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I won't touch it now anyway. Just want to know.

BTW, again, better not DIY, without access to a sterile room at the least. Even a small grain might corrupt data on the drive.

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Sure.. wil talk tomorrow..

Can you remind me tomorrow. I faced this exact issue and foudn this information in a videos few years ago. Will try to get you that video. Regardless, please don't disassemble yourself. The platters

These are the best first steps! Let me know what you find out and I'll do my best to assist.

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If the drive itself outside of the enclosure, put in a PC, yeilds no access to data, then the above methods might be necessary. Is it readable at all? If not and it's making noises the heads may be st

Then I'm done with the drive? Already lost hopes about drive working. But is it possible to recover data at home?

Opening the drive to replace the head without a professional clean room is never advised unless it is for data recovery before retiring the drive. An issue with the drive controller board, while rare,

Any tutorials or vids available abou this?

swapped both disk in different ports and tested them.

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I am different kind of lazy then.

This most probably means an issue with the little hand like things that actually read the data on the platter. Sometimes, replacing them fix the issue, at other times, you might actually have to repla

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