Harddrive jamming - Help! Videos attached.

[Bobbywig]

Hey, I'm new here so hopefully this is in the correct place.

My HardDrive was dropped from a short distance and it started making a noise. When I opened it up the wheel / actual disk wasn't turning, I've managed to get it to turn but it's making a noise / jamming. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!!

https://youtu.be/ztXhb7nqPqY

[lcoughey]

Can we assume that your data wasn't worth a few hundred bucks before you opened it? Now that you most certainly damaged the heads and possibly the surface, it will cost a lot more by a professional.

[pcimage]

Bad thing: opening up the drive in an unclean environment.
Worse thing: running the drive with lid off.
Good thing: from that video it doesn’t look like the damaged heads are sweeping across the surface, causing further media damage.

Probably recoverable, but definitely NOT a DIY job.

[northwind]

it doesn’t look like the damaged heads are sweeping across the surface, causing further media damage.

+1
Lucky. EXTREMELY LUCKY.

[northwind]

But now that I see this, I'm not holding my breath.

When I opened it up the wheel / actual disk wasn't turning, I've managed to get it to turn

[Dananjaya]

i think there is a 50% chance to recover it yet. if your data is important contact DR center with cleanroom.

[Bobbywig]

The reason I opened it was I want he'd some YouTube videos and they done the same.

But I've fuc**d it all up ain't I?

It's got some memories on there along with just random crap like films

I did phone a company but they said £200 I simply don't have that sort of money!

[Bobbywig]

Omg! I ruined everything.
I've lost everything!

[pcimage]

I can take a look, but it’ll be more than £200.

But less than £600