Hey everyone here I am once more with yet another hard disk problem.So here goes,I have a 1 tb seagate internal hdd its about 4-5 years old and I used it as a secondary drive and it was in pretty bad health and hdd sentinel gave me plenty of warnings to back up the data and replace it but I didn't listen and carried on unfortunately a few days back it started clicking and then stopped functioning altogether.
The data that's on the harddisk is the usual media and games and software and a bunch of files which I didn't even knew what they were but hoped to finding their purpose later on.
But because I was really desperate to revive the drive myself as I knew that getting professional help is extremely costly I saw a bunch of youtube videos and got to work to open the drive myself after opening the drive the visible side of the platters looked fine but when I tried to manually rotate the platter discs they made what sounded to me like a scratching sound so maybe the head arms are damaged.
I know that I'm completely at fault here as their were warnings all along the way but I ignored them so what I want from you guys is to know how much will it cost to fix the internal components of the drive and also what is the success/failure rate as I really can't invest the money in fixing the drive if failure rate is high.
I would also like to hear if anyone else had a similar experience such as mine and what was the outcome of that experience.Sorry this got long as I'm trying to come to terms with what I've lost and what I've learnt.Thank you for reading.
The data that's on the harddisk is the usual media and games and software and a bunch of files which I didn't even knew what they were but hoped to finding their purpose later on.
But because I was really desperate to revive the drive myself as I knew that getting professional help is extremely costly I saw a bunch of youtube videos and got to work to open the drive myself after opening the drive the visible side of the platters looked fine but when I tried to manually rotate the platter discs they made what sounded to me like a scratching sound so maybe the head arms are damaged.
I know that I'm completely at fault here as their were warnings all along the way but I ignored them so what I want from you guys is to know how much will it cost to fix the internal components of the drive and also what is the success/failure rate as I really can't invest the money in fixing the drive if failure rate is high.
I would also like to hear if anyone else had a similar experience such as mine and what was the outcome of that experience.Sorry this got long as I'm trying to come to terms with what I've lost and what I've learnt.Thank you for reading.
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