data recovery | click of death on ST3000DM001 

...there aren't too many other sounds from modern life that can evoke the same rippling spine chills and horrific gut twisting as those from a failing or failed HDD. *_Especially_* when they occur after a reboot and you realize just how long it has been since your last backup... **shivers**

This is great video! Awesome lab and equipment! Thank you so much for adding quality content!!!

When I have a need for this I wont even look anywhere else. This is so great that you are demonstrating this behind the scenes stuff

Dude you are the greatest, I can believe how clear and well explained this tutorial is. Thanks so much

I love your channel alot! keep up the goodwork bro! new knowledge every new video :D

awesome, have a great one. have a great trip and safe travels! thanks again.

Brings back memories. I was the guy who was in charge of a TI 990/12 with two DS80 'platter' drives (only 20Mb each!). I used to change heads on those. The head units were the size of a large soup ladle.

Specialists as yourself are well accomplished by your own determination

I met this guy! He is top notch and has an excellent lab setup. I highly recommend!

Great video ,can you not build yourself a pwm circuit using a relay then set the on/off contacts to short and adjust the frequency of the relay contacts to get around what you need .that way you get 10 20 or 50 short contacts per second .or do you need to hold the short state for a time to work just an idea if you do this procedure regularly.

All The recovery company in my area, are really bad. I wish we have someone like you in here, to help us deal with failing hard drive. You're probably the greatest ever to do recovery in the world.

That's so funny, I've been watching your vids, since I've always been super fascinated with low-level hardware access, and I just now realized that you're about ten minutes from my house! I live in Vanier. Internet is such a huge place, and yet sure enough, I end up watching vids of someone who lives here in Ottawa. If ever you give live demos, please let me know.. I'll bring some Timmie's. :) Cheers

Exellent job sir,well done.

I don't know anything about data recovery but this seems like something I might want to get into.

haha from one dr engineer to another after a day in my cleanroom and staring at PC3K its nice to see how other engineers work... and yes finding the time to short the read channel out can be frustrating.... good stuff mate

Very useful video. I had a seagate SSHD drive start clicking on me about 6 months ago, it still worked but I was worried. Luckily it was covered under warranty still. I sent it in to seagate and got a replacement only a couple days later. I now have a 2tb WD Green drive that works, but it clicks every 10 seconds pretty much on the dot. Luckily, I replaced it with a 6tb WD Black drive this week. I'm going to reformat that 2tb drive and see if the clicking stops. Just found your channel today and subscribed, your videos are very helpful. Thank you for the content.

I had this problem with an old Seagate drive, and simply turning the drive to vertical orientation helped and I could recover my data...

This is really interesting stuff :D

Thanks for the awesome videos! Its the beginning of 2022 and seems like you have focused a lot content on rescuing Flash Memory and seems like your HDD recovery work has taken a backseat. Does that mean the HDD recovery is becoming a thing of the past? Or has the HDD progressed so that it no longer possible for third party repair? Are He filled 18TB HDDs impossible to repair now? Wishing you continued success!

Hi, i didn't catch your name, i think it is Akin? Please forgive me if i am wrong. These videos are a godsend and EXTREMELY interesting to me. Thank you SO MUCH for providing them, i am technically interested and have been all my life. I would just like to know if you might be able to share some insight as to how one starts off in the Data Recovery business as i would love to start up here in Aus but don't know what to buy first. i have basic tools ie dmm, soldering iron, magnification fluro loop lol, all types of screw driver bits etc. Basically just after a heads up on what to get and how to learn. i have learnt quite a bit from a few online tubers so far and SOME experimentation here but i don't want to go wrecking customers drives starting out. Thanks so much mate and i always look forward to your posts!!

I have a 2.5" 320gb seagate hdd, that is very loud when it is seeking, but it spins up normally, and I haven't experienced any data loss. Should I worry? the last time I checked it reported like 10k hours of power on on s.m.a.r.t.

great job

Are you familiar with the disk clicking sound epidemic causing a fast onset of Load Cycle Count SMART value due to head parking?

hey man thanks for all your videos ! i want to start the same job as u are so where should i start from? am from algeria

Great video

Could you give some ballpark pricing examples? I'd just like to know roughly what things cost. I'm in Canada. I may send some people your way. Also an idea for a video 'Why and how to storage devices fail'.

I've been looking around and I can't find out how to remove write protection from my micro sd card. Sandisk website says to use the adapter they provide. But mine is broken is there any way I could remove the protection. A reply would be tons of help. Btw love the videos!

i have the same model it don't show up and in disk management it's statues is Disk Unknown Not initialized what should i do with that ?

You make a great job

Hi my hard drive 2 terra is not reading. I am suspecting power surge. Once it is plugged unto power, it beeps, constantly what do I do?

i have a 3tb external/portable disc with adapter. in pluged in the wrong adapter to disc and now its not working. is there a way to fix it or what could be wrong?

I’ve got a 2TB Seagate Pipeline HDD, spins up then makes 2 of those exact clicking noises then spins down. This happened randomly one day, the previous day it was fine, would it also need a replaced set of heads as in the video? It’s only been used for 2 years. Thanks for your time

Hi very interesting the next time i am visiting family in Grimsby ON i may well leave my drive with you its a Seagate 3000gig that just spins up then shuts off disappeared in my desktop for no known reason, great work.

Awesome job..

Is the locking of the terminal a proprietary defence mechanism ?

Hi, I have the same problem with clicking sound on Seagate Barracuda 3 TB. I wonder how to follow this video and i am wondering about that metall peace he put over the heads where can I get this? Is it nececarry to have that to change unit?

Hello , what kit low price you recomend ? Kit data recovery PCIE or USB . Thanks Héber from brazil

Where do you get your head combs from and how do you know which one to use with a particular hard drive? I've seen people using homemade ones but they seem very unstable to me. Good video..

do you know if the heads on these drives are compatible with the heads on the later version using the 100724095 board?

I tried about 30 or 40 times last week to get the right moment to short one of these, eventually got it :) Nice vid man. So, there was no media damage on this drive, patient heads looked OK, so just a bad preamp then? Do you first try disabling heads in ROM, or go straight for the headswap?

Great video!. Can I change the hd's mainboard from an "identical" hd but with different fw?

'Im just using SSD and my main drive now and i store alrge files and back up to a spinner which gets disconnected soon as iv'e backed up. Spin time will eventually kill a drive.

If I or anyone else has the same Seagate 3tb ST3000DM001 with the same click of death and you have to do the same work as this video, what would be the cost?

My hard drive is dead. I tried getting someone to retrieve the data from it in my country (Mauritius) but in vain. A guy i know opened the hard disk and tried to move the move the actuator on the platter to kinda read it atleast but it failed. he put everything back and told me it's gone. But watching your videos kinda give me hope, will I be able to send you the hard disk through DHL or something, then you can quote me. Is it possible? Thank you

Sooo, the broken hard drive and the donor only have to share the Model Number to be compatible ?

Hey HDD I figure out that my hard drive head broke when my external hard drive fell. everything else works but the reading head. How do I get the part to replace the head for my 8tb Seagate HDD thank you?

Hi can I use heads from ST3000DM001 to read a 3 platter ST2000DM001? Thanks

So this exact model I have was in a external case. I had a power outage and it formatted the harddrive into .RAW format. I took the case out and plugged it directly into my computer because via USB would not work. I used easeus Data recovery software and was able to get most of the data to appear in the software but at the time I did not have another harddrive to switch it over. Now, the harddrive will never connect/be recognized by the computer. It turns on, spins, and does not make odd sounds. Disk manager doesn't list it, Bios doesn't either, I can not find drivers for this harddrive. I can not get the harddrive to connect so I can do recovery. I fear the harddrive is dead dead. Do I have to just do what you did in this video and get a exact model harddrive that is healthy and start switching out the parts in hope that it fixes it? Just so I can recovery it all to another harddrive that isn't this god awful product by seagate. Thanks if you reply.

this happened to me yesterday. i have to admit ive had this for more than 10 years, but now my important data, some of backup photos and videos that are important to me are inaccessible :( im not sure if i should give it to a person to recover my data, or try it myself. im a technician but I've never worked on drives.

I have the same drive (ST3000DM001) that began to fail suddenly and now is clicking the same way. It showed a few thousand reallocated sectors and I was attempting to remap them but gave up and now the drive is not detected in the bios. I opened it up and verified the heads were not stuck. I was thinking about ordering a donor drive to swap head assemblies. Will this require terminal work and rechanneling the drive? Not sure if its possible to just swap the assembly only or not? The data is not critical but its worth 50 bucks to me. Great video BTW!

i have seagate Momentus 1 TB external sata drive it was working fine but was dropped some how and after that there is no sound in the drive it is not even turning on when i plug it in the computer it do sound as some thing is attached and if i see in the device manager the name is shown for some time and then it goes and hard disk light stops what could be the problem ?

I have a drive with comics of it it about 25 gigs of data on a 500 gb drive it's clicking what to do? I put drive in sealed ziplock

This exact model started to do this today, oh boy... I have it for almost 10 years.

do you also repair the iomega 100mb zip scsi?

where i can get (Buy) a Head lock for remove the harddisk head module?

What tools did you use to safely remove the headstack? I've taken a few broken or obsolete drives apart to mess with the neodymium magnets. I've always really destroyed the head stack in the process sometimes even scraping the disk surface...ouch.

This just happened to me a couple of hours ago - 2TB Seagate Barracuda main drive with all my personal data on it! I do have a back up but i seems to be dated Jan2018... (better than nothing I guess?!)

My hard drive clicking is much softer, barely audible and my files are all in RAW format. I have no idea what to do!

hi I have a moto g 1st gen it has priceless videos on it when I go to boot screen it says device lock error code: 0 can you recover data on it?

Olá, sou do Brasil e trabalho com Informática! Gostaria de aprender com vocês! Tem algum curso que posso fazer com vocês?

can we also swap pcb too from the working one?

Hi. My needle/head goes back and forth and it looks like the disc doesn't spin at full speed. I can't read the harddrive on my PC. Any ideas? Regards Andrew.

Just ask any of your contact: Internal Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive spins up and spins down and then stops spinning. It causes NTLDR is Missing Error. HDD intact and was never dropped.

my hard just started to spin at 100% usage and made the clicking sounds. Whats the likelihood of saving the data?

Thanks

I have a Hitatchi 232gb laptop hard drive with a similar issue, but I don't have any donners and don't want to spend any money on a new head. Any help?

if u change only disks will it work

How much do you guys normally charge?

How much to recover a Seagate Baracuda 1TB HDD with that clicking sound?? I am really only interested in recovering picture, video and audio files. I am not interested in full restoration.

Great Video! I'm currently working on data recovery jobs using plain old ddrescue and some other freeware stuff, but planning to get a pc 3000 udma till the end of this year. This video brought up many concerns for me, it shows just how complicated working with this devices can be. I was wondering if You can do an overview on most common Rom faults or priovide some literature where I can get an idea of what I'm go na be facing soon. BTW i Just love Your Channel, You are one of the few who bing up details on data recovery in this very competetive market.

Awesome.....

How create environment for HDD part replacement, I mean dust free. :-)

how much cost with that heads holder that you temporary hold heads?

What is the Cost in the the same case scenario ? my hard drive is doing the same exact thing .

Awesome Video!!! Mine does not make any noise. The issue is The USB does not recognize Seagate. Device cannot start. (Code 10). In the Device Manager there is an Explanation mark on the USB Mass Storage Device. Model Number: ST2000DM001 Family: BARRACUDA 1.5TB I've rolled back drivers, uninstaller, installed just everything I could think of. I need to recover my files. Any thoughts or ideas would be Greatly Appreciate. Thank You

I have the same problem but its a 2TB Seagate barracuda and Found 3 Seagate barracuda with the same firmware CC27, first question is if send these 2TB Seagate barracuda what will it cost to recover an get it back to work. These seagate driver never been open at all. Fill free to contact me throw my youtube inbox.

Its amazing how much detail you put into these videos, as you were showing us the software read/write the process was so interesting, i couldn't take my eyes of your pc screen , it was so interesting.........this is sarcasm btw Please can you do screen capture when you do these videos as i really am interested in data recovered but dont have a clue what was happening from 07:50 to the end of the video

I bought 5 of these drives as backup to my RAID. The only time they got used was when I filled the drive from my RAID, then left it to one side for when I ever need to restore my RAID if the RAID ever failed. A year later I needed to recover my RAID and tried to offload all my data from the Seagates. All 5 drives failed like this and Seagate claimed they were all out of warranty. Now I don't buy Seagate ever again. They are the worst manufacturer of hard drives I have ever come across. How they can make drives which don't even last the time it takes to read off all data just once is beyond me. How are they still in business?

thank you for sharing.. i might be contacting you. :-)

How much should we be charged for s recovery?? What does it depend on???

I lost a file, and I have run date recovery on it. But the customer still saying there are still files missing and I have copy the recovery ones back to the Harddrive. What the solution to get them back??

You clear the smart list?

How much does it cost to repair this exact drive? Mine failed and is clicking the exact same way.

Why do they lock the drive after failure and not a simpler means than shorting the board. It sounds like either bad design or subterfuge?

Why it has this shield over the platter?

I just had both my ST3000DM001 go down on me. FAK! SAME CLICK ISSUE!

sometimes it is not necessary to open the case to manually position the needle.. the problem may be in the power supply or in the connectors under the pcb, which oxidizes with time... you probably know that ( as i can see, you have a lot of hdd there on your shelf to be fixed ) let me ask you a question ? don't you worry about dust sitting on top of the disk while they are open ? your environment is far from being perfect for handling this type of device.... On the other hand, I heard that when the drive is spinning, the dust or any particle just goes away. anyway... nice video anyway !!!

That's feature of Seagate drives...

Genius!

Hi. Could you list the software you use please?

I have a same model drive. I can hear that platters spin without clicks but it's not being detected by any computer's BIOS. Do you think it could be a physical issue or a PCB issue? Thank you very much for being so generous and open-handed with your knowledge!

hard drive surgeon.

Please I opened my hard drive the head wasn’t on the plater or the round disks, something feel on it and it doesn’t show up again, PLEASE I NEED TO RECOVER MY DATA, help me please , please

my HDD making clicking sound when idle.is it normal.it is brand-new asus

excelent

i want worke in recovery data what the good instrument for that

How much would this type of recovery cost?

I am genuinely interested in data recover but what learning path or course did you take to get going with data recovery? Google searches are vague and I would prefer something more specific. Thanks for any advice...

Sir ... How do you think about dramless ssd? Is it bad deal ?

hi ...2TB seagate ...spins and make clicking sound once ... as she did normally when she was ok ... only difference is ...HDD not detected at all ...