How to fix your computer harddrive in under 5 min.

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT YOU CAN RETRIEVE DATA OFF THE DISK. NO GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL WORK AT ALL! IF YOU HAVE VALUABLE DATA PLEASE SEEK HELP OF PROFESSIONAL DATA RECOVERY SERVICE.

[MiineyGames]

I'm A+ certified and have worked in the IT industry for over 25 years...I never would have thought of this fix. Goes to show you that there's always something to learn regardless of your experience

[whatellerhvad]

Such a rare moment of experience, when a youtuber is actually really useful and makes all the difference - thank you very much!

[petrosgrandi]

Finally Someone Who goes straight to the point 👍🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[AI-cpjg]

It takes 5 minutes to fix but the knowledge is gained after a few years of fixing PCs.

[seanashcroft]

Thanks very much, most appreciated. I went and saw many Technicians here in S. Korea and they said that nothing could be done about this problem, but for a fee they could try and retrieve some of the data from off the HDD, but no guarantees!
Thanks again for sharing & God Bless!

[michaelterry]

Another computer life saving youtube video. I don't know what I would do without you guys.
Thank you (and I already clicked thumbs up)

[dariusnorvaisa]

Thank you sooo much!!!! I have saved loads of precious work and also fixed my old hard drive which was sat in the drawer for ages and was quoted £750 to fix by specialists a while ago. You are a legend!!!

[cidacsindustries]

I cant believe this worked perfectly. I had 1.5 TB of data on a Samsung desktop drive that had all of my lifes work family photos and music on it. I was at the point of just throwing it all away. Please like and subscribe to this channel he is actually giving good acurate information in a way anyone can understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[jackhiles]

One of my laptop harddrives was doing the same thing I never threw it away it's been just sitting there for almost a year I saw this video and tried it and works now I had pics of my father-in-law who past away on it moved them to another harddrive. your awesome thanks for the video👍

[griffopaul]

Stumbled across this video accidentally. Had a Samsung 500g drive beeping. Opened, moved heads to home position and fixed. So simple. I was about to throw it away. Many thanks

[RC-qllp]

I saw an old IT fellow who spinned the intact drive on the floor couples of times and fixed the defective drive. No sure if it actually moved the head back to sitting position. But it did work that time.

[zbfivlo]

Thanks for the video! I have several “crashed” hard drives in a drawer in my desk. All of them have been pronounced DOA at some point in the past. Now looking forward to seeing if the dead can be revived. I also want to compliment the quality of your microphone, which brought very subtle sounds to life, like screw extraction, and hard drive case cracking. Awesome!

[mtadams]

I am by no means some kind of PC expert but i have worked in field service for 32 years and I would do a repair like this in a heartbeat, I would then copy the image and replace the drive. Over the years not only have I but many of my fellow techs have done some crazy things to get a drive working again, . You do what you have to do. Thanks for your video

[jvargas]

Use to work in this industry. Sound like what they would call a "stiction" problem where the heads adheres to the disks. Basically lack of lubricant..supper thin. The disks are dipped and allowed to dry vertically. Also good to mention to turn it the right way, or the heads will be ripped off or bent. You can hear the sticking as the disk is turned. Lastly, some designs have the heads parked at the inside diameter. Good video!

[benjpmc]

There are no words! Exactly what I was looking for and makes sense in my particular scenario where I had installed a new battery and in the process of calibrating battery cycle.

[richardscott]

I never would have guessed there is a cover screw under the label. Nice video.

[jacknastytravels]

You are the man! Lenovo ideapad. 4.5 years old. Found the head in the same location as yours when you opened it. I ruined some screws getting it open and didn’t have a clean room but I think this will at a minimum get my data saved off this drive. Thank you for putting this up!!!

[greyb]

This helped me fix my hard drive that has been lying around for five years. Thanks a lot man!

[mleo]

Ran across this today. I have a 500 gig external HD that looks identical to this one except for the connector. My HD froze several years ago and I have some good stuff on it that I can't get off. I tried this and opened the cases and sure enough, the arm was stuck as in the video. I freed the arm, put the cases back together and it worked. It took 3 attempts for my laptop to repair the HD functioning and now it functions very well. Only problem was finding the 7th hidden screw under the label in order to open the case top. Thanks for the remedy you provided.

[jasonhornby]

I'm glad to see that you are not afraid to do this. I know many many people who are willing to spend $1, 000 to recover data instead of regularly backing it up and restoring from a good image. I have done this for a few people more than a few people and charge them a hefty fee because I first asked them where is your backup and they point to the dead Drive says it's not backed up all my data is right there.