Is Data Recovery Impossible On This Hard Drive??? 

Hello guys I have scratches my hard disk can you help me please

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😂 I don't think that's what defrag does

imagine flex seal work and noone used it lmfao

We haven't worked with DVD's in a very long time. If it's scratched, there won't be anything we can do. You might look and see if there is any type of polish that is sold. I know it may seem weird, but if you can polish the scratches out of the plastic outer body, it might give you a better shot at it being able to read. I would never do it on a customer's disk, but years ago on a disk of my own, I used like 2000 grit sand paper and wet sanded a scratched disk to get some scratches out. I got lucky and it worked.

Have you taken it to get resurfaced? They are hard to find but some retro gaming stores have machines that remove most minor scratches and repairs major scratches to make the disc readable from there is just as simple copying the data to a HDD

Most platters are made out of aluminum. You can read more about platters here: acsdata.com/hard-drive-platters/ A drive in this condition would not be recoverable regardless of the time and money available. Data is striped across all platter surfaces, and one of those platters...half the surface area of all data storage...has been obliterated. You might be able to put the shard of glass under an electron microscope and see single bits, but the actual data is gone.

Will do! Thanks!

Haha...yes, and the video thumbnail is full of spoilers, but we wanted to make sure people clicked and saw the type of damage that actually occurs in this style drive sometimes.

Yep. They are. Always have been.

@@TheHellKnight It's the only drive I've ever found to be glass. Every other one I've taken apart has had metal platters.

@@00Skyfox point is a fractured disc is unrepairabe and unreadable.

@@TheHellKnight True!

You may want to visit our website at acsdata.com and setup a case. Most of the time when platters are damaged, the data is not recoverable. However, if there is a small amount of scoring limited to one of the surfaces on a drive that size, there's a chance we may be able to get 50% of the data or maybe more.

Mostly PC3000 and Deepspar

That will do it for sure. Thanks for watching!

Unfortunately, that is the work of movies and fiction. At most they could read the individual bits...and there is typically 512 bits per sector...and in most cases there are least a billion sectors on modern hard drives. Not to mention, multiple platter drives have the data striped across each platter surface at various increments, so you would need to know where the 1's and 0's of a single file stopped and then where they picked up on the next platter surface.

Did you fix it?

I use them as coasters all the time. Never broke one accidently.

Or just don’t drop and throw your equipment around.

No

Ultra encryption.

I have full confidence that you can recover data from the hard drive. Just solder the platter together and work your magic :)

Great idea...maybe that will be our next video :)

harrvey they might be able to recover SOME of the data but I can almost guarantee you they won’t get it all even if you solder the glass back together where the glass was cracked there may be bits that aren’t recoverable.

True, but it'd make for a great RU-vid content none-the-less :)

It was dropped.

Yes, the chance is actually pretty high. SSDs just contain a circuit board with memory chips and a controller, and are far less fragile than a HDD. And even if the circuit board is damaged, a lab could desolder the controller and memory chips and solder them on a board from another SSD of the exact same type. That is far less delicate than repairing HDDs and doesn't require a clean room. Only if the memory chips or the controller is cracked one is out of luck; that's not recoverable. But it's quite unlikely that the chips break from mechanical shock. Bending is a different story, however. But in this video, the HDD doesn't seem to have been bent.

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No they can't. The platter has been physically damaged to the point where it's practically a jigsaw puzzle. If you watch videos on how to completely destroy a hard drive, it pretty much leaves the platters in the same state as this one.