Is there anyway to recover or fix an S HDD from the E68 error?

The E68 occurred to me yesterday when I was trying to log into my profile. At first, I thought my Xbox S was frozen or something since 5 minutes passed by and I was still logging in. Upon closer inspection, I noticed the ellipsis was still moving (the dot,
dot, dot) and that my controller was not responding to any of the buttons. I also noticed there was a weird, strange clicking noise coming within my Xbox.

So I turned it off and restarted my console. The only difference this time is that I was now stuck on the Xbox starting screen and the clicking noise still persisted. A few seconds later, the E68 screen popped up, a red dot appeared, and I think the clicking
noise is coming from the HDD itself, judging by the vibrations. The error will only pop up if I have my HDD inside, but without it, the Xbox works perfectly fine.

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I also noticed there was a slight jagged, curved bit in the HDD. I'm not sure if that's normal or not.

And lastly:

Yes, my Xbox was working just fine a week ago

No, I usually don't take my HDD out very often and haven't done so in a while

No, the warranty for the HDD expired years ago

Is there some sort of way to crack open the HDD and fix it or at least recover the contents of it?

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Is there anyway to recover or fix an S HDD from the E68 error?

Please follow the steps at the link below for assistance with your E68 error

support.xbox.com/.../error-code-e68

Reformatting the drive may fix the issue but if the drive is dying it will happen again.

As for the suggestion to get the transfer cable it is worth a try. But make sure that you're getting an official Xbox 360 transfer cable or it will not work properly and will make another official Xbox 360 drive act like a USB drive only

 

Is there anyway to recover or fix an S HDD from the E68 error?

Interesting. Does reformatting the HDD through the Storage menu "fix" the problem?

 

You would most likely destroy it worse if you opened it. If you did open it there would really be no real way for the average user to get anything off the platter. There are companies that get paid big money for trying to recover data off a failed drive
and even with all their specialized equipment and software they are not always successful.

Those things are sealed permanently for a reason and once they go bad the recommended course of action is to destroy them.

But if it is not working I don't guess there would be any real harm in trying.

 

Would using a transfer cable work or am I stuck with a broken slab forever?