Dead Seagate 4TB Hard Drive No Power Data Recovery

hey everybody so today i have this hard drive here this is a seagate barracuda 4 terabyte it's a big hard drive um it's actually not powering on and it's actually in here for data recovery so we're going to show you something actually kind of interesting today so whenever you have one of these right we want to plug in because what it's a static connection here side connection is usually one more basic protocols you ever see for any type of hard drive um and that's a real basic one in there so you can obviously get a sled like this one too we have like a usb sled that we can plug it in here and we'll show you something interesting when you do that so when i have it plugged in here i need to plug it into a usb correct so let's actually do that it's powered on and this actually does have a light with that's going to come on here so watch when i plug it into usb okay so i have it plugged in and i turn it on nothing but when i just do this if i slide it up see the light came on this drive itself is actually shorting out um the whole entire usb interface there and i don't want to damage my computer or blue screen my computer any further because there's a problem with this drive so i have this pcb here it's on the back here that's where our bios chip is and we want to go ahead and take it off and i have a replacement one here actually it's exactly the same so if you even look at the back here i know the back doesn't matter as much but it's actually the same here it's going to fit and i'm sorry it is like there's like a monsoon or something going on outside right now so excuse the the rain and the lightning stuff like that but we're going and remove this pcb and we're gonna go ahead and replace this and then see what happens right so i swapped over to the donor you see that there's a light there right and um now what do you think should happen right when we plug it back in it shouldn't short right so let's go ahead because we have another board so you saw it flicker for like a second there that means it's trying to read it um now the power issue is fixed but what else we still can't see any data there's no blink other blinking lights have showed that the data is being detected there and we need to do something we actually missed the steps anyone know what that step is well what it is is these have a bios chip here and you can see the bioship is the one right there you see this one with the four pins the big one what that looks like a little spider there that one we actually need to swap over to the new board because that is the brains or of the operation and we need to swap that over otherwise we can't see the data so let's go ahead and just do that right now we just need to desolder and then we need to solder backed another one and so hopefully from there there's no other problems and we can get the data right just make it a little bit easier to get it off there's your little spider there's a bias chip so the dots are most important so that was going on the top right corner so we need to replace it the same way we did last time otherwise it's not going to work because that's really important and that's why it's there in the first place so we're going to go ahead and put this back on we'll put some flux on and we're going to put this back on it's good so say clean it up now looks good we'll let it cool off a little bit i'm going to put it back and we'll see if it works so i have it here now i want to plug it in and um i mean we stopped the bios chip right we swapped the pcb and the bios chip from the original to the donor one and let's go ahead and see it's gonna work usually i don't know at least this part should fix it but then there can be other things as well so let's go ahead plug it in see we get it comes on it's starting to load up i don't know if you guys can hear it but it's very faint let's see if it starts blinking then that will at least be good enough till you see something let's see anything yet uh so oh we have a partition here okay so we see that this is an unallocated drive when we see that it's about four terabytes so looks like there's still a little bit of work actually going on that's gonna be involved here okay so we're still having trouble even reading the data from the drive just by plugging it into windows windows is actually having trouble reading the data so we need to also use a recovery tool at least the one of the ones we use here it's not going to be the pc3000 because this actually doesn't need the pc3000 um that would be more for advanced uh type recoveries if we couldn't see it even through our software we have another level we have another step of recovery and we're gonna use our recovery software to help at least read it because we see that there's a four terabyte drive being detected but we can't read the data so let's go over to our software here we have in our uh recovery software we see that in our saber and drive here there is a four terabyte drive and we see that there is a basic data partition here which is good because we did run a scan it did take a very very long time um for that scan to finish and we see that there's a basic data partition we see it's a four terabyte so unfortunately because we can't see it really in final export we have to go through this type of software really to do and it'll help retrieve it as well so we're going to click here and um we see actually all the data that's actually here there's lots of stuff um this is the the content i don't really want to show obviously it's a customer so personal information there but at least it's here and we're able to see it so if we go ahead and select a few files see how big the storage is going to be this is a four terabyte drive so it should be pretty big i want to select all because a lot of the stuff is junk it's like root uh stuff and it's like app information and that can give a problem when you're ever transferring or moving over stuff so we see we have it marked at about 1.66 terabytes so that's a lot a lot of storage there so we want to usually match up a drive that's been matched up here because even if it's showing 1.66 there can still be extra as well we wouldn't want to uh to clutter up a one to drive so um so we always want to match up the drive so we'll get like a four terabyte drive we'll transfer all the data and that should be it anyways guys i hope you guys enjoyed watching this video on day recovery on the steps that we do take um for these seven-day recoveries we do have all the tools here especially if we need to run more of an advanced data recovery we can also do head replacements if that did require it and if this would need also pc3000 to help read the data we would also have that for it but at least it's very fortunate that we didn't need to go that far with it we did see that there is quite a bit of work that goes involved with this we still have an issue even after we did all the hard work really just to get a donor board just to re-solder the bios chip and there still is a problem reading the data so anyways guys i hope you guys just enjoyed watching um we do lots of data recoveries do lots of liquid spill repairs do lots of advanced level stuff for you guys and if you guys are interested definitely go ahead and check our other videos based on that um by the way thanks a lot for watching take care bye

Channel: lapfix

Views: 16,960

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Id: oX7d3Ny0PKU

Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 15 2022