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My secondary hdd stopped working yesterday and my computer won't recognize it. It's out of warranty so I took the metal shield off to look inside. It spun for a second then I heard 2 clicks, then it stopped. It did that twice. Now it wont spin at all. Is there any way I can fix it and get my data off?

The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM001
 
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Unfortunately, the only real time to get the data off a hard drive is before the hard drive dies. Once it dies, your options are to hope software recovery can salvage something if the hard drive can at least be detected or send it to a reputable data recovery firm, which is a very expensive scenario.

By opening it up, you greatly reduced the probability that anyone will ever...
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you opened the hard disk?

wow, did you had backups?

if you didn't, well you lost the information on tat hard dis

never remove the shield, it puts dust and other contaminants that will damage more the platters and the heads, if it is not spinning, it is dead, buy another
 
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That's why I opened it because I know it's dead. I wouldn't open it if it worked.

 
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Opening it up won't make it any less dead, or give you greater probability of "any way I can fix it and get my data off?"
 
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Unfortunately, the only real time to get the data off a hard drive is before the hard drive dies. Once it dies, your options are to hope software recovery can salvage something if the hard drive can at least be detected or send it to a reputable data recovery firm, which is a very expensive scenario.

By opening it up, you greatly reduced the probability that anyone will ever be able to recover your data - data recovery firms don't open up hard drives only in clean environments because they're neat freaks. When you have a bad cough, do you cut open up your chest to get a better look at your lungs? Because essentially, that's what you did.

Hopefully, your data wasn't too crucial and the loss of it is merely annoying.
 
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rofl!

or pay to a company that will remove the platters, put them into another hard disk, reasemble heads over the platter, try to read files and return the pieces of the hard disk and the information on dvds or other media

it is very expensive, often they will ask you not to open the hard disk first

they usually chage or per hour or per gigabyte recovered, or a mix of both

it is only ideal for the cases where you don't have a option, backups and you must recover something
 
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