WD1200AB-22CBA 1

[FUNHOUSES]

Platters rotate, head crosses to middle , quickly shoots back to center, disk stops rotating. Need someone relatively inexpensive. Need to recover family photos.

[HDD Spaz]

you wont find that here. You have opened it and made things ten times worse and ten times more expensive.

[BlackST]

I'm afraid not here nor elsewhere. And all this just because you opened it. Good luck, anyway.

[FUNHOUSES]

so it cant be opened?

[BlackST]

It WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN , instead.

[falther]

so it cant be opened?

Think you told us .... you did ....

So... as far as I do understand english .... that means ... you can


... but, what you where told .... you should NOT have done it.


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[FUNHOUSES]

some other issue? What is estimated cost of something like this?

[BlackST]

At present : likely head problem and/or firmware issue (original problem) , plus (added by you) : media contamination and possible damage , loss of alignment.
For me it's not less than 2500-3000 EUR + VAT and need to see the drive if it is still recoverable.

[matt_will_fix_it]

Platters rotate, head crosses to middle , quickly shoots back to center, disk stops rotating. Need someone relatively inexpensive. Need to recover family photos.

I think you're one step ahead of yourself... why not post the original symptoms before opening the drive?