Long story short: Hard drive fell, I started hearing scratching noises and my pc would no longer detect it in My Computer folder, I opened the hard drive up, (warranty was expired anyway). I kinda bent the headers accidentally, but I noticed that the platters have scratches in between some of them. But I desperately need my files. So: If I remove the platters from the damaged hard drive, buy a new WD hardrive, transplant the old (scratched) platters to the new hard drive casing with the new headers, will I be able to use it to extract the files to my pc?
NO IT WILL NOT BEST BET is you've lost your data as the scratched heads and exposure render it close to imposible for you to recover data the only way is to call a data recovery outfit for a solution .
good luck
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The clicking noise is possibly the reader arm skipping across the platters on your hard drive a dirty hard first clean all of the dust from your computer using a fine air blower using a vacuum cleaner with no metal piping you might short your motherboard out if metal touches anything or a fine air blower from a compressor making sure there is no MOISTURE in the air line then give the hard drive a firm tap on one side to free up the read arm you could run the check disk utility Click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which willscan for and attempt to repair any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive then defragment your hard drive don't do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer it might be power or data trying to get a connection make sure all power and data leads are securely attached
if this fails you might have a dirty hard driver with the reader arm skipping across the platters on your hard drive
give the hard drive a firm tap on the side to free up the reader arm you might be able to get it going long enough to salvage your data or it might go for a longer time
I'm 99% sure the heads are seized to the platters on this. The buzzing, or humming sound you hear is the spindle motor trying to spin up, but it can't. This is also why the drive is not rotating. Definitely do not power this drive up any more if the data is important to you. If this is one of the smaller Passport style drives, it's pretty common for them to literally rip the read/write heads off as the drive tries to spin up. Professional data recovery is the only option in these cases.
Unfortunately, dropping the hard drive, especially when it is powered on will damage the hard drive beyond repair for the typicl mlay person. What happens is when the drive is powered on, the read/write heads will idle in the middle of the platters, if these very fragile heads come into contact with the platters they will be destroyed, most likely that happened when the drive fell and impacted. It does not take much to destrot these drives. Newer drives have a program that detects "G" or gravity effects and the read/write heads snap into a protective cover to protect themselves. There is no repair that I can think of that the typical repair shop can perform, if the data just has to be recoevered, the drive will need to be disassembled in a "clean" roomand the data recovered from a special platter reader.
your hard drive failed and it cannot be read. What happened was the sliding arm on the hard drive got off its track or scratched across the entire platter. It happens if you drop it or hard drives die anyway after about 50,000 hours of use.
If there is important information on it you can have a expert remove the platters and recover your data as its still written on those platters but I believe it will be expensive too.
Hello there:
sorry to say this but it looks like the platters on the harddrive are scratched and unreadable or the little pointer arm in the drive that is used to get the information is faulty is unable to read any of the information so it is swinging back and forth across the platters looking for information, when it cant find any it records it as a no device found.
you may be able to have the drive repaired but it may cost you a bit to do it ok you may want to consider trying to get the information backed up off the drive if you can and than see if it can indeed be repaired. ok?
best of luck michael
If it was running at the time it fell, the heads crashed into the platters, and the buzzing you're hearing is the dents left in the platters spinning by 7200 times a second.
Not good. Likely will need a professional service to recover the data.
NO IT WILL NOT BEST BET is you've lost your data as the scratched heads and exposure render it close to imposible for you to recover data the only way is to call a data recovery outfit for a solution .
good luck
The Drives Reader arm Is Either Stuck Or Knocked Off Track And Can' Pass Over The Platters... The Hard Drive Will Need To Be Opened Up And Inspected/Repaired Before Data Can Be Retrieved..
You would hear a ticking or knocking sound if the arm is not working right.. If It Sounds Like its Running Properly You Might Have Erased Data by Scratching The Platters, You Can Try Using A Software Named.. Recover My Files..... And Do A Low Level Search, If THere's any life in the drive, This Program will find the data.....
ok, your in forensic level territory here - if the platters are damaged physically (head crash) which sounds likely if the platters arent spinnng and you have replaced the motor- you stand little to no chance of recovering all the data - also the flying heads require a 2-micron gap from the surface that demands specialist equipment - if the data is so important I would suggest a recovery specialist - where they disassemble your drive and take it into a clean room where precision controlled drive heads are used.
No. This is not possible. The hard drive must be disassembled in a proper clean room or the data on the platters will become immediately, and permanently unreadable due to the dust in the air settling on the platters.
$900 is on the low end of the price range for a repair job on a hard drive with physical damage like that. I would take that company up on their offer.
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