Not necessarily I have in extreme cases read data a couple times performing a similar procedure, You may break it, but it''s worth the chance of getting your data back. You will get no data for sure if you don't try. Seeing that the head is basically embedded in the platter it will need to be removed, It is still possible to read the rest of the disk if you do a replacement with a like controller and head set from a disk manufactured very close to the same data as this one. I've done that too.
"You will get no data for sure if you don't try" Totally agree!
"It is still possible to read the rest of the disk if you do[...]" The PRINCIPLE must be like a corrupted cd or dvd. I'm not saying the same method but you get the idea. It's like excluding the damaged part or round lines :o) and glue the rest or not and get two pieces of it. I leave the technical part for the techies. If a pig can ride a bike then this is possible too. I'm gonna take a shit it's almost coming out ooooOOo
If you are going to do this properly make sure you use unpowdered sterile latex or vinyl gloves. Even better use ESD gloves. And do it in a clean room.
I am confused with all the clean room theory. although i trust clean room provide a good environment for the naked hd.
I tried open up 3.5" 40gb single plate, single head hd in clean normal windless air cond room. I take out the disk and put it back and close the cover. And the drive still detectable and file can be copied out. At lease once.
@TheJackWater True, but i wonder if U know that head is floating over disc in distance around 10x smaller than any common dust particle. It means, if U do it this way (in open air) u have big chance to fu** your drive for sure.
Looks like one of the heads melted. Pretty common when they reach a certain temperature threshold. More then likely, a bearing went out on the spindle and the motor overheated the platters. When the drive was shut off, the heads go from gliding on a cushion of air to physically resting on the platter. In this case, an extremely hot platter. Most data recovery experts would have done the same thing, cleaned the platter surface, and done a head swap. Should lose too much data, if any.
what is the correct procedure for removing the melted head? And after that, how would you then ged a new head to glide over the damaged surface without killing the new head?
@brendanraymond Cleaning the head off isn't too dificult. There are special de-ionized solvents that will literally eat anything but hard drive platters and plastic. Made the mistake of trying to clean my class ring in it... Once the drive has sat in the solution, you remove it and clean it with static free air and polish it with a special paper that doesn't transfer lint or static. HARDEST part about the whole procedure is remembering which direction the platter was upon removal and seating
@bluesmoke21 I have an external hard drive which was stuck, read up on the internet and one guy said take it out of the case and tap it lightly with your knuckles....it worked!
It was NO other option, from the moment i saw the butthead trying to spin the platter i was shure that he will F the drive :) This is the average DR specialist btw - no kidding - most are like that - you pay hundreds just so they can experiment and F your drives and just tell you that "the damage was too severe" :)
DR "specialist" are assholes, they are so "secret" about their "business" that is not a rocket science - steady heands and some tools for plater exchange,pcb exchange and $ software
he actually didn't scratch the disk, if you look, that smudge is because the head was stuck to the platter. there was nothing he could do to prevent that nick
This video is not showing a hard drive being repaired. It is showing a hard that had no chance of being repaired made to look like it can still seek.
The heads melted to the platter. You could never restore function to the drive. The artifact is the equivalent of Mount Everest on the nanometric scale of hard drive needing an ice-skating rink. To seek smoothly. The new head stack would encounter the artifact and be instantly obliterated.
I've got a really sucker problem here...my HDD, after half an hour of playing any game, it stops, like freezez...and after u can't do nothing...like I told u, just freezez...can u help me with this??give me at least an opinion
@v3n0mb0y if your using a desktop pc i would recomened getting a fan for your hdd, in most computer cases there can be a front fan added to cool the hdd, its not that hard to do, if your on a laptop then i would recomend backing up your data and getting a new one, hope this has helped you
@v3n0mb0y - what makes you think it's your hard drive? More likely it's a fan problem on the CPU or possibly the video card or case. Get a heat monitoring program to check the temps that your components are experiencing, and if they are high then clean or replace the fans.
The magnetic material on the drive that stores your data is slightly sticky. If the head lands on it, it may get stuck there like this.
In this drive, the heads are supposed to park on that small plastic parking ramp to the right side of the drive.
Hard drives without a parking ramp have an area of the platter with no magnetic material, called a Landing Zone, where the heads can safely land without sticking or damage.
best method: remove power, twist the platters in direction of heads, whilst twisting, move heads to 'park' position, clean the platter (removes most dust), recover data, format, CHKDSK with fix bad sectors enable, use till end of its life/happens again. i never resulted in data loss using my method, whats more... i never use a clean room!
@bender970 if u take a hard drive apart the room has to be 100% clean u can not get any dirt or dust on the ahrd drive inside stuff so it was probly filters or something runing keep dust out
@Gradius0 Actully, he fixed it. Hes from a hard drive repair company. That "jet" npise is actully the sound of negetive air. No dust or anything. He did it in a safe enviorment and the files were perfectly unharmed.
Urm not really, if you read the title "Laptop hard drive stuck heads to patter"... this is what caused the mark, well your post was super effective against common sense...
hey i got an old latop and when i just got a new battery and it worked and then i tryed to turn it on one day and it boots to this thing in white screen that says "Cannot Reed Device In Module Bay" or somthing and i do what it says like take out put back in firmly and all but it wont work help me!
Question is, how did the head get stuck to the platter in the first place, especially in that part of the platter?
1. That is a load/unload drive (probably IBM/Hitachi)
2. Load/unload drives ensure head parking even in the event of sudden power removal (end of video shows this).
I'm baffled as to how the head got stuck. Stuck heads tend to only happen to contact start/stop drives, and even then it's been extremely rare since the early 90s. Finally, it would only happen in the landing zone.
heads stick because of molecular attraction between fine polished surfaces of head and platter, during normal hard drive operation heads are supposed to not touch platters at all, and yes- it was a really bad idea to release the heads using a screwdriver, the head was just torn off
Does it really matter that he used a screwdriver to free the melted head? Honestly, there was no way that head was ever going to work properly again. Its a single platter, find another drive and swap it out (after removing the melted gunk from the platter).
Are you bloody stupid? You don't use a screwdriver to free the drive head - you'll end up scratching the damn thing, rendering at least one sector useless!
The purpose of this video is not to show technique on hard to recover a hard drive. What it does show it that a person that data recovery should be left to professionals. The heads bonded from heat to the platters. He is using the screw drive to move the head so you can see the element stuck to the platters.
The heads have become stuck to the platter by a tiny vacuum. This could happen during a knock to the drive whilst spinning. The platter is jammed and wont spin up. He is using a screwdriver to pull the head away, a crazy thing to do, he should have turned the platter and at the same time turned the head away using the spindle.
uhh, yep they were stuck. The heat from bad bearings bonded the heads to the platters. This video is a very good illustration of why data recovery should be left to professionals. No one should open a hard drive unless they just want to see how it works.
congratulations you have a brick, what he didn't mention you can't get any dust in the inside of your hard drive (hence the gloves) and it must be done in a "clean room"
Depends on the depth of the scrape and the drive make/model. If it's only a light scrape, you can wax the surface and replace the heads - but you need a lint free cloth and spend a lot of time doing it.
If it's deep, and this depends on the drive model, it can be possible to re-route the signal from another head to the head amplifiers connection for your damaged surface. After imaging the drive, this will give a very messy recovery, but depending the files you are after, it might be enough.
The clue is in the web address mate. It's a scare tactic to encourage people to imagine what might happen if they try and do a diy repair. Kinda like the myth that once you open a hard drive up and the air rushes in it is rendered useless, when there is an air hole in it anyway which says do not cover.
dont you just dream of a world where all techies get along and dont take offence at having thier comments responded to? If it helps I didn't know there was a hole in a hard drive LOL... i found it useful so i wont throw a hissy fit... haha
Actually, the owner of the hard drive might have hit his computer hard enough to have caused the indentation on the drive. Luckly, he/she didn't hit it hard enough to shater it. Now that it is running free, they can recover data using several recovery techniques...
No, he was using his left land to try to spin the platter. He was applying a lot of torque on the spindle and the platter wouldn't spin since the read/write head already dug into the platter through no fault of his.
I dont think he screwed up. If you look close, it dotn look like the tool hit the face of the disk. I think the nick was cause by the read head being stuck on there. this drive was probably smashed a bit by and enraged owner. thats what would cause the head to get stuck like that.
Most careless and shonky repair job I've seen! If my HD needs to be recovered I'd rather attempt to do it myself incase it gets into the hands of someone like this!
what an idiot trying to move the read/write head with a screwdriver while the platters are spinning and now it has a major nick in it and yet he quickly acts like it wasnt his fault and killed the moter. FYI go learn how to fix hard drives it might help :-)
wat?
leejoobong99 2 weeks ago
SSD FTW
xclusiveplayer 1 month ago
how would it get stuck? Overheated. the heads protective coating had melted and fused to the platter.
THEtechknight 1 month ago
something flew...was it head part :D:D you must have servo motored hands cause you touch the screw to disk :OOO
ksavcu 1 month ago
Wow, you just broke your hard drive! Good job, good job...
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gikuyuu 2 months ago
WAW !!
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dude dont touch in disc with your hands, nice video but bad work..
MrPunkb 3 months ago
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MrPunkb 3 months ago
how on earth would an arm get stuck to a platter like that?
Robearwgl 3 months ago
the heads were STUCK to the platter, you have to force them off in order to get the platter to spin again.
that hdd will still have most of its data intact the part where the head hit was allready dammaged when the head hit it
OhNoNotMyPenis 5 months ago
i want to know some thing is the disk in the hdd the one that holds the information and the software
BREEZAR428 5 months ago
@BREEZAR428
yeah the discs(platters) is what all your data is written to. that arm is what reads/writes to it
OhNoNotMyPenis 5 months ago
HDD = High Definision Dicks?
HeadShot360IN 7 months ago
@HeadShot360IN hard disk drive...
sursrain 7 months ago 2
@sursrain High Density Disk
HeadShot360IN 7 months ago
@HeadShot360IN Hard disk drive.
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HeadShot360IN 4 months ago
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YoMrBear 4 months ago
For what I presume is a clean room, there sure was a lot of random shit fallin on that platter :P
DougQuixote 9 months ago
Not necessarily I have in extreme cases read data a couple times performing a similar procedure, You may break it, but it''s worth the chance of getting your data back. You will get no data for sure if you don't try. Seeing that the head is basically embedded in the platter it will need to be removed, It is still possible to read the rest of the disk if you do a replacement with a like controller and head set from a disk manufactured very close to the same data as this one. I've done that too.
KF5EUT 9 months ago
@KF5EUT
"You will get no data for sure if you don't try" Totally agree!
"It is still possible to read the rest of the disk if you do[...]" The PRINCIPLE must be like a corrupted cd or dvd. I'm not saying the same method but you get the idea. It's like excluding the damaged part or round lines :o) and glue the rest or not and get two pieces of it. I leave the technical part for the techies. If a pig can ride a bike then this is possible too. I'm gonna take a shit it's almost coming out ooooOOo
collector2002 3 months ago
You guys are really daft, Its clearely filmed in a cleanroom.
so many ppl on youtupe dont think before they post.
TheVTR1000SP2 10 months ago 8
the little evil mad scientist with gloves @ 0:57: "IT'S ALIVE!!! IT'S ALIIIVE I TELL YOU!!! MBHUHAHAHAHA!!!" *_*
Caesaurus 10 months ago
i did that same thing to mine and IT WORKS!!
thats for the vid dude :D this really helped
TheOsamaBLaden1 11 months ago
at least it spins up...
crashbandicoot4everr 11 months ago
Worst repair technician ever, save your money and burn your HDD or bring it to them, because they make it beyond recovery.
frohman101 11 months ago
Delete this video AshHole
windomino 11 months ago
Harddrive repair xD
I would not give mine to you :D
KLpyro 1 year ago
you guys fukin noob .. he FIXED .. not Fucked !! Faggots -_-
oGLUKOZAo 1 year ago
If you are going to do this properly make sure you use unpowdered sterile latex or vinyl gloves. Even better use ESD gloves. And do it in a clean room.
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akolyte123 1 year ago
hahaha you fucked it up
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ph1sheR1 1 year ago
I am confused with all the clean room theory. although i trust clean room provide a good environment for the naked hd.
I tried open up 3.5" 40gb single plate, single head hd in clean normal windless air cond room. I take out the disk and put it back and close the cover. And the drive still detectable and file can be copied out. At lease once.
TheJackWater 1 year ago
@TheJackWater True, but i wonder if U know that head is floating over disc in distance around 10x smaller than any common dust particle. It means, if U do it this way (in open air) u have big chance to fu** your drive for sure.
Cheers ;)
TomashPL58 1 year ago
Fuck you DHL!
MrThomassss 1 year ago
The read head has been cut, destroyed by the power of your hands ... You have forced the tip of the head was well bonded to the plate
gjunior96 1 year ago
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gjunior96 1 year ago
Looks like one of the heads melted. Pretty common when they reach a certain temperature threshold. More then likely, a bearing went out on the spindle and the motor overheated the platters. When the drive was shut off, the heads go from gliding on a cushion of air to physically resting on the platter. In this case, an extremely hot platter. Most data recovery experts would have done the same thing, cleaned the platter surface, and done a head swap. Should lose too much data, if any.
BobDoleNSatanRmyniGz 1 year ago
@BobDoleNSatanRmyniGz just a quick question from a young data recoverey noob.
what is the correct procedure for removing the melted head? And after that, how would you then ged a new head to glide over the damaged surface without killing the new head?
brendanraymond 1 year ago
@brendanraymond Cleaning the head off isn't too dificult. There are special de-ionized solvents that will literally eat anything but hard drive platters and plastic. Made the mistake of trying to clean my class ring in it... Once the drive has sat in the solution, you remove it and clean it with static free air and polish it with a special paper that doesn't transfer lint or static. HARDEST part about the whole procedure is remembering which direction the platter was upon removal and seating
BobDoleNSatanRmyniGz 1 year ago
I actually repaired two hard drives like this, by droping them on the ground. And now they work just fine...
bluesmoke21 1 year ago
@bluesmoke21 I have an external hard drive which was stuck, read up on the internet and one guy said take it out of the case and tap it lightly with your knuckles....it worked!
lewisner 1 year ago
@lewisner - do you have the link for it?????
ddaaffnnaa 1 year ago
@ddaaffnnaa Can't post links here anyway but Google this question "How can I repair a damaged hard drive"
and read some of the linked articles.As I said the easiest solution turned out to be the one which worked.
lewisner 1 year ago
It was NO other option, from the moment i saw the butthead trying to spin the platter i was shure that he will F the drive :) This is the average DR specialist btw - no kidding - most are like that - you pay hundreds just so they can experiment and F your drives and just tell you that "the damage was too severe" :)
DR "specialist" are assholes, they are so "secret" about their "business" that is not a rocket science - steady heands and some tools for plater exchange,pcb exchange and $ software
DSetekh 1 year ago
looks like a fujitsu i wonder why the heads are stuck fujitsu=fushitsu
the731272 1 year ago
lol you all keep saying "you broke your HDD', well he said he did rofl "hard drive repair and data recovery information
how unsticking heads from a hard drive platter can go wrong"
haha you can't read lol ...
Niksunzzz 1 year ago 3
HA you broke the fucking thing
snedie69er 1 year ago
congrats, you just f***ed your HDD!
34there 1 year ago
@34there congrats, you just copied Gradius0 comment.
20goblue20 1 year ago
he actually didn't scratch the disk, if you look, that smudge is because the head was stuck to the platter. there was nothing he could do to prevent that nick
christoph2005 1 year ago
nice hard drive unrepair
vinny9er 1 year ago 2
Yeah, its called a clean room.
puresofmeh 1 year ago
is that all a hard drive is? its like a fucking floppy disk lmao
sxephlI 1 year ago
@sxephlI It's the same basic idea, a spinning disc with magnetic particles on its surface that store the data.
int3rl0per 1 year ago
LOL YOU FUCKED THE HDD NOW COMPLETELY xD, NOW YOU CAN RECOVER YOUR DATA EASYER xD IT WORKS, TRY IT IF YOU WANT ;)
momoseport 1 year ago
That hard drive is saying "ARGH, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, MY EYES!!!!!"
EduEnYT 1 year ago 2
good work
abooramii 1 year ago
Now recover your data! haha xD
nfsmwplanet 1 year ago
backup, backup, backup!!!!! then buy a new hard drive. they are cheaper than this.
billyboi57 1 year ago
This video is not showing a hard drive being repaired. It is showing a hard that had no chance of being repaired made to look like it can still seek.
The heads melted to the platter. You could never restore function to the drive. The artifact is the equivalent of Mount Everest on the nanometric scale of hard drive needing an ice-skating rink. To seek smoothly. The new head stack would encounter the artifact and be instantly obliterated.
CorkyRomano64 1 year ago 5
I've got a really sucker problem here...my HDD, after half an hour of playing any game, it stops, like freezez...and after u can't do nothing...like I told u, just freezez...can u help me with this??give me at least an opinion
v3n0mb0y 2 years ago
@v3n0mb0y if your using a desktop pc i would recomened getting a fan for your hdd, in most computer cases there can be a front fan added to cool the hdd, its not that hard to do, if your on a laptop then i would recomend backing up your data and getting a new one, hope this has helped you
alistairstuart2009 1 year ago
@v3n0mb0y - what makes you think it's your hard drive? More likely it's a fan problem on the CPU or possibly the video card or case. Get a heat monitoring program to check the temps that your components are experiencing, and if they are high then clean or replace the fans.
leenstl 1 year ago
CHKDSK technically doesn't repair the magnetic surface. You will need a program like Flobo HDD repair to fix it.
lordsyn86 2 years ago
Ouch. That's at least a few bad sectors created - shows what can go wrong even when you're as careful as possible.
Would this be one of Toshiba's hard drives, just out of curiosity?
liquidoxygen0 2 years ago
Fantastic!!!
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GrooveSafari 2 years ago
This phenomenon is called Stiction.
The magnetic material on the drive that stores your data is slightly sticky. If the head lands on it, it may get stuck there like this.
In this drive, the heads are supposed to park on that small plastic parking ramp to the right side of the drive.
Hard drives without a parking ramp have an area of the platter with no magnetic material, called a Landing Zone, where the heads can safely land without sticking or damage.
FerralVideo 2 years ago 6
that sure was swift D:
junito510 2 years ago
eww you hit the platter and seems to be scratched bad D:
junito510 2 years ago
good thing he wore gloves
glowstickgorilla1 2 years ago 3
sure it free now, but since you broke the head, it needs a new one.
Greeder0 2 years ago 3
When you're talking about <5 micron clearances, invisible scratches can be 'deep'. :)
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champo36 2 years ago
RavinTekman 2 years ago
What do you type to do CHKDSK with fix bad sectors?
christiancapella1 2 years ago
chkdsk /r
khaledelmansoury 2 years ago
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Dissassembly and repair. I need to learn this, there is no excuse for buying a new hard drive when only mechanical repairs are necessary.
MEGAXSTU 2 years ago
guys you all mis understood the video, he is showing the danger when you pull out the heads from the hard drive... the heads has magnet in it
niels2029 2 years ago
click of death
Intelpentium54321 2 years ago
You just destroyed it by making a big hole in the film
heestenhats 2 years ago 4
How does a head become that stuck? Its Like someone glued the head to the platter.
Joseph9536 2 years ago 4
You film this next to a jet or something?
bender970 2 years ago 88
@bender970
its a clean room, the noise is from "fans" that filter the air from dust and other crap before it enters the room
OhNoNotMyPenis 1 year ago 4
@bender970 thats in a dust free room... thats the sound of fans i think
fantaboy090 1 year ago
@bender970 so my other comment, it explains the jet noise
thecatyoukai 1 year ago
@bender970 hes probably in a clean room
football72linemen 1 year ago
@bender970 It's the air con in the clean room.
joeypesci 1 year ago
@bender970 Its not a jet its the CLASS 100 Clean room there is filters so they make noise often.
MJMRepairs 1 year ago
@bender970 if u take a hard drive apart the room has to be 100% clean u can not get any dirt or dust on the ahrd drive inside stuff so it was probly filters or something runing keep dust out
clockwork624 1 year ago
@bender970 Most likely the sound is from a clean room air cleaner.
disobedient 11 months ago
@bender970 Computer fans.
cozmoz365 10 months ago
@bender970 that's the air filter to keep the room as dust free as possible
mynameisqwerty1 4 months ago
Hahaha yes I can see whay this only got 3 stars. You ripped the f*****g head right off the arm!!
tribalmasters 2 years ago 3
......how did you get the read head to stick to the platter?
strgzr53 2 years ago 2
ouch! good luck fixing that :)
ziorow 2 years ago
Hey guys can any of you help with my faulty HDD? It's on my channel, please comment if you can help, watch the video. THanks.
DystopianUtopia 2 years ago
Anyone else actually groan "UGH that's painful" when he slipped?
RookeU2B 2 years ago 18
so what actually happened here? i'm guessing the head melted on, but what caused the heat? also, what would be the best way to fix this?
yourrealmother 2 years ago
I like how he kinda looks at it like "well..what happens now?" lol
BlkSerialKilla 2 years ago
lol, you took the head off :P
cheetawolf 2 years ago
More like fixing it he screwd it up
MetalGear4Life 2 years ago 3
this is what happen when u are not using it for like years. the heads stuck to the platters.
KhmerD0g 3 years ago
congrats, you just fucked your HDD!
Gradius0 3 years ago 109
@Gradius0 you do know this is from a data recovery company so they have to do that so that can try and recover as much data as they can
arranmc182 1 year ago
@Gradius0 Actully, he fixed it. Hes from a hard drive repair company. That "jet" npise is actully the sound of negetive air. No dust or anything. He did it in a safe enviorment and the files were perfectly unharmed.
thecatyoukai 1 year ago 2
@Gradius0 Oi dickhead the head was stuck to the platter so it was already fucked.. dumbcunts like you shouldnt touch had drives
Hazza5000 1 year ago
@Gradius0 loool i said the excact same thing when i saw that screw slip and touch the hard drive ouch
kinstar 10 months ago
@kinstar
Urm not really, if you read the title "Laptop hard drive stuck heads to patter"... this is what caused the mark, well your post was super effective against common sense...
I0ITuGI0I 10 months ago
@Gradius0 So Epic =D
c0ssu1 9 months ago
hey i got an old latop and when i just got a new battery and it worked and then i tryed to turn it on one day and it boots to this thing in white screen that says "Cannot Reed Device In Module Bay" or somthing and i do what it says like take out put back in firmly and all but it wont work help me!
howlettman 3 years ago
FAIL!
KidWiruz 3 years ago 2
Whats a patter?
wwwgjackca 3 years ago
The part of the drive that stores the data. Big silver disk in the center.
nerdy1351 3 years ago
technically its a platter. he author spelled platter wrong :P
cheetawolf 3 years ago
Question is, how did the head get stuck to the platter in the first place, especially in that part of the platter?
1. That is a load/unload drive (probably IBM/Hitachi)
2. Load/unload drives ensure head parking even in the event of sudden power removal (end of video shows this).
I'm baffled as to how the head got stuck. Stuck heads tend to only happen to contact start/stop drives, and even then it's been extremely rare since the early 90s. Finally, it would only happen in the landing zone.
captain150 3 years ago
AHAHAH NOOB
philhalo66 3 years ago
heads stick because of molecular attraction between fine polished surfaces of head and platter, during normal hard drive operation heads are supposed to not touch platters at all, and yes- it was a really bad idea to release the heads using a screwdriver, the head was just torn off
UNCLETEDDY123 3 years ago
IBM travelstar IDE hard drive
You know you have far too many damn drives when you can ID what brand, model series and type from videos ;)
speeddemon1092 3 years ago
Does it really matter that he used a screwdriver to free the melted head? Honestly, there was no way that head was ever going to work properly again. Its a single platter, find another drive and swap it out (after removing the melted gunk from the platter).
twebb72 3 years ago
u r a genius lol
persone107 3 years ago
Are you bloody stupid? You don't use a screwdriver to free the drive head - you'll end up scratching the damn thing, rendering at least one sector useless!
liquidoxygen0 3 years ago 2
0:30 nice job :)
slaterking1000 3 years ago
0:43 even better job, look at the scratch :)
SgtSavage166 3 years ago
The purpose of this video is not to show technique on hard to recover a hard drive. What it does show it that a person that data recovery should be left to professionals. The heads bonded from heat to the platters. He is using the screw drive to move the head so you can see the element stuck to the platters.
newdave1 4 years ago 3
what are you trying to do, make it come alive?
GoodMan06 4 years ago
I heard that even a small piece of hair can tear apart the drive and u scratched it with a screwdriver !!!!
lakeb0dom 4 years ago
The heads have become stuck to the platter by a tiny vacuum. This could happen during a knock to the drive whilst spinning. The platter is jammed and wont spin up. He is using a screwdriver to pull the head away, a crazy thing to do, he should have turned the platter and at the same time turned the head away using the spindle.
m0eme 4 years ago 3
This is a stupid and dumbest way to fix a hard drive. He shouldn't use the screw driver to do this job at all.
jnnycliff 4 years ago 3
and the point of thi is........?
TheGeek1028 4 years ago
the guy riped the read/wrigt head right off
inventormaker 4 years ago
wow, did someone put superglue in there? They were really stuck on there!!
VideoJunkei 4 years ago
the heads were stuck they wernt even parked
rimband123 4 years ago
uhh, yep they were stuck. The heat from bad bearings bonded the heads to the platters. This video is a very good illustration of why data recovery should be left to professionals. No one should open a hard drive unless they just want to see how it works.
newdave1 4 years ago 2
If you wanna see how a harddrive works, get a damn Raptor X, otherwise leave it!
CleanAddict 4 years ago
My raptor X is a noisy bitch! Nice to watch but get a spinpoint with a 32meg buffer, is better performance even although it is 7200rpm not 10k :/
clockworkjames 4 years ago
he does nick it. at about 34 secs. haha.
heinj98 4 years ago
Tolerances in a hard drive are less than 1 micron, in other words, they're sealed for a reason.
uzaiyaro 4 years ago 6
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hey guys, i opened my hard drive yesterday, and now it doesnt work :( any ideas??? help!!!!
zero818 4 years ago
congratulations you have a brick, what he didn't mention you can't get any dust in the inside of your hard drive (hence the gloves) and it must be done in a "clean room"
darkmaster01 4 years ago
well i did that, then i watched this video...
zero818 4 years ago
much less touch it with your god damn fingers...
JoeyTribiane 4 years ago 4
yeah go back in time and don't open it..
Thewhip77 4 years ago 3
That just won't work.
He has to go back in time and TELL HIMSELF not to open it.
Duh! :)
phazonxl 4 years ago
emm u idiot u just wrecked ur hard drive
techdawg667 4 years ago
any chance any1 can give me advice ive a scrape on ma top plate on hard drive anyway of fixing it are doing something to recover it ?
pogohehe 4 years ago
Depends on the depth of the scrape and the drive make/model. If it's only a light scrape, you can wax the surface and replace the heads - but you need a lint free cloth and spend a lot of time doing it.
If it's deep, and this depends on the drive model, it can be possible to re-route the signal from another head to the head amplifiers connection for your damaged surface. After imaging the drive, this will give a very messy recovery, but depending the files you are after, it might be enough.
palmerdata 4 years ago
Useless. There is no explaination of what is going on.
disklegend 4 years ago
The clue is in the web address mate. It's a scare tactic to encourage people to imagine what might happen if they try and do a diy repair. Kinda like the myth that once you open a hard drive up and the air rushes in it is rendered useless, when there is an air hole in it anyway which says do not cover.
justmehants 4 years ago
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This is for Justmehants: All I said was
"Useless. There is no explanation of what is going on."
You either agree with me or disagree. I did not ask to give me a lecture that a disk has a hole. Most people know that. Thanks for trying mate!
disklegend 4 years ago
dont you just dream of a world where all techies get along and dont take offence at having thier comments responded to? If it helps I didn't know there was a hole in a hard drive LOL... i found it useful so i wont throw a hissy fit... haha
U2MEREVRYTHING 4 years ago
abacho:->can i give this in xbox 360.
filemaker1 4 years ago
Actually, the owner of the hard drive might have hit his computer hard enough to have caused the indentation on the drive. Luckly, he/she didn't hit it hard enough to shater it. Now that it is running free, they can recover data using several recovery techniques...
playtime4hrdhat 4 years ago
haha the guy screwed up the drive!
macosxlepord 4 years ago
No, he was using his left land to try to spin the platter. He was applying a lot of torque on the spindle and the platter wouldn't spin since the read/write head already dug into the platter through no fault of his.
Tempora158 4 years ago
I dont think he screwed up. If you look close, it dotn look like the tool hit the face of the disk. I think the nick was cause by the read head being stuck on there. this drive was probably smashed a bit by and enraged owner. thats what would cause the head to get stuck like that.
GeneralKenobiSIYE 4 years ago
It actually looked to me like the head detached from the arm and that is what appears to be a nick.
purplenoise2002 4 years ago
Ya, hence why the drive didn't pass it's self test.
compu85 4 years ago
Most careless and shonky repair job I've seen! If my HD needs to be recovered I'd rather attempt to do it myself incase it gets into the hands of someone like this!
crushnkill 4 years ago
Atleast I got to see the insides of a harddrive... but man the read/write head must move very fast when in use.
kinglonewolf104 4 years ago
what an idiot trying to move the read/write head with a screwdriver while the platters are spinning and now it has a major nick in it and yet he quickly acts like it wasnt his fault and killed the moter. FYI go learn how to fix hard drives it might help :-)
thecooldude1822 4 years ago
WTF people cant you see the drive wasnt spinning from the start? Do you watch it with you eyes colsed or what?
The heads were stuck on the surface, so he had to use force to free them.
misium 4 years ago
i have never seen inside a drive like tha