stuck head on platter therfore motor not spinning how do i solve

Is it your drive or someone elses?
Do you accept the risks in DIY?
Is the data important? if so seek a dr pro.
How do you know its stuck? have you opened the drive to look?
What have you tried?

hello! same thing happened to me two months ago. The day before yesterday I opened the hard drive and found his arm stuck on the disk. Carefully place it on your site, and then does what you can see in this video.

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Still does not initialize the disk is the same problem that existed before
loki, think there is any solution?
Thank you!

If you have the proper DR tools you can try to put the heads in parking area and see if the motor spins.
If it does check if the heads are reading.



In this moment since you turn on the drive in a non proper place with the case open you have damage more the drive.
The problem seams to be the heads, they can't read the SA Zone any more. They probaly are damaged.
If you need the data seek a DR Pro near your home.

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mukesh_raval

As your aware stiction is where the head sticks to the platter.
Yes I have done some drives with stiction & so far I have been able to recover the users data using the original heads but you will sometimes need to change the heads aswell even if they dont look damaged but they dont read ie you have a bad head.
Basic instruction: you need a clean working enviorment ie laminar workbench or cleanroom to stop contamination ie dust, hairs, flakes of skin etc The heads float very close to the platters & contamination will cause damage.
Then you need to very gently free the head from the platter with out damaging the head, platter or bending the arm/slider. Once thats done you would need to rotate the platters while you park the heads.
Then you would refit the cover & hook it up & see if it initialises & see if you can access the data. If so get the important data off asap. The platters might have bad sectors on if so then you will need something like a DeepSpar Disk Imager to recover the data. The DDI is a great tool & worth every pound I spent ie £3,500.00

Realistically I would recommend a dr pro if the data is important enough.
If its not important & you accept the risks then it will be good practice but your chances will be slim.

Loki

The data are not important, I would like especially to recover photos that I have no copy.
So if I have placed the arm in the parking position and all you do is what you see in the video you would say that happens? is the arm? I forget the hard drive?
Thank you very much!

Most likely you have a bad head that reads the SA & thats why it wont initialise.
Doing head swaps is not DIY you need practice, tools, donor, a steady hand & more practice
But if you just want to do it for fun & experience then go for it but remember its your choice & risk.

Loki

After turning WD with the cover open, even in a clean area, HDD can be immediately discarded.