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I have a broken wd hard disk, see this link for the detail status:

How to use dd to backup "WD My Passport" on Ubuntu

Because it is not allowed to ask more than one question in the same post, so I ask this new question in this new post.

In order to recover the data from the above hard disk, I want to disassemble a good hard disk head from other good wd hard disk (also usb 3.0 and 1tb capacity, but made in different recent year), and then replace the bad hard disk head in the above mentioned broken wd hard disk.

Is this possibile? Please help, thanks.

Update:

I can hear this from the broken wd hard disk when connected to the usb:

(1) start spinning and then beep beep (2 times),
(2) start spinning around 3 seconds (normal spinning)
(3) beep, beep, beep, beep (4 times)
(4) beep, beep, beep, beep (4 times)
(5) beep, beep, beep, beep (4 times)
(6) beep, beep, beep, beep (4 times)
(7) stop spining, and then no any sound and wait for around 5 seconds
(8) repeat the (2) to (8) over and over again if not disconnect from the usb

I think it is related to the head.

stackbiz
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"I want to disassemble…" No, you don't. This is not a DIY job. Not in the slightest.

Open the drive at all, you may as well just throw it in the bin. Take it to a professional data recovery service.

Your previous QA mentions shucking the actual drive from its enclosure. This is an entirely different issue.

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Even if you could find an identical drive [which you won't after 10 years; you'd have difficulty ensuring two identical enclosures bought at the same time would have identical drives inside] that would only be the start of your nightmares.
These things are assembled by microscopically nanometre accurate machines in million-dollar industrial clean rooms. One tiny mis-alignment or one speck of dust & your drive is toast.
"It's worse than that, it's dead Jim"

Tetsujin
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