Hard-drive Troubles!

[Antwan]

Hey guys,

Im having trouble with my 3TB Seagate Barracuda ... 

 

It started beeping weirdly and not showing up in windows... 
Here is the drived hooked up to a external enclosure so you can hear it... 

 

 

 

 

It spins up.. and the heads seem to be in place and not stuck... any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Did you actually open the hard drive? Because now it's basically done for unless the room is basically a clean room on par with CDC's labs. You're not supposed to open hard drives because if any particulate gets on the platter, there's a very good chance it'll cause a head crash.

[FuzzyLogic]

By opening the hard drive, there's a very good chance that you killed it...

[Antwan]

Sounds the same... i briefly opened it to see if the head is not stuck as this comes up in every youtube video.

I don't care about the drive... i need the data.

[ScratchCat]

Opening the drive is just about the best way to destroy the drive and data short of a hammer.

NEVER OPEN A HARD DRIVE YOU WANT TO USE

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, Antwan said:

Sounds the same... i briefly opened it to see if the head is not stuck as this comes up in every youtube video.

I don't care about the drive... i need the data.

And did those very YouTube videos make a warning about opening the drives? Because if they didn't, those aren't very useful videos.

 

The thing is that the head on a hard drive when it's fired up is floating on a cushion of air on the scale of literally nanometers. Coupled with the fact that the outer edges of the disk can be spinning upwards of 65 miles per hour, should the head hit a dust particle, it'll basically either ruin the head or cause the head to jump up and crash on the platter, ruining whatever data on the platter where the head scrapes.

 

If you really need that data, at this point, it's best to take it to a data recovery service than to do it yourself.

[Christophe Corazza]

8 minutes ago, Antwan said:

I don't care about the drive... i need the data.

 

You should understand that if the drive is dead, it will be very hard to retrieve the data.

Opening the drive, even for a brief second, introduces airborne particles inside the HDD case. This is basically the worst thing you can do to a HDD.

[Christophe Corazza]

15 minutes ago, Antwan said:

youtube video

 

 And YouTube is a very thrustworthy source of information 

 

I suggest to carefully close the drive and bring it to a data recovery service.

[D3LT4K1L0]

OMG, you have really screwed that drive now, you will have to send that drive away to have any chance of recovering that data now. you need to open drives in a clean room. did you not see the video LTT did with drive savers?

[EsaT]

28 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

I suggest to carefully close the drive and bring it to a data recovery service.

Closing it now is" crying over spilt milk".

With drive's insides already contaminated if data recovery service tries to run it first there's now risk of certain data loss.

So data recovery service should be informed that drive's been opened and really that should be written onto tape/sticker put on drive's case to make double sure of that.

I'm sure they can clean platters from airborne particle contamination, but that's certainly going to cost extra.

[Christophe Corazza]

12 minutes ago, EsaT said:

Closing it now is" crying over spilt milk".

 

I know that "closing" the drive won't help improving the situation.

However, it can prevent the situation from getting even worse: e.g. some hard object falling onto the platters