue to work properly. Hard disk repair experts are rather insistent in saying that if anyone opens an hard drive in a non-protected atmosphere, the damage would be irreparable. Instead I saw the video and decided to try. Within minutes I recovered 1TB of material from an hard drive that I thought was irreparable. 1TB of my wife's data, so yes, you saved my life :D no matter how important data really was!
Just fixed my friends hard drive after watching this clip. U sir, are a legend! Thanks so much
This was a great fix. Excellent video.
I was under the impression that opening up a HDD without a clean room was certain doom but I had nothing to lose so I gave it a try. I have a Samsung HDD that I use purely for music and storage. Unfortunately I had dropped it and caused the head to stick to the platter. This did the trick, thank you!
Karl Sharp did u lose ur data
i dropped mine like 4 times in a metal enclosure... gonna try this now
I put my music on a flash drive and have it hooked up to my router USB and stream all my music from the flash drive. If you play a lot of music don't put it on the hard drive, the hard drives seeks too many times for music.
There are no moving Parts with a flash drive compared to a hard drive
where do you get the screw driver required to do this?
I did this and it still wont work, its telling me i have to format before i can use it.
Man, you should be awarded the Nobel just for making this video alone :-) Thanks a Zillion for sharing this. It debunked the entire myth of hard-drive restoration. Up until today, I was under the notion that HD restoration can only be achieved in a rocket-science laboratory. Thank you once again for the video.
You help me to recover so many memories!
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Thank you so so much for this video! I was literally about to cry because I thought I lost all my files ranging from 2007 until now...including the 14 videos I was working on. I fixed my hard drive in 20 minutes and all the files were still there 🙌
Thanks for the help! You saved my external HDD!
I'd like to point out I had no Torx in the right size (I believe I needed a T8 or T6, but only had T10+), so I used a 1.8mm flat screwdriver (you can get those on the larger hardware stores, if you're stuck where electronic repair shops are closed or far away), in one of the little watchmaker screwdriver sets, I used a plier to hold it firmly enough and to be able to rotate it, because my hands and grip were not enough. If someone comes across a similar problem, this might help!
I dropped our external hard drive and was getting the click of death. This totally did the trick and allowed us to retrieve our data off the drive. Thank you!
Worked Like a Charm, saved 132 gigs of Data after this procedure on a Seagate ST1000LM035.... THANK YOU!!
Hi Abraham, i don't know what to say... Thank you man..
You just did it in the easy way..
I had a problem with my harddrive 1T Segate and all people here say that if you want to repair it you need to pay a lot of money and its not worth it..
Some people said that i need a special room with a special equipments..
I did what you explain and its work now... Thank you very very much man..
You are The Best...
you are best bro... after watch your vdo.. i have followed same way. then i have done it on my own No my Hard Disk working absolutely fine.. i am so very thankful for your advice.. can you believe since 6 month my hard disk was not working. went to many computer service shop. they failed and said the hard disk is totally damage. cannot be repair...or recover data. i was so hopeless .. then today check on youtube ur vdo.. now i am feeling so grateful to you brother.... May God bless you.. keep up sharing..such good vdo..with us..
I just want to say you...THANKS A LOT!!! I thought I lost all my info but thanks to your tutorial now I am able to use them again
Worked like a charm! Laptop was dropped so hard that the plastic housing was cracked in multiple spots. Wouldn't boot into OS, and wasn't being recognized by any computer when connected via USB. Opened her up, did exactly what this video showed, and it booted up right away when re-connected! Quick $80 repair. Thanks for the video!
I can't beleive ... Yuo are life saver ... Thank you so much .
Hey Abraham!, I follow your step to release the spindle and I have to say that I just save around $500 worth of data recovery service. Thanks for the tip!.
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What a legend! Worked first time, to remedy the exact same problem. Keep up the good work mate!
Wife knocked a WD Passport disk to the floor mid backup after I'd archived a load of stuff to it. This has worked for me and allowed me to mount it again to get the data back. Life saver!! Thank you dude so much.
Dude! It worked! I followed your instructions (after buying a tiny driver set ) and the hard drive is back and running. I thought for sure it was D.O.A. Thank you very, very much for your video. Plus, without a place for the video (TH-cam) I'd be screwed.
If you have a million dollar business and you keep all your data on one drive, there is something wrong with you.
I think he was using a figure of speech. Perhaps what he meant was anything of more than a casual value, e.g.: like if you're a freelance photographer, have your stuff on a disc that gets backed up but you're traveling, didn't yet back up, and the traveling HD crashes!! and now you're home and have lost the whole shoot, ouch. He says take that to the pros.
Still: This whole opening thing has me baffled w/ so many saying it's overwhelmingly likely to ruin the platter w/ my info ; what's your take?
Howard Barnett Suppose a hooker named Sally that works the strip, she makes one million dollars a year. she keeps records of her clients on her mac which tracks each clients' dirty secrets. Suddenly her HDD died of AIDS along with her clients' secrets. Sally is in a million dollar business. She certainly affords data recovery and don't need to take risks losing the data.
@@howardarby I would first buy one that is similar or identical, set it up in the same scenario and then do a test run on recouping the lost "data" thats if the files are ir-replacable
@@undocumentedspot that’s true, but what if instead, Nets $31,000 after expenses, and uses for Mac not for storing secret but for all the wonderful memories love friends and family. And then, on her tight budget I’d say, but I don’t know about Las Vegas, you’re in poverty at $31,000 in my state, thus likely To pass by the needed back up for other essentials, What is she do than. And I’m kind of in “Sally”situation even though I make much more, Having both three kids an absent wife, and college savings to the formula makes me either busy, out of time or low on extra money. This video would’ve been a lifesaver but instead, we did lose all of my daughters precious memories, even though we had several back up HD’s Due to a mixup on backing up the various computers in the house
@@howardarby sorry about your daughter's pictures. right now cloud backup with a local copy is the way to go. I don't trust no hard drive. but holy shit you are responding to me after 6 years. I had to re-read my comment and laugh at the weird hypo. how much one can change. where have you been? (I just realized that Jimbe woke you up)
This worked for me too after I dropped my portable hard drive, it was making 3 soft clicking sounds. I opened it up, reset the heads and was able to recover most of the data and also reformat the drive. Amazingly, even though it fell from the desk to the floor, there was no visible damage to the platter like in your other video. Thanks!
I want to say a big big thank you for helping me fixed my hard disk. Really appreciated you made this video. It's AWESOME.
"ah, I think its baloney" I love this guy
You saved my business. Thank-you sir!
HUGE Thank you. Just saved us a few years' worth of files that would have otherwise been lost.
I followed your instructions exactly and it worked. Got my 4 yrs B.Tech life data back. Thank you Sir.
I used this method on an 1.5TB Seagate drive. that was beeping constantly and causing the computer to hang all the time. The primary hard drive in an SSD thank goodness. But all my music, games and movie were on the Seagate drive.
I popped the top off and gently moved the heads back and forward a few times. and screwed it back together. Once I powered it up windows with the drive re-installed it was detecting errors on the hard drive it ran the repair utility. And was fine after that no more beeping and I could read for it. However I do not know if I have caused damaged I have not tried writing to the hard drive the damage could be in a unpopulated part of the drive.
I only recommend this method if you have nothing to lose, if the hard drive is old or out of warranty otherwise send the thing back. To most people the data on the hard drive is worth more then the drive its self. You should get a new had drive as soon as possible and transfer all the data off it while it still works.
I went from space documentaries to opening up broken hard drives
I understand exactly what you mean!.... I took less of a jump, as i was initially looking to repair a lightning connector cable. However, I already know how to complete the process demonstrated in this video... yet here i am... Even i cant explain why, or how, i got here. That's just the pure nature of TH-cam.
I call this phenomenon "Getting lost in YT".
Big thanks to OP (Computer Services) for sharing the Vid, i appreciate those who assist others where they can, with no monetary incentive.
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Mine was on game cheats 😂
Same
Thanks so much I recovered a LOT of data with this method just by opening quickly and getting the heads back in place. Thanks for making me look like a genius!
I am deeply thankfull to you man, I watched this tutorial and it helped rescue plenty of personal data from my broken hard drive. I had to go back looking for this video just to say Thanks man, you did a great job. Keep it up.
Never turn Your laptop!!!! Thats how this happened to me! But thanks a lot!!!! THIS WORKSSSSS!!!!!!
1,726,244 people have broken hard drives xD
1726244 don't anymore!
+Maddr33 haha True , fixed mine using this trick
Toasted does this work for clicking hard drive??
OctaviasWolf i don't know, but if your hard drive still works i wouldn't recommend doing this, since it could break your working hard drive.
Toasted that's the problem, I don't know if my hardrive doesn't work because my laptop freezes on the Samsung logo screen with the f2 and f4 buttons which both are unresponsive.
After 3 years my hdd works again, you rocks dude!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! You saved me a lot, my school files were in my hard drive… I thought it was dead for good, but then I found your video. Once again, thanks a lot!
thank's you!!!! I can Fixed my seagate of 1TB!!!
DUDE, you are awesome this video saved my life! Thank you!
Cheers mate. Remote 1TB hd not showing at all on laptop. A search led me here and it was the head stuck on the platter. Followed your instructions and all sorted. Been using the remote hd as a backup for my laptop, am now busy backing up the back up! Thanks for taking the time to post this tip. My the good Lord take liking to ya.
Thank you, Seagate turned me down, disk laid in the storage for a full year , until i bumped into your video.... it was right on spot... now its working as new, cant thank you enough. :) GBU.
nice, im not the only one who has the task bar up :D
mtkl23 what a thrill
is it possible to use a pen and paper to back up a hard drive by writing down all the 0 and 1's ?
Comment of the day!
writing down all the binary code holy shit that would take years XD
Ddff
lol....LMAO
''data will become porn videos'' i bet he will make that mistake in purpose lol
This really helped me out, thanks! Head was stuck after dropping the drive on a tiled floor, doing what you showed got it going again!
I already tried it. I just bought a new set of screws. Thaaaank you so much. More power to you and your youtube channel. It really help me a lot. 💕❤️
Seagate drives always have this fucking problem
+SHJ Gaming hey,i'm thinking about getting a new hdd ,need some help,i saw this comments now it change my mind on seagate .. which brand do you think is the best ?
+Norman G Seagate has thee worst hdds
smokey deazy I recommend Western Digital.
Exactly
thanks guys , my current HDD is WD 1TB .. :)
I have watched quite a few recovery data videos. *Why is it that almost every single video is about a Seagate drive going bad?* I have had a Seagate 2.5 inch drive *go bad in 1 1/2 an year* and the *new one going bad in 2 years,* I will never buy a Seagate again.
SEAGATE JUST SUCKS I am here because of two seagate drivers being broken
I still haven't tried this but I would like to thank you since now, for making this vídeo and trying to help people. Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot man. I was going to give it to shopkeeper but you saved my time and money. I was not logged when I watched this video but since it worked so perfectly I really owed thanks to you. Thanks Abhram!
Seher gut danke schön
whats the software program
shown on your pc in the tutorial thanks
Thanks alot. Your video was helpful 8 years after you posted it.
Every comments i read are positive, seems to work fine for everybody! Cant wait to try it, you got me so hyped thinking my stuff isnt lost! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, so nice of you 😀
@ Abraham Levit
Thank you so much for the video. I had a problem with a 1 TB Seagate and dumped it after seeing the data recovery prices. I just saw your video and I followed your steps and it worked.
My HDD now starts and shows in my computer but still there is a clicking sound. So I decided to get my data before it dies on me again, but every time I select a folder to copy, the process gets toward starting copying and then suddenly stops. Any idea of what can be done further to get the data?
The platter surface is damaged. Very difficult to get data from it. You need to go to a data recovery company.
+Fivos Sakellis thanks
I got the beeping noise and the hard drive fixed, without opening it, by hitting it hard against the table while it was beeping, getting it lose somehow. now i can get most of my data off.. very slowly..
Thank you so much !! my hard drive was beeping at me and had all my files on there.
cheers for sharing this with us
Thanks for that tutorial. I have vehicle diagnostic tool on a sata drive and it clicked at one point years ago. I had to take it to Best Buy for help. Well $100 later it worked. Then it sat in the box for 3 years and now I want to transfer the files to another computer but it clicks again. I followed your instructions and now it loads. Thanks for that, you helped me a lot.
I've broken 3 hard drives until now and my parents had to buy new one. If you are very angry while playing games (like me) so you also will experience breaking a hard drive.
i experienced this 2 times i punched pc , and the clicking noise started and i was sooo scared
Didn't work... heads weren't stuck on disk...
Thank you so much, I had a 1tb Intenso hard drive that died on me some time ago and a company I asked if they could extract things said, it would cost a fortune. I accidentally stumbled on your video and figure, since my hard drive is as good as dead, why not try it. I did recognize it now and I am extracting some images I had on it that I really wanted as that hard drive was a backup. Thank you so much!!!
Worked!! Saved my wife's business video backup drive and scored me major points at home lol thanks!
thnx a lot god bless yu
Mine did'nt work men. Wd 1TB
Anything i missed out
Thank you so much Abraham ! I did exactly as was shown on your video and saved ALL (400+ Gb ) of my films,pictures and music.( It was a Buffalo mini-station with Samsung internals.) Not only that ,the faulty external hard drive is working again . (I'll make sure everything is backed up in two other places from now on.) I'm so grateful .
Thank you for posting this video. My son dropped my wd passport ultra 2tb hdd and it stopped working. I had my hubby buy the T6 torx screwdriver from home depot, unscrewed the hdd, and sure enough the head was stuck. I twisted the platter counter clock wise slowly while moving the arm slowly off the platter, put the hdd back together and it's working beautifully now.
I got mine unstuck, now it's clicking and not reading !
I have same problem now. Did u find any solution
@@Calliber84 me too.
mine too.. Fucked up
Sounds like the head is damaged, you'll need a professional to do a head swap for you :(
wow seagate must be shitty i suspect mines is broken
they are crap 4 Seagate drives vi have failed within 6 months Hitachi and western digital drives I have are still going 1 year later
My Seagate is making clicking noises after only 7 months. Buying a WD drive to test those out....Keeping the Seagate as backup though since it works just fine, I just can't handle the noise.
visdom0
if its clicking then i would not back up on that drive it sounds like its pretty much about to fail
Shady i agree.... seagate is worst
mine stopped working within 4 months and then they rplcd it aftr tht it again stopped working.... its soo irritating
Certain Seagate drives seem to be highly rated and built to last while other models are absolute junk. The drive in my XPS 400 (2005) served for 11 years before being replaced with an SSD. It still works and I use it as backup storage.
Dude. You are a lifesaver. Worked straight up. Thanks so much for posting this.
thanks for the video man, saved us a lot of heart ache by saving this hard drive.
When I boot my Laptop, HDD starts making clicking sound and Windows fail to load , after 10 - 15 tries it starts correctly.
My television glitchs like S7 Edge but no problem after 6 hours,
sigh my kids dropped my 2TB drive with over 1000 pirate bay movies. im gonna try this fix. if not its done anyways. maybe I can temp fix it to pull my stuff off
Did it work?
Why the hell should you kid run with a HDD?
No it wasnt this problem. The armature or something is off by a few microns. Have to send it off to a data recovery centre.
My kids tripped over the wire and it came crashing down
bjorn joseph Oh, I have a little brother, but he doesn't fall over it. He take it and bang it to the wall. But anyway, succes with repairing.
Mu problem is that when my HDD has to think/read he is going to make an extremely noise, not enough to hear outside, but it's hard. U know what's wrong?
MrGamingEnzo no idea. Clicks when powered up. Computer doest detect it. So off to data recovery
Thank youvery much for instructions! My hard drive came back to life and I could backup photos and films of my 3 month baby.
Thank you THANK YOU! You saved us $1,400 and a bunch of client wedding photos!! I would give you a big ol smooch if I saw you in person! THANK YOU AGAIN!
what if i took the whole thing apart, bent the heads a bit, put it back together and then it started to make this beeping noise?-.-
I know this video is old, but every time I see a Hard drive with this problem it is a Seagate. I have some Seagate Hybrid Hard drives and I have some WD Velocity Raptor HDD's. I have had no trouble with the Raptor's, but one of my Seagate drives went bad and it was only 6 months old. I will never buy a Seagate drive again.
OMG Dude, my LaCie (owned by Seagate) USB C HDD just arrived 2 days ago and its already broken today. with the beeping/ clicking noise. i had to wait 4 weeks for this thing... ffs
I hate to think Seagate HDD's are all bad. I know that some have really good luck with them just not me. I have had good luck with Maxtor and WD hard drives. They will all fail eventually, but to fail out of the box doesn't give me much confidence in their product.
Hey Abraham, Thanks for your video! I had a Seagate drive with the exact same issue that I already thought was dead. Your trick did it and it is working great again! Thanks so much for this video!
Opened mine and it wasn't the issue. Worth a shot. Thanks for the video
I always thought the HD screws need to be torque tightened when re assembling...
same here
Only applies to NEW drives at the factory.
Abraham Levit ooo
Abraham Levit Abraham I dropped one externa hard drive from one feet to the floor accideltaly... when I plug it.. the u can hear the thing spinning but the needtle moved or something so it goes back and forward.. tryes to read but comes back anf forward like it was decalibrated or something... can it be fixed I have very important info there... the hard drive is and old IOMEGA 80gb drive I would aprecciate your help
Cloud that shit homie... Google drive 4 life
Dylan Holmes xD
Hey guys, I had a seagate external harddrive which made a similar sound when i connected it to the usb3 port and I tried different cable different computer, even i removed the hdd inside of it and used a sata to usb3 adapter still did that beeping and did not work. Then I decided to give this method a try and it really worked! thank you man you are a hero!
I followed the instructions and now It now works perfectly,many thanks.
What size is that screw driver
Torx T5.www.amazon.com/Kingsdun-Screwdriver-Magnetic-Replacement-Assembly/dp/B075FLSTRW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1531848226&sr=8-3&keywords=torx+t5+screwdriver
Seth dude, it’s t6 and you cost me one trip to a hardware store :[
Fabian B sorry, I guess I have an inaccurate bit set. My bit said T5 on the side so I went ahead and assumed the number was correct...
@@orbitwar It's a pentalobe key. Did you find out what screw driver is?
It's a Seagate....of course it's broken. Seagate is crap.
No they're not, Miniscribe was crap. Seagate made it all the way from the 1980's up until now, they obviously have some talent.
Their new drives are shit
That's the unfortunate truth...
WTF does that mean?
I've got two Seagate HDDs in my PC. One with 1000 days of Power-On time and the other with 372 days of Power-On time. The older one sometimes makes clicking noises and the newer one works perfectly fine. Considering that the older one is a good 5-7 years old now, I'd say that Seagate is just fine.
So today my external harddrive stopped functioning. Naturally I regularly backup my data so there was only data from a couple days on it. Still quite annoying to have lost that ofcourse. This trick worked like a charm. Thanks Abraham!
Have been trying on electronic stores but they cant fix it
Watching your video really help a;lot
so I would save money for other purposes
I just bought a 100 tb hard drive. Fits in my laptop. 100,000 rpm and 100gb cache. $50 on Amazon.
BS
Are you serious?
You have a 100 TB drive? There;s no way there would be a drive that big.I know there would be one in the future.
I'm kidding
kk
Never use this drive again as primary unit.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This worked beautifully! I just had to run Lowe's for a Torx screwdriver (T6), and voila...my Seagate is up and running again.
Abraham you are the best, really really thank you for help not just me but a lot of poople. I have an hard drive that dropped and stoped working, I watched you video and fixed my HD, tank you again!
NEVER OPEN HARD DRIVE IT BREAKS IT!
you realize the title of the video is "how to fix a broken hard drive" he wouldn't be opening if it if it wasn't already broken
David Henebery Ahh my bad
Actually, the title should have been (and was his intention) - How to get your drive working long enough to get the data off of it. After being opened and data copied, the drive is good for harvesting magnets. ;)
fouracescw "harvesting magnets" to you eat them or sell them at market?
slug Face OMG best comment I have seen tonight! Made me laugh so much!
Dude - thank you so much you just saved me about 10 hours of photo editing!
Thank you for your video, it’s 100% success. I bought a miniature screwdriver kit and a chance, because one screw was smaller than Torx
T6.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR PUBLISHING THIS VIDEO!!YOU HELPED ME SAVE MY STUFF ON A FAILING DRIVE!
Good video on dealing with stuck heads that prevent the hdd plates from spinning up.
pal, you just save me lot money and time. thank you very much. just for the record i just fixed my seagate 1T portable hard drive.
Thank you very much Abraham. IT WORKS !!! even if every body told me not to open the hard drive. I have just got back my data. FOR FREE !!!!! I had nothing to loose as I had no other way to get the data back.
I was waiting for some kind of "percusive maintenance", but this was better thank you !!!