By no means am I showing anyone or even myself how to do HDD platter swapping. If you're HDD is borked there are real places for such things. But do enjoy!
16:46 I can't thank you enough for showing that 2-point lock method with a tweezer!! Thank you thank you! I then connect my star screw onto a driller so with the powerful initial spin it unscrewd beautifully.
I'm glad this is only a single platter, and not a dual platter. You should still hit it with can air even if you don't see dust. Also, the felt piece is the internal filter, which I see you left out.
I did this today with a WD3200BPVT 320GB 2.5" HDD. Had the same model laying around (very lucky) and followed as above. Spins up OK and diskpart/easeus can see it. Attempting recovery as I write this, however its now reading it as a 2TB HDD! Not overly hopeful but we shall see!
there are protection diodes at the entrance to many boards, called tvs, you can measure them with multimeter to see if they shorted if the pcb was over volted.
Yeah, I didn't think the board swap would work. I tried that myself and _then_ read that firmware adapts itself to unique flaws in the platters and heads. So I don't even know how a platter swap would work, but eventually I'll save up the money to send that drive in for pro. recovery. I'm just glad my data on that relatively small drive isn't time-sensitive!
when swap the boards You need also to desolder the original bios chip and solder it on the new donor pcb.Also plates can be moved but it depends from the person who will do the work.Of course if the plates are not damaged...
Thank you sooooooo much. I'm going to change the platter and motherboard tomorrow. I'm trying to recover a ten year old ssd. I had plugged it in and it work but the laptop died on me and now the r/w head moves in then out then it stops spinning. Omg thank u so much
hey, what the main requirements swapping Platters? Does the hard drive must be with the same capacity, model, version? or just the same make and similar look?! thanks
...i have a 4 tb seagate that has a lot of unrecoverable bad sectors((over 1k bad sectors!!))and was wondering if a different make model sata hard drive platters with same capacity would be swappable??
Nice. I have an HD that just stopped working out of nowhere. I've opened it and the reader can't find the service area. Since it has a lot of plates, I would actually try to just change the reader, if I get to grab a similar one, but its kinda hard for me to find, since its not an usual HD.
Don't recall all of the details but was pretty sure the head wasn't seeking as the drive was detected but could never get movement other than the platters spinning. This drive was from a dropped laptop so my hopes were low on recovery anyway.
+Lockdonnen I have a 3.5 inch drive I need data from, I lost the pcb board that was original to the drive(western digital green caviar) can I buy a used harddrive with the same build date and use that board to access the data? I'm desperate
+ROUSH4203 replacing the board with an identical one should do the trick. When buying a clone drive contact the buyer and ask if the model & firmware match yours otherwise there is a strong chance it wont work with your drive. Hope this helps.
+Lockdonnen hopefully it will work, I've looked at a few identical drives online, roughly a month apart from mine, I'm praying this works cause I can't loose this data, thank you for your insight I feel a little better
no the issue i had was i did not realize the boards were not interchangeable and mixed the boards up, i had a few drives scattered throughout the house and mistakenly did not mark the boards. the drive should be fine i just want to transfer the data over to another drive before this one fails. if i can buy a new board from the same year drive i will be one happy camper
Hey bro, Can we replace platter on different hdd with different size but having only platter in case? Example : replace 40gb platter with 80gb platter Please tell me what should i do to fix.
You do realize that it's 10X easier and safer to move the headstack over instead of moving the platter. Platter swap is only for when the motor has failed, not for cases where the heads have failed.
Hi I have a hardisk with the Rom (Bios burned - in the sense that PCB's rom is missing) Reason I had buying a card to do the swapping but the repairman lost the original card) Do you think it is possible to recover my Seagate Hardisk? In short, the HD has never been opened and card that has does not have the original BIOS I feel the engine turns but it doesn't see any data windows with new pcb donnor. Thx Franco Italy
Hi, I have the same problem. I'm getting ready to attempt this in a last ditch effort as I'm not willing to pay 2000 to have a recovery center do it. I have one question. First thank you for making this video, the only unclear thing to me was the PCB board. I know you swapped it and then reswapped it so I'm not sure which one to use? Can you tell me if you use the original one on the bad hard drive, or the new one that comes with the donor drive? I'm assuming the new one but not sure. The computer place told me the donor drive is in good shape and reading correctly, so all i'm trying to do is get the info off my old platter. If you could please clarify this I'm planning to start asap, thanks so much!
+Rubber Duc I was swapping the PCB as when I plugged it in the system didn't even see a drive there (let alone being able to mount it) If your system sees it you should be ok with the one that you have.
Hi, thanks for the video. Good job! :) I have a drive with 2 platters inside, but do you know, if a swap is possible to do without any professional platter removal tools? Thanks
firmware between 2 drives that holds drive info, sector layout, head info. may be slightly different between the 2 drives, which when put on the incorrect drive would make it not able to become ready or make it click. You would then need to do a ROM swap on the PCB (its not easy). But using the PCB that was coded for that drive made it work.You are lucky. If that had 2 platters, and you got the alignment off in any way, you could kiss the data goobye. But it seemed like it worked for you. HDDs are such fragile things.
@@timberland215 head swap could work if the heads were failing, but if the motor has locked up or other issues have popped up then no, it won't work. Firmware plays a big part in making a drive work properly.
Thanks for this sharing! I will be attempting the same procedure with my old IDE drive. But does the accepter drive has to be of the same PCB and firmware or can it just be the same model of the drive (in my case it is IC35L060AVV207-0)? Any answer or hint would be very helpful. Thanks!
I'm unaware of the "exact" steps you need for this but I had the same exact HDD and it claimed to have the same firmware so I gave it a shot. The data wasn't super important, if it was I wouldn't of done this but really I had little idea what I was getting myself into with this one.
Wolf Lovel Thanks man! your reply will be an initiator of another attempt of mine! So far I've just bought heaps of old drives. The most problematic part so far was dealing with the heads - I've screwed a few of them already. Cheers!
That could affect lots of things, the controller board would be different from each manufacturer and where data is placed would not quite be the same place either so I doubt that would result is much other than errors abound.
Ahh at last a McGyver guy video, I have watched some 10to15 vids so far and feeling confident. i have manage to source a working hard drive the exact same manufactured a day after the defective one only 76 made between them. that was mad luck after a 15 min search on fleabay. Anyway the pcb is fried due to liquid damage and there is a stain on the platter, I have some clean room swabs and 100percent acetone it seems to be the only thing that doesn't leave residue. I'm going in wish me luck... (please note any comments I should take to a pro and be robbed of 2 months worth of mortgage payments don't bother its zzz) Im not overly bothered with the data if lost, its more of an experiment costing £25.00
I am 99% sure that you can not put the 'bad' platters into a different drive and have it work, because the RAM chip on the PCB holds information telling the head controller where the heads are to get the data.
This is true, the PCB board has the SMART information about the platters and bad sector locations. If I knew how to clear the information on the board I would of done that but I enjoy a good train wreck.
Do the heads have to be the same if you just took a 1tb Western digital head and any other Western digital head or does it have to be the exact same model
Will S The program I use is Parted Magic, it's a liveCD of linux with lots of data recovery. When you use the disk cloning program you can tell it to copy byte for byte and can recover from that image rather than risking more data failure.
Lockdonnen Be careful, IIRC the normal disk cloning tool in Parted Magic (dd or a GUI that calls dd in the background) is not intended for working with bad or repaired drives. There is another tool on the command line, called ddrescue, which is specifically for imaging bad or weak drives.
hi i am from India i have a toshiba laptop hard disk,it was dropped and now making a clicking sound. i send it to datarecovery professional and they are demanding too much service fee,and i cant afford that. i have bought an identical hdd. my question is how should i start the swapping process..shall i start with pcb? if that doesn't work can i try replacing the heads?(if the pcb board are identical,replacing the heads are easier??) if i try swapping the platter do i need to care about firmware and all,if they are identical hard disks?? if all goes well which program shall i use to copy my data,why cant i use window os to copy???
the board swap will not work . Unfortunately the original board or any board for that matter have one chip that has the map of where the data is on the disk , where to start and where it finish on the disk. The new board do not have the right info on that chip and that means the drive will spin but nothing will append. the new board has no idea or where the data is on the disk.
Not necessarily true - as an experiment i've just done it with 2.5"" samsung drives hn-m500 ( yes they are the same revision etc ) and i can confirm absolutely that the PCB from one drive operates the other no problemo, access 100% This in turn confirmed that it is a mechanical problem with my 'dead' drive. There is certainly no harm in trying the board swap to rule out the a simple and low risk bit of fault finding before opening the cases. and very simple to put back to square one again. Of course this might not be the case for all drive types since some might use a more sophisticated control system like you describe.
Safer with a torx kit unless for some reason the specific drive has small screws though ive yet to see it. Can find one on amazon going for $8 to about $15.
There is a "chip" (poor words, im sorry about my english doritos skillz) that every pcb must get changed. If you want to fix an HDD with a "donor" printer circuit board (PCB, the green "brain") you must change a piece that we call "the spider chip" that contains important unique information and instruciont that make possible the functioning. If you do not try that there is a really really really small possibility it works, like 0,0001 to 100000000 possibilities xD . The thing might look like working but would not be recognized by the PC or would not work propperly. If you change the spider chip it will probably work, unless it is the goddamn "click of death". In that case you should swap the platters with an identical donor drive. The swap is nothing easy. the "discs" or platters are those , lets say, mirror discs , that you find inside an HDD, those fuckers gotta be treated with white gloves ^^
Wow.... As a data recovery professional, that was painful to watch. You were incredibly lucky that this process worked for you. There are a thousand things that could have gone wrong and this video will hurt more people than it will help. So many people will lose their data forever due to this video and others like it. Almost every single day, we receive a hard drive in our lab that has been opened by some do it yourselfer trying to save a few dollars and recover their data themselves. Most of the time these cases turn out to be unrecoverable because they screwed it up so badly. People need to understand the risk and consequence of opening their hard drive themselves. They need to understand that data recovery labs charge several hundred dollars more to recover a hard drive that has been previously opened than one that has not. On average an individual home user with a 1TB or smaller hard drive will pay less than $1000 to recover all their data from www.filesaversdatarecovery.com and around $1500 if the drive has been opened first. You also need know that less than 50% of the previously opened HDD's can be recovered VS 90% recovery rate for drives that have not been previously opened. The 10% that can't recovered is related significant platter damage caused by damaged heads scratching the surface of the platter right off, sometimes leaving thick black dust all over the inside of the drive when we open them. People need to know that most hard drives do not only have one platter. Most have two or more platters making this process even more complicated. The platters absolutely can't be separated or even shifted from one another or your data will be gone forever. 2nd, there are many firmware related problems that are a major problem that show their ugly face after a procedure like this and then you have a whole new problem that can only be dealt with using very high end and expensive equipment and years of specialized training. It is highly discouraged to attempt to open and or recover data from a failed hard drive yourself and in my opinion, it is this guys responsibility to help you people understand that.
This was mainly a challenge for myself, by no means did I expect success of any sort. I'm not at all encouraging others to pop open their platter drives, in both the title and the description I try to make it clear that this is not at all how to do it. In comments asking me questions about their troubled drives, I just tell them to send it to a pro. The family members drive I was fussing with didn't even really hold that much on it as the majority of their things were on a cloud drive anyway, even told them that the likelihood of this working was 0.001%. This video is just me tinkering with things by coming up with an assumption and then trying it out. I've taken things apart and put them back together ever sense I was a kid, learned a whole lot from stuff like that. No I don't encourage this sort of thing as most people are looking for a cheap fix for a complicated problem and often times people hate computers because they cheap out on something and don't understand why it's not working properly.
$1000!!!! Holy crap! No wonder data recovery companies troll youtube. Don't want people not spending that kind of money. I don't think I'll ever need my information recovered at that cost.
I've tried this method as well as moving a stuck head from the platter multiple times with success. I usually save my users thousands of dollars doing it this way. You just have to know what you're doing.
Lockdonnen Don't worry... it seems like the OP above feels threatened that users will start recovering their own data thus losing thousands of dollars a month.
File Savers Data Recovery well...i called i kno for a fact all i need is a new case...platter swap plz and u guys turn us down if it open...o well u lose $$$ from us idiots... we give it to him and other do it yourselfers who care and who try to help....if i knew how i would do it for free
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I don't know why this video has few likes.
there was great efforts in this video and it's very useful
thanks a lot bro
Nice camouflage work surface for losing all your little screws on...!
Nice job! I did this about 30 years ago and I'm going to try it again. Thanks!
16:46 I can't thank you enough for showing that 2-point lock method with a tweezer!! Thank you thank you! I then connect my star screw onto a driller so with the powerful initial spin it unscrewd beautifully.
How’d your swap go?
I'm glad this is only a single platter, and not a dual platter.
You should still hit it with can air even if you don't see dust. Also, the felt piece is the internal filter, which I see you left out.
Canned air is 100% good, but the internal filter seems not neccessary if he's immediately cloning the data out.
I did this today with a WD3200BPVT 320GB 2.5" HDD. Had the same model laying around (very lucky) and followed as above. Spins up OK and diskpart/easeus can see it. Attempting recovery as I write this, however its now reading it as a 2TB HDD! Not overly hopeful but we shall see!
How’d it go?
Great video complete with suspence and McGiver action. Thanks
Awesome work. You give me some great inspiration. Will Have to try it.
Nice job. I will try this platter swapping soon. I really hope it will work
I tried this and sadly it didn't work for me. You really do need the exact same replica model to pull this off
there are protection diodes at the entrance to many boards, called tvs, you can measure them with multimeter to see if they shorted if the pcb was over volted.
This is good to know for down the line, Thanks!
Yeah, I didn't think the board swap would work. I tried that myself and _then_ read that firmware adapts itself to unique flaws in the platters and heads. So I don't even know how a platter swap would work, but eventually I'll save up the money to send that drive in for pro. recovery. I'm just glad my data on that relatively small drive isn't time-sensitive!
when swap the boards You need also to desolder the original bios chip and solder it on the new donor pcb.Also plates can be moved but it depends from the person who will do the work.Of course if the plates are not damaged...
Why did you have to swap the controller board at the end of the video?
Was the board the problem all along?
Thank you sooooooo much. I'm going to change the platter and motherboard tomorrow. I'm trying to recover a ten year old ssd. I had plugged it in and it work but the laptop died on me and now the r/w head moves in then out then it stops spinning. Omg thank u so much
hey, what the main requirements swapping Platters? Does the hard drive must be with the same capacity, model, version? or just the same make and similar look?!
thanks
You literally just saved me a couple-3 thousand dollars!!! Emergency data recovery services.
I swapped the pcb-woohoo!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
Very good! You did well!
...i have a 4 tb seagate that has a lot of unrecoverable bad sectors((over 1k bad sectors!!))and was wondering if a different make model sata hard drive platters with same capacity would be swappable??
If i replace platter between 320 and 2 tb laptop hdd is it necessary to swap the pcb along with the platter.
will try.. thanks
great job man great efort
Nice. I have an HD that just stopped working out of nowhere. I've opened it and the reader can't find the service area. Since it has a lot of plates, I would actually try to just change the reader, if I get to grab a similar one, but its kinda hard for me to find, since its not an usual HD.
Hi! Nice video. What symptoms did the originally failed drive have? Was it spinning at all? Was it making noises? Aking out of curiosity, mostly :)
Don't recall all of the details but was pretty sure the head wasn't seeking as the drive was detected but could never get movement other than the platters spinning. This drive was from a dropped laptop so my hopes were low on recovery anyway.
+Lockdonnen I have a 3.5 inch drive I need data from, I lost the pcb board that was original to the drive(western digital green caviar) can I buy a used harddrive with the same build date and use that board to access the data? I'm desperate
+ROUSH4203 replacing the board with an identical one should do the trick. When buying a clone drive contact the buyer and ask if the model & firmware match yours otherwise there is a strong chance it wont work with your drive. Hope this helps.
+Lockdonnen hopefully it will work, I've looked at a few identical drives online, roughly a month apart from mine, I'm praying this works cause I can't loose this data, thank you for your insight I feel a little better
no the issue i had was i did not realize the boards were not interchangeable and mixed the boards up, i had a few drives scattered throughout the house and mistakenly did not mark the boards. the drive should be fine i just want to transfer the data over to another drive before this one fails. if i can buy a new board from the same year drive i will be one happy camper
do we have to update the firmware after swapping the platter from the patient drive to the donor drive??
Hey bro,
Can we replace platter on different hdd with different size but having only platter in case?
Example : replace 40gb platter with 80gb platter
Please tell me what should i do to fix.
Good Job!
I recomend to put the air filter back next time, i think this is the reason why the head broke. The filter traps all particles on the platter.
You do realize that it's 10X easier and safer to move the headstack over instead of moving the platter. Platter swap is only for when the motor has failed, not for cases where the heads have failed.
What will need to be done after the swapping head stack?
whats is the kit called and where to buy thanks
Can I swap 1tb platter with 128 gb disk will 128 gb run 1 tb platter
What is the name of your repair kit?
Hi I have a hardisk with the Rom (Bios burned - in the sense that PCB's rom is missing)
Reason I had buying a card to do the swapping but the repairman lost the original card)
Do you think it is possible to recover my Seagate Hardisk?
In short, the HD has never been opened and card that has does not have the original BIOS
I feel the engine turns but it doesn't see any data windows with new pcb donnor.
Thx Franco Italy
I want to do the same thing, but make a small DIY cleanroom first. And my HDD has 2 platters, which makes it harder.
Hi, I have the same problem. I'm getting ready to attempt this in a last ditch effort as I'm not willing to pay 2000 to have a recovery center do it. I have one question. First thank you for making this video, the only unclear thing to me was the PCB board. I know you swapped it and then reswapped it so I'm not sure which one to use? Can you tell me if you use the original one on the bad hard drive, or the new one that comes with the donor drive? I'm assuming the new one but not sure. The computer place told me the donor drive is in good shape and reading correctly, so all i'm trying to do is get the info off my old platter. If you could please clarify this I'm planning to start asap, thanks so much!
+Rubber Duc I was swapping the PCB as when I plugged it in the system didn't even see a drive there (let alone being able to mount it) If your system sees it you should be ok with the one that you have.
This is the question all over the world..monopolytics....damn expensive service..
Hi,
thanks for the video. Good job! :)
I have a drive with 2 platters inside, but do you know, if a swap is possible to do without any professional platter removal tools?
Thanks
Does this swap have use the same manufacturer and model or can it be done with similar types of hdd? ie sata. 2.5" etc???
+TheFrankdds The HDD must be EXACTLY the same and the firmware must also be the same.
Thank You...
Did that actually work? If it did then you are my new hero!
In the effect that the HDD spun up and saw it existed when on an OS, yes. But it didn't recover the data in my hopes that the head was damaged.
@@Lockdonnen sorry just to confirm did you manage to recover your data sucessfully at the end?
firmware between 2 drives that holds drive info, sector layout, head info. may be slightly different between the 2 drives, which when put on the incorrect drive would make it not able to become ready or make it click. You would then need to do a ROM swap on the PCB (its not easy). But using the PCB that was coded for that drive made it work.You are lucky. If that had 2 platters, and you got the alignment off in any way, you could kiss the data goobye. But it seemed like it worked for you. HDDs are such fragile things.
Hello. What if you just do a head swap?
@@timberland215 head swap could work if the heads were failing, but if the motor has locked up or other issues have popped up then no, it won't work. Firmware plays a big part in making a drive work properly.
Sir, does the data over the platters get damaged or not after opening the hard drive?
Only thing that damages a platter is scratches. No different than any other disc except youd have to scratch pretty hard.
Thanks for this sharing!
I will be attempting the same procedure with my old IDE drive.
But does the accepter drive has to be of the same PCB and firmware or can it just be the same model of the drive (in my case it is IC35L060AVV207-0)? Any answer or hint would be very helpful. Thanks!
I'm unaware of the "exact" steps you need for this but I had the same exact HDD and it claimed to have the same firmware so I gave it a shot. The data wasn't super important, if it was I wouldn't of done this but really I had little idea what I was getting myself into with this one.
Wolf Lovel
Thanks man! your reply will be an initiator of another attempt of mine! So far I've just bought heaps of old drives. The most problematic part so far was dealing with the heads - I've screwed a few of them already. Cheers!
Wolf Lovel Thanks man! Don't have to be sorry for your grammar ;)
what do you mean - you had to change the controlling board? What's that?
I like to know this swap have to same hardrive like both have to 1 tb
Would swapping platters from 2 different brands affect anything?
That could affect lots of things, the controller board would be different from each manufacturer and where data is placed would not quite be the same place either so I doubt that would result is much other than errors abound.
This would work only for single platter, unless you have a tool to keep 2+ platters horizontally aligned to the nanometer.
The idea of trying to make sure 2 platters are in order sounds like a nightmare.
Ahh at last a McGyver guy video, I have watched some 10to15 vids so far and feeling confident. i have manage to source a working hard drive the exact same manufactured a day after the defective one only 76 made between them. that was mad luck after a 15 min search on fleabay.
Anyway the pcb is fried due to liquid damage and there is a stain on the platter, I have some clean room swabs and 100percent acetone it seems to be the only thing that doesn't leave residue.
I'm going in wish me luck...
(please note any comments I should take to a pro and be robbed of 2 months worth of mortgage payments don't bother its zzz) Im not overly bothered with the data if lost, its more of an experiment costing £25.00
Also loving this video for clean area for HDD work th-cam.com/video/xPEa0Wc9iUc/w-d-xo.html
Did you succeed?
Yes sure did
Sir mera pass 1tb hard drive have internal I open hard disk in home this time not working
Thanks for video man! That was great :)
Does anyone know where is BIOS on ssd drive? I need to remove ata password from it.
I am 99% sure that you can not put the 'bad' platters into a different drive and have it work, because the RAM chip on the PCB holds information telling the head controller where the heads are to get the data.
This is true, the PCB board has the SMART information about the platters and bad sector locations. If I knew how to clear the information on the board I would of done that but I enjoy a good train wreck.
I should have watched to the end before my first comment, you ended up putting the original board into the drive with the original platter.
+Dasdfjkl it's been a while so I don't remember what exactly I did in the video. Hope it was art least entertaining!
Tried with two hard drives. Broke them both. Nonstop clicking sound
Why did you have to replace the board again. do you mean you used a board from bad drive?
+WV591
So that the firmware would match up with the platters. So I guess the old heads were bad and this really just became a head swap.
Do the heads have to be the same if you just took a 1tb Western digital head and any other Western digital head or does it have to be the exact same model
good job. You mentioned you had tried "Raw data extraction." Would you mind sharing the name of that tool/utility? Thanks
Will S The program I use is Parted Magic, it's a liveCD of linux with lots of data recovery. When you use the disk cloning program you can tell it to copy byte for byte and can recover from that image rather than risking more data failure.
Lockdonnen Be careful, IIRC the normal disk cloning tool in Parted Magic (dd or a GUI that calls dd in the background) is not intended for working with bad or repaired drives. There is another tool on the command line, called ddrescue, which is specifically for imaging bad or weak drives.
If this works well i gonna ry this i need m,y data off old hdd even my system image is on it
i require the screwdriver which you are using please provide the link to buy the same
The screwdriver set I use is from ifixit
lucky you only had one plate, mine had two, no way I can align those perfectly :(
hi i am from India
i have a toshiba laptop hard disk,it was dropped and now making a clicking sound.
i send it to datarecovery professional and they are demanding too much service fee,and i cant afford that.
i have bought an identical hdd.
my question is
how should i start the swapping process..shall i start with pcb?
if that doesn't work can i try replacing the heads?(if the pcb board are identical,replacing the heads are easier??)
if i try swapping the platter do i need to care about firmware and all,if they are identical hard disks??
if all goes well which program shall i use to copy my data,why cant i use window os to copy???
Aju Sukumar even i m from india had same question
Exactly same problem and same questions bro...I know it's been a long...but did you attempt the recovery?? How did it go?
what is that tool called you used to remove the platter?
+Bradley Keane It's just three sticks strung together that expand when you pinch the top. Macgyver tools.
+Lockdonnen no... I mean the kind of tweezers to remove the screw.
can i swap 500gb platter into 80gb hdd?
+PRO CIE I wouldn't say you could as the PCB would be telling the reader head to seek for a different sized drive.
WOW! i'm surprise that worked
Need to connect with u
does the hard drive have to be identical to swap the head platter?
Not sure but I figure it's a safer bet to have it all be the same.
what laptop is that ? anyone know
That is the Lenovo Thinkpad x220t
the board swap will not work . Unfortunately the original board or any board for that matter have one chip that has the map of where the data is on the disk , where to start and where it finish on the disk. The new board do not have the right info on that chip and that means the drive will spin but nothing will append. the new board has no idea or where the data is on the disk.
Not necessarily true - as an experiment i've just done it with 2.5"" samsung drives hn-m500 ( yes they are the same revision etc ) and i can confirm absolutely that the PCB from one drive operates the other no problemo, access 100%
This in turn confirmed that it is a mechanical problem with my 'dead' drive.
There is certainly no harm in trying the board swap to rule out the a simple and low risk bit of fault finding before opening the cases. and very simple to put back to square one again. Of course this might not be the case for all drive types since some might use a more sophisticated control system like you describe.
It works if you swap the bios chip
Why is it some use straight forward screw drivers and others use torque drivers? Isn't it safer to use a torque driver?
Safer with a torx kit unless for some reason the specific drive has small screws though ive yet to see it. Can find one on amazon going for $8 to about $15.
My Seagate 2.5" HDD screw for the centre of the disc just shreds and doesn't turn, crap design!
There is a "chip" (poor words, im sorry about my english doritos skillz) that every pcb must get changed. If you want to fix an HDD with a "donor" printer circuit board (PCB, the green "brain") you must change a piece that we call "the spider chip" that contains important unique information and instruciont that make possible the functioning. If you do not try that there is a really really really small possibility it works, like 0,0001 to 100000000 possibilities xD . The thing might look like working but would not be recognized by the PC or would not work propperly. If you change the spider chip it will probably work, unless it is the goddamn "click of death". In that case you should swap the platters with an identical donor drive. The swap is nothing easy. the "discs" or platters are those , lets say, mirror discs , that you find inside an HDD, those fuckers gotta be treated with white gloves ^^
hey i got a job for u...how much since the big companys wont take d.i.y people...
You forgot to put back the filter removed at 21:20 😂
If it's only temporary which it should be the filter isn't needed.
Wow.... As a data recovery professional, that was painful to watch. You were incredibly lucky that this process worked for you. There are a thousand things that could have gone wrong and this video will hurt more people than it will help. So many people will lose their data forever due to this video and others like it.
Almost every single day, we receive a hard drive in our lab that has been opened by some do it yourselfer trying to save a few dollars and recover their data themselves. Most of the time these cases turn out to be unrecoverable because they screwed it up so badly.
People need to understand the risk and consequence of opening their hard drive themselves. They need to understand that data recovery labs charge several hundred dollars more to recover a hard drive that has been previously opened than one that has not.
On average an individual home user with a 1TB or smaller hard drive will pay less than $1000 to recover all their data from www.filesaversdatarecovery.com and around $1500 if the drive has been opened first. You also need know that less than 50% of the previously opened HDD's can be recovered VS 90% recovery rate for drives that have not been previously opened. The 10% that can't recovered is related significant platter damage caused by damaged heads scratching the surface of the platter right off, sometimes leaving thick black dust all over the inside of the drive when we open them.
People need to know that most hard drives do not only have one platter. Most have two or more platters making this process even more complicated. The platters absolutely can't be separated or even shifted from one another or your data will be gone forever.
2nd, there are many firmware related problems that are a major problem that show their ugly face after a procedure like this and then you have a whole new problem that can only be dealt with using very high end and expensive equipment and years of specialized training.
It is highly discouraged to attempt to open and or recover data from a failed hard drive yourself and in my opinion, it is this guys responsibility to help you people understand that.
This was mainly a challenge for myself, by no means did I expect success of any sort.
I'm not at all encouraging others to pop open their platter drives, in both the title and the description I try to make it clear that this is not at all how to do it. In comments asking me questions about their troubled drives, I just tell them to send it to a pro. The family members drive I was fussing with didn't even really hold that much on it as the majority of their things were on a cloud drive anyway, even told them that the likelihood of this working was 0.001%.
This video is just me tinkering with things by coming up with an assumption and then trying it out. I've taken things apart and put them back together ever sense I was a kid, learned a whole lot from stuff like that.
No I don't encourage this sort of thing as most people are looking for a cheap fix for a complicated problem and often times people hate computers because they cheap out on something and don't understand why it's not working properly.
$1000!!!! Holy crap! No wonder data recovery companies troll youtube. Don't want people not spending that kind of money. I don't think I'll ever need my information recovered at that cost.
I've tried this method as well as moving a stuck head from the platter multiple times with success. I usually save my users thousands of dollars doing it this way. You just have to know what you're doing.
Lockdonnen Don't worry... it seems like the OP above feels threatened that users will start recovering their own data thus losing thousands of dollars a month.
File Savers Data Recovery well...i called i kno for a fact all i need is a new case...platter swap plz and u guys turn us down if it open...o well u lose $$$ from us idiots... we give it to him and other do it yourselfers who care and who try to help....if i knew how i would do it for free
It's definitely fail..no clean room,no proper tools,pc3000 software...go down the drain very well...