My external hard drive's reading head was stuck on the platter month ago. Because my HDD was out of warranty and I don't have the budget to get it to a repairing center, I've tried to fix the problem myself.
I've followed this video to fix the stuck reading head problem:
[video="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Y7BniaRXg"][/video]
I did all the steps with being very careful. After finishing, I closed the cover and brought things back and my HDD returned to life and worked well except a week ago, when I noticed this new problem: External HDD is detectable by Device Manager not File Explorer.
I've followed a solution discussed by using partition recovery software, but the partition recovery software took a lot of time with no result and seemed unresponsive. A lot of doubts came to me at this point. I've been hearing moderate sound made by the reading head going here and there on the platter, may be I shouldn't hear this sound?! Really I don't know!
Accidently, I've noticed that my room is full of small unseen dust particles everywhere in the air, which being seen only when turning all the room's light off and turning on a torch only. This increased my doubts that there were unseen dust particles on the platter from the last time I had opened it. I decided to check by opening my external HDD again. Unfortunately, I've found the tiny dust as I had expected on turning off all the room's light and using a torch light only.
I've followed this video to hopefully clean the platter:
[video="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umfY_SCSYms"][/video]
But at the end, I ended up with tiny juicy spots on the platter and don't know how to clean it!
This is a photo for the juicy spots on the platter:
(Notice that I am turning on my room's light, so the dust particles would be unseen)
This is a photo for the platter on turning off all the room's light and using only the camera's flash light:
(Here, the unseen dust particles become seen.)
I need help to make it working again and recover data via DIY process!
I am sorry if this seems to be too long!
Thanks in advance!
I've followed this video to fix the stuck reading head problem:
[video="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Y7BniaRXg"][/video]
I did all the steps with being very careful. After finishing, I closed the cover and brought things back and my HDD returned to life and worked well except a week ago, when I noticed this new problem: External HDD is detectable by Device Manager not File Explorer.
I've followed a solution discussed by using partition recovery software, but the partition recovery software took a lot of time with no result and seemed unresponsive. A lot of doubts came to me at this point. I've been hearing moderate sound made by the reading head going here and there on the platter, may be I shouldn't hear this sound?! Really I don't know!
Accidently, I've noticed that my room is full of small unseen dust particles everywhere in the air, which being seen only when turning all the room's light off and turning on a torch only. This increased my doubts that there were unseen dust particles on the platter from the last time I had opened it. I decided to check by opening my external HDD again. Unfortunately, I've found the tiny dust as I had expected on turning off all the room's light and using a torch light only.
I've followed this video to hopefully clean the platter:
[video="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umfY_SCSYms"][/video]
But at the end, I ended up with tiny juicy spots on the platter and don't know how to clean it!
This is a photo for the juicy spots on the platter:
(Notice that I am turning on my room's light, so the dust particles would be unseen)
This is a photo for the platter on turning off all the room's light and using only the camera's flash light:
(Here, the unseen dust particles become seen.)
I need help to make it working again and recover data via DIY process!
I am sorry if this seems to be too long!
Thanks in advance!