This should be called "How NOT to recover data...". Your technique swapping heads in a Rosewood series Seagate is all wrong. I'm certain they didn't survive, especially after they slipped right off the parking ramp around the 10 min mark of your video. First off, you absolutely MUST put the pivot screw back in to keep the HSA at a fixed vertical plane. Without that screw in place, just putting your finger on the top of the actuator can push the heads into the ramp too far and seriously damage them. Also, you really should have a tool to hover the heads over the platter while you remove the ramp. You don't need to buy an overpriced HDD surgery tool, but you should at least have a tool like the ones sold by Apex tool lab for this purpose.
yep, this was hard to watch. The only thing stopping me at the moment from performing this is a hdd head comb tool, im thinking of 3d printing one. Design it will be a headache :( I did like the foam bit he used though, that may work.
@@NathanCroucher I don't think 3D printing will be precise enough for these drives. The platters are too thin and everything is too tight. If you insist on doing your own headswap, at least buy the tool from Apex Tool Lab for these drives. But, you'd better have a clean room to do it in. These drives have no tolerance for contamination.
Hey your work is very good and nice, One suggestion, Try buying a clean room that has positive pressure, And meant to repair hard drives. That would keep a lot of dust off of the platter/disc, And its a better environment to repair hard drives in general.
Rosewood Drive is a big challenge for HDD pro's...But the way you remove head park in not OK....you should use its slide notch..I have worked on 100's of rosewood drives...Also when you transplant donor HSA its Head notch is shaking which is not at all OK.
how to tell if external harddrive has SSD or has spinning platter inside it (without opening it)??? . I know computer has system report but it only shows tons of acronyms and abreviations that layman can not undertand !
I can't let the secret die with me. Actually, it's no secret, Seagate makes the crappiest drives of all. And yes, I'm talking from experience. But if you don't believe me then search on line for 'hard drive failure rate comparison chart' or something similar. Check the failure rate results from server farms. Don't believe best-buy user reviews. Toshiba, Hitachi and others are more reliable by orders of magnitude. If you don't value your data then go ahead buy Seagate.
Yea, I can agree. I am struggling to get my data since 2017, but yea I've moved on and I am rather trying experiments with it now lol. And on the other hand, my toshiba hard drive runs smooth as butter
Exactly. I have a 500 GB Toshiba PC HDD since 2014 and it's 100% healthy even now, working flawlessly. On the other hand, I have this exact same HDD for my laptop and it failed in 2 years. Toshiba >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Seagate
Couldn't watch the whole video - just watching you remove the top label told me all I needed to know on how many of these you have done .... Not an overly difficult drive to work with - if you understand them.....
Hi my 3T external HDD one day out of nowhere says format the drive to use it but I already have data on it. I go into disk management and it shows as raw disk. Disk is running fine. No grinding or clicking. Just a normal sound. Do you think I can recover my data?
Hi guys, I have exactly the same HDD, but I have a problem with the overheating board .. will the board swap help (If I find exactly the same motherboard number and revision)? I can sometimes see the folder structure but I never load some of the files, Some of them are visible but some are not. I was trying to run them but HDD starts overheating and looks like it does not work. In the task manager is disk 100% loaded I am afraid I will need to swap reading heads.
Dear colleague, it was worth the intention but it needs to improve the technique a lot and it lacks the proper tools ... nothing professional in the way it was done.
First of all the moment, you extract HSA from prior HDD was not acceptable due to the Complex Rosewood Architecture. Secondly, in Donor HDD the technique you have used to extract out the HSA is totally wrong, there's a 101 % chance that colliding the parking head with sliders will damage the magnetic heads.
i'm struggling with this ST500LM030. the pcb was damaged by liquid, so i swapped the rom chip and replaced the PCB of compatible donor. i powered the hdd on pc-3000 and heads broken apart! i thought was my mistake so i replaced again with compatible heads but again and again breaks apart! 3 times 3 donor heads! im starting to believe this model will destroy the heads any time i replace them.
Totally wrong. Very unprofessional. Definetivelly will not work. Funny how these DIY head exchange videos never show the hdd working after. You must wonder why ...
@Popeye Again you simply do not understand the problem, no one is arguing about if the drive should be continually be used, wiping the platters with that filter is dangerous, you can potentially spread contamination and scratch the thin metal surface coating, that can potentially ruin any hope of recovering the data.
This should be called "How NOT to recover data...". Your technique swapping heads in a Rosewood series Seagate is all wrong. I'm certain they didn't survive, especially after they slipped right off the parking ramp around the 10 min mark of your video.
First off, you absolutely MUST put the pivot screw back in to keep the HSA at a fixed vertical plane. Without that screw in place, just putting your finger on the top of the actuator can push the heads into the ramp too far and seriously damage them. Also, you really should have a tool to hover the heads over the platter while you remove the ramp. You don't need to buy an overpriced HDD surgery tool, but you should at least have a tool like the ones sold by Apex tool lab for this purpose.
exactly most of these video doesnt show in "realtime" i would like to see he teesting the HDD after the swap! may be professional????
yep, this was hard to watch. The only thing stopping me at the moment from performing this is a hdd head comb tool, im thinking of 3d printing one. Design it will be a headache :( I did like the foam bit he used though, that may work.
@@NathanCroucher I don't think 3D printing will be precise enough for these drives. The platters are too thin and everything is too tight. If you insist on doing your own headswap, at least buy the tool from Apex Tool Lab for these drives. But, you'd better have a clean room to do it in. These drives have no tolerance for contamination.
What is the size of the torx screw in the middle?
Pentalobe 1.2
2:47 is the best part. made my day
There is a cleaning tool inside every hard drive. You should know this.
@@IgorOleksenko hahaha! xD
LOL
@@IgorOleksenko Oh so that filter is a free cleaning tool on every hard drive? What a bargain! LOL
@@IgorOleksenkoThought it was a filter
Hey your work is very good and nice, One suggestion, Try buying a clean room that has positive pressure, And meant to repair hard drives. That would keep a lot of dust off of the platter/disc, And its a better environment to repair hard drives in general.
Rosewood Drive is a big challenge for HDD pro's...But the way you remove head park in not OK....you should use its slide notch..I have worked on 100's of rosewood drives...Also when you transplant donor HSA its Head notch is shaking which is not at all OK.
Hi I have questions on how to repair. How do I contact u? Telegram?
since you have worked on 100's can you please guide me on how to get rid of stiction. beeping drive
I need your email id
Hi can you tell the screw sizes for each screws and what they called?
how to tell if external harddrive has SSD or has spinning platter inside it (without opening it)??? . I know computer has system report but it only shows tons of acronyms and abreviations that layman can not undertand !
I can't let the secret die with me. Actually, it's no secret, Seagate makes the crappiest drives of all.
And yes, I'm talking from experience. But if you don't believe me then search on line for
'hard drive failure rate comparison chart' or something similar. Check the failure rate results from
server farms. Don't believe best-buy user reviews. Toshiba, Hitachi and others are more reliable
by orders of magnitude. If you don't value your data then go ahead buy Seagate.
Yea, I can agree. I am struggling to get my data since 2017, but yea I've moved on and I am rather trying experiments with it now lol. And on the other hand, my toshiba hard drive runs smooth as butter
Exactly.
I have a 500 GB Toshiba PC HDD since 2014 and it's 100% healthy even now, working flawlessly.
On the other hand, I have this exact same HDD for my laptop and it failed in 2 years.
Toshiba >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Seagate
Amazing no special tools required
А дальше что? Очень интересно каким цветом был мусорный мешок в который его кинули?
Couldn't watch the whole video - just watching you remove the top label told me all I needed to know on how many of these you have done .... Not an overly difficult drive to work with - if you understand them.....
Many thanks for this Video !
I've also this Problem. Hope I can now repair my SEAGATE HDD 2 TB.
Best regards from Berlin
HaJo
Did you attempt DIY and how did it go?
can someone please tell me what screw is needed at 5:34 i’ve removed all the other ones but can’t figure out this last one
It's t1.2 key
Hi my 3T external HDD one day out of nowhere says format the drive to use it but I already have data on it. I go into disk management and it shows as raw disk. Disk is running fine. No grinding or clicking. Just a normal sound. Do you think I can recover my data?
5:33 Sir, can you please mention the tool number of your screw driver? I opened all screws except that particular screw. So need your help.
can some please tell us the screw tool number, is it a P0.8 (pentalobe 0.8mm)?
same problem here did you get the solution?
Hi guys, I have exactly the same HDD, but I have a problem with the overheating board .. will the board swap help (If I find exactly the same motherboard number and revision)? I can sometimes see the folder structure but I never load some of the files, Some of them are visible but some are not. I was trying to run them but HDD starts overheating and looks like it does not work. In the task manager is disk 100% loaded
I am afraid I will need to swap reading heads.
What size the screwdriver did you use to open the screws?
U need 2 screwdrivers one is a t6 x 40. And a pl5
@@hamzahanimation2071 what a pain in the ass, why 2 completely different ones
Thanks for this, going to be doing this soon on an st1000lm024. I'm going to get the $14.50 head comb though.
You might have to repair the firmware after the headswap.
@@smrmiah9298 Thanks...I'll probably never see the data off this drive again. Good lesson in back up storage.
@@smrmiah9298even if is the exactly same hard drive do I have to repair the firmware?
Excellent, but is seems like a viewers' trap . No instructions and no verification of the hdd's health.
Hi :) why not directly swipe the disks instead of changing the head ????
Very Informative thank you so much for a such a great video you help us to learn from your video
On (3:29), what dud you do to put the cover back? Why is there something to hide?
So no dust gets on the platter, trying to get the dust off can scratch it.
but where do you find all these spare parts?
BGM: first to last by gunnar olsen
My WD 4tb stop working it's off track can it be fix or save my Data on it
12.37 which type screw driver
Hi Man thank for the video. Could you please tell me the name of the screwdriver that you use for that last screw in the end of the video? thanks!
pentalobe
@@ruslanmazepa2300 can you tell what size?
Is the head common for all 2.5 inch hard disks?
6:32 Where did you get this head-replacement tool?
is a sponge piece ahahahah
Dear colleague, it was worth the intention but it needs to improve the technique a lot and it lacks the proper tools ... nothing professional in the way it was done.
I agree
In this video you change head, if we change platter instead does it work, ?????
will be harder and you need to swipe the Firmware also
I cant open one of the center screw how to open it can you pls tell
I agree with some of the other comments, you don't look like you know the correct way to repair drives, and I've not seen this before.
Can I asked what type of Torx Screwdriver you used?
Pentalobe 1.2
@@Creative-om6wn how do you know? Just asking
ys it was interested in watch screw and unscrew -but did it worked?-i have to destroy 3 hard drives by dry methods but not a success
there is dust on platter how it work????? it will damage again
Exellent job,nice one
What is the size of torx screw
having trouble with that sponge?lol
Screw name are
TORX TX6
PENTALOBE 1.2
Does it prevent the model from keeping series in time
Tools you used? Please
If we do not keep the model serial number for the change process
First of all the moment, you extract HSA from prior HDD was not acceptable due to the Complex Rosewood Architecture. Secondly, in Donor HDD the technique you have used to extract out the HSA is totally wrong, there's a 101 % chance that colliding the parking head with sliders will damage the magnetic heads.
which happened today to me ehehe
i'm struggling with this ST500LM030. the pcb was damaged by liquid, so i swapped the rom chip and replaced the PCB of compatible donor.
i powered the hdd on pc-3000 and heads broken apart!
i thought was my mistake so i replaced again with compatible heads but again and again breaks apart! 3 times 3 donor heads!
im starting to believe this model will destroy the heads any time i replace them.
I think this is not recovery, but how to change or replace the HDD head with new one
Totally wrong. Very unprofessional. Definetivelly will not work. Funny how these DIY head exchange videos never show the hdd working after. You must wonder why ...
Sir ji infinix hot 8 ki harddisk ki repair ki video banaiya plz plz🙏🙏🙏🙏
SEEMS LIKE A NOVICE NOT SO CLEAN HAND NO IDEA AFTER HEAD CHANGING HDD WORKED OR NOT
My hard drive crushed how do I go about it
5:33 whats the screwdriver? please reply asap!!!
Usually these take a Torx T6
My toshiba 2.5" takes torx T4
name of the background music?
Excellent Video,Thanks
thank you
Hi. I need ST1000LM035
You skip the part of actually how to open the disk
I have the same problem with my hard drive
Very unprofessional work
@Popeye you didnt understand the issue, you dont wipe the platters with the filter, EVER, it is very bad.
@Popeye Again you simply do not understand the problem, no one is arguing about if the drive should be continually be used, wiping the platters with that filter is dangerous, you can potentially spread contamination and scratch the thin metal surface coating, that can potentially ruin any hope of recovering the data.
@Popeye I just hope other viewers do not copy what this guy did with the white filter.
Hello sir i need your email
Ripping the sticker off? this dude.
What size of Screwdrivers do I need?
Разве блины не легче пересадить?
Why didn't you showed us if it really worked?...
Video didn't actually show any data recovery
It is not good to wipe a platter with a filter
GREAT WORK SIR
totally wrong. totally unprofessional work. this is anti recovery.
dananjaya
What is he doing wrong then?
SIR MY 2TB SEAGATE HDD OPEN MY DATA BUT NOT COPY AND TAKE TO OPEN MORE TIME
Same story, data recovery said 300£, no guarantee or thrashbin otherwise
The white thing was not meant to clean the platter lol 😂
Worst head change ever 😅 i think donor heads died 3 or 4 times in the process !
Hello, what is the email to this channel? I'd like to email my question on. Thanks.
"How NOT to recover data...".
This has to be a joke, right?
Lol
that s not right process to recover data and also your tools is not right
wrong tool use
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simply ridiculous
Plz make short video..we have no time to watch long video....
Completely wrong I think you don't know how to do transplant
Sir i need your email
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LOL
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This is crazy wrong
Fake
As soon as the music started I stopped the video!!!
Can I asked what type of Torx Screwdriver you used?
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