Data Recovery On A 1TB Western Digital Hard Drive 

wow... I was just tagging along during the hardware repair, there are SO many videos of that, but during the recovery portion I was entranced. Excellent narration of your recovery software. You know that program well!

Great vid, have done many data recoveries but sometimes its not possible without specialised people like you. I am always careful not to push a faulty drive too much with software recovery only.

Thank you for sharing your data recovery process, and explaining the components of a hard drive.

Wow. I had to watch this from behind the sofa! Brilliant.

Great video! If data recovery doesn't pan out, you've got a future as a voice double for Seth Rogen.

Clear ,Concise and informative. Great stuff.

This isn't really my area, but I watched start to finish. Really cool that you shared the knowledge. I learned some valuable stuff, like don't go stick'n inexperienced fingers inside an HDD. Seems like a good, honest company. Thx.

There is a lot more to it software wise than I ever thought, great video man!

I know i'm late to the (reply party) but I just came across this video...great work and patience with the HDD - you have given me hope I have a 250gb seagate which suffered the fall of doom - i'm definitely going to be going to your website and giving you guys a call - this video was a sign of hope

Thanks for uploading this video. I am a layman and had no ideas as to how HD works. Now i have better how hard is hard drives are. Thanks again.

So kids this is the only video you going to need to understand DONT EVEN TRY TO REPAIR YOUR FAILED DRIVES-AND DONT WATCH VIDEOS WHERE THEY TELL YOU -"YEAH YOU OPEN THE DRIVE AND ITS EZ"

Thanks for the glimpse behind the curtain! I always love seeing how the 'magic' is done.

I wondered why it was so expensive for data recovery , I fully understand now ! Excellent video 👌🏼🧱👍🏼

Great video! the information provided was concise and helpful.

Omg. The video is 8 yrs ago? By This time the gentleman is in earth or moon? A great video

Interesting insight into drive anatomy and data recovery. Thanks.

Hey, you do a great job, keep up the good work.

WOW! It's amazing, Mr. Data Saver!

ive been watching your videos for several years i like it :)

Excellent job...

This is the real professional way recovering data (and likely the most expensive way)

I am not really going to do this myself, but it is so interesting to just watch !.. have always been more interested in the hardware part than the software part, and this has alot of hardware tech talk.

no I think it's great sir ur take the needed steps to assure no mishaps I can dig it 😀

very interesting , thank you for explaining the process

Very interesting work. Thanks for sharing this. Would like to see the process for an SSD!

You are good at what u do keep it up

Great Video, well done.

just did this and it worked lol didnt have to do the deepspar stuff just changed the heads and a few unplug and replugins later it showed in my pc an i was able to get 7122 jpgs back that i had on there thanks for this vid man helped me so much lol

Very informative!

Great Video

great video, very explanatory

Pretty interesting video, My WD is failing in laptop relocating about 50 sectors a boot. First drive ive ever had started to fail on me...I keep close eye on smart information just by habit. I do have to say I have hitachi deskstar 1tb with ~40,000 hours of power on time. I cant believe that drive is still working and passing smart.

I recognize that drive model! I had one just like it brought to me for data recovery. It made noise like a coffee grinder and the owner let it run like that for the whole day while trying to get it working. When I opened up, I discovered that one of the neodymium magnets broke off and struck to a platter, hitting heads and turning into fine dust, which ended up coating all drive platters and scratching them on top of that. I wasn't able to pull a single coherent bit off that drive. Total loss. The problem with neodymium magnets is that they're often covered in protective coating, like stainless steel. When glued to a surface, the coating bonds fine, but if there are imperfections in the magnet, it may separate from the outer layer and then, it's say goodbye to the hard drive and all your precious bits.

Great video!

I enjoyed this video!!!

An amazing video! It is nice to watch a true professional at work. Kudos to you! I have a strange question for you if you don't mind answering. Since you mentioned that WD drives have a tendency to lose their slider heads, can the orientation of the placement of the drive in a pc or on a desktop prevent this over time. Having the drive vertical or horizontal, upside down or right side up where the heads point up or down? Does it even matter, I could imagine gravity and wear and tear could play a factor but maybe its negligible. Anyway, great video!

Thanx a lot! Obrigado ! from Brasil!

Excellent video thanks you so much

ever worked with WD's mybook drives? I heard they have an encryption chip that prevents you from just accessing the data unless you put it back in the enclosure. Does your software allow you to access those drives ?

hi, thanks for the video ; ). Great tutorial! Just wandering if it is okay not to change to a whole new set of heads?

Very well done, good manipulation with with hdd, no shocks, (ESD manipulation). Only one thing I would recomend a special tool for removing of top plate cover, not scredriwer which may scratch edge of drive and relase a particles from colour etc. to internal space. Resonable sw for data manipulation during recovery process which minimise heads manipulation during recovery process.

At 2:46, you stated that you've "already done some other tests to this so we know for sure its the drive"...what did you do specifically? Thanks

Thanks for the kind and comprehensive demonstration. its really useful. By the way, what software are you using to analyse and repair the HDD, Thank you very much

I've been looking to educate myself regarding data recovery, but there aren't too many places with compiled information or avaiable courses i can turn to. And loose information here and there aren't too well structured, explained or covers everything. Can you point me at the right direction?

great job.

Cool video bro.

Many thanks Wonder Gumise, i will try that. Hugs

Hello there, thanks for the video. I have one WD my Book EHD like this and I think that something is burned inside bc I bought a new adaptor that is a higher voltage and I tried to open it a couple of times, and it does some weird sounds at the beginning. Do you think that the data can be recovered? It is detected in control panel though but I cannot see it in "my computer" and open it. What do you think?

Great video! If you disable the 'Intellipark' feature, are these drives generally reliable? Are the blue drives more reliable?

Nice video thanks.In your experience what drives would you recommend for a qnap 4 bay nas in terms of reliability? Seagate nas hdd or wd red?

Thank you for the video , btw i just want to know what's the program that was booting up on your computer

hey there - fantastic work! I was wondering, would you recommend a 3.5 or 2.5 drive as a backup drive. Is there an advantage to a 3.5 over 2.5 as reliability, serviceable/recoverable ? Regards Matthew UK

Hello, thankyou for you videos, they are really informative and interesting to watch, very happy I have come across your channel. A happy subscriber. Just a couple of questions which hopefully you will be able to answer. I am considering buying a new External Portable Harddrive with the USB cord, but not really sure on what brand to get, either a WD or a Seagate, does the brand really matter? Is one harddrive better than the other? Because at the moment I have been using a Seagate Expansion harddrive for about 4 and a half to 5 years now, and it feels like it's been doing allright for that time. I have read numerous reviews on both brands about various of people stating that WD is better than Seagate (or visa versa), it's doing my head in on which one I should buy. I am contemplating on getting the 4TB Segate because I'm unsure on what WD is going to be like to me, becuase i remember while a go (maybe 7 years) that my first ever harddrive was a WD and it broke down quite easily. But nowadays the WDs (according to the reviews) are saying that the news WD today a "better than what they used to be" so they say. Also, do you know of any GOOD downloadable programmes to check the health state of a drive, I have used HD Sentinel, but I am unsure about the accuracy of the programme, it MIGHT say that the Performance and Health is "EXCELLENT" but I'm still a bit uncertain about it. I also get this message "The hard disk status is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found and there are no spin up or data transfer errors." does that mean everything IS OK with the harddrive? Thankyou so much in advance Matt P.S. I apologize for the long comment, I'm just glad I came across your channel, because I'm really sceptic abut these things, hopefully you can help me out.

thanks for the video

Very informative. thanks a zillion

I have the same drive that started making scratching sounds starting up not clicking but scratching. You think you guys can still work with it and get things moved over?

NICE !! There is a lot of Dos based software out there that works good!! What do you prefer to use? Like in this vid? I have never used this particular software (I do not think lol) A Lot of the new Acronis Soft has Dos options also!! Thanks 4 Sharing Bud!!

This is crazy. Never seen this.

What kind of machine and software that you used to calibrate the hard drive after the replacement had done

Killer video, learned more than I expected. Curious: are there any brands of drives which you rarely receive or work on, and is it because of their quality or un-repairability? Thanks!

Thank You for you video.helpful our field

Excellent video day have blamed email and using profane or software for scanning sectors Cheers gratis video

What is the name of the software you were using for the head mapping and imaging?

What did this end up costing the customer all said and done to have fixed enough for them or you to then image/backup the data?

Hi acsdata team. i have one question. moving different platters is tricky because of alignment. but moving one platter needs any alignment? where disk has only one platter. thx))

Mine did that after not using it for well over 3 years. Banged it a few time.. gave access to files and transfered to a USB memory..

Nice video 👍. With smaller capacity drives like 100 gig or less do you find multiple platters and heads or a single platter with two heads for the front and back of the platter? I'm assuming that both sides of the platter are always utilized in data storage.

I'm using Windows 7. My passport external hard drive wouldn't open recently, the monitor screen just kept showing a circle spinning around...Dummy me, instead of just unplugging the external drive I did a ctrl alt delete to shut the drive down. Now when I plug the drive in Windows says it doesn't recognize the drive and wants to reformat it. Did I just erase all of the date from the drive?

Hi. I have an old WD 1TB external hard drive that I need to recover. It was working fine until the USB port inside the casing broke off the board and I took it to 2-3 shops where they told me that they can't fix it and don't have any means to recover it. I live in a place where there are no data recovery labs or any other services for this. I have tried everything. My drive looks exactly like this one and it's old, I bought it around 2011. Is there anyway I could do it myself? Would you suggest a docking station? I didn't really know that I could use one until I looked it up today, but I'm not sure if it will read my drive due to WD's data protection.

Very interesting.

I have a lo-tech approach to a tired drive. When the disk is trying to rotate, I hold the drive and turn it fast clockwise, Normally this is enough to make the disk spin. Then I copy the contents to another drive. Done that several times.

Ahh a EADS green drive. this is literally casued by the agressive power saving management. the head load and unload non stop. I am surprised mine is still running to this very day with only 3 reallocated sectors lol.

How is the quality of the recovered photos? Same as original form before recovery?

Hi ACS. I have a similar WD drive with the same behavior. Before it stopped completely, I was able to run a diagnostic routine which revealed a “Corrupt MBR”. All attempts to correct the MBR failed, and the drive stopped completely. With the drive on the bench, I reconnected it to the computer. I turned it upside down, and it started to run. I got two more hours of operation, but the time was not long enough to recover the data. Insomuch the drive ran for two more hours, could the problem not be with the MBR, or the heads and platters, but be in the controller board? If yes, is it easy to acquire and replace just that board? Thank you very much.

hi, very help full, excellent). which tool are you using? & where i can get this?

what brand drives do you see the least issues with? ,what drives to you use to store your data ? :) great video

What are the cables called that are used in the video, the red ones attached to drive ?

شكرا لك على الشرح القيم، انا عندي قرص صلب هل يمكن ان يصلح ؟ هنا في بلدي كل المصلحين قالوا انه لا يمكن اصلاحه

Does it work on a WD my cloud's drives? or on anything NAS drives? pls I need to recover some information that I've deleted by error.

2.5" drives with high capacity are tricky? Just seen a 4TB external one from Samsung/Seagate. Wouldn't it be more reliable to use a 3.5" for storing more data?

Hey great video! Can a platter swap be performed from a 2GB 4 platter configuration WD BLACK drive into a similar 4 platter 2GB WD GREEN Donor drive provided the drives are otherwise a match?

Which hard drive would YOU buy if you were to pick a drive at 4TB or above?

Very excellent video, thank you for taking the time to explain the process so well. I have a 2tb WD (quad platter stack) black drive with good platters and data but the complete circuit board including the data chip has been lost. Can you tell me if it is possible to swap the data platters into a similar donor drive using the donor's circuit board and bios chip or is the chip married to the original drive the data was written to? I hope I explained that well enough to understand. Thank you for your channel and help.

What brand of HDDs do you see least in your lab?

As of yesterday, my external WD 2TB stopped working. It's recognized in Devices and Printers but not My Computer. I'm unable to rename the drive letter in Disk Management on account of I/O error. Could I ask please what is a typical price range to fix this?

What Hard Drive Manufacture would you recommend rather than WD?

may i knw if the inside disk scratch still can recover the data?

what are is price range for this? I have an external hard drive 1.5 TB that has failed on me just last week and it is clicking.

WDs are my favorite HDDs

NIce video, watched it just purely for the info, never watched data recovery before. I'm a bit paranoid myself and always have a backup of important stuff. I would also never personally use a WD Green HDD as shown in the video anyway. I must admit, when the video started and it was a WD Green HDD, I kind of smirked as it doesn't surprise me it died. Honestly, these drives are well known to fail, the firmware makes the heads park after so many seconds, it adds up too much and it just wears out. There's a DOS program where you can change the amount of time though. I'd just personally still not bother with them myself...they're honestly not any cheaper or are even more expensive for the same capacity as other HDD's I've seen. I've had good luck in the past buying used enterprise grade hdd's from people with decent capacity here and there, those are generally built like tanks, especially Hitachi's. Also had a few WD RE2 enterprise hdd's, have yet to try an RE3 or RE4 WD Enterprise HDD though.

My 1.5yr old laptop doesn't boot up. After trying various ways, HP Engineer said my hard drive has gone bad. I took it to nearby Bestbuy to recover the data. First they checked it, and told me they are able to see the contents in the hard drive and it'll take upto a day to recover as the data is about 500GB followed by fomat the drive. Next day I picked it up and checked the external hard drive to which they backed up the data. It had about 225GB data and very important videos and documents are missing. Did the Bestbuy guys didn't do a good job or when the drive goes bad, not all data can be recovered?

hey, what the main requirements swapping Platters? Does the hard drive must be with the same capacity, model, version? or just the same make and similar look? thanks

You won't tell us, but your "special tool" is called a "head comb"

how much do you charge for data recovery?

Which Imager software do you use @20:00 ? its oyur own? Greetings

Can you say what makes and models you've see that are dirty inside?

I have a some what new hard drive that had a total driver crash. Due to Blue screen errors.I will just need to restore the drivers right? I know this will wipe out all data but it will work again right?

You may want to add an ESD mat to your setup.

hi what software did you use to clone the damaged drive ???

I had a Seagate 1tb internal hard drive which suddenly stopped working. It gave alert message 1day before that a problem has been detected in the hard drive. From the last few weeks it was making a rusty noise at the point of startup and after some time of starting it stopped automatically. Now it's dead totally. Please help and is it repairable.