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Hi, This 2.5HDD was in a laptop and it stopped working, even if I plug it in those HDD external adapters it wont appear on Disk Mngmt. I opened it and the “needle” is working (at least is moving), but does this repeating noise and movement (check video bellow). https://youtu.be/jecgw1mO1Xg Anything I can do to recover my data?
You do understand you can’t open a HDD outside of a clean room as the dust and other stuff in the air will kill your drive! Don’t do anything more as every action can make recovery of your data harder! At this point you’re only hope is to carefully replace the lid and send the drive to a recovery service which has the needed clean room and parts to fix your drive enough to get the data off to a new drive. This will be expensive! Here’s a great vid on what happens within a good recovery service: $2 Million Clean Room! - DriveSavers Data Recovery Tour & here’s their web site: DriveSavers
You’ve ruined your HDD. Any data recovery from now on is going to cost thousands of dollars to begin with. If you watch those YouTube videos carefully, they actually have laminar flow bench for makeshift clean room, and they never run the drive with the lid open. The R/W head of the HDD flies only nanometers above the platter surface and any kind of dust no matter how small or soft is going to damage it in no time. You will need a set of new heads and try to clean the platter surface, and there could be bad blocks of data already.
