This is absolutely stupid

HHHmmm tried to, got it open and it started but as soon as the reading heads entered it shut down .....

I thought this was for a SSD drive but your video is for a conventional HDD

thank you so much for the video .

I am having this issue, this is perfect!

please tell me which diode used in seagate pcb 100809417 power section? Please help me .... it is not readable

Thanks, great stuff. I got to the part where I dislodged the stuck needle but it wasn't able to read any data. Any chance you have a video on how to replace the needle / its unit using a donor drive? Having a hard time taking the needle out because I can't disassemble the metal corner piece that's holding it in place.

Hello can you fix my discs too? I have two hard discs one 3.5 and 2.5 inch yep thanks

I sure people didnt even know that Seagate doesnt even repair their own external drives. They dont even recommend places that do repairs because it is not part of their policy. PLease if you read this, NEVER BUY A SEAGATE external drive. They are not Reliable!

Sir please help me 2Tb detection problem

Thanks for your video. I'm here because i had these problems some years back. I had a drive that failed and then ten years later it started up. I must have bumped it. The lesson is to make loads of back ups and thanks to videos like yours, to remember never to give up.

I have two BUP Slims from Seagate. Neither of them will read anymore because I slightly bumped them. I don't have the tools to open it and I tried following this guide to initialize it but I got a Fatal Hardware error. I'm at a loss. I do have a Warranty for one but I don't know how to use it and I'm worried I would just lose my data.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5Cuh2mplNyEgaM Can someone please help me with this? Thank you in advance

the most important part.. where he moved the needle.. is off camera and im crying

Hi. I followed the steps shown in the video on my external seagate backup slim plus hard disk. However the beeping sound is still audible and the hard disk stops spinning after a minute from being connected to the laptop. Can you please help?

Data is recovered good...will that hard disk be repaired and reusable again or is it possible to format and use it ?? Any video on this please

I have problem with my hardrive, header is moving back and forth, It cannot read the data, could you please suggest me any solution? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp25gaV6lJ5opKM

you are an awesome person for posting this tutorial. i have yet to do this because i don't understand the part of cloning my drive and can't risk losing 20 years of all my kids photos, but i'll figure it out. thank you so much

Have you any repairing shop at kolkata

Hi thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm going to do this with mines. I have a question, what happens after you do all this fix. I need to build it up again? I've seen some videos saying you should not use it without assembling due to the dust risk damage. So what's next after this? Can build it up again? I need a SATA to USB cable? or I can still use normally the Seagate conection to mac? Thanks in advance!

Bro i did everything fine like that you said but when i tested it this happend.. mega.nz/file/ibIwARxC#rlvoI7ETGriYckkAPJ_OltyH72yS3uW-uc8wO-J7Dcc

To add my appreciation to the other comments: I cannot tell you how helpful this was. Our hard drive wasn't recognized by any computer and was making the same glitchy noise. Seagate tech support simply said the hard drive was out of warranty and could not help. Our local digital data retailer wouldn't touch it. I followed this tutorial and it came back to life like magic.

Sir, please advice, my internal hard disk seagate MOBILE HDD 2TB SDC003 is getting undetectable to any device. I have lost all my important data in it, want to recover the same. Please share the resolves.

Thanks to this man called *Cyberwizard19 on Insta* he totally helped me restore mine ,he’s a pro for real

This helped a lot, once I got the proper 5pt screwdriver from Canada Computers (Amazon didn't have any small enough so wasted some money there) I had the same issue with the needle. I skipped the cloning step, gambled on it and won this time. You were a huge help, thank you for your video!

i did the same method, only the spindle or needle was in its original positon. i,e near the starting point and not stuck in the middle of the head/ring. when i closed the lid, it made new sounds like > scraping type. but like for a milisecond... pls help

you rock, I had no idea how similar these were to old school record players

Thank you. I have a 1 TB SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS EXTERNAL HDD . I use it by attaching it with my honor 7x mobile through OTG for data transfer (bothside). I purchased it 11 months back from flipkart. I use it max once or twice in a month. I used it with desktop 3 times only since purchased. Yesterday when i was working with in by attaching it my mobile , suddenly one beep sound came and HDD light turned off. I performed safe remove process from top bar and after few seconds , it showed that " its safe to remove now" . I removed it and reattached it with mobile but no light no detection. Then again i removed safely and attached it in Sony laptop. It showed new usb driver installation. After completion of the same , no pop up came , no light on HDD , no drive shown in my computer . Then I went to printer & devices and found that it is showing the HDD there but when I went to its properties ; there is blank in VOLOUME TAB . In GENERAL TAB it is showing " device type : disk drive ; manufacturer : standard disk drive ; Location : on USB mass storage device ; device status : this device is working properly " . Another msg shows " windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for safe removal but it has not been removed from the computer (code 47) . To fix the problem , unplug this device from your computer and then plug in again ". I unmounted safely it by right clicking . Then reattached the same . Result is still same. Then removed. Restarted the laptop , attached again... same results... pls advise

Geez, you could not get more than 1/3 view of the needle procedure? Dumb

I have an external 2tb hdd for the xbox one that copy the games but not reproduce any, just starts the games and shuts them down

Hello Patrick, I hope this message finds you well. Well I had the same issue with my HDD, is the same model. I have opened and try the same all step that you did at this video. My computer ca not conect to the HD it is all imposible to observe in My computer (to recognize this external HDD). The led (the light) it is on flash light ... and I have a strange noise like a repetive beep. What do you think is the reason, do you think it is possible to recuperate my External HDD ? Thanks in advace, Marius from Romania/Bucharest (mechanical engineer)

2:45 $starts here

Interesting, but please dump the 'music'.

very helpful thanks patrick jacobs

Thank you, I'm so happy I found your video, I was able to fix my hard drive.

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My Seagate Slim Problem after 1 Month.. always Stuck at 20%.. 😣😣

Thanks for the amplified sound symptoms, which I recognised was consistent with my problem Seagate 1TB Backup Plus (with a USB3 connector/adapter to the concealed SATA and power) and an all black plastic case. Guessing it was the same stuck head, I decided not to dismantle at all, but by pinching the drive between finger and thumb across the large flat sides, and with the drive surface then positioned vertically, I just lightly tapped the long, thin, side edge of the drive on my knee a couple of times, and reconnected: Bingo! Not too sure if there is any corruption, but drive is now working normally, as far as I can tell.

you are the dude!

Thank you!!! It worked! Was scared, but it worked..

thank you for the help it was really helpfull but if you want you can check guys and this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4WyZqeclremsKM it helped me too and this one