Hard drive arm keeps going back&forth

My computer is not reading my second HD. It keeps making a clicking sound, when I opened it, the drive arm (actuator) keeps going back & forth.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

roach

Buy a new drive.
By opening the drive not only have you cancelled its warranty if any was
active but you have also caused unfiltered air to get into the drive which
due to extremely fine particles in the air would cause it not to operate
properly even if you could fix the original problem with the drive which is
probably due to a part failure on the drive's electronics unit.

"roach_779" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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RIP

"roach_779" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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lol Curious & DL. lol noob

HD actually died a long time ago. I was trying to see if I can get this HD (arm problem), and other drives that I have lying around to work, so I can extract files before I throw them away.

When I opened it, I was hopping it would unjam something...one of my last attempt before I throw the drive away.

There are service out there that are able to extract files from HD that gone through a fire, I'm sure HD's platter is resilient enough to survive an open case...though I'm not that desperate to use such service.

"roach_779" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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A local computer shop can advise you whether or not any data on any of the
drives are recoverable. You can also buy very good recovery software from
companies like OnTrack. The one thing you MUST do is stop trying to access
the drives yourself. Every time you do you lessen the likelihood of any
recovery.

I'll check that out...thanks!

I must concur with the others: opening the drive is a seriously bad idea if
you want to get any data off it.

In one of your posts you said "I'm sure the platter is resilient enough to
survive an open case". Well, you're wrong! Did you know that the head
flies so close to the disk that even a single particle of tobacco smoke can
cause a head crash? OK, so you don't smoke, but the point is that the
system is EXCEPTIONALLY sensitive to dust and dirt.

I'm not saying you will damage the disk, I'm saying you're greatly
increasing the risk of damage.

When the data recovery companies open up a disk drive (which they do as a
last resort), it's done in clean-room conditions.

SteveT