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In my part of the world, the prices those outfits quote go up in line with the panicky squeals about the importance of the data. They start at £150.

They will know as soon as the start to dismantle the drive that it's been opened because there won't that slight resistance when they try to lift the top plate that you felt when you opened it.

At that point, I suspect they'll want that £150 or similar just to let you out the door so you may as well give up on this one and put it down to experience.
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It to took me three seconds to stop the video because I already knew the outome here.

The manufacture those thongs in a clean-room environment to prevent the tiniest spec of dust in the air crippling it before it leaves the factory.

The data on that drive was probably salvageable right up to the time you opened the case but now, there no chance.
 
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To protect my custmers' data after I've cleared it out completely, I use the 3.5" platters under a piece of thick glass on top of my reproduction Georgian pedestal desk. The laptop disk platters hang on pins on the side of my shed to frit the magpies away from the rubbish bags. They also reflect car headlights into the house so I know if anyone's about.

You gotta love recycling.
 
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Dust can't corrupt the whole drive instantly and probably won't break it. No one opens up a hard drive and still connect it unless he is curious and wants to play with it, or there is very serious physical problem with it.

The drive was stuck completely, head had stuck into the platter. Sometimes pushing the platter will loosen it. (when the engine is fine) In this case he tried starting it over and over until it become unstuck and started to spin. After that, the small movement of the head means it's trying to read the start of disk, but it can't find the right position of track, and it will try few times over until giving up.

Soooo, the disk head probably had crashed and got stuck due to friction, and even when the head got off, the damage is there. Nothing can be really done about it in the realm of average person with normal resources, but opening it up didn't broke it any further.
 
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Instantly? He refers to watching 2 minutes and 32 seconds when the case is open in frame 001! Pushing the platter with the head engaged will scratch the disk surface so dust is no longer its worst enemy.

To leave your post unchallenged might cause many future readers to think it's OK when it most certainly isn't. The rule is leave the case sealed if you want any chance of advanced data recovery - at very high prices, because those guys have clean-room specification facilities.
 
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I would think he tried it quite longer, then what he filmed.

As for data recovery, really? How often do you think when people have problems with a disk, they actually use such services? On in thousand case, one in ten thousands? Or even less?

For most people it's completely theoretical option. For people to whom it's an actual possibility to consider, surely such people know better to begin with? They can call to such service and ask for instruction and estimation of the price.
 
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Wrong. It can, and does. Even in the "cleanest" of rooms in your home, even if you've completely cleaned and vacuumed and are running an air purifier, within a minute of opening that drive there will be microscopic dust particles on the platter. The minute the drive is started back up, if it even starts back up, it will instantly scour the platter or head surface. To infer otherwise only shows a lack of understanding the underlying facts involved.

Without a room, box or device designed specifically to provide near absolute clean air filtration, the chances of success are infinitesimal. If you say you've done it, yourself, in your home, then you've either designed a room or device specifically for this procedure or you have the absolute cleanest house ever heard of and an airtight structure besides.

We've had this conversation umpteen times before, and the result is ALWAYS the same. Drive opened. Drive ruined.

 
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Here's the thing,everyone!

Before I opened the case I noticed that very clicking noise(the one you just saw in the vid). The plates were unscratched and everything. It's just that it had a hard time trying to start up. As for postioning the head. I tried that but it moves back to the same place it was in when I turned it on. There was no dust or anything that got in the drive before I opened it either. So I'm trying to find out why this is happening and why this is weird to me!
 
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It doesn't matter what it was doing BEFORE you opened the drive. The fact is, in 99.999% of cases, if you open a hard drive anywhere but in a hard drive "clean room" designed specifically for hard drive disassembly procedures, it's done. It doesn't have to be dust that you can SEE in the air in order for it to damage the drive. In every room, of every house, in every country, there is ALWAYS dust floating around in the air at levels much greater than you could ever imagine. Think about a room that seems normal to you, and then if you've ever seen that same room when the rays of the sun are streaming through the windows, and the "clean" air you thought you were normally breathing suddenly doesn't seem so "clean" when you see all the particulates floating around and suddenly visible due to the light structure.

Even if the drive was repairable before it was opened, the chances are almost zero that it is after opening it in a normal room for ANY length of time.


And usually by the time a drive begins clicking, it's generally already shot for the average person and the data is usually only recoverable using a professional recovery service. Here are the facts:

Why Does a Hard Drive Click?

To understand why a hard drive makes a clicking noise, you have to understand a disk read/write head. The read/write head hovers over a hard drive’s platters, and quickly scans across a platter either adding data to the platter or reading from it. In the event that damage is done to the platters, such as a head crash (the read/write head comes into contact with the platters, damaging them), the read/write head is unable to perform its tasks. This causes it to move back to its original position and try to locate the right position on the platters again – all in a very fast process. Occasionally, the read/write head will reach the end of the platter and hit a stop, resulting in the audible click sound that we recognize.
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And

Taking the Cover Off

Under no circumstances should you take the cover off of your hard drive. Data recovery professionals will occasionally do this, but it is an expensive procedure and requires the specialists to operate in a class 100 cleanroom. If you take the cover off in an unfiltered air environment, you contaminate the hard drive and make data recovery more difficult or impossible for professionals. Additionally, unscrewing and re-screwing the screws of the hard drive misaligns the hard drive, and leaves it not functional. Only a trained data recovery professional with the proper screwdriver can make sure the screws are set to the proper torque in order for the hard drive to work again.
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A professional data recovery service might have been able to do something for you before you opened it up. Now it's unlikely. Can't hurt to try but make sure you explain to them that the drive was not only opened, but run, so they don't charge you for attempting to do something that in all likelihood they may tell you is no longer possible since the platters were likely scoured by that process. Either way, good luck and hopefully I'm wrong and they can get some data off it.
 
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In my part of the world, the prices those outfits quote go up in line with the panicky squeals about the importance of the data. They start at £150.

They will know as soon as the start to dismantle the drive that it's been opened because there won't that slight resistance when they try to lift the top plate that you felt when you opened it.

At that point, I suspect they'll want that £150 or similar just to let you out the door so you may as well give up on this one and put it down to experience.
 
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Solution
"Rotational Scoring"!

I took the thing to a shop and they told me it was due to "bad sectors" in the drive. Then they suggest that I send it to a company called "Gillware" and they tell me that they can't retrieve the data because of...........ROATIONAL SCORING!! So sadly my data is gone for good! If only someone has a solution for this crud! 😡
 
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Well...if they weren't scratched before, they are now.

A solution for this? Easy.
Have a good, tested, backup scheme.

A dead drive should never be more than "Oh crap, I have to get the data from my backup and copy it to the new drive."
 
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