Seagate - Creating Data Recovery Jobs Since We Stopped Caring

@Wolfrich666

5 жыл бұрын

ok i fail to understand why the seagate antagonism, i have a seagate barracuda and it hasnt failed me ever i even have one from 1993 and still works perfectly

@MiGujack3

5 жыл бұрын

​@@Wolfrich666 It's simple, they fail a lot. If yours didn't die you are just lucky. In the shops I worked it's always the same pattern. Dead hard drives go like this Seagate > Samsung > Maxtor > WD > Hitachi I don't know about Seagate now but 2000s Seagate was awful.

@cataria3903

5 жыл бұрын

important to note, that even at a 10% insane failure rate, your drive would be fine 9/10 times, so singular positive experience in hdd terms means nothing. multiple negative experiences mean much, even though a reputation like seagate doesn't come out of no where. they are known to be the crappier option. i mean western digital literally sold and kinda still sells suicide drives. drives that had set load/unload timers set to 12 seconds with 300000 load/unload cycles being the maximum the heads are designed for, so they created consumer drives, that would literally kill themselves over time, BUT STILL seagate seems to be the crappier option. seagate nowadays even dares to sell SMR drives to unkonwing consumers, which by nature have higher failure rates and are more sensible to vibrations. and on top of that have massively slower continuous write speeds. they don't mention SMR (shingled magnetic recording) anywhere on the drives they sell marketing wise, like a lot of their mobile line. so seagate is shit, western digital (owning hgst btw) is shit, but seagate is more shit than western digital, if that makes sense :D

@Wolfrich666

5 жыл бұрын

@@cataria3903 so...in your opinion and experience what kind of drives are considered reliable then?

@cataria3903

5 жыл бұрын

@michtoppien666 well we have limited data to go on, BUT i am for the hgst hms5c4040ble640 having a 0.45% anualized failure rate in a server environment. www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ only issue is, that that 4 TB isn't produced for a while now :D i got 2 of those and 1 of the same line (ale instead of ble), they are whisper quiet on random access and in general, making them great media drives, BUT not produced anymore. i honestly can't tell u, what a good drive is nowadays, the way i see it now is to avoid the utter shit or super loud drives (most enterprise drives) and look at what's left from western digital/hgst (same company). the drive i got like yesterday was a WD MY BOOK 10 TB drive costing about 200 euros, given that the difference between those or more expensive WD drives is kinda non existent or very minor, people buy specific external drives and take the internal 3.5 inch drive out of them and use them, if nothing else they are at least cheap (33% or more cheaper than internal drives), high capacity and PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording). u may have to use a certain molex to sata power connector instead of direct sata power power from the psu, given how the drive is setup, which is what i had to do, but to me at least it's still worth it.

These data recovery series are a blessing. I have interest in HDDs for like 10 years and only now I can see how people do it profesionally.

Steve recovered my Seagate 4 TB. Saved all my data and structure!!! 4 years worth of video and pictures.

@queenmoreau2098

4 жыл бұрын

How much did it cost? My 4TB seagate is making a clicking noise. I only paid $100 dollars for this thing, and I don't feel too comfortable paying upwards $200 dollars to get repairs done on it. It mostly just houses digital copies of all my movies. And although I can just re-download or rip the movies off my DVDs again, I'd prefer just to get the hard drive started back up again so I can backup my digital copies somewhere else. It would be so much faster. But I don't want to spend a ton of money to do this, especially not for a cheap Seagate that only cost $100 dollars for a brand new one.

@DavidLee3d

3 жыл бұрын

How ca i send you the hdd

@BootyTickler420

3 жыл бұрын

Where do i get the pentalobe 4 from?

Good show, Steve. I actually just turned down a Rosewood recovery due to not being able to source a donor for it right now. Did a Passport 2TB head swap a little while ago, saved 1.8TB of baby pictures and family data. It's high stakes and very unforgiving but the results are worth more than the money you make. I have been waiting a long time to see Rossmann Group get into DR, excited that it is finally coming to fruition. I started my own endeavors a few years ago and have learned a lot since then, Data Recovery is a really tight industry, a lot of secrecy, glad to see people like you all and Erkin and Amirbir are finally wedging it open, I have been laboring to spread awareness myself as too many people assume their data is toast and that recovery is something only available to big corporations. I have personally saved both wedding pictures and essential fire engine inspection reports in my time doing recovery, it's a necessary evil, but I'm glad to be able to offer it to people. Been a long time fan of y'alls work, a toast and salute from Greenville, South Carolina!

This is a real HD repair. Unlike a lot of misleading content on the internet and on YTb. Excellent work friend, congratulations for the dedication.

Thank you for your thorough instructions and taking the time to explain in detail. I was able to stop the beeping on my Seagate slim portable drive and now my computer recognizes device. This is my first attempt doing this; I was almost going to throw away the drive thinking it was broken.

"You should NEVER attempt to fix your own drive unless you're a technician". Makes video how to fix your own drive.

@Daz0n

3 жыл бұрын

My guess is that this a tutorial for people that want to know how people do their job. That, or it's supposed to be a tutorial for technicians.

@rossmanngroup

3 жыл бұрын

If you want to learn how to do this, use this video to help you practice on dead drives that do not have critical data on them. This is how everyone starts - on bad drives that do NOT have either their own, or customer data on them. If it is data you don't care too much about losing, try it out. If it is data you care about losing, bad idea.

@johnmellor932

3 жыл бұрын

@@rossmanngroup Unfortunatley I've already burned that bridge.

@SheeplessNW6

3 жыл бұрын

@@capofantasma97 I don't think you should ever do this to "avoid buying another one". The purpose of this process is to get the drive working for long enough to retrieve the data, after which you should regard the drive as scrap.

@FoxStarr418

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. They want you to take it to them so they can make money off of you and they want you to watch the video so KZread can pay them money from you watching the video. Smh. i opened and fixed mine perfectly fine and I actually watch someone else's video all the way thru on how to do it. Just because he made that comment.

After a little practice, I did exactly what you showed (stuck heads on an external 3,5'' seagate 500gb) for a customer, saved 80% of their data and for the first time I got paid for it. Just wanted to leave a THANK YOU.

@ainzsama9822

Жыл бұрын

Will you elaborate how u did and any tips for because mine's the same drive and same problem

@alberthitter7467

Жыл бұрын

there is not much to explain, other than what you see in the video. I just carefully opened the drive and positioned my hands as shown in the video, in order to give a small turn in the platters (with one hand) while moving the heads back into the parking space (with the other hand). Watch carefully the video and believe me, I didn't do anything different other than what's shown there :) That's all you need to do. If the problem is "stuck heads on the platters", after you perform the above procedure, (and close the drive, of course) the drive will probably start and you should be able to retrieve a good amount of data. Just keep in mind that you should not experiment on how many times the drive will start: You do the above procedure, connect the drive and treat it like it's the absolute LAST time it will turn on. Don't expect it to last. Retrieve what you can, as fast as you can, because the drive's life is in a fast countdown !

Steve I must say that was fast & clean video. I would love to see how do you inspect the head's? Tnx

@Jimmeh_B

5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? You use a comb to keep them seperated, put them under a microscope and check for visual damage. Broken wires, cracked or dislodged sliders, deformed coils, things of that nature. If they don't look perfect, they're defective/damaged.

@xenonram

5 жыл бұрын

Generally you don't "inspect the heads." If your data is important enough to pay hundreds of dollars to retrieve, or attempt recovery yourself, you replace everything. You're already opening it up, so replace the arms/heads regardless. You would have to remove them to inspect them, so regardless of the outcome of that inspection, don't of the old ones back in. Even if it's a 99.9% chance they're fine, why chance it. You've already taken them out, and there's a 0.1% chance they're bad.

This is fantastic. Most people dont show and explain how to do it because of data. I have a wiped harddrive that has head issues, and I wanted to see if I could use it once again.

It's actually pretty easy to unstick a stuck hdd. While I'll have to agree that you shouldn't open up hard drives, I personally have never once had a previously opened one fail down the line because it had been opened. The only really good advice is DO NOT touch the platters themselves, as this WILL damage your data. Just opening the drive and turning the platters by means of turning the hub will not in itself damage data (unless the heads have actually gouged into the surface of the platter, in which case the heads are probably screwed anyway) As for the thing about getting dust on the platters, I've nevr found this to be a problem, as long as you don't do this in a dusty environment, and obviously don't leave the drive open for any longer than absolutely necessary. Remember that the disc spins fast (5400rpm or higher) so any loose dust on the surface is going to be thrown right off the disc surface by centripetal force, and will get captured by the dust filter which is in there for this exact purpose. I had to unstick the hard drive on my old laptop around nine years ago, and while I did do data recovery on the drive after it was runing again, that very same hdd is back in the same laptop (which is in almost daily use on my workbench, doing everything from functioning as an audio oscilloscope/logic analyser, usb microscope display and ebay parts ordering machine), and nine years on, the very same hdd is still working without any issues whatsoever, so although in all honesty I wouldn't recommend opening up a hard drive unless it's a last resort, it's comforting to know that if you're careful, this can be a long-term fix. But DO back up the data on it as a precaution, just in case. Interestingly, this problem only seems to affect laptop hard drives. I'm sure that sticktion could happen on a 3.5" hdd I've never seen one myself with this same problem. I guess the tiny spindle motors in laptop drives simply don't have enough torque available to pull a sticking platter away from the heads

@zmgrey

2 жыл бұрын

@sbcontt YT mildly dropping it might cause it to be worst

@Vulcano7965

2 жыл бұрын

my first 3.5" HDD had this problem. But unlike other HDDs (It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 23) there is no parking position outside the disk and it's physically impossible to get the arm there. Instead, it looks like the parking position is in the center of the disk, since that is what got my drive spinning again. So far no luck with data recovery tho. The data does show up (not always) when connceted by a USB 3.0 - SATA adapter. But trying to access it freezes the windows explorer and any other program trying to read this drive.

@TheOminousBlade

2 ай бұрын

My hard drive is spinning again but is not registering it on my xbox, I’m gonna try and let it do whatever it needs to do overnight.

Thank you for the video! I would like to start to get into data recovery and practice on some already broken drives. This is helpful knowledge.

To be honest, I am really starting into getting trashed HDD´s and try to do something with them. Thank you so much for inspiration

@TatsuZZmage

5 жыл бұрын

Dead HDs are make great speakes

Thanks to you, i repaired a hard disk from my office with sensitive data. The hard disk was the same model, so this video is exactly what i was looking for.

Have you had any customers ship hard drives from overseas via surface mail in paper wrapped packages asking if you can recover their external hard drives? There must be at least 1?

Loving these DR videos :) Greetings from a small DR lab in Brazil.

Steve needs to work on his shilling.

Thx for the video, I’ve heard about a beeping HD BEFORE; But I’ve never experienced it ; And no one ever explained what it’s all about; It’s definitely better to have knowledge before hand, So that one can make informed decisions and not waste time and monies; Again many thanks 👍

Yay! PC3000! From Russia with love and generous price! (well, it's still a few thousand $, but with amount of reverse engineering required it's really cheap)

@ucupi

5 жыл бұрын

Damn expensive...pc3000

@Sezdik

5 жыл бұрын

that software and hardware is a shit load of money dude.. ofcourse if you are doing this job you need it.

Please keep doing data recovery videos off all types !!! Hdds, ssds , nand and everything!!! You will growww believe me!!! I'm loving this content :)

I put all my family pics on one of these pieces of garbage and it quit working. Hope to have it recovered someday. I'm in Canada, but would consider sending it to you guys. Great video!

Ion know what I'm doing but he'll he made it so easy that I managed not to damage anything because of how detailed it is thanks man!

This is not only excellent to know, it's a service I desperately need. I'm call you guys tomorrow (Jan 2020). Cheers.

Nice to see that Louis is giving some of his employees the chance to do videos here.

Louis, you should have pixelated the platter. I could see some of the embarrassing stuff stored on there!

Good video steve Great info Now I know when I get beeping That means get another hard drive and start transferring immediately Cuz the head could get stuck ✊🏿

For half of the video I was thinking that Louis was having a cold...

I have managed to recover 99% of the data form the exactly same hard drive, same problem few months ago. Good job there

Thanks for the tutorials as usual :D

Louis, good tutorial, I hope that for someone it would be helpful. I have solved same issue with damn Seagates before, and unfortunately, those repair just gives time to backup the data. All drives died after some time.

@SenileOtaku

5 жыл бұрын

I think that is always the case. You're "rebuilding" the drive in order to recover the data from it. As is the case to everyone except Apple, the data is always more important than the hardware.

The old school solution for 5-1/4 half height drives was to stand it on it's side, lift it an inch or two on one corner, and let it fall on it's side onto a towel. The sudden change in rotational inertia would often un-stick the heads by shifting the platters. No need to open the drive and introduce dust. This may work on these smaller drives too. Goal is to get the platters to rotate to a new resting position. Do not drop on the bottom or top. You don't want to bounce the heads on the platters.

@brammie155

Жыл бұрын

surprisingly worked on my 2TB Seagate backup slim thanks bro

@abdelrahmanahmed4191

Жыл бұрын

man it worked thank you😭😭

@urlocaltokz4863

Жыл бұрын

I don’t get it please help

@urlocaltokz4863

Жыл бұрын

@@brammie155what do you do I don’t get it

@isettech

Жыл бұрын

@@urlocaltokz4863 Stand it on a corner. Let it rotate and fall on it's side. In falling it rotates. In landing it stops rotation of the case, but the platters due to momentum continue to rotate and free stuck platters. Normally it is not a good idea to drop a hard drive. This may recover a broken hard drive for data recovery and it not a long term fix.

At my old job, everyone had LaCie drives for time machine backups. I've heard that sound so often, it made me uneasy to hear it again...

You have to learn by try end errors to learn. These recovery technitians with experience did not came from nowhere. ;-) Good video. I learnt something.

@vgamesx1

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but you learn using donor drives or get some old crappy used drives, not on your own (or someone else's) data.

@rossmanngroup

5 жыл бұрын

@@vgamesx1 vgamesx1 gets it.

@nogravitas7585

5 жыл бұрын

@@vgamesx1 thankfully there is no shortage of obsolete HDDs in the world.

I had this happen before it was beeping i took it out stopped using it I didn't know why until i seen your video thanks for info

My easyest recovery when I just flipped upside down the hard drive and the system recognized it. If you don't want to loose your data I recommend to use WD Blue, those drives amazing and mostly easy to recover at home (sorry Steve :). Ones it took 8 days to save the data from a 320GB drive, but the end 10 years of photos and videos recovered fine. I use simple PC and Linux, but there are some pretty stupid devices wich copy the data bit by bit one drive to another, it can be handy if you dealing with bad sectors only. By the way with these prices not worth the risk to try at home. I remember when recovery cost a fortune, then start at $1000, than $500, than $300 and now its $100.

It work's with seagate game drive ps4, 4tb usb??? I hear specific noise, ps4 na pc doesn't see a drive, but in computer menager and application like seatools i see it. I have had it since 2018 and it never collapsed and now it suddenly stopped working.

Loving the data recovery videos 😍😍😍😍😍

Yes tysm! My hard drive has family photos and mp3s and it’s fixed! My cousin works with hard drives sometimes.

What was the other screwdriver that you used for the middle screw? P something 4? Trying to find one.

i know this is old video but you helped me figure out why my buddies external drive is having issues its doing the same type of beeping thank you

9:05 - "Whaddya know, it shows up perfectly fine" *Error* - _happens_ "uhhh... just ignore that...."

Those heads can really stick to the drive surface, I haven't done a recovery but I've pulled apart junk drives with stuck heads and it surprised me.

@countzero1136

5 жыл бұрын

Perfectly polished metal can sometimes spontaneously weld themselves together. It's a strange phenomenon but it is definitely a real thing. This is a regular problem under vacuum conditions and has been an issue on the International Space Station a few times over the years. While hard drives do not use vacuum (well, not the consumer ones anyway), you can still get similar (though far weaker) welds ocurring. Fortunately they are fairly easy to unstick but yes it is surprising how strong they can get

Oh look, another broken Seagate drive. How surprising!

@FedeSkillArg

3 жыл бұрын

Search "wd hdd fail" there you go fanboy

@deadalkabob

3 жыл бұрын

@@FedeSkillArg still fails less than a damn seagate

@FedeSkillArg

3 жыл бұрын

@@deadalkabob backblaze list. Less than 1% fails from seagate. Wd not in use anymore, owner of the record of more fails in history of backblaze. If u had a seagate fail on you, it was just a faulty one. The end.

@deadalkabob

3 жыл бұрын

@@FedeSkillArg precisely the external seagate drives those are terrible .

@beckydarrow

3 жыл бұрын

i wish i knew this before buying one...:/

How do u prevent dust, hair or sweat from falling onto the platters? Do u open it in a clean room? Just curious. I don’t know much abt repairing.

Wish i saw this before opening my dead hard drive 😔 I had a bad feeling i would do no good. But maybe there could be a chance.

Hi man, thanks for the video. Could you please tell me what screwdrivers youre using to open it up? specially the star shaped only one located in the center, can´t find the right screwdriver!

Got to 6:06 Disconnected hard drive Tossed is at carpeted floor (with purpose) Reconnected Now works Thanks

This is a really cool video! This stuff is so cool! Love it! Thanks so much!

I always figured the hard drive was swearing for not being made as a SSD but was sensoring itself with the beeps

How to I bypass the screw that is in the centre of the drive on seagate drives? It seems to be similar to a T4 but with only 5 points

Awesome work Steve, only a nugget would attempt this on their own. Kindest regards. Joe.

Thank you for the video. What kind of screwdrivers did you use to remove the metal cover?

Now that was a label of complete disrespect! Only difference being that it's not near impossible to remove :p

ALSO I know this is obvious but I'll say it anyway, After you have the faulty drive functioning, just copy all the data from it and use a new drive.

I remember *almost* recovering a hard disk with the same problem with minimal tools. However at the time I did not have the software knowledge to get the data out of it on time...

Many people are trashing Seagate but back when I bought my two drives around 2008 they had good reviews... My 250 gb Seagate Go beeps but I still have my 1 tb Seagate and my desktop has a 250 gb Seagate since 2014, used all day long every day.

Interesting to see something different. Thanks.

Thank you so much. Worked like a charm.

Excellent. Exactly what I asked for! Now we need more >:)

Very informative and hydrating.

my laptop cant detect my external hard drive. yes, i did go to the disk management to see if it shows their but it didn't. and also the led light is not flashing anymore. my question is can it still be fixed?

I get defective seagate microdrivers for laser mirrors, often they have stuck head but 80% of the time a good finger flick when powered on unsticks the heads from the platter. No I am not advising to hit your hard drive when powered to unstick heads, I just found it interesting it had such a high success rate with microdrivers.

Hi. I followed the steps shown in the video on my backup slim plus hard disk. However the beeping sound is still audible and the hard disk stops spinning after a minute from being connected to the laptop. Can you please help?

I have tried today with a Seagate and it works fine!! Thank you!! 😉😉

What's your opinion on ddrescue for making an image? (For those who can't afford hardware imagers)

I took my seagate into a shop today. I hope they can fix it like you

I bought a new external WD hard drive which today started making a beeping sound for about 10min and was not responding in mycomputer but after removing and reconnecting it at start it beeped and in a minute the beeping stopped and the hardrive started functioning normally. What should I do?? is this normal? will this happen in the future again?

I've read that "if you're data is crucial don't try this yourself". Possibly a better way of looking at this scenario is that if your data really were "crucial" you'd have backups. Multiple backups. Amazon S3 bucket/Google Drive/Dropbox/iCloud/USB drive/RAID/whatever there aren't really any excuses.

@Louis Thanks! helped unraveling the mystery, how to open up a Seagate HDD Dell Inspiron 5570! managed to remove the T5s, but not the Pentalobe 4! what size in mm is that? which other screwdriver-s can unscrew it?

The pinned comment from Mytheroo and expecialy the comments from Louis channel later are good. Ive spend many hours trying to learn and recover data. the older the drive (as in 20 years old or older) are "easier" than newer. Firmware, tiny parts, more complicated IC and firmware tricks to get new heads or pcb to read the data. Realy realy old drives, like a few Kilogram heavy IBM mainframe ones can maybe recovered using a ossilioscope and some fpga in a weekend, these modern babies are a work of art. using Jtag to find multiple cores in the controller, undocumented instructions, firmware both on eeproms and on the platters, alignment only found in the magnetic field.. I lost 20 drives due to experiments. no important data lost. 3 harddrives data lost because heads went into the platters because I did not know. a few laptop drives went total dead after I tried recovering data (I atleast got the 3 excel files the client wanted, but vacation photos where gone). With no money, I will be the last resort. Advice, go find a professional recovery company. only if thats too expensive and you or the person with the sick hdd would love you give it a try (with guaranteed dead drive), go try learn. What those recovery companies have, is money for the right tools and get information from other recovery companies on what to do with a dead drive, how to proceed. its this "closed" community is paying for, getting your invested time and money back by sharing these details. Sure its sad its a "closed" community, but if you have money to get in, you can earn that money back by the repairs. And I dont blame them. DAMM too many people ask me how i fixed their machine for free, or if I can help recover another drive for them. Dude, you dropped your laptop, I did it for a free beer because you where cool. this is the X time and it costs me 3 hours to replace those parts and copy your data. Ow well, atleast I made some friends and got some stuff for free... but someone has to pay the rent, food and buy a new car. if you realy want and read all this way, follow this channel from Louis and maybe visit, register and go find experts on hddguru dot com. (bios-mods dot com for bios mods, hacks, fixed) and learn what Jtag, serial ports and hexediting is.

wish i knew it was a pentalobe before i practically stripped it, hope its still enough when I get an actual one that fits

Hey, I'm looking for a monitor stand. Preferably something that cost over $998. Do you have something for me?

@luminumlx2604

5 жыл бұрын

Apple roasted with sucess lmao

Did it by myself. Feeling very proud of me :)

Recently got a MacBook pro 2012 mid and the battery doesn't hold a charge and only turns on with power supply im guessing to fix the issue is a new battery right since original owner said battery never been replaced?

Hi do you know this issue of movies and videos pausing/HDD freeze and how to fix this? My external hard drive been giving me this problem of stopping videos unless disconnected and reconnect again to work.

Cool! Can you do a video on the HDD logic board repairs or replacement?

@CodeAsm

5 жыл бұрын

That depends on the product right? just unscrew, remove, put new one there, screw and done. unless the firmware must match the platters, then swap eeprom. if even more screwed up manufacturer, swap main controller ic. if broken eeprom or controller ic, reprogram/flash them using scary rusian tools and tutorials :D easy if you know it, dificult for me, as I did not wanted to pay 100 dollar to Ukraine forum dude for tutorial. ow well, I forgot whats on the drive anyway, probably just windows with some steam games. School stuff was on my laptop at that time.

Thanks, excellent. Which way do the platters normally turn, the same direction, counterclockwise? I thought I remembered you saying to turn them opposite the normal direction in the first video but could be incorrect. RichE San Diego

@ScaredPilot

5 жыл бұрын

Gogle Plus Sucks look at the head arm, the platter always travel from the root of the arm to the tip, so it creates a airflow cushion to float the head up.

Louis - can we transfer media(platter) to other hdd for data recovery as well

3:22 Sir, this is very useful video, can you pls mention the tool name? I have opened all except the middle one because i dont have that particular screwdriver

@Kiwana1JustForFun

2 жыл бұрын

i have scoured the internet and cant figure out what that tool is i cant tell what he is saying. but its also the one tool that i am missing lol

Question. What is ur opinion about Seagate ironwolf series? Need upgrade storage by about 10TB. I think about taking 1x ST10000NE0004 or 2x ST6000NE0023. They are going to tower that don't move and they will be in antivibration slots (whatever it's worth). Did u repaired/ saw them in rl and what is ur opinion from data recovery points. They will be used to storage work files, mostly large video files.

I was fixing disks which were spoiled by technicians and otherwise helpless disks. Very expensive!

Myne is making the beeping sound but is when plugged in to my Xbox it is not actyually working as in all my data isn’t there is this the way to fix that problem as well

the way you swing those tweezers soooo close to the platter makes me squirm! LOL!

@FREQQLES

5 жыл бұрын

He's a pro at talking with his hands, he's Italian.

Qucik Question, I removed the hard drive from old 500 gig external drive. since it's just a sata connection now, can I use it in my desktop as a normal drive. will there be any risks?

@r100curtaincall

5 жыл бұрын

yes it should work just fine

I dropped my hdd on my foot today, I know you said leave it to professional but I don't trust 'professional' at my place. So I went and did it myself like you show. Surprisingly it worked! Well it did stop working once in a while using usb-sata cable, but it constantly works when using 'dvd sata'-sata. Is there a way to check if my hdd recover completely write/read speedwise?

ive got the 6 little screws out but the big one wont move i know its different i just could see what you used to do it

Hello from france every body, My hard drive make same noise but once opened, the heads are well parked. Any idea to fix the problem?

This is really insightful. I have a similar problem with my internal hard drive. I'm just not sure whether it's the hard drive or the power supply. I can read all the data on it and it works. But sometimes, especially when I start playing video games, it starts beeping, the screen freezes for split seconds and it already happend twice that my computer crashed. Then when I reboot, the drive keeps beeping constantly. I replugged the power supply and it works again until I start playing a game again. It drives me crazy and I don't know where to go from here.

@gblargg

7 ай бұрын

Backup drive immediately. Replace drive.

Hi Louis, I did exactly what you instructed, Now when i plug it in, it makes a bunch of odd sounds and still does not connect. Any tips ? Thanks

Thanks Steve!

Just out curiosity, were I to hand it in to get it fixed, how much would that cost?

Ay so I have a seagate drive abs when I opened it I tried to get the head back into place but when I do it gets stuck onto the side of the platter. You have any ideas of that?

This worked! thank you!

I bought 5x 2tb hdd2.5 green label seagated, n 4x sshd hybrids for a project. Had 2 heart attack, 2 plus years later (it put them I usb3.0 external orical boxes, in orical hard cases, sat in storage. 2 plus years later (they where fully tested with seagate tools etc. I plug them in 1 has beep noise, rest work, and now 1 year later reliable, but iv got this 2tb hdd that had maybe 10 h use, that got that noise (no warranty), no data on it...(was formated).. Can I fix drive to use it, or is it usless (unreliable drive)

Perhaps you know what might have happened if a laptop CD-ROM drive suddenly started buzzing very loud when the computer is being turned on? I had that one laptop with a CD-ROM drive that worked fine, except it had some troubles reading the discs because of some dust on the lens, so I sprayed it with hot air, nothing more, and after I turned it on, it started buzzing as I described o_O BZZZT! What gives? I don't quite know how to diagnose it, because if I remove id from the laptop in order to peek inside, then I won't be able to connect it to the laptop to test it. Any ideas?

I bought 2 3.5 inch 2tb Seagate hard disk drives for my home office server and they did this sound out of the box. I had to add a 30 second pre-time in the bios of the machine to let them finally spin up.

@CodeAsm

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe your mobo isnt providing full power to the harddisks or psu is too weak when all systems go powerup?

hey bro..i have same model hard drive with same condition but i couldn't find the screw driver of that middle screw

I found this same drive (Seagate ST2000LM007) in a Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive.

This sounds like an apple internal repair video lol. “Only true professionals can fix these.”

@steveheist6426

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you do need a special repair station, that most people don't just "have", and is rather large.