hi all
i have a seagate barracuda 7200.7 80 Gb that suddenly stopped , i heard a clicking noise and after opening it in a very clean place, juste the time to see it , it's doing exacly like this matrox in this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECMLuxaEq_E

and after doing 8 or 10 times clicking it stopped. so no detected by the machine.
so please if it has any chance of repair or to recover some important data please tell me (no professional company to recover it)
thx

PLZ

Well the drive does look like a Seagate, but why is the video titled Dead Western Digital?

Looks to me like heads are unable to read any information and are defective. Ideally you need to rule out all possibilities but looks like head failure to me.

My advice is to get it to a expert fast.

(and opening the drive yourself is never a good thing to do!!)

thank you,
dont know why in the video it's wester digital (it's not mine)
can't get it to the expert it's veryyyyyy expensive to me
any other idea please
thx

To get this data back you need to place good working and compatible headsinto your disk from a donor drive. This is very difficult to do and attempting this yourself can result in complete loss of your data.

What you need to do depends on how important your data is to you.

did u use a clean room for opening hdd ??

thx hddguy, the data is very important to me

hi rameez, do u mean a professional clean room ? ofcourse not
but i've tried to open it in a very clean place, no dust no anyhing, and i do not open it all, just the way to see the head arm clicking
thx