hard drive recovery my wd green external drive is broken? please help me recver my files

[Tingapoo]

So, i was using my wd green 2 tb hatd and copying my games into it while doing so my hard drive suddenly stopped working. So i opened my hard drive and i found out that my hard drive needle from the actuator arm is broken.

 

So i manually tried to back to disk and i plugged to my pc then i saw that the needle went to disk for a couple of seconds then a click sound occur and it automatically went back outside the disk.(the disk isnt shown in the computer). 

so can anyone tell me how can i fix this issue. Please help me it has my whole life worth of data in it.

[Tiwaz]

4 minutes ago, Tingapoo said:

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you could ask the WD support team if they're willing to recover your data on a new drive for a good amount of money. the only thing left would be trying to buy a used WD green and maybe replacing the reader head

 

PS: the other ones also look bent so you'd need to replace the whole arm with the several layers of reading heads

[BubblyCharizard]

Greens aren't really archival drives,

 

I'd use a black or red for that,

 

if the data is really that important, go with a professional data recovery company, as they have all sorts of experience and expertise in this

[ProjectBox153]

You probably voided any warranty you may have still had (if you had one) by opening it. That's NOT something you should do with a drive. You can see if some professional places will still take a look at it, but they often charge very large amounts of money. 

[Tingapoo]

Unfortunately, the area where I live there are no hard drive recovery professional that I can get help

If there is another way please let me know

[ProjectBox153]

On 5/30/2017 at 9:50 AM, Tingapoo said:

Unfortunately, the area where I live there are no hard drive recovery professional that I can get help

If there is another way please let me know

More than likely there isn't. You did the worst thing possible to the drive: opening it. That should only be done in a clean room environment, and would void any warranty. 

[GreenZombie]

When nothing is lost then buy a similar hard drive that you get broken parts. This is the cheapest option and success percentage is HA HAA