thevoyager wrote:
I foolishly opened it up as I heard it could be simple as a stuck needle
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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