Very interesting and informative video, I've always wondered how exactly data recovery is preformed, and I guess the answer is it's different with every drive. Do you guys see failure on Seagate drives more than any other brand? In my 20 some years of computing I've had two drives fail on me, both Seagate. One was a black Friday special, failed after a few months...luckily nothing mission critical stored on it, but the other one was my main system drive and had everything on it. I tried all the home remedies (freezing etc.) and even opened it up myself and long story short I only made it worse. Lesson learned...BACKUP!
Things take time. If you want your data sometimes you have to be patient. Had a guy come into our shop the other day and he decided to store his entire company payroll info on a singe external drive. I'm sure he was glad to wait for the place I referred him to to do their thing
+Nigel Halling There are a few videos out there that show people spinning the platter free and dragging the head along the platter as it rotates. There are two reasons why this is bad. 1) if the head hasn't been damaged due to an impact that caused it to seize to begin with, then it almost always will be damaged when the platter breaks free. 2) when you drag the head across the rotating platter surface you have direct contact between the head and the platter which can damage the coating on the platter that contains your data. That coating is extremely thin...only a few nanometers thick. It literally takes nothing to damage it. If you are talking about high capacity drives where the flying height is extraordinarily low, then any imperfections/scratches in the platter can impact the head and any replacement heads that are installed. Beyond that you can actually have a cascading effect where a very small amount of damage puts out debris that floats around the drive and causes more widespread damage as it lodges between the heads and the platters. Again, this is one of those things where someone would need to seriously weigh out the value of their data ahead of time. If it's a situation where you don't really care if you get it back or not, then by all means try anything.
acsdata okay i do agree there just tried it myself on a test run ,my other harddrive has the same clicking noise i wont open it up as i want to get the data out and use the software to get it ,i have also found why my harddrives had the same problem ,which iam fixing now at this moment ,ty for info
Useful video! My hard drive makes the weird buzzing sounds and it doesn't get recognised on my computer... The head however is not on the platter.. Also the platter has no scratches on it. Any idea what it could be? Any help would be so much appreciated!
hello need a small information what you see i mean what are the parameter needs to be considers before changing or swiping head on the two harddisk?? western digital , segate , toshiba , samsung , hitachi , hgst.
I have a question. I have a drive I just submitted for data recovery. It never made any noises; it just stopped mounting. The guy said I have damaged platters; likely from a defective drive. This is a 3tb drive; and I only want about 500gb worth of data from it. If one platter is damaged; is there a chance the data I want is unharmed?
My dell hdd stopped working suddenly. Earlier, when I connected my hdd, the LED used to light up. But, its not the same now. There is sound kind of sound coming from it. I also tried connecting it to other systems, different ports, different cables, but nothing seems to work. There is some important data which I want to recover. Is there any way that my data could be recovered? Please help!!
There might just be something within the boot sector that is damaged. If the drive isn't clicking or making any weird noises, I would just pull it from the laptop and hook it up with a USB connector to another computer. You might be able to pull the data you need that way.
No wonder companies like this ask between 500 to 1500 to fix. I mean your equipment costs a lot! The p roblem is that sometimes the files we want to recover aren't worth that much. Then again, some people have that necesity. Still, what happens when the value of the files is not worth that much? I mean I lost a hd with videos on it. I still have it and would want to restore it. Though I am not placed to pay more than a 100 to get it fixed because of it's content. ACSDATA, do you know what I mean?
No. This is a hardware/software utility. Depending on what options you get costs can easily exceed $4,000 per unit. We keep 16 of these going constantly in our lab and we are about to add more.
I don't want to show them? lol Hard Drive Head Replacement Tools for 50 Cents what you consider proprietary ? were you at all thinking? lol Just like we found this video we can search how to lift hard drive head. YOU MAKE A TUTORIAL AND SAY YOU DONT WANT TO SHOW US? TUTORIAL - of or relating to a tutor or a tutor's "instruction". Thanks for vid over all it was just to much hearing that.
JDanielz Jack Actually, the tools we use are NOTHING like the 50 cent ones that are posted on here. We've spent a lot of time and money perfecting equipment that we don't show off so that other companies can simply copy it. If you are wanting to use something that can potentially damage the heads and the platters, then by all means, use 50 cent head tools. However, we do this professionally for customers that cannot afford to lose their data by taking half measures, so we use the best tools possible. This video is not, and never has been labeled as a "tutorial", if you want a tutorial that we produced, along with how to make your own cheap head tools, then you should watch our other video here: DIY Hard Drive Repair - Seagate Platter Swap - Data Recovery Video Project 3
