I have had this external HDD laying around for a good year..

I foolishly opened it up as I heard it could be simple as a stuck needle, not sure what I thought I could do.

As it is now the casing is open, and I can see the round disk, it has been protected and wrapped up..

Have I any luck here?

Any luck for what?

What was the original issue and what is your aim?

You’ve also provided no details at all about the device, so it’s virtually impossible to provide any advice.

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Let me guess you saw a youtube video.

As per pcimage we need far more information, drive model and original fault for a start. If all you did was opened it and then close it that unlikely to have caused anything more than contamination. If you put your fingers over the platters or ran the drive without the lid that's a different matter.

The bad news is most of us have an additional open drive fee you'll be subject to cover the additional work to clean them up before we can diagnose what was wrong in the first place.

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Hi, I did not see a youtube video, was a forum or blog, but yeah suppose a silly mistake.
I did not touch the platter or run it.
It is a Western Digital 1tb HDD, Main cod is 1511b but not sure which code you mean?
What other advice can I give you?
Thanks.

Just called one company and they quoted £500!
I think I may have to decline. Is this really the ball park figure?

it is not something extreme for an opened drive with mech failure.
however, without knowing the actual problem, it is hard to estimate, 500 is probably a safe number...

pepe

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Potential headswap on a preopened drive sounds about right, you may have been looking at just half that originally.

If you want to send it in for a free evaluation you can but there are return shipping costs if you don't progress to recovery.

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To you?

Those are my evaluation policies I can't speak for anyone else. If your data is worth professional recovery costs then it's always worth have one of us look at a drive in person, but if you're looking for a 50 quid fix- it's just not going to happen.

If you want someone local, John's pretty close https://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk/

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