How to Fix a Dead Hard Drive - Hard Disk Repair 

Here is another fix for a dead HDD. Fixing the PCB of a dead hard drive is must if the drive completely dead or is not reading. If you like the video hit the thumb-up 👍 and subscribe for more content like this.

This is hard than i thought. I have three 1 and 2 tera HDD here and I'm trying to recover it. Then i saw this video and my mind says nah. I'm not technician lol. Thanks you for this!

I remember my hardisk, 17 years ago. And still wondering how to fix it. Thank you to share

Fantastic job sir,well done,

Brilliant thanks

Nice one...

I have couple of questions, can you use component from another hard drive? And are you using normal heat gun?

how do you know which pins to probe? it seemed like you hit the short immediately when you began testing but you could've easily just chosen two nodes that are connected internally or something. maybe done to get a point across but can you specify what i should be probing on my unit

The work is thorough and sheds a light on many things that I did not pay attention to. In my case, mine was different (Seagate Momentus 320 Gb) And I wanted to conduct the repair for files that I wanted, luckily I was able to restore some files although the majority of files were corrupted for some reason, but I got what I needed thankfully. Thanks for the video, I'm sure it'll help a lot of people like myself.

what is the uf rating for the capacitor

Awesome

Hi, i got a seagate barracuda ST500LM030 , the pcb make a smell after i tried a psu i found on my dad old pc , which should be a good psu(Thermaltake smart450w),and got something on the pcb burned, i believe it was the capacitor, but idk which type of capacitor, and idk where to find the pcb diagram

how did you determine the specs of the cap you replaced?

Please how can I find the replacement for it? Or I can use any of it types from any panel?

i recently turned my internal hard disk to external, but it turns out that it cannot be read. i can see the light turning on but somehow its not blinking like my other external. how do you suggest i fix it? is my hard drive considered dead or can it still run? also how can i retrieve my data from that hard disk?

Is it possible to replace the logic board itself in order the hard drive to function?

How you get a circuit diagram ?

QAQ Great video. It makes me know why the hard disk was dead. And It's hard to find tools and recover by myself.

When I have a failing disk, the general advice is to replace it. I have several old drives now. Is it safe and is there a way to restore them to a good standard. I do not need the data, I am just wondering if it is risky to use them after reformatting. Or if there is a way to avoid/cut out the bad sectors? Really I would like to keep them for old back ups. But if it isnt safe, then I cannot.

Mine is Toshiba 1 TB Worked fine till yesterday when suddenly a copying process was stuck midway which compelled me to disconnect it directly and from then on the device is not recognized by WIN PC. Though the power LED is on while in use but it's static (not flikering.) and the disc inside is also rotating.

Hi. This was a great video. I was wondering if there is a fix for my external hdd. When i connect it to the pc i get a connection notification sound, the disk spins for a few seconds then disconnects. power light start flashing...

Hi, I am not an expert, but a little technical knowledge I have, if I replace the board with a new board of same company's hard disk's board, will it work?

Can you tell us how you knew which farad capacitor to replace it with???

the white noise kinda makes it more satisfying

How do you know, how many farad was the bad capacitor which you replaced?

Hi I have a hardisk with the Rom (Bios burned - in the sense that PCB's rom is missing) Reason I had buying a card to do the swapping but the repairman lost the original card) Do you think it is possible to recover my Seagate Hardisk? In short, the HD has never been opened and card that has does not have the original BIOS I feel the engine turns but it doesn't see any data windows with new pcb donnor Thx Franco Italy

I have Seagate drive with the same exact issue. Do you think this will work ?

Hello, thanks for the video. However, what do we call the component that you change please? Thanks in advance

My 500 gb laptop hdd from Seagate when connected shows only 3.8 gb disk in bios . When I try to boot up it with my primary 1 tb hdd from seagate hdd, the post screen of cursor just keep on blinking but never allows the booting of my laptop. When I remove faulty drive system easily boots with my primary 1 TB HDD in laptop. System : Dell M4700 Precision workstation Laptop.

My client's hard drive is not being detected anywhere, I think there's something wrong with the drive, I've plugged it into my enclosure and it's a laptop hard drive. I tried it with a different hard drive in my same enclosure and it works no problem but every time I plug in this particular HDD (which is my clients HDD), this one will not detect it, it doesn't show up anywhere my PC, device manager, disk mgmt, etc, sometimes when it's plugged in all I hear is the pins spinning weirdly when I put my ear near it, is it really dead nonrecoverable? any suggestions?

Hello @lapfix I have a Toshiba 2TB used for two months, then it started to be super slow like you need 30min to copy 5mb file into/out of the HDD now. What might be the problem. Is there a way to fix it?

My HDD sounds like plotter is working normal but still unable to detect, it was accidentally fall down on the floor. Any guess what's wrong with HDD

My Toshiba 2tb external hard drive is spinning but its light is dead because I have used 3 USB hdds in an amd computer and then all of them are not working

Accidently fried the logic board for my external hard drive, I'm pretty sure data is still there, but I have no idea if there are boards for sale..

This is my 2nd hard drive that have been dead what is it's problem

how about a disk that are not been use in a long period of time. about 1 year. and when you connect it to your pc it doesnt been recognize or not been detected.

wow!! my HDD is dead i'll try this method thanks men

Please post link for the multimeter probe

How to order new same capacitor

How come you don't inject low voltage to see what heats up, instead of probing everything?

only if i know how to properly use the multimeter without triping the fuse... teach me please!

damm, this video is one of most clear explanation.. So useful!

Hi I'm Mahesh I have seagate 2tb internal hard drive it's come noise I want data also

what kind of liquid put on the board, May i know ? Thanks.

I am so worried after watching your video. My Toshiba hard drive just failed and I am hoping my problem isn't this one coz if it is, I need to send it to a professional lab to recover the data. I can't do what you are doing 😭😭😭

my HDD became really really slow one day not even enough to load the desktop background, it works fine up until i got in, the screen is black and task manager shows constant 100% disk usage

Freaking asmr !

Is this really necessary? I mean, these are so cheap it seems not worth the bother. You can get them for about $30, and a 1tb SSD for $50.

The reality is that most people have no access to that capacitor or even be able to diagnose the problem themselves.. And opening a hard drive outside of a Medical grade Cleanroom exposes the platter to extremely destructive dust immediately. None of that is mentioned in this extremely misleading video.

It's called a hard DRIVE, not hard rive.

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