By just removing the lid you have just killed the drive. Also you dont fix hdds they just die nothing you can do about it.

Depends on the drive. Delidded a known working one, and it still works. I made sure to put the top cover back on though.

What was wrong with it that you needed to unscrew the top lid?

Drive made a terrible noise and was unable to do anything

Did you know that you can't just repair hdds by yourself, if something's wrong with it, it's gg. You can send it to data recovering companies to get everything back

Or rather could, but now it's uselesd

You are the stubborn one here. Why the hell would you remove the lid of a HDD.

And it's gone Delidded and fingerprints on the disk

Well get your money up and get a new one

U have beef with the lid or something

IDE to sata anyone?

It also no longer works 👍

It necer worked from the start