Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery

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[@pathwanderer1183]

"dont waste $1000 on data recovery!" *proceeds to show the most common drive malfunction type in the first two minutes and tells us to go to an $1000 professional*

[@S_Roach]

Followed by telling us to BACK UP REGULARLY so we never need ANY type of data recovery. Regularly backing up to a $100 external HDD beats relying upon $1000 HDD recovery. Personally, I use three. Two I alternate, doing an old-school system image backup, weekly, while a third I use nightly to run File History. Even if I have the computer brick itself while doing a system image, I still have data that is only seven days old, plus whatever I have on my File History. And, against MS's recommendations, I only plug my File History drive in for as long as it takes to back up the day, thus providing some air-gap protection from virii or trojans, including ransomware.

[@OMA2k]

Yeah, that's a click-baity title, because it's written so you think he's going to talk about an alternative to $1000 data recovery services when you have a dead hard drive, but he just means "don't waste $1000 on data recovery" BY DOING BACKUPS beforehand. Well, duh!

[@stevethea5250]

@@S_Roach have completed the Price Verification section of the claim form (if the item is reduced by more than $200 and you do not have the original catalogue, advertisement or promotional flyer (with a printed visible date) from the store of purchase showing the new reduced price);

[@damirdze]

Excellent presentation, thank you.

[@charleshines6155]

The thing is that if you are going to open the metal cover on the hard drive you might still never get it working when you put it back together. All those little screws are sensitive to torque and must be just right. I am not saying that it is impossible, just something that would be difficult for most people.

[@md201right6]

Linus - Because of this video. I was able to recover my data removing the configuration chip from my old HDD and placing it onto a new main board. I got back pictures from when my daughter was first born. I cant tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Cheers!

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Super story! Well done!

[@mynameisgone7274]

That's all you bro good job

[@Elias1600]

everyone liked that

[@utubepunk]

Dayum.

[@joyschoice7391]

I have a same problem.my son's birthday to now every pic and video is not open.what can I do I not understand?

[@0Raik]

"How to save money in data recovery..." Buying two drives instead of one in the first place.

[@adorenu1338]

yet, you still managed to lose all of your HDD Data of the both Hard disks

[@junoguten]

If you were to get say 3 or 10 or however many you want, you could use one as a checksum drive, and if any one of the other drives fail, it'll look at the bits on itself and the other drives, do the arithmetic, and tell you what all the bits on the lost drive was / save it to a fresh drive.

[@jwhiteheadcc]

@@junoguten In fact, let's make the drive controller do it for us, so it's automatic, and even the OS doesn't know it's happening. We could even add battery backup of cache which then gets written to a Flash drive! ;) All joking aside, I've used QuickPAR or the like for largish file transfers. Where large is defined relative to transfer rate. It has the added bonus of telling me which PARts are good. I assume the people still making optical disc archives really regret not using it when a disc gets scratched! XD

[@banjirjir7519]

and raid 0 both of dat....

[@TanPham-sn3fc]

Back up critical data regularly.

[@TheCrazyStudent]

Video title: "Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery" In the video: "This is the Rapidspar. It costs around $2000."

[@DaniPaunov]

Also in this video: "End users aren't expected to buy one." It's almost like you were listening.

[@krozareq]

$10 says that thing's running Linux. Convenient having an open source Kernel along with FUSE support for mounting any custom or natively unsupported filesystem in userspace.

[@TheCrazyStudent]

@@DaniPaunov Oh yeah, it’s almost like I’m expecting some cheap data recovery alternative when the video title says what it does, and I’m not then expecting them to start talking about $2000 recovery techniques... But hey, stupid me for expecting that kind of thing when the video title says what it does, right?

[@DaniPaunov]

@@TheCrazyStudent Still in the video: "If you, the end-user, can find a shop that has one, you should expect to pay about 300$ for a recovery it can handle". _It's almost like you were listening_

[@oddity4650]

I wonder why it costs 2k

[@tucker8676]

Ironically they lost some of the footage of them learning to recover data

[@angrynerd2103]

Curb your enthusiasm music starts playing.

[@MrBerto2828]

@@angrynerd2103 curb your faith in man heathen...

[@MrBerto2828]

The real tutorial starts @ 14:00

[@ProphetPX]

they were probably recording it on a failing surveillance HDD lol

[@rflxna3227]

Bruh

[@IRMacGuyver]

This dude looks like he's tired of waiting for Linus to do four or five takes for every shot.

[@jackavent9576]

I feel linus is reading from a display cue board, watch his eyes.

[@KTHKUHNKK]

For sure

[@dreamingrightnow1174]

Because Linus has to get all his hand waving right.

[@IRMacGuyver]

@@jackavent9576 They have a teleprompter that's rigged on their camera. They use those backpack harnesses so as not to kill their camera guy holding all that weight all day long but can still take it out for location shooting.

[@cnash5647]

Can't blame the guy, it's quite lengthy.

[@cferracini]

This just made me want to have a backup for my backup and maybe a backup for that backup

[@juancamaney3562]

HA HA HA HA !

[@oddity4650]

I think you need to have another backup for that last backup

[@jemiebridges3197]

Hey, now youre a pro

[@maheshmokal]

i accidently formatted my backup drive after taking backup of my system , so backup of backup and backup of backed data is important

[@dcabral00]

I love videos like this! Basically, the best Hard drive or SSD you can get is anything x2, and keep copies of the same data on another drive.

[@ZachHixsonTutorials]

0:44 one guy got the message to pretend to be working, and one didn't XD

[@MrRedstoneNerd]

He shows up again 3:35

[@gordslater]

this is a direct effect of not having porn in the workplace - how is anyone motivated to look at the screens?

[@mariuswallentinsen2814]

Linus: *Tells to be careful because of physical problem* Also Linus: *Instantly lifts the drive before it has time to stop spinning*

[@mscheese000]

That's not really an issue though, the r/w heads park almost instantly when the drive loses power. The head hitting the plattersis what causes damage. When the head is parked it can't hit them.

[@hyxalide]

@@mscheese000 *disabled

[@mscheese000]

@@hyxalide What?

[@hyxalide]

@@mscheese000 21:18 (intended to be a joke)

[@stevethea5250]

@@mscheese000 have completed the Price Verification section of the claim form (if the item is reduced by more than $200 and you do not have the original catalogue, advertisement or promotional flyer (with a printed visible date) from the store of purchase showing the new reduced price);

[@discoveringcraft]

I would like to thank you for shearing info about HDD recovery, especially for this trick with automount function and RStudio. It helped me a lot while trying to recover old 1TB HDD from my parents with literately all the photos from 2004 till now. U rock!

[@Nusrat934]

may you please send me the link to download RStudio

[@sirmegallot3276]

It's amazing how long such seemingly complicated and complex technology has been around... A disk spinning 7200 revolutions per minute with a reader hoovering microns over the plate pulling information... I feel like solid state drives should have come first or something, but clearly what do I know? I know that part of the problem was creating non-volatile sticks of memory vs memory that would wipe when it wasn't powered... It's really interesting and fun to learn about. Thanks for the video!

[@thobiex]

Linus: So yarek, where did you learn to do all this? Yarek: I waz KGB.

[@shrimp_on_internet]

Epic

[@Kitulous]

xaxa fuппy sovieт uпion joкe so fuппy i shoшed iт тo my KGB ageпт нe laugнed

[@ryhanzfx1641]

@@Kitulous you dont show it to KGB agent, KGB agent show the joke to YOU

[@veerlaff5528]

@@ryhanzfx1641 he already knows

[@protestantist]

2017: *Linus' drops his hard drive at DriveSavers' office* 2018: *Linus' drops his hard drive at DeepSpar's office*

[@kinomora-gaming]

2019: ???

[@wanhl2440]

2019:dropped a petabyte server...

[@nonametrackz7887]

lol

[@gildedlink]

2019: Linus drops the bass.

[@protestantist]

also in 2017: *Linus drops hes razer blade at deepspar's office after attempted unboxing gone wrong*

[@davidg7136]

Dude! I love this channel. I love tech. Another great video! I cant get enough of Linus Tech Tips!

[@cam_machi]

13:44 whoever at that office bought that HHKB to just be there. Props to you dude.

[@milesharrison]

5:15 - That panic as Linus just scratches the metal of one drive across the PCB of the other... "Yeah, they look(ed) perfect."

[@__init__3493]

TestDisk is a pretty amazing program for if you have a few bad sectors or if you accidentally formatted a drive

[@DanielColson]

PhotoRec is a good associated software from the same company that does file carving to recover files by signature in a partition if TestDisk doesn't get the whole partition back.

[@JaydenLawson]

Looks like it doesn't work for APFS?

[@rambo162]

very informative, I had a corrupted hd and was unsure of the many problems I could be facing but it was good to know I had a problem that could be solved with recovery software and not a total hd repair.

[@tarunarya39]

Liked the harware bits of the video. You can use software such as dd for sector issues from memory to copy backup the disk. Testdisk/recuva/ddrescue can be considered for file recovery of files from corrupted disks. macrium reflect is rubbish with sector issues when trying to back it up.

[@coweatsman]

The 3 "B"s of computing. Backup, backup and backup.

[@Von_D]

Squidward: BACK it up. SpongeBob: Right! “BACK it up..."

[@fsfaith]

That guy in the background during in the intro is waiting for Linus to shut up so he can get back to work.

[@Dave102693]

Facts

[@bobbymak6964]

Best teaching episode ever. I have some bad hard drives and now I know what is their problem. Please keep it up.

[@headjames]

Liked your comment about backing up your data at the end. One of my comptuer lecturers at University told us that there are two types of computer user: those that have lost data, and those that will. In addition, another lesson I learnt that it isn't enough to back up your data, but to verify your back up and check it regulary. I learnt about an interesting case from a Californian University, the Geography department I think, where they made two back ups of their data, each copy on magnetic tape (yes, this case was from that era!). When they had an incident and had to restore data from their backup they found that the first set of back up tapes were corrupt. Fortuneately the second set was okay. They replaced the corrupt copy with a new back up. A few months later and they then again had an issue and had to restore from the back up tapes, and once again, found the first backup set corrupt but the second set okay. This circumstance was obviously concerning so they conducted an investigation to find out what was happening. They found quickly that it was always the first set of backup tapes that quickly became corrupt, and that this was the set of tapes that was stored on the bottom shelf of the cupboard. The second set, stored on a higher shelf in the same cupboard would be okay. Once this was discovered, the cause of the corruption was quickly found to be caused by the magnetic field produced by an electric floor polisher that the cleaner used on the corridor every night.

[@newton21989]

One of my favorite data recovery utilities is ddrescue for Linux. Assuming you just have bad sectors, you can make a bit for bit copy of your drive and when bad sectors are encountered, they are added to a log and skipped for the time being. After the program has reached the end of the drive, it goes back and tries the failed sectors again, pruning the log as it gets good reads. You can have it repeat this process ad infinitum, of quit after a number of passes.

[@sudo008]

The really cool thing about ddrescue is that you can mostly maintain good recovery speed by skipping over slow blocks. If a drive is physically failing and getting worse, better to get 99% of your data by skipping the slow parts than 0.1% of the data because you spent the last 5 hours of the drive's life recovering at 1kBps :-|

[@aryanzijlstra6649]

Awesome. I've done probably close to a hundred HDD data recoveries myself over the years. I also did PCB swaps, head swaps and even platter swaps for which I could find head replacements to get off the data of the platter for which the head(s) where non functioning. One should always keep in mind that once you open up a HDD, you should recover as much data as possible, because afterwards the drive is going bad. I have one tip: If you have a Hitachi drive in your PC or laptop (no matter which model), replace it asap. I've not encountered a drive of that brand that doesn't have problems, even brand new ones.

[@HyperVectra]

Amen, I've been watching the 2Tb Hitachi Drive I took from a 21" iMac increase bad reads, seek errors etc in CrystalDiskView slowly over the 2 months I've been using it... Then again old IT guys like me with NAS Disk Striping with Parity servers and hourly remote incremental syncs don't worry about data loss, we already leant the backup lesson long ago : )

[@WyvernApalis]

Bold dude at the start looking at Linus like he's looking some strange being

[@itsmznatnatbitchez]

That's how we all look at Linus lmao

[@greenbin3028]

this is prepubescent linus

[@phildavis8732]

Seagate seems to be offering their data recovery services included in many of their drives. All NAS, Surviellance and even their SSD FireCudas. Pretty sweet.

[@adm3991]

My favorite hard disk failure was on a pentium 4 1.4ghz computer with rdram. The drive was a Seagate drive. I had just gotten home from high school went to turn on the computer probably for a Diablo 2 gaming session and on boot up the drive just spun faster than I've ever heard a hard drive spin ever in my life. Smoke started pouring out of the case and the drive platters sounded like they broke all this in under maybe 5 seconds. Bet they couldn't recover that hahahs

[@MrPatagonicus]

For a short time, you may have had a limited edition 20,000 RPM HDD. :)

[@VladToronto]

Sounds like you were hearing a power supply failure, not hard drive failure. Of course, power supply could've taken the drive with it, but smoke and sound would definitely have been the power suply

[@frosty9392]

at first i read that as 41.4ghz and was about to go on a googling spree

[@Smoke1]

Back in the day there used to be a type of malware that someone would send you and it would speed up your hard drive, essentially burning it out. Maybe you made some enemies you shouldn't have and they fucked up your system.

[@crownofall]

Smoke I was remembering the same thing. the bad one was the one that acted on cdroms in some cases you could get shrapnel from an exploded disc coming out the front of the dang thing

[@Aspra]

I love videos like this. Not many other channels delve into companies that do this niche kind of stuff. At least none I know of.

[@quietusplus1221]

This is some REALLY impressive engineering. Automating all this stuff in a package for that amount of money.

[@rishazap8970]

very nice video it gives idea to people who doesnt know anything about data recovering..

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

This was useful. Not much has changed except for the software, some tools and the prices. Great Video. You are the go to man for builds and now this. Great!!

[@walkingzeak6682]

My xbox one has made that sound from the hard drive at the beginning, for the past week. I thought it was just some overheating, but now I know. This would explain why it was extremely slow all the sudden. Getting it serviced now, thanks Linus.

[@dj_paultuk7052]

If its making a clicking sound, thats the head repeatedly trying to calibrate itself. And hitting the endpoints. Very bad news and it will destroy itself shortly after. Copy any data off, and get a new HDD.

[@loganpennington9104]

Are you sure it’s the hard drive? Sometimes Xbox CPU Fans makes clicking noises because of a manufacturing problem. If you haven’t opened the Xbox’s case and you have a warranty they’ll fix it for free or even give you a new xbox.

[@walkingzeak6682]

Logan Pennington honestly I don’t know, but it sounded exactly how it did in the video. I am just getting it serviced and letting them do what ever they need to do. Good thing I still had my warranty for it.

[@TiagoTiagoT]

It's not calibrating, it is detecting a bad sector and kicking the head out of the way in panic to try to avoid the head crashing into any physical damage that may be present on that sector, which would produce more debris that could damage more sectors in a chain reaction.

[@uss_04]

Glad to see an LTT video help a user identify potential hardware failure and help someone out ;)

[@benitollan]

DeepSpar sounds like a very profound Dutch supermarket

[@originalkhawk]

like that, but deep, probably somewhere in the basement

[@MisterMotel]

That Spar supermarket that is only open deep in the night, and has an ID check at the door.

[@jeffther1pper457]

i hate the spar

[@user-qw7hb4du6z]

Hahahhaaaa ik dacht dat linus canadees is.

[@ScibbieGames]

he is

[@ExclusiveLM]

If you have really important files to keep safe, I recommend buying 2 external hard drives from two different companies so they won’t eventually die around the same time and save the exact new things you create daily on both drives at the end of each day. If any of the external drive dies, buy a new drive, copy over everything from the other external drive and continue saving onto both drives. Eventually both drives will become full. Then buy more external drives. It goes without saying to always plug all your electronics into surge protected outlet strips.

[@jed2055]

Yep, lot less cost, lot less stress. Of some interest; I remember back in the day when an Electronics franchise HQ and a Maccas outlet down the road swapped hard drives every Friday night. That's another way of protecting your data.

[@komatsusakura]

i did that for my thumdrives not one of the HDD and i no idea where to get a donor hdd ？ sigh too old HdD

[@chidude]

Also make extra drive copies to store offsite in case of a physical disaster such as tornado, fire, etc. or even theft.

[@sc0u7]

I've heard exactly different approach. Namely buy the same drives, as the likelyhood of them failing at the same moment is near zero anyways, but if that happens, you have a identical HDD at hand for spares. After years, it'll might not be easy to find the same model second hand.

[@ExclusiveLM]

@@sc0u7 Nope. that's wrong. Same drives with same mechanisms react to usage in the same exact way which increases the chances of same machines breaking down around the same time. Nice try though.

[@DaveAndrus]

Excellent video and fun to watch! I found this vid because my son's SATA HD died today, and I stayed for the whole show. Very entertaining and super informative--beats most of the Discovery Channel shows. Turns out his drive's TVS diode on the 5 volt line did its job spectacularly, and then died in a shorted-out config. Got out the soldering iron and lifted one side of it, then replaced the zero ohm resistor that acted as a cheap fuse. Voila--it lives to fight another day! (and yes, we're going to copy the data over to a new SSD)

[@HomerSlated]

Bad sectors just need more discipline. I give them a sound thrashing then send them to bed with no supper. Works every time.

[@15digitlongname]

this is true statement. it is known.

[@beanstalker3292]

I would give them a good spanking before they go to bed.

[@Begleitkubus]

I usually just scream at my drive that the sectors are a team and if one sector fucks up, they are all in for it and if they can´t figure it out overnight I´ll FUCKING OPEN THAT CASE UP AND THROW SAND ALL OVER THE PLATTERS WHILE SPINNING. Usually it´s fixed the next day, with one or two sectors less in total.

[@AshenTechDotCom]

hdd regenerator can help with that... takes for-fucking-ever to run, but... we have a first gen 4tb that over heated thanks to my buddies wife putting a thick beach towel over it on the table as it was running... got so hot the table warped a bit and the towel browned... decided to test hdd regenerator since the company had given me a free copy... took over a week to run fully, then i used a tool to restore the partitions......and well its been inside his cosmos for years now, and been used as his temp drive for torrents(active torrents kept on it auto copied/mirrored into his archive drive, then he clears the temp drive data after hes done seeding each torrent).... we keep wondering how long its gonna keep going...

[@giyantomam494]

Bugil

[@zosimostwo]

that autoscrub and stoping the PC from automounting the drive was the best tip i've had in the last 20videos. thanks so much. i've had several drives that just hanged my pc, portable drives and such and i could never fix them because they would forever hang up my PC. and every search on the internet told me nothing at all. why doesn't google know about this tip?!?! thanks and in case google is listening, run command as administrator, type automount disable followed by automount scrub to stop a harddrive from hanging up your PC

[@SEAhawkstwelfthman]

Google owns KZbin, so they might be listening to their own sites a bit.

[@r3dhorse]

Recover it with gparted instead.

[@1bryanmv]

Literally dealing with this right now, external hdd just keeps hanging my system. Googled like crazy and pretty much got nowhere. Looked up Linus to see if he had any nuggets and yup.

[@alandetor5297]

How do you undo those commands? automount disable and automount scrub? Does a reboot return to normal? Thanks

[@TheLazyGrizzly]

@@alandetor5297 run CMD as administrator, type diskpart followed by automount enable and reboot

[@nurchiguseynov4672]

3:01, the TVS chip actually handles overvoltage protection, hence the name, Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS)

[@user-xp9mz4kn7d]

It's amazing. I've done about a hundred HDD data retrieval on my own over the years. I also did PCB rotations, head switches and even a wooden switch that I could get a head switch to remove the panel data where the head (s) were not working.

[@---GOD---]

I've learned so much from Linus Tech Tips over the years. Another great, informative video.

[@rei_2645]

If you’re telling me not to waste $1000 on data recovery, I can waste $999.99 right?

[@adamtajhassam9188]

haha smart ass

[@zariski]

if a friend tell you "she is a shemale" .. no problem a BJ, right?

[@shawn_li]

Wut abt $1000.01

[@DocTime56]

Or 1001

[@TheOfficialOriginalChad]

Or $1300 on a Samsung

[@ffatheranderson]

Wow Linus. Thank you and your team for it's creation. :) It reveals interesting things bout data recovery.

[@isabelcasi7412]

Last week, my precious external HDD disk fell down on the floor. When I connected it to my PC, the laptop didn't recognize it. Definetedly, my hard disk was broken down. I was told that only an especialized lab could recover it paying for that around 1000€. I'm devastated because several years of keeping away information have disappeared in a bloody second. In your video I can hear the soft little noise the hard disk makes when it's working. Undoubtedly, a physical element inside the device is damaged.

[@WhateverTechComestoMind]

“It was taking infinently long, but now it’s taking even longer”

[@SlavTiger]

Infinity+1

[@homer46303]

I just started this video. I wanted to mention a trick I learned as a desperate but working last ditch effort. Throw the hard drive in the freezer. EDIT: I forgot to mention it's only for HDD's that click. Clicking can sometimes occur because of an out of alignment issue with the read/write heads and the platter. Freezing the drive causes the metal to contract and can sometimes bring the head back into alignment. Bear in mind when this method does work you need to grab the most important data first because after the drive returns to normal temperature the issue will most likely return. This last ditch method has worked for me about 60% of the time. That's why it's a last ditch effort.

[@FairlawnARC]

I have seen this done. Make sure you are in a cool/cold DRY (Num) room, as the drive hit humidity you get condensation/water and we all knoow water and electronics never play well together. *Grab the DATA, drop the cannoli!*

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

So you saying that puting dockstation with it, outside on my isba in Siberia is a good idea? Golly!

[@technologynewsreviews200]

Dry ice or in a plastic bag in a deep freezer

[@Beateau]

I love how DriveSavers was all careful will the disassembly, using a fancy comb and whatnot, and this guy is just ripping stuff out.

[@AbrarShaikh2741]

Linus: Yarek, you ready? Yarek: I am waiting here since a decade and you are not ready to come in.

[@marglar1982]

Linus, love watching your quirky videos, this has been a great look into fixing my broken HDDs R-studio is amazing for a HDD that isn't physically broken. Keep doing what you do

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

If the RapidSpar is also able to go in and adjust/correct for platter misalignment, I'd be friggin golden.

[@briangadbois2302]

Love your animations man!

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

@@briangadbois2302 Thank you kindly! A small handful of _'them'_ are stuck in limbo on a _'platter misalignment'_ HDD, which is why I came here. •́⩊•̀💦 Thankfully nothing important, but indeed an indicator, as to one of the reasons, why my updates have been lacking...

[@briangadbois2302]

@@DanielRenardAnimation Hope it all gets sorted my friend!

[@ssokic]

5678

[@sarcasm-83]

1:46 I swear I see at least 6 specs of regular household dust on that plate, so either that one has been opened at home beforehand, or their 2 million dollar professional dustless area isn't very dustless :D

[@tlingitsoldier]

The shot where you can see dust is not from the $2 million clean room video. It is a shot of the guy using the laminar flow box they're talking about. Probably less surprising to see some specs of dust there.

[@guillaume8437]

Your video is just so massive! Worth more than wiki, forums, articles put altogether. I always hang around with Macrium or GetDataBack which do some of a good job actually as far as they can. Unfortunately, these heads are very sensitive but I have had way more damage by powering down manually the computer and lately due to some of last W10 updates that make the computer freeze at 40% or so than from dropping the HDD... Regarding the burnt components, potentially, with a delicate hand and the right reference if these are not programmable components (passives, diodes, transistors, DCDC converters...) a nice operation should do the trick but the layers (internal or external) of the PCB must not be damaged. Here's a few questions 1) For the ROM, is it possible to read the one of the healthy HDD and transfer its content to a new identical chip (over I2C/SPI bus)? 2) How to find healthy heads and change the bad ones by myself? Thanks again. Now I am curious to see your KZbin channel.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery. You just need $5000 laminar flow cabinet.

[@TruthNerds]

Yes, but then you can start your own data recovery company, become a hard drive whisperer, and make many millions of dollars! That's the spirit! ;-)

[@matthiashavrez]

more like $50,000 laminar flow cabinet

[@stathyena]

You can make your own pretty easily actually

[@wibble1999]

@@matthiashavrez more like £50.... its a positive airflow. perspex with sealant for edges old hair dryer on full ...filrer material and willingness to get of ones arris and build your own. lol simples

[@ailfawka6278]

Too much salt, not enough cookies

[@StokmanWouter]

10:13 Didn't know Elon Musk does data recovery as a part time job

[@alexandermendez9013]

hes gotta pay for those buyback somehow

[@sneg__]

when he's not busy throwing out random accusations of pedophilia, he gets bored.

[@lootplx]

I see he has now mastered the art of time traveling, as this is obviously before the hairplugs.

[@stephenconnell]

I thought he was thinking,"Why wasn't I sick today?"

[@Kris-jk9mq]

Hey, he was a Dish Washer on the Big Bang Theory after all..

[@MichaelStephenLordReserei1987]

I had a dying 1TB drive with around 600GB of data, that I was able to recover around 80% of before it just stopped transferring. Linux, more specifically Parted Magic was the answer, when Windows just wouldn't load/read it. Although the read speeds were painful...anywhere between 200KB/s and 2MB/s. I had to leave my rig running for a couple of days.

[@mylovesongs2429]

I have a 1TB WD drive that i have had for 15 years. It is SATA, and so i used one of those SATA to USB cables to hook up to my laptop. A Power Supply cable was bad, and it caused the drive to smoke a bit AND a message came up asking if i want to format it. I knew there was a HUGE problem on my hands. I figure it's a PCB issue. I am wondering if any of these methods you used could fix the drive, or would i have to pay a company $1000(USD). I love your video! Great stuff here! I saw a video here on YT of someone swapping the PCB of an identical drive, and may buy one on Ebay and try that. I really wanna buy a hard drive bay, as i have IDE and SATA drives to copy over to flash drives. I don't wanna mess with plugging a power supply cable into a drive, and cause a smoking issue again. Anyway, thanks so much for this fascinating video of hard drive data recovery!!!

[@biblical_figure]

So basically "Friendship ended with Drive Savers, now DeepSpar is my best friend"

[@tehf00n]

I was thinking just that.

[@johannlopez4524]

Both were sponsored. Friendships come with a price or sponsorship lol.

[@CaveyMoth]

I'm getting a "Tunnelbear -> Private Internet Access" vibe here.

[@chikato7106]

TestDisk!!

[@manishjha2315]

DeepSpar only provides tools my guy, Drive savers are actually do the recovery.. did you not watch the video?

[@leopichler]

That glitch at the start was just a cover up for a failed data recovery.

[@ronvanwegen]

I've been having problems with my graphics card for the last few days and thought I'd finally fixed it. That glitch gave me the same feeling as when you reach for your wallet and it's not there - minor heart-attack. Thanks Linus!

[@sonikyo6858]

15:50 Thanks I think you have saved me years of lost video from backing it up to a recently purchased faulty drive

[@zaidagonzalez384]

It really is interesting and entertaining for me to see everything related to this topic, thank you very much for sharing it!

[@uss_04]

Data Recovery < Duplication. No drive is 100% reliable, so minimize your chances.

[@gerardoa9179]

He said that at the end of the video

[@Exito.618]

home server 👍

[@mastersergant1287]

^^^ yes home servers are the best, i am attempting to build one on a linux machine just because i can lol

[@jmonsted]

Also: RAID is not a backup!

[@Fergesslich]

For example by uploading encrypted petabytes to Google Drive Business.

[@LokiTheCat]

just use flex tape smh

[@gamer_gawd5520]

TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE, I SAWED THIS HARD DRIVE IN HALF, AND REPAIRED IT USING ONLY FLEX TAPE. AFTER A DAY IN THE COMPUTER, IT STORES COMPLETELY FINE.

[@silentantagonist2333]

I boated a saw in half

[@aestheticdegen]

Just dip it in flex seal

[@rei_2645]

But how do I download flex tape?

[@cringeworthyhumans160]

*THAT'S A LOT OF D Y A A M A G E*

[@IwanJunifanto]

Smart way to promote the service while at the same time share great content for DIY lovers. Awesome

[@GreakFTW]

My drive has been making a weird noise which can be compared to a bad fan for years. I thought it was just a fan so I didnt care for it. Found out it was actually coming from a drive and I just continue to neglect the problem as it has been running fine for long and has no important data on it. It starts making this noise comparable to a fan hitting something and I just hit the side of the computer gently and it stops for hours to days. That is an good IT tips for you right there!

[@sh4dy832]

RECOVERING ALL YOUR LOST DATA WITHIN MINUTES *DEEPSPAR HATES THIS TRICK:* ------------------------------------------------- do proper backups and there's no need for any of this stuff.

[@dumplaktungtung]

thats what linus said at the end of this video tho

[@PowahSlapEntertainmint]

Bruh, I don't even have $1000 to waste period.

[@Chris-hw4mq]

So fucking boring video

[@marcus_w0]

See it from the sunny side: Then you're also not buying a 2080 ;)

[@UnluckyBro-]

That explains how your all over Yt

[@priskyplays]

PowahSlap Entertainmint I don’t have20 dollars for hard drive let alone a grand to get data recoverd

[@ntrain90]

GET OFF OF ALL OF MY TECH VIDEOS

[@vtyt9685]

3:30 the man behind linus is staring into his soul ever since he enter the shop

[@blackspirit1129]

shouldve given him a script or something to improv on lmao

[@walldoo99]

A stunt I've done with rare success, but sometimes.... Throw sata or IDE drives in the freezer for 30 min. If the drive is spinning, it might not be getting to speed. Freezing can shrink the metals and reduce friction so it can spin up.

[@joaoarcanjo9819]

Hello Linus! Thanks, great tour on the HDD recovery process! I'm afraid you didn't cover up a very common disk types in laptops now days: SDD and M.2. As far i know this has a completely different recovery process. At least on Desktops the usually setup is a small SSD (for OS) and a big HDD (for your files). But in a laptop that is not the common setup, usually you only have a SSD disk. Can you do a similar video on this subject?

[@jkaynea]

I 2nd this! PLEASE

[@Turco949]

With M.2s and SSDs, you are pretty much SOL. Much more complicated with a lot less chance of recovery. Make sure to have redundancy for your backups, always.

[@Killbayne]

yup, accidentally formatted my drive and my whole folder of photos is gone.

[@Killbayne]

@Allan Cameron that's what I wanted to do but i had to get them off the ssd first 🥲🥲

[@StanleyTinyhat]

If someone that you're talking to in the video says more than 2 sentences maybe consider putting a microphone on them

[@hurty]

If someone has encountered that issue and realized it was too late to refilm, yet they added subtitles; you should probably read them if you're having difficulty listening.

[@Sceptile29]

@@toast1672 wow. That came out of nowhere. He wasn't even being rude or anything.

[@toast1672]

being a passive aggressive little bitch is being rude.

[@EddieGooch]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

[@HilbertXVI]

@@toast1672 Same goes for you, asshat

[@PartyQuest]

lol! that small stuck bug before the intro, got me!

[@Erbazak47]

OMG thank you linus for this video it helped me a lot and recovered data that was very hard to replace...

[@GRBtutorials]

6:08 Hakko and Weller? Good choice! That way nobody will say "my brand is better than yours"!

[@DarkLimpan]

I want to chip in and say thank you for uploading this video. Without the automount disable hack, I would've probably never otherwise been able to access a 15 year old drive which was dying. It had two partitions, one being mostly fine, and its windows-partition which are currently in a RAW-state. I never figured out how to use Rstudio to do whatever it was you did in this video, but I found Recuva which helped me save 190+ pictures from the RAW-partition (after two scans of 16 hours each). And now, I will do the same with other old drives which seems to be dying on me. So, thank you Linus and thank you DeepSpar for allowing a video like this to be made. PS. Any chance you guys can tell us how we can make Rstudio (or any other free program?) do that thing @14:30? I still don't know if the first drive has logical errors or if it's physically broken.

[@AntiActionFox]

Just use test disk for raw format.

[@ZetaReticulian]

wow....... using your tips, in particular the section on 'windows hacks' i was able to recover data and files from a dead SSD using a cheap USB SATA cable off amazon and the free DiskDrill software! I was experiencing random blue screens and crashes for months before the drive finally failed. Eventually i purchased a new 2TB M.2 nvme drive to reinstall windows to. Lessons learned. Thanks for the help!

[@Yatukih_001]

My favorite method has been to buy new SSD´s and expansion drives in advance - preferably 8 TB to 12 TB ones. All information from older drives is put into the newer ones...and then copied, pasted and recopied and repasted. The old information is deleted from the ancient drives so if something happens to them the new ones are ok.

[@zsradioham]

Great presentation. Makes me excited to pursue the data recovery trade for many customers in dire straits.

[@Waberner]

9:51 Password on the screen bezel? Kinda like everyone in my office =)

[@dubstepschnitzeldubstepmeow]

can be the name of the computer too

[@MelsRNRETRO]

That is wonderful that it was even possible to recover anything with larger drives these days. Will Bookmark this for future reference.

[@joveaaron-real]

The first part of the vid remembers me to *"Funkytown - Lipps Inc."* I think it is a non copyright copy of this song ^^^^^

[@animebrain132]

8:10 I have that same exact can of compressed air. Neat.

[@ShawnBuckingham]

You know what. This was actually a great video. My friend has an external usb harddrive, and it's not being recognised in Disk Management as a disk. Every so often an 'unknown device' would flash and disappear. Apparently it was clicking, but my work colleague opened it up and moved the head. Now it isn't making any noise. In Device Manager it's coming up a seagate backup plus harddrive. I'm thinking about opening the enclosure again and sticking the 2.5" drive into a PC using power and sata as opposed to USB. Even if I can't bring life to this drive, this video was still cool. I'm wondering if this automount disable and automount scrub will fix it.

[@KngKurd]

Open it and connect the drive directly to the pc through sata/ide(if it’s old lol) in my 15 years experience a lot of the time the enclosure fails but it also has been drive it self a couple times, try to connect it directly and good luck 👍

[@tin2001]

@@KngKurd The 3.5" ones fail all the time. The 2.5" ones were usually the drive. In my experience, anyway. Regardless, if someone has opened the disk itself and pushed things around, it's probably stuffed beyond repair now.

[@ShawnBuckingham]

Wow, I wasn't expecting anyone to reply. Thanks. I'm probably going to plug it into an old PC and see if firstly the bios sees the drive. If so boot, if not then welp. Harddrive has family photos etc.

[@binarytraits2970]

Very Informative, makes our lives easier with troubleshooting drives. Thanks

[@gerardoperez6928]

interesting content that you have on your channel, it is very instructive and impressive. I hope to see more of your material soon. Thanks for sharing.

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

We coded everything from scratch in assembly code. Well, I'll just do THAT.

[@darkstepik]

i dont believe him

[@believeinyourself4457]

my best friend in high school could do that...he learned how on his C64...even in high school I would bring a disk to him and he had a program that would let him 'see' the surface of the disk...and this was to defeat the copy protection, something he saw as the very first challenge to defeat with each new copy protection method.

[@Baalaaxa]

@@darkstepik What do you mean "don't believe him"? It's not black magic, it's just assembly programming. Yeah, not the most approachable solution, but sometimes that's suitable when you're using custom hardware/software.

[@MarcosMendezJ]

Did anybody notice the employee on KZbin at the beginning?

[@tehf00n]

I use youtube as part of my job, Im pretty sure others do too.

[@CompleteDiscreteWolf]

He was watching Linus Tech Tips. Likely set up that way.

[@lostbusproductions8459]

lol yeah he was on linustechtips

[@WayStedYou]

@@user-kg6jp2vn4h lol

[@michaelhearn7302]

What do you do while you wait up to 10 minutes for software to diagnose things?

[@matc3888]

I managed to replace a defective PCB with a good one, after buying an used HDD from ebay. It worked and still works ! It's a 1.5 TB Samsung Eco Green.

[@ElderTechDragon]

This was very good. I'd always assumed you could just swap controller boards if you had an exact match.

[@DjJuvan]

Linus, why doesn't your camera have a shotgun microphone on it, when someone else speaks that we can hear it too? It would save a lot of time instead of making subtitles from very bad audio from lavalier microphone.

[@juli12345istRecorsi]

JuvanNet because it will sound worse

[@DjJuvan]

nonsense... it can be turned on on the timeline when needed, with some audition effects nobody would even notice the difference. Simple solution. Unless RED camera doesn't support two mics... oh wait.

[@Kelthor85]

@@juli12345istRecorsi Because no audio is better, amirite

[@nextlifeonearth]

You'd use an external recorder anyways with RED, so not an excuse.

[@theomc1488]

I like the subtitles. It's almost comedic.

[@RoniRonkoKovatch]

So what have we learned here? 1. cool tricks to restore data 2. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP 3. and finally, BACKUP YOUR DATA!! Critical data? Keep it in more than one copy and preferably more than one place! dozens of dollars for HDDs will cost far less than restoring your data in case of a catastrophic scenario (theft, flood, electrical short, drive that is fallen to the floor, etc.... :-)

[@majorbud4207]

I tell everyone who computer I work on. BURN to dvd or bluray all your important stuff. Paperwork, pics, music and videos. DVD and Bluray don't crash! You can keep it on your HDD, but always BURN BABY BURN!!!!!!!

[@jameswyatt1304]

Seen recently: There are two kinds of people; those who back-up and those who haven't lost a drive yet. And coasters (DVD/BR/CD-R) can be corrupted by a spec of dust during burning, a scratch afterwards (-Rs have unprotected surface), etc... Always verify them and if you're using disposable media, burn two. Cheap network NAS, "cloud" backups, and USB HDDs all pay-off in the long-run and can be encrypted. Coasters can help better in ransomware attacks, though.

[@poeterritory]

It amazes me how many do not back up their data. Even using the cloud is a simple way to do it, and it's generally free for your most important stuff.

[@ShockblackFPS]

i didnt back mine up and just lost my HDD yesterday with 500 gb of premiere files :( gonna start backing up now

[@norbertrivera]

I backup, backup, backup and the backup drive also die.

[@techguy404]

Wish I saw this when I had a few hard drives with some of the problems mentioned... Good thing I haven't got a hard drive with the same board yet and just switched them blindly.

[@markyvienne]

Literally insane!! It's not only aesthetic, the material used is also high quality. Overall,

[@lil_miss_lou]

Dude, I been googling for over an hr how to recover my "dead drive" and out of all the articles I've read this video is the first source that mentions "automount scrub" and "automount disable" which is legitimately all I needed to get the software recovery to work. lol so thanks for that.

[@khoonsleggy5974]

This is the first Linus video I saw that doesn't contain an ad.. Oh wait..

[@sk8man2k]

the entire video was an ad for RapidSpar.

[@p0ke_kys592]

wooosh

[@crownofall]

I think the video is an ad

[@kmagnussen1052]

In the old days when you did low level formatting.I was given a large drive; for that time which had a bad track 0. This is where the FAT and boot info resides. So I swapped the line for the read write head for track 1 with track 0. The drive does not know what the physical location is so it now reads track 1 as track 0. I marked the bad sectors on now track 1 and boot. I had that drive for 5 years then the cat knocked over the box and killed the drive. I was a backup specialist for IBM so yes I had a backup of the data. Drives are better now but if the data is important always make a copy.

[@eyeborg3148]

It would be interesting if you guys made a video about SSD data recovery

[@antoninjirasek1487]

0:23 - how to spot a professional IT guy xd

[@Matty__Matt]

Watching Linus Tips in KZbin (if you look at his screen)

[@ThunderDraws]

probably just checking who the hell this linus guy is and why he has a RED

[@NETBotic]

elbow problems in 10 years

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

A pro don't use no 1970's public school pull down projector screen and a pointer stick. 😂

[@dirtybongwater5751]

Can't unsee the tab titled "FURRYFANFICT..."

[@chadfang2267]

0:57 that scared the shit out of me i thought my pc crashed

[@smartzfilms]

noob gamer me too

[@melon1971]

lol I don't watch in full screen

[@melon1971]

I also watch at 240p so I know it is just the video effect

[@melon1971]

@@JoyfulBell I have a limited amount of internet so I cant watch at higher quality,sad life

[@SmartK8]

Long ago I tried disk recovery for $500, I gave them two disks. They recovered only one disk and one folder C:\Windows. Data was lost. Still expected for me to pay. Sad day.

[@Ququestion]

11:19 "Dude! Could you just stop touching my tools?!"

[@goadken]

You made it all the way to 11:19? lol I made it to 7:14.