DIY How to: a successful data recovery from clicking hard drive. Recover your files Yourself

Author: Abraham Levit
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In this video I explain how to recover data from a clicking hard drive. There are several types of clicks of death. This click is recoverable.

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  1. abraham halo Levit, I had a problem on my hard drive. after check the damage on the disc is still in recovery. There is no data about my wedding. thanks. Please advise
  2. Great video. Very informative.
  3. Great info! Thanksss <3
  4. Mine sounds just like this. Same problem. I can't get it to work
  5. Yep, click of death.
  6. If I were you I jumped directly to donor 3 because the back cover of the motor shaft are the same. they are both in bronze color. The donor 1 and 2 are the same too looks like chrome or nickel. How do you missed that they are probably not even same hw revision ...
  7. Abraham - thank you for the hard drive repair videos. I have an external hard drive that I banged while it was running and afterward, it would not be recognized and made a quiet double click sound. i removed the cover and did the bad thing of running the drive w/o cover to see what was happening - the arm that passes over the platters (double platters) would run into the middle and tap against the center hub making the little clicking sounds. there were no grooves or scratches on the top of the visible platter so i am wondering if i buy the same drive new or used - is there a chance i could replace the arm and its mechanism and be able to access my files? if so, any advice how to get the read/write arms to fit onto the platters would be appreciated and any other tips you might have.
  8. Pretty sure the Samsung chip is DRAM for the drive cache.
  9. Hi Abraham.
    First of all let me thank you for your great video's on this subject.
    Still got a question/problem though.
    I have a WD Elements 1TB, that made the magic clicking sound and stopt working.
    Windows still "sees" WD, but data won't show up :-(
    No when i turn on the drive, it will give a few clicks, motor starts spinning for a few seconds and then stops all together. No sounds at all!
    Please can you give some advice!
    Much appreciated.
    Paul
  10. If this works for you i can say that it´s a good time for you to also play on the lottery.. ALL drives need to be calibrated for the set of the disks that are mounted in that particular drive. IF you get this to work, then the drives may have been calibrated at the same time.. I have tried so many times with drives from same batches and/or serial numbers that are just right next to the other drive's serial. It's alot easier to just get the drive working, but you rarely can get any data from it since the heads doesn't know where to read for the data.
  11. With the logic board #2, did you try to assign a drive letter in the Disk Management?
  12. por favor subtitulado in Spanish
  13. I don't have donner hard drive what can I do?
  14. nice ! .. really interesting video ;)) .. co- incidentally all my hard drive failures have been Western Digital .. (Backblaze.com have the best stats as regards HD failure rates & lifespan ..)
    but i still dont really understand,  if it was a pure mechanical failure, why did replacing the circuitry (3rd attempt) help the heads read the disc ? ... maybe this is just the strange and wacky world of hard discs !
  15. my hard drive
    plate is not running
    what to do?
  16. ...so boring! Work faster....people are not idiots!
  17. Hi!
    I have the same problem. What if i buy the same harddrive and just replace the control unit with the new one would it be compatible, would it work?
  18. Abraham: What is your e-mail. have a hard drive with the same problem sound would like to know if you can diagnose
  19. Old hard drives make excellent targets and shooting them are excellent for destroying data !!!
  20. I have a Seagate Central...the HD is good....how can I recover data to my mac? TY