EXCELLENT video. I haven't yet tried to 'fix' my hard drive but still I really love your way of thinking. So, even though you recognise that making this video may cost you lost business, STILL you make it in order to help people. THAT is a fantastic way to be. Well done!
Abraham Levit, thank you so much for the advice. I live in Brazil, and my Seagate external HD was beeping noise. I followed your steps and it worked perfectly. Thank you so much again.
Bahahaha.... duh! Of course it may die, that's why there are "professionals" who do this for big money. Why wouldn't you watch the video first. LMAO. SMH.
This video helped a lot to diagnose the issue, but sadly the top R/W head was damaged. The client's child knocked the external HDD enclosure over with a ball.
I done this but now the lever just moves in and out a few times then stops will the hardrive work with the covers off and can data be recovered from that disc which looks like a cd.
Mr Abraham Levit, Afterwards thank you so much for the informative video, but you don't explain why it can't be used the hard drive after following the steps on the video. Even if it never make any beeping noise again why it can't be used as a normal hdd drive. Thank you so much for your time and pardon me my English but my home language is Spanish.
The reasons you should not use this disk for anything important are: a) dust particles fall into the drive when you open it. This may cause problems later. b) The surface of the disk inside or the heads may suffer microscopic damage.
Tab Valentino Thank you so much for the response mister Valentino. I will keep that in mind. But sometimes is useful to grab those extra gb. Especially when you are a little out of budget.
need help, i have seagate external hard drive 1tb , bought new pcb card put in , now riot working , making tik tik noise for afew sec than nothing , what should i do
My hard drive is recognized and all data is read by computer, but when i try to open the data is fail and my computer hang.I tried to fix bad sector and defrag it, but failed.I heard the beeping noises.Can it be Fix??. Thank's.
Thanks for your video, it worked on my hard drive; i know you said the HDD is done for and not fixed but is gonna happen again?, or what are the problems if i keep using it?
It could be that your computer is trying to tell you something by "beep codes". Check this site for more information to see if you can resolve the problem, www.computerhope.com/beep.htm , hope this helps.
Hi sir. Can I ask a question. Every time I plug my external hard drive it is only beeping 12 times and then stop. Do you know what the problem is? Your case is its just only keep beeping. Really appreciate your response sir.
Hey! My hard drive was beeping for like 5 secs continously before ibtook everything from the pc case and put back. Now it doesnt beep at all. When it was working it beeped once only when i started the pc as a sign that boots(i guess). Also my monitor doesnt show anything so i couldnt get in bios. I tried switiching the ram slots,different power source and a different graphic card. Please help,ty
Hi, i have wd elements 1tb and wd my passport 4tb. What i want is use the hard drive for ps4 but it doesn't have sata adapter. Is it possible to remove the usb 3.0 adapter?
you sir have just saved my hard drive. i had years of picture back when i was in the service with my family... i held on to the drive thinking i could save enough money to get it saved. Thanks a lot.. just brought back 10 years of memories.
My drive was "beeping" just like this one, and I followed these instructions without any kind of clean room. And it worked. I'm copying off the data now.
Tried this on a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 1TB Drive. The Drive was beeping and as explained the head was stuck. No Clean Room required. All data recovered. Many Thanks
Man ! i got seagate 2 TB barracuda i got low clicking i dont know shall i proceed with opening it and adjust heads or not...it is expensive here also in my country to recover data
This video is the best technical repair video I have ever seen, in any technical field. It is very clear, precise, easy to understand. Each sentence is useful, nothing superfluous. And the warnings about charlatans who offer repairs at $2500 are very useful. In short, bravo and thank you! I was able to repair the hard drive of my old PC in 5 minutes. Thank you!!!
Did some reading about repairing stuck heads, but this convinced me it was actually worth a shot. Recovered 500gb of data I otherwise would've given up on. Thank you so much, Abraham Levit!
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO. YOU NOT ONLY HELPED ME GET BACK PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF MY SONS BIRTHDAYS, BUT YOU SAVED ME HUNDREDS. I'M DEFINITELY SENDING YOU A DONATION!
I don't know you but you are now my friend! You my friend are a freaking genius! I had 2 TB in fear of loss and this just saved me 15 years of data collection AND OR $2000! I freaking love you!!!! YEAHHHHHHH BABBABABABBABAY! YOU THE MAN!!!
Surms41 If you have a really broken hard drive disk that can't be recovered you might need to send it to seagate and they can bring the most data back with very special instruments however a progress like this will cost you a minimum of 900$, trust me i work at a hardware store.
Ya I had quote for big money - truth is, after doing this, the drive was dead like 5 days later. Having said that, I got my data back with this method :-) it's a Hail Mary type of play, but works if you are extremely careful. Good luck!
Thanks Abraham, worked like a charm. I'm recovering my clients data as we speak. I used a paper clip bent at the end instead of the dental pick you used to park the heads. I wet wiped the table and shut off the furnace to reduce airborne dust.
My external(old internal in case) hard drive is not recognised, by mistake I've uninstalled drivers from device manager after that it didn't detected,my guess the hard drive data is deleated or changed after reinstall of the hdd
one more "THANKS, you saved my day - or rather, my entire week!" Had that beeping-thing, came across your video and decided that there's not much to lose with trying your method. And yes, it worked, I lost just a couple of kByte. Incredible, so happy!! Opened the drive in my living room, found the head stuck midways and broke it free as you describe. Funny that after reassembly and starting up the HDD made quite some noise, and namely that it decreased to almost normal after a little while in operation. Maybe that's because of particles getting trapped as you describe. Some suggestions to others: wipe down the HDD case before you start opening it. This could help reducing particles reaching the actual platters don't leave the inside exposed to ambient conditions for more time than necessary your breath contains particles, too (even more if you fancy cigarettes), so if you have a magnification-lamp available to do the surgery, it can't hurt using it so that your breath does not go straight onto the HDD. Of course, other tranparent shielding might work as well.
I ran a 3.5" drive open and mounted on the wall for several months. It was used as a file server and ran great. This was done as a test when I was first learning about recovery. I wanted to see just how true the whole clean room thing was.
I have a verbatim 1tb with the noise beeping problem. I followe your instruccions and everything worked as expected. All my info was there aswell. Thx so much for posting this tutorial. Your action shows that you are not only a person who know about this, also you are a great person by teaching others. Thx again, bests of luck!
Do you have any information on this mythical microjog of WD drives which needs to be perfect for it to work after a arm replacement. Hence you must pay thousands for an "expert" to fix rather than going the DIY rout. I am going to do an arm replacement on my WD drive and I have been fed so much crap from experts wanting to charge me at the least £700. I am quite sure building a clean box and having the exact drive as a donor will yield perfect results.
@glyn hodges No. Drive is still dead on my shelf. I want to sort it though. Saw another video where the arm was just stuck and just gently moving it fixed the drive. Some dead sectors but most of the data was okay. Think I will try this method when I get round to making a clean box.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had successfully used this method AND then continued to use the hard drive successfully after data recovery had been achieved? How long does a typical hard drive last for after this type of 'temporary' repair?
Thanks you so much Abraham, your very clear explanation gave me the confidence to take apart my HDD. I managed to recover all the data completely!! Very happy.
Oh dear 🙄, I wish I had seen this video much earlier. The HDD was turning but after a few seconds it made a sound like "fiew". I opened it and damaged the mechanism but not the platters themselves. Now I have an HDD that is opened for half a year and I didn't know what to do with it. Now it is full of dust and dirt (greas that comes on it). I have a second identical HDD that is working fine. Can I put the platters in the working housing of the second drive? (after saving everyting that is on the 2nd drive) Technically yes. But how can I clean the platters of the broken one? Any sugestions?
I have a 3 times click then turns off, I dont know if the head is in the middle, the sound is kind of beeb and click both, sould I check or not, that the head position is in the middle. Please reply...:(
Thank you so much for this video! My seagate fell from the table on the floor. Beeping noise. I opened it (in the living room, in gloves, face mask, glasses and hoodie). My drive was a bit older - different hidden bolts, needed additional torx to open. The head was stuck. I moved them to parked position. Closed. Connected to computer with sata USB 3 connector. And. Clicking sound. Next day connected again. This time I could see the disc, but not for long. A few days later my older computer was able to see it. I had to use piriform recuva to get my files off it. Magic. Thank you.
You are a beautiful person, you saved me years of tears. 15 years of data saved and now backed up on 3 HDD! Dropped my hard drive on the floor while in use and it started beeping, so in fear of losing all my family's precious memories I thank god managed to find this video. Done this video step by step to my Samsung M3 1TB external hard drive in a clean and dry bathroom (as dust free as possible) and as quickly as possible whilst being careful. All went to plan, plugged it in and all my data was there. I backed it straight up. (A couple of tips from my experience doing this: Have confidence, don't take to long take the case off, carefully remove the heads from the platters then case straight back on. Try to copy data in segments don't try and copy 500gb at once. Your hard drive will get warm from reading/writing so much at one time and will start to transfer very slowly. Let it cool down by either ejecting the HDD safely then unplugging, or if you can't do that then shut down your pc and then unplug the HDD. Leave it in a cool place e.g. (window at night time) for an hour or so then try again. Will always transfer data faster when cooler, don't overwork it then burn it out once you have done the hard work and carried out this open heart surgery on a hard drive 😁 I will be donating money to this man 💯% what a an absolute gentleman this man is 🙏 oh and he has the same hands as me (skin condition: vitiligo) 👍
Hi Abraham. Thank you for your fix, it worked. My drive was removed while it was in use, so I believe that is the cause. I fixed my drive little differently. I didn't open it, just shook the hard drive vigorously and heard that the piece was moving. I continued until I didn't hear anything with shaking it. Then, it started working again. If people are afraid opening their hard drive, do you think they can try this method? Would it cause any harm? Can the heads scratch the platter?
Thank you so much for making this video and being so honest. This video helped me recover most of our data (only lost a few videos vs years of memories). We tried taking it to a local lab but they told us the data was lost forever. You gave me the confidence to try/make an attempt at recovering our data. Thanks again!
It worked!!!! Thank you so much. After taking it to my nearest IT and data recovery shop and them "running tests" on it for two days, I followed your instructions, and now all I have to do is rescrew all the little screws into place and refasten the casing, and we are back to normal. Over £160 saved for a new 1TB Hdd, and my data recovered - priceless!!!!
Thank you for posting this video I just dropped my 2TB hard drive and now have a clicking sound I inspected the outside it doesn't have any signs of being fried I hope this works god bless you
As a computer professional, I would ordinarily recommend against this HOWEVER I was lazy with my backups (some professional I am!) and this video saved my arse. Back your work up, folks, otherwise swallow hard and cross your fingers. Many, many thanks for this.
Hi!! Great video 🙌 I have a 2TB WD ELEMENTS BLACK USB 3.0 2.5 external drive? The PC does not detect it on port 3.0, but on 2.0, on that port it appears fine in the device manager, in the disk manager it appears uninitialized and when initialized it says non-existent device. When you connect it, the LED turns on, it makes 7 beeps and then. 3 beeps and then 3 more beeps and it stops. Will there be a solution?
YOU MY FRIEND ARE THE BEST, BEST OF LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY IGNORE THE HATERS YOURE AWSEOME ! (i just recovered my personal laptop drive if you cant tell :P ) !!!
I USUALLY just plug these back into a spare slot "internally" on my PC when trying to fix or get data off of an external HDD. so if you have spare cables internally on your pc, or can disconnect a cd drive or secondary HDD momentarily (in order to do Data recovery), you dont need the SATA to USB connector thing.
Hey Guys, any ideas for my Hard Disk strange problem. The Seagate 500 GB Hard Disk (Just 4 month old hard disk) is not detected in the Laptop. The laptop did not fall or had any jerk, no physical damage to laptop. I have taken it out and plugged it externally with SATA to usb adapter but there is no sound, I dont feel any vibration in the hard disk, and on plugging the USB plug , the hard disk is not detected also. It looked to me that the problem was in the Circuit board, i took the circuit board from similiar Seagate hard disk and changed it with the old one, but after changing still the status is same. No sound, no vibration, no detection in laptop and with the USB-SATA adaptor. Any Ideas Please.
Thanks man! I have a samsung m3 portable external HDD, but I repaired it with the same analogy that you showed and it works! You spared me 1 week at my work, and not to mention the other informations that were on the HDD.
Amazing. You da man. I was hesitant to try this ... but I did ... and I got my data. Thank you soooo much. I had to pull the label off the hard drive to find that 7th screw. And of the six outside screws, one ended up being smaller than the rest. I think I had the back cover off for about 20 seconds total. Prayer definitely preceded the procedure. Worked like a charm. I plugged it back into my laptop and took care of a few things. Right now I am "ghosting" it hoping it will be a smooth transition to a new hard drive. Many thanks.
Thank you! Really appreciate this video. What if my 4tb WD Blue (3.5 5400) is doing beep beep beep again an again in around 0.6 seconds between each beep and the needle is not sitting on the plate?
That's what i am looking for. My hdd suddenly maake click sound sometimes it shows some time not. I thought i will be able to use again afert repair but a as he said don't use after open even it works now i can understand why he said so..no other video in TH-cam given this information.
Thanks!! Worked like a charm on a new Seagate 1tb HDD that fell off the table while working and got "stuck". All i got was the dreaded beeps. I moved the platter while VERY gently moving the head back in place just as shown in the video. Got all my data off without problems or costs.
Thank you!! My hard drive, which had all the files for my MA thesis, photos from the last 10 years, and basically everything I've worked on in the past years stopped working recently. I had exactly the beeping sound you described and found your video after searching for how to respond to this. Your solution worked and I got my data back! Thanks for explaining everything so clearly.
Hi, I'm from Ventanilla-el Callao-Peru ... please someone will have saved and disused a pentiun-3 or pentiun-4 motherboard OR motherboard from 2010 to 2015 ...... core2duo or corei3 processors from 2010 to 2015 ... 60GB OR 80GB hard drives DOES NOT MATTER OF ACE 15 YEARS THAT THEY HAVE SAVED AND DO NOT USE 2GB memories no matter the brand ... please is to build a PC AND BE ABLE TO FOLLOW MY UNIVERSITY STUDIES .... Thank you I will always be grateful to you Adriana Michel ...
My experience. I had a hard drive that was making a similar beeping noise and had to buy a star shaped screw driver in order to open it. I mounted the T6 bit (as shown in the video) but had trouble with turning the screws. However it wasn't nearly as bad as finding that last hidden screw underneath the plastic labeling. I had to scrape through two layers of it in order for the bit to seat properly into the bolt (just enough to be able to turn it) and almost completely stripped both the bit and bolt head in the process. After opening the hard drive I attempted the same method shown @ 5:23. Only I was using a pair of tweezers and watched in horror as the metal apparatus connected to those mechanical arms nearly snatched the tweezers right out my hand by way of magnetization. After another attempt using a carefully inserted T5 bit in one of the arm holes, I was able to successfully pull the heads back away from the platters. The arms seemed to click right into place and I only ever applied a very minute quantity of force in order to pull the arms back. My computer seems to be working fine now. I am hopeful I will be able to transfer the data to another hard drive before this one inevitably malfunctions again. Thank you very much Abraham, this video was most helpful.
Great job! I like your way to explain things and precautions to take. Responsible attitude of posting! Any recent video to recommend? I sent my failure HDD to a recovery expert after reading your post. Thanks!
This worked for me, a 1TB seagate was beeping, opened the drive, got the discs to spin again, pushed the heads to start reading again and it worked, got all the data off no data loss at all. I did work on one of those antistatic mats but other than that just in my own study. As Abraham said, don't do this if you cannot live with the data on that drive because it remains tricky and you may just loose it all. My data was backed up but very inconvenient to go back to restore it all, fixing the drive and copy it all was a breeze.
You saved my last week major breakthrough in my M.Sc. thesis. Many thanks!
EXCELLENT video. I haven't yet tried to 'fix' my hard drive but still I really love your way of thinking. So, even though you recognise that making this video may cost you lost business, STILL you make it in order to help people. THAT is a fantastic way to be. Well done!
Thanks. This worked for me saving 1000$. Disk worked for 6 hours only but I backed up all possible data by that time.
What if the head is not stuck on the platter, but just stuck and clicking?
Hey thanks for this. The arm was stuck and after putting it back in place I was able to recover the DATA. GRACIAS.
Abraham Levit, thank you so much for the advice. I live in Brazil, and my Seagate external HD was beeping noise. I followed your steps and it worked perfectly. Thank you so much again.
Is it possible to use your hard drive again or you've just saved your data?
florian74jo Yep! I formatted the external hard drive and it worked perfectly .
***** Really? I don't heard this in the video. I just tested the HD and it worked. :)
Thank YOu so very very much, you are very good/super kind people. I could not effort over $ 500 for recover data, again millions thank you.
Your video saved my ass, my photos, my source files of all my projects.. whoah..Thanks!
Excelente vìdeo Ing.. pregunta porque se atasca atra las cabezas lectoras , gracias por compartir
Excelente video. Muy valioso para cuando se me presenten casos como estos.
Señor Abraham donde Compro el probador que usted utiliza.?
you might have said the drive would be no good,after you open it, at the beginning, then i wouldnt have opened mine along with you!! Grr!!
He did. th-cam.com/video/WNJqTPutrJ4/w-d-xo.htmlm40s
+Gogle Plus Sucks yeah, 11 minutes into it
Bahahaha.... duh! Of course it may die, that's why there are "professionals" who do this for big money. Why wouldn't you watch the video first. LMAO. SMH.
Superb teacher! Thanks
Thanks it it worked. My hard drive was beeping.
This video helped a lot to diagnose the issue, but sadly the top R/W head was damaged. The client's child knocked the external HDD enclosure over with a ball.
I done this but now the lever just moves in and out a few times then stops will the hardrive work with the covers off and can data be recovered from that disc which looks like a cd.
Mr Abraham Levit, Afterwards thank you so much for the informative video, but you don't explain why it can't be used the hard drive after following the steps on the video. Even if it never make any beeping noise again why it can't be used as a normal hdd drive. Thank you so much for your time and pardon me my English but my home language is Spanish.
The reasons you should not use this disk for anything important are: a) dust particles fall into the drive when you open it. This may cause problems later. b) The surface of the disk inside or the heads may suffer microscopic damage.
Empty Channel Thank you so much for your reply sir, really appreciate it.
Tab Valentino Thank you so much for the response mister Valentino. I will keep that in mind. But sometimes is useful to grab those extra gb. Especially when you are a little out of budget.
need help, i have seagate external hard drive 1tb , bought new pcb card put in , now riot working , making tik tik noise for afew sec than nothing , what should i do
Hi Abraham, i tried your steps but its not working for me, even hard disk not deducting when i connected with laptop. please help me out.
My hard drive is recognized and all data is read by computer, but when i try to open the data is fail and my computer hang.I tried to fix bad sector and defrag it, but failed.I heard the beeping noises.Can it be Fix??. Thank's.
at what location u r Abraham Levit.
I have hard drive problem and want to recover data
can i do this for my external hard drive(seagate)
The checker wire.... Make a video on how to make the checker wire thay you plugged in to your hard drive
LOL NOW MY HARD DRIVE SOUNDS LIKE A LAWN MOWER (but it works enough for me to get my data 😀)
Thanks for this video . . .
Thanks for your video, it worked on my hard drive; i know you said the HDD is done for and not fixed but is gonna happen again?, or what are the problems if i keep using it?
Did your HDD got that problem again or didn't pls tell because I'm in stress .
My external drive doesn't have the constant beeping, it spins up and then two beeps stops and then repeats.
Same with mine... should i open it to check if the head is stuck??
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It could be that your computer is trying to tell you something by "beep codes". Check this site for more information to see if you can resolve the problem, www.computerhope.com/beep.htm , hope this helps.
The same is happening to me! 2 quick screech and beeps, then it stops. Have you tried opening the drive?
Did you open your drive, Deepak Garg?
Thanks, this works for me!
It's the Seagate man, always the f***ing Seagate...
Hi sir. Can I ask a question. Every time I plug my external hard drive it is only beeping 12 times and then stop. Do you know what the problem is? Your case is its just only keep beeping. Really appreciate your response sir.
AnimeSerial you need to send it for data recovery, not a DIY job, try www.copypastemaster.co.uk
Hey! My hard drive was beeping for like 5 secs continously before ibtook everything from the pc case and put back. Now it doesnt beep at all. When it was working it beeped once only when i started the pc as a sign that boots(i guess). Also my monitor doesnt show anything so i couldnt get in bios. I tried switiching the ram slots,different power source and a different graphic card. Please help,ty
Hi, i have wd elements 1tb and wd my passport 4tb. What i want is use the hard drive for ps4 but it doesn't have sata adapter. Is it possible to remove the usb 3.0 adapter?
you sir have just saved my hard drive. i had years of picture back when i was in the service with my family... i held on to the drive thinking i could save enough money to get it saved. Thanks a lot.. just brought back 10 years of memories.
You should definitley back those up on another hard drive in case something happens
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My drive was "beeping" just like this one, and I followed these instructions without any kind of clean room. And it worked. I'm copying off the data now.
Tried this on a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 1TB Drive.
The Drive was beeping and as explained the head was stuck. No Clean Room required.
All data recovered. Many Thanks
Man ! i got seagate 2 TB barracuda i got low clicking i dont know shall i proceed with opening it and adjust heads or not...it is expensive here also in my country to recover data
Garreth Nevin hey mine is beeping and the light turned off on it does that mean the head is just stuck
@@georgiafan8814 Same here
@@georgiafan8814 I literally have the same problem. Did you fix the problem
Can anyone help me .I don't need my data I just need my HDD working again . My HDD makes beeping noise.
"I'd rather people be happy than be in the dark-that's what TH-cam is for."
This video is the best technical repair video I have ever seen, in any technical field. It is very clear, precise, easy to understand. Each sentence is useful, nothing superfluous. And the warnings about charlatans who offer repairs at $2500 are very useful. In short, bravo and thank you! I was able to repair the hard drive of my old PC in 5 minutes. Thank you!!!
"Honestly, I'm not wearing anything. And the reason for it: Experience. I know where to touch. and where not to touch."
Jasper Law XD
@@itzzjok3rzz208 wat
Je Costales ur replying to a comment i made a year ago 😂
7:21 😀
Educated radiomechanics also knows this. And yes touching another metal surface discharges the body of any statics.
Fucking Seagate.
Elsif not a bad company
This video popped up on my homepage and just saved a broken Seagate external HDD. Thank you!!
Thank you very much for your tutorial and honesty. The world needs more people like you.
Did some reading about repairing stuck heads, but this convinced me it was actually worth a shot. Recovered 500gb of data I otherwise would've given up on. Thank you so much, Abraham Levit!
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO. YOU NOT ONLY HELPED ME GET BACK PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF MY SONS BIRTHDAYS, BUT YOU SAVED ME HUNDREDS. I'M DEFINITELY SENDING YOU A DONATION!
I don't know you but you are now my friend! You my friend are a freaking genius! I had 2 TB in fear of loss and this just saved me 15 years of data collection AND OR $2000! I freaking love you!!!! YEAHHHHHHH BABBABABABBABAY! YOU THE MAN!!!
We do data recovery from all media phone, externals, laptop hdd, pc, servers etc. +254-720-907431 or info.vhtech@gmail.com
$2000 in data? or a harddrive???
Surms41 If you have a really broken hard drive disk that can't be recovered you might need to send it to seagate and they can bring the most data back with very special instruments however a progress like this will cost you a minimum of 900$, trust me i work at a hardware store.
Ya I had quote for big money - truth is, after doing this, the drive was dead like 5 days later. Having said that, I got my data back with this method :-) it's a Hail Mary type of play, but works if you are extremely careful. Good luck!
ebay :)
Very clear, understandable video. Everything in focus. Sound is great. Good job.
This is so helpful, it had saved my data and my career, thank you very much Abraham! Hope you have a great day! Thank you very much again !
Thanks Abraham, worked like a charm. I'm recovering my clients data as we speak. I used a paper clip bent at the end instead of the dental pick you used to park the heads. I wet wiped the table and shut off the furnace to reduce airborne dust.
My external(old internal in case) hard drive is not recognised, by mistake I've uninstalled drivers from device manager after that it didn't detected,my guess the hard drive data is deleated or changed after reinstall of the hdd
This just worked perfectly for me! Recovered all of my data!
Thank you so much, Abraham!
wow its working for my samsung sl1000lm024. thank you very much Abraham..
Thank you, very much. I send you a hug, from Mexico City. Happy New Year 2021.
sir
my hard disk is spinning then one beep then restart the process
one more "THANKS, you saved my day - or rather, my entire week!" Had that beeping-thing, came across your video and decided that there's not much to lose with trying your method. And yes, it worked, I lost just a couple of kByte. Incredible, so happy!!
Opened the drive in my living room, found the head stuck midways and broke it free as you describe. Funny that after reassembly and starting up the HDD made quite some noise, and namely that it decreased to almost normal after a little while in operation. Maybe that's because of particles getting trapped as you describe.
Some suggestions to others:
wipe down the HDD case before you start opening it. This could help reducing particles reaching the actual platters
don't leave the inside exposed to ambient conditions for more time than necessary
your breath contains particles, too (even more if you fancy cigarettes), so if you have a magnification-lamp available to do the surgery, it can't hurt using it so that your breath does not go straight onto the HDD. Of course, other tranparent shielding might work as well.
I ran a 3.5" drive open and mounted on the wall for several months. It was used as a file server and ran great. This was done as a test when I was first learning about recovery. I wanted to see just how true the whole clean room thing was.
I have a verbatim 1tb with the noise beeping problem. I followe your instruccions and everything worked as expected. All my info was there aswell. Thx so much for posting this tutorial. Your action shows that you are not only a person who know about this, also you are a great person by teaching others. Thx again, bests of luck!
Mine is beeping but slow and it’s an Xbox seagate hard drive
Do you have any information on this mythical microjog of WD drives which needs to be perfect for it to work after a arm replacement. Hence you must pay thousands for an "expert" to fix rather than going the DIY rout. I am going to do an arm replacement on my WD drive and I have been fed so much crap from experts wanting to charge me at the least £700. I am quite sure building a clean box and having the exact drive as a donor will yield perfect results.
@glyn hodges No. Drive is still dead on my shelf. I want to sort it though. Saw another video where the arm was just stuck and just gently moving it fixed the drive. Some dead sectors but most of the data was okay. Think I will try this method when I get round to making a clean box.
My hard drive came back to live like magic!!
Thank you so much. :)
Great video bro, esp. thanks for speaking truth.
Thanks alot! I have just recovered my entire data from my dead Seagate HD following your first video.
Once again, thanks.
J. Nock
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had successfully used this method AND then continued to use the hard drive successfully after data recovery had been achieved? How long does a typical hard drive last for after this type of 'temporary' repair?
This worked for me ! I thought i had lost everything! I kicked my hard drive to the floor can't believe it still works!
Thanks you so much Abraham, your very clear explanation gave me the confidence to take apart my HDD. I managed to recover all the data completely!! Very happy.
I can't believe that my hard drive is gone and I will purchase a brand new Hardrive for my back up files
Praise God for this tutorial! This worked for me and the hard drive no longer beeps upon startup. I’m now gonna back up all my crap. Thanks again!!
Oh dear 🙄, I wish I had seen this video much earlier. The HDD was turning but after a few seconds it made a sound like "fiew". I opened it and damaged the mechanism but not the platters themselves. Now I have an HDD that is opened for half a year and I didn't know what to do with it. Now it is full of dust and dirt (greas that comes on it). I have a second identical HDD that is working fine. Can I put the platters in the working housing of the second drive? (after saving everyting that is on the 2nd drive) Technically yes. But how can I clean the platters of the broken one? Any sugestions?
FANTASTIC you saved me 250$ !!!!! and my data that is priceless!!!!!!!!! thank you very much!!!!
I have a 3 times click then turns off, I dont know if the head is in the middle, the sound is kind of beeb and click both, sould I check or not, that the head position is in the middle.
Please reply...:(
Thank you so much for this video! My seagate fell from the table on the floor. Beeping noise. I opened it (in the living room, in gloves, face mask, glasses and hoodie). My drive was a bit older - different hidden bolts, needed additional torx to open. The head was stuck. I moved them to parked position. Closed. Connected to computer with sata USB 3 connector. And. Clicking sound. Next day connected again. This time I could see the disc, but not for long. A few days later my older computer was able to see it. I had to use piriform recuva to get my files off it. Magic. Thank you.
You are a beautiful person, you saved me years of tears. 15 years of data saved and now backed up on 3 HDD! Dropped my hard drive on the floor while in use and it started beeping, so in fear of losing all my family's precious memories I thank god managed to find this video. Done this video step by step to my Samsung M3 1TB external hard drive in a clean and dry bathroom (as dust free as possible) and as quickly as possible whilst being careful. All went to plan, plugged it in and all my data was there. I backed it straight up. (A couple of tips from my experience doing this: Have confidence, don't take to long take the case off, carefully remove the heads from the platters then case straight back on. Try to copy data in segments don't try and copy 500gb at once. Your hard drive will get warm from reading/writing so much at one time and will start to transfer very slowly. Let it cool down by either ejecting the HDD safely then unplugging, or if you can't do that then shut down your pc and then unplug the HDD. Leave it in a cool place e.g. (window at night time) for an hour or so then try again. Will always transfer data faster when cooler, don't overwork it then burn it out once you have done the hard work and carried out this open heart surgery on a hard drive 😁 I will be donating money to this man 💯% what a an absolute gentleman this man is 🙏 oh and he has the same hands as me (skin condition: vitiligo) 👍
I wish there was more people like you
Hi Abraham. Thank you for your fix, it worked. My drive was removed while it was in use, so I believe that is the cause.
I fixed my drive little differently. I didn't open it, just shook the hard drive vigorously and heard that the piece was moving. I continued until I didn't hear anything with shaking it. Then, it started working again. If people are afraid opening their hard drive, do you think they can try this method? Would it cause any harm? Can the heads scratch the platter?
Right on ! Worked like a charm.
Thank you so much for making this video and being so honest. This video helped me recover most of our data (only lost a few videos vs years of memories). We tried taking it to a local lab but they told us the data was lost forever. You gave me the confidence to try/make an attempt at recovering our data. Thanks again!
was the lab repair after the manual fix, or before?
It worked!!!!
Thank you so much.
After taking it to my nearest IT and data recovery shop and them "running tests" on it for two days, I followed your instructions, and now all I have to do is rescrew all the little screws into place and refasten the casing, and we are back to normal. Over £160 saved for a new 1TB Hdd, and my data recovered - priceless!!!!
Very informative and comprehensive tutorial. You did an excellent job here. (Y)
AWESOME!!!You are the MAN!! Thank you very much!!!
You saved a drive that I truly thought was gone forever, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thank you Abraham! This helped me a lot! I managed to get a Transcend working again, Copying files from it right now. You saved me! :D
Thank you for posting this video I just dropped my 2TB hard drive and now have a clicking sound I inspected the outside it doesn't have any signs of being fried I hope this works god bless you
i can't unscrew the middle screw :(
Same
your 1st problem is thats a seagate hard drive. Ive had 2 of them fail and lost all my data!
As a computer professional, I would ordinarily recommend against this HOWEVER I was lazy with my backups (some professional I am!) and this video saved my arse. Back your work up, folks, otherwise swallow hard and cross your fingers. Many, many thanks for this.
Hi!! Great video 🙌
I have a 2TB WD ELEMENTS BLACK USB 3.0 2.5 external drive?
The PC does not detect it on port 3.0, but on 2.0, on that port it appears fine in the device manager, in the disk manager it appears uninitialized and when initialized it says non-existent device.
When you connect it, the LED turns on, it makes 7 beeps and then. 3 beeps and then 3 more beeps and it stops. Will there be a solution?
YOU MY FRIEND ARE THE BEST, BEST OF LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY IGNORE THE HATERS YOURE AWSEOME !
(i just recovered my personal laptop drive if you cant tell :P ) !!!
I USUALLY just plug these back into a spare slot "internally" on my PC when trying to fix or get data off of an external HDD. so if you have spare cables internally on your pc, or can disconnect a cd drive or secondary HDD momentarily (in order to do Data recovery), you dont need the SATA to USB connector thing.
Hey Guys, any ideas for my Hard Disk strange problem. The Seagate 500 GB Hard Disk (Just 4 month old hard disk) is not detected in the Laptop. The laptop did not fall or had any jerk, no physical damage to laptop. I have taken it out and plugged it externally with SATA to usb adapter but there is no sound, I dont feel any vibration in the hard disk, and on plugging the USB plug , the hard disk is not detected also. It looked to me that the problem was in the Circuit board, i took the circuit board from similiar Seagate hard disk and changed it with the old one, but after changing still the status is same. No sound, no vibration, no detection in laptop and with the USB-SATA adaptor. Any Ideas Please.
Thanks a ton man! Saved my hard drive with this little stunt you taught me! Much appreciated!
Thanks man! I have a samsung m3 portable external HDD, but I repaired it with the same analogy that you showed and it works! You spared me 1 week at my work, and not to mention the other informations that were on the HDD.
Amazing. You da man. I was hesitant to try this ... but I did ... and I got my data. Thank you soooo much. I had to pull the label off the hard drive to find that 7th screw. And of the six outside screws, one ended up being smaller than the rest. I think I had the back cover off for about 20 seconds total. Prayer definitely preceded the procedure. Worked like a charm. I plugged it back into my laptop and took care of a few things. Right now I am "ghosting" it hoping it will be a smooth transition to a new hard drive. Many thanks.
Thank you! Really appreciate this video. What if my 4tb WD Blue (3.5 5400) is doing beep beep beep again an again in around 0.6 seconds between each beep and the needle is not sitting on the plate?
That's what i am looking for. My hdd suddenly maake click sound sometimes it shows some time not. I thought i will be able to use again afert repair but a as he said don't use after open even it works now i can understand why he said so..no other video in TH-cam given this information.
Your as good as my old car mechanic saving with good honest intentions people hard cash from being ripped off! 🙏 Thanks!
Thanks!! Worked like a charm on a new Seagate 1tb HDD that fell off the table while working and got "stuck". All i got was the dreaded beeps. I moved the platter while VERY gently moving the head back in place just as shown in the video. Got all my data off without problems or costs.
Thank you!! My hard drive, which had all the files for my MA thesis, photos from the last 10 years, and basically everything I've worked on in the past years stopped working recently. I had exactly the beeping sound you described and found your video after searching for how to respond to this. Your solution worked and I got my data back! Thanks for explaining everything so clearly.
You sir, are a hero!
You just saved thousands of pictures and memories. Bless you and thank you so much you absolute saviour!
Hi, I'm from Ventanilla-el Callao-Peru ... please someone will have saved and disused a pentiun-3 or pentiun-4 motherboard OR motherboard from 2010 to 2015 ...... core2duo or corei3 processors from 2010 to 2015 ... 60GB OR 80GB hard drives DOES NOT MATTER OF ACE 15 YEARS THAT THEY HAVE SAVED AND DO NOT USE 2GB memories no matter the brand ... please is to build a PC AND BE ABLE TO FOLLOW MY UNIVERSITY STUDIES .... Thank you I will always be grateful to you Adriana Michel ...
My experience.
I had a hard drive that was making a similar beeping noise and had to buy a star shaped screw driver in order to open it. I mounted the T6 bit (as shown in the video) but had trouble with turning the screws. However it wasn't nearly as bad as finding that last hidden screw underneath the plastic labeling. I had to scrape through two layers of it in order for the bit to seat properly into the bolt (just enough to be able to turn it) and almost completely stripped both the bit and bolt head in the process.
After opening the hard drive I attempted the same method shown @ 5:23. Only I was using a pair of tweezers and watched in horror as the metal apparatus connected to those mechanical arms nearly snatched the tweezers right out my hand by way of magnetization. After another attempt using a carefully inserted T5 bit in one of the arm holes, I was able to successfully pull the heads back away from the platters.
The arms seemed to click right into place and I only ever applied a very minute quantity of force in order to pull the arms back. My computer seems to be working fine now. I am hopeful I will be able to transfer the data to another hard drive before this one inevitably malfunctions again.
Thank you very much Abraham, this video was most helpful.
Great job! I like your way to explain things and precautions to take. Responsible attitude of posting! Any recent video to recommend? I sent my failure HDD to a recovery expert after reading your post. Thanks!
This worked for me, a 1TB seagate was beeping, opened the drive, got the discs to spin again, pushed the heads to start reading again and it worked, got all the data off no data loss at all. I did work on one of those antistatic mats but other than that just in my own study. As Abraham said, don't do this if you cannot live with the data on that drive because it remains tricky and you may just loose it all. My data was backed up but very inconvenient to go back to restore it all, fixing the drive and copy it all was a breeze.