Professional Data Recovery with $300 Data Recovery - Part 1

[@CareyHolzman]

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[@billsomrak]

As a retired Sr. Electronic Technician/Specialist, it was nostalgic to see you doing a little hot air station work. A small 8 pin j-lead IC like the one you pulled I could probably do blindfolded. When you get to high density leads (250+ leads) or BGA work (ball grid array), then you really require some special skills to successfully remove/replace components. I've bookmarked your website .. just in case I ever need your services. Cheers.

[@sidvicious3129]

This is the process that most people never think about. I have recovered drives before, but not at this level and he is right it can takes a long drive and I had one drive take me 7-15 days, so his rate at $300 is not unreasonable at all depending on how important your data is to you. Very good one here Carey because it hits home on how important a good back up routine really is across multiple platforms to secure your data.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

And this is why I keep multiple backups and even in different physical locations.

[@americanexpatintablasislan6419]

WOW!!! What a great learning experience about data recovery. Thanks a lot !! Brian Cometa is not only a genius but a super great business man with his price and marketing !!! Amazing !!!

[@margyjr]

Wow, Wow! that was Amazing, can't wait for the Part 2, Thanks Carey!!

[@ClassicBMWFanInQuebec]

I thought I was a fairly astute PC tech... But that's intense stuff right there. Not only the technical side, but the issue of risk when working with so much sensitive data... one mistake can be fatal for a drive. Props to Mr Cometa, he knows his stuff!

[@ClassicBMWFanInQuebec]

And thanks Carey for sharing this video, it's excellent.

[@debojitacharjee]

MiniCactuar what kind of internal adapter card had been used to clone the drives? can it clone even if the drive is dead?

[@debojitacharjee]

MiniCactuar what kind of internal adapter card had been used to clone the drives? can it clone even if the drive is dead?

[@luigidalessio974]

MiniCactuar di v

[@montyal-juboury4063]

I know right, and I thought all I need to do to recover data is plug in the hard drive to a PC as a secondary drive copy onto a bigger HDD (Or NAS) then low format the old HDD and reuse it (or nuke it if it had bad sectors) seeing this made feel like an amateur...even though I cloned HDDs before, but I'd rather install a fresh copy of Windows onto a new drive then copy all the files back (after a virus and malware scan)...do they even think about that?!!! Hahah v_v

[@aryanwilcox4721]

:o early bird comment woohoo! this guy is awesome to anybody checking this video as a first to his content! if you wanna do PC repair or even learn to just take care of YOUR computer then this guy is perfect to learn from!!!

[@wyzemann]

Watching all those PCs & apps doing their master's complete bidding excites the hell out of me. Carey, this is an awesome field trip for your aspiring students. If there is one sector of PC build/repair that should be booming, it's affordable Data Recovery...$$$$$!

[@Dolnor]

I have all of the hard drives I've ever owned and they all still work. But I've copied them to flash drives and/or data DVDs for safety reasons. My original 540mb WD (25 years old) drive still runs! -) Most components are surface mounted onto boards these days. The heat gun basically replicates the heat transfer that occurs when the surface-mounted components on the board gets run through a low-heat furnace...around 350°F conveyor system. I used to work for Unisys Corp. and we use the surface-mount system for quicker & more reliable component placement & soldering. TQQdles™

[@frozendude707]

Those hot air soldering stations are often called a "rework station", mostly when combined with a soldering pen in the same unit, if you want to search for one to buy. Searching for a hot air gun will only get you those big things used to strip paint from buildings.

[@evanslawrence88]

Thanks Carey! I really wanted to see this interview.

[@robivy3454]

great content making it so accessible to all new comers and tech heads in general.....Brian is doing his thing, kudos to him and his team

[@coleplacemb]

Awesome Carey, can't wait for part 2! Thanks!

[@digitalstimulus]

Great video. I always appreciated my place as a technician and where I should stop when it comes to data recovery. It's sad when I get a client that had a technician try data recovery and it ends up much worse. Thankfully, I have learned when it's time to send it in to someone like $300 Data Recovery and not mess around.

[@kestonmendez4290]

This video was Awesome!

[@keepmovn8039]

Honest dude just trying to make a living through his speciality 👍

[@HelmetVanga]

This is good stuff. During Netscape euphoria i read an article about Kodak's failed HDD. Ontrack charged you dont want to know the amount, kodak had invaluable data on the disk. First time i heard about indepth data recovery. My experience went as far as replacing board with exact same HDD. My laptop GPU was reballed with heating gun by a tech in a southern belt State n paid through eBay. I saw one in Canada doing platter/board swaps. One more reballer guy in Zchec republic. Fascinating stuff. Invaluable video.

[@synchro505]

After watching this video I immediately did a complete backup on both of my main computers!

[@shellite]

But did you backup your backup?

[@LaVidaLocaHomie]

Did you backup the backup of your backup?

[@martin_green]

Looking forward to part 2. A fascinsting watch. Hopefully the next part(s) will cover problems such as power surges and outage (especially for Brian's business!), data backup education and data security. All things private individuals and businesses/institutions need to take much more seriously. Thank you Carey for bringing data recovery and backup to more people's attention.

[@TeacherBrunoOneil]

so am I.. really worth watching video.

[@elmaz8503]

This is very educational and appreciated!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Interesting hearing about Spinrite.

[@djsmileyoflasvegas]

Good video i worked for a little bit in data recovery drove me nuts how long it takes to recover stuff.i worked for dell and ups in the IT dept in early 2000s going to companies repairing computers etc.i leared alot from my dad who worked for jpl in pasadena it was much harder doing stuff back then.

[@draunt7]

My HDD died a couple days ago. Saw the title of this vid and now I think I'm just gonna restart from 3 months ago instead of trying to recover my data.

[@jdsgotninelives]

That was utterly fascinating!! This is the shop where HDD Manufacturer reputations are forged or broken along with the actual data recovery part of the business.

[@Art-uz3fk]

7:20 "I don't know what's going on over here *wiggles finger* but its very impressive" 😆

[@joey7200]

Excellent video. So much good information about storage recovery. I alway wondered how data is recovered in certain ways.

[@rezganger]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing it with us all.(and making it,of course!) Stay classy.

[@michaelcoates1787]

Like to have him as a friend he knows his stuff thanks Carey

[@georgez8859]

Awesome Series. Thanks for sharing

[@JoshuaSabourin]

Very cool video! I have actually had success with an old ATA drive where I swapped the PCB and had to de-solder/re-solder the ROM chip when I swapped it. Was not fun with a cheap ass iron...but I got it and got my data back. Those hot air re-work stations are definitely the way to go.. especially if you do SMC work often. Someone also mentioned chip quik in their comment...it's similar to the stuff in the video. It is also supposed to help lower the melting point of the solder as well to help remove SMC's...but I have not actually used the stuff before.

[@shakapkialondon]

Never knew that there is something like freezer myth , i accidentally bumped on this link as currently i am trying to recover my data from one of my external WD passport drive which died a few years ago but i never had the time and tools to recover it. i did try a few times when it originally failed but since the size of drive is 320 gb it was a time taking task with little result as the partitions had been soft formatted since.I tried a number of professional softwares with nil result and than i noticed the disk was heating up a little and making click sounds in the middle and dying randomly before scanning is evern 1% complete. Just out of curiosity i put it in a freezer as i had earlier that heat is number 1 enemy of disks . fortunately this worked for me as now the scanning is 20% complete with runtime easy recovery surface scanning and thousand of file starts identified whereas no other software was able to find any files or folders.. it still showing 60 hours remaining but thats understandable. hopefully i get my recious data back

[@reeseyme9613]

i was constantly explaining to customer why they pay $120 (JUST $120) for recovery on a drive they got zero ideal why its dead. they simply got no clue on the of amount work and facility i need to put into the recovery.

[@JamesMcCreadie71]

Fantastic Carey, enthralling

[@TeacherBrunoOneil]

nice video, but yes, people use that solder paste for smd components.. I use it here in Brazil very often.. fortunately and unfortunately, information goes fast everywhere nowadays. I happen to speak english and other languages so for me it`s pretty easy to get what I need on the internet. I came across your video accidentally here and I must admit I learned a little piece of valuable information here concerning the ssd drivers. I didnt know manufacturers were encrypting their chips

[@brandonb5095]

Heat gun solder looks amazing.

[@zigaudrey]

What?! How is the freezer gonna save the files? I don't mind if the process is 4-5 months. Recovery is a long process. They are people who value data over physical object and some both. And some prefers keeping object to their original detail. I am glad Data Recovery lab exist. What we need to have is a hardware/software hybrid like RapidSpar.

[@migsycee]

Looking forward to part 2

[@jimj8991]

A w e s o m e video! Can't wait for part 2!

[@iceowl]

the "freezer trick" sounds like a terrible idea. but i know from experience that the "toaster trick" does work in certain situations that involve heat damage, if the platters have heated up and contracted, causing the data to be misaligned. only to be attempted if you're comfortable with removing the hdd control board, cause you don't want the toaster to fry it. then you put the hdd on top of a toaster, just briefly enough to expand the platters a bit, and then grab as much data as you can while they're still hot.

[@Niktendious]

The only other person I've seen do board repair with a hot solder gun and the flux paste is Louis Rossman

[@Gameboygenius]

The guy in this video used solder paste as opposed to flux. Flux is a weak acid or similar which removes corrosion from a solder joint. Solder paste is a paste made from microscopic tin particles, although usually wth some flux mixed in to help solderability. The thing that Louis is most commonly using is just flux. And I don't know why this guy would say that he's never heard of anyone using these tools for board repair. These are literally the standard tools for any SMD repair technician.

[@cb4240-q9t]

Damn. I thought could recover data, but this guy

[@bobanderson4732]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[@nikhilgupta1515]

Nice setup

[@dantheman6161]

Now I know where to send my clients to if they need data recovery.

[@onceuponatime800]

I had Bian Cometa work on my PC and my friends' Mac and he came to our places and did a great job, about 8 years ago. Today my hard drive failed and I'm planning to call him. DRIVESAVERS charged me 5 years ago $2,160 for a failed drive and it took forever to pay them back since I'm on SS Disability. I learned eversince to make 2 or 3 backups of each drive but disaster hit too soon this time. I had no time or a spare drive to back it up....darn it......

[@dercoss]

Nice explanations. Have you tried MRT Labs hardware? Not as fully featured as PC3000 but it costs very little up front and you only pay monthly for 23 repayments of $180. I've had some impressive results with it. Their technical support used to be woeful but they seemed to be serious about improving it lately.

[@thegrumpypapa9849]

Very good vid guys.

[@transhumanmercury1279]

10k for the hardware and god knows for the software...looks identical to software from the 80's, called x copy (blind copy) for the Amiga, that thing could recover almost anything, I think it was around $5 to buy...Just on a side note, with PCB repair, you should use the dedicated vacuum, heat removal head, tool, for that chipset (it also removes the old solder), should never re-use solder, as it breaks down, weakens, also when re soldering use similar tool, to isolate heat, or simply run iron across pins in one swift motion or multiple with smaller chip sets.

[@zvpunry1971]

The soldering was just for the video, I think they will normally clean the pads and used some additional flux. But especially for the video I hadn't skipped these parts, on video everything must be perfect! :) Also, the components can tolerate that heat, they are designed to tolerate it. Removing and resoldering a tiny eeprom isn't a big deal. Anyways, the work on the PCB doesn't need to be robust or nice... It must work until the data is extracted and thats it. ;)

[@cacadeperro]

Alternatively, you can make it much much simpler and go on eBay and buy the exact PCB board for your drive for a range of $20 - $65/ea max. Swap the board, fire up the drive...theres really no magic to it. I dont understand why people are going GAGA over this video. As you stated, X Copy.. HDD Sentinel and many others out there can do this for subpar $10 - $20 bucks. Same goes for the guy above who lost his ARRAY. Most RAID recovery tools can read and rebuild data...i just dont get why this video is making everyone make it seem like this guy is spewing magic out of his belly button...

[@katsuts4839]

I don't think this is a long term fix, the broken drive gets replaced completely

[@MrHeHim]

And this is why I have a ReFS RAID 1 running then both snapshots to another internal drive and disaster recovery on a fireproof NAS, had a hard drive fail during transfer to a new drive about 15 years ago.. left me butt hurt since. I even tested Windows ReFS for about 6+ months with two bad drives, one bad sectors and the other bad I/O from the logic board. Ran shared torrent files off itto constantly beat on it and ran a 100GB file to be backed up and verified daily... i was very surprised how well it performed vs a hardware RAID 1 card (3Ware 9650SE).

[@glennplumbe7815]

Now that's awesome viewing

[@beepboopbaplawl]

youtube recommending some interesting stuff, love it!

[@Sarge92]

"even if it takes monthes its just 300 dollars" me: holy shit thats a good deal "unless the dont want the data then its just a 100 bucks" me : jesus christ your insane to offer that price

[@ntblb89]

I used theire services . very professionals

[@brendankeane5725]

any notes on the zeff paste (?) and the hot air compressed heating gun?

[@petertyler7062]

This is Nerd Porn alright Carey. Very interesting and informative. Keep these types of videos coming!!!!

[@debojitacharjee]

what kind of internal adapter card had been used to clone the drives? can it clone even if the drive is dead?

[@300dollardatarecovery]

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[@bullettube9863]

Very interesting video! Makes me glad I've backed up all my drives even though I've yet to experience a HD failure. LOL Murphy's law #45 The chances of failure decrease with the number of back-ups you have!

[@weelgunny]

I'm now hot air solder trained.

[@matttrotta57]

wow you got into fort Knox in this one.

[@WillPlaysGames1993]

i have the 1.5TB seagate drive on the failure sheet my computers say its in bad health (failing sectors) but its still faster than my 500GB seagate drive in my alienware alpha and the 1.5TB hard drive has almost 1TB of stuff on it

[@zackthompson2505]

Back it up while you can.

[@antares4s]

You need a way of controlling two mics. It was difficult to hear you clearly at times.

[@AngeEinstein]

My standard Seagate HDD says warranty void if thr drive experienced shock in excess of 350 Gs. I think that is pretty much.

[@cozydram1]

Absolutely fascinating

[@VerryTechnical]

wow I had never head of hot air soldering before, looks way easier heh.

[@dr.victorstrange6848]

Cool that there are economical ways to recover...but as many say in comments below..its like $5 a month for unlimited backup...have to be nuts to use a disk today without a backup.

[@midnightowl8692]

Who charges that I need to know

[@melvinaragon2248]

Great video !!! thank you Great price

[@dysfunctionalwombat]

I had a quantum fireball 4 GB die. its controller board shorted out. It came out of my revision A iMac. I still have the drive. it has Mac OS 9.2.2. I had updated it all the way from Mac OS 8.1. Need to get it recovered. I have data on it that I have nowhere else. Listen. I had yet to back it up. It just so happened to blow the main control chips, while it was running. and I was preparing to back it up to my Mac Mini server. Over ethernet of course

[@wcr6121]

So 2 years later, did they crack the Sandforce code?

[@300dollardatarecovery]

Nope :(

[@aaronjermain]

I noticed your ice cube tray at 4:31; I bet you had to make more room in the freezer for hard drives.

[@daycm1977]

I also noticed the little fridge on the floor at 5:40; I've used this trick to keep a drive from over heating.

[@johnfurious8419]

Awesome video... thanks.

[@Carrosive]

Wonder how many of those drives are holding Bitcoin

[@brandonscottdurocher8523]

Oliver Carr lmao no doubt

[@-argih]

None, bitcoins exist only in the blockchain, what could be stored are the private address needed if you want to be able to send btc.

[@budgetking2591]

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[@dedskinprodcerdj4273]

coin si not stored on drives , it on Network or RAM , wallets with 1 million $ are flash dists not HDDs or SSD.

[@300dollardatarecovery]

We've recovered many BTC wallets, along with wallets for other CCs.

[@henderstech]

Id do anything to spend time learning with someone like this. I would work for free if if I could.

[@willrsan]

Great video, really interesting. I wonder if that liquid solder would be any good as thermal paste - that is for transfering heat from CPU heatspreader to cooler?

[@300dollardatarecovery]

No, different purpose. It's this: www.zeph.com/zephpaste.htm

[@TeodorD]

Nice thing you didn't know what it was called;) "I don't know what it's called but the guy that thought me this said I have to put a bit when I solder"

[@pierrekircher4383]

actualy its called solder paste .. comes in 100 variants/ chemical compositions .. seeing that guy using hot air reflow without flux gets me tho - oh boy lets be glad those chips arent sensetive at all - any EE will suffer watching that if you need/want to know about soldering / propper pcb level repair checkout Louis Rossmann he does that stuff well

[@pabss3193]

Pretty cool video!

[@repairtipstricks489]

Wow amazing work

[@vaaqsmedia1963]

Are you able to repair corrupted video files.

[@G3A3]

very interesting vid.

[@FantaBH]

Great video , I love it.

[@FantaBH]

I have to say, I did not expect any reaction from you CareyHolzman , but again you surprised me big time, thank you. You belong to bigger youtubers but still you do care about comments on your videos,

[@lawman2112]

OMG! I wish I would have known about this service sooner - Back in 2012 I had a major raid0 crash - sent the drives to Ontrack data recovery and paid 1800 to get the data back.... recovered 600G of precious family pictures and videos that go back 20 years - I would have paid twice that to get the data back..

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Kevin Law why would you have Raid O and no back up?

[@Chillwaving]

Real question is why the hell would you put your family photos on a raid 0. 😂

[@zvpunry1971]

Unfortunately many people think that "RAID == Backup" but they don't even understand the different raid levels, they hear raid0 is the fastest an raid0 doesn't waste space. And then they use it and stop thinking about it. To make it worse, the guy who thinks that RAID is a backup is most likely the one who is the most knowledgeable about computers in a whole group of people and "fixes" the computers of his family and friends. :-/ Backups are annoying, expensive and useless... unless you need them, then they are very helpful, cheap and useful. Perfect combination to just ignore them or do them later.

[@bobdole716]

On top of the 300$, do you charge for hardware? ie heads (usually from a working drive(s)) and target drive? That seems insane.

[@300dollardatarecovery]

Yes, we do charge for donor heads, when required (≤25% of all cases). We have most PCBs in stock already.

[@thephantomcomics]

What???!!!! Never heard that and I am glad I didn't Glad I know that those not make sense. "Freeze a drive."

[@NewsTubeBloopers]

Can you guys recover data if the HDD has been wiped with something like DBAN?

[@CareyHolzman]

No, but a forensics recovery shop might be able to (though it will probably cost a whole lot more)

[@300dollardatarecovery]

If a HDD was wiped with DBAN I don't think any "files" could be recovered by anyone.

[@jordan177606]

Working with these hard drive stuff would give me a mini heart attack, with the data and all. My dad broke 2 pins on a sata drive moving them around. Fortunately, he knew a guy at his work that transferred the data to another drive. No clue how he done it.

[@ibrahimturan28]

lessen learned. Never loose your data, use your hardware gently :)

[@bigbaba3193]

very interesting, thank you for the Video :)

[@kestonmendez4290]

Hey, That room looks like my office.. :)

[@RamasamyKalimuthu]

good information .

[@CodysTrainz]

This part 15:10 proves that SSD's are recoverable

[@bhaskarkumarupadhyay8490]

I am highly interested in recovery

[@decdeo4994]

cool video!

[@jacksmith5940]

cool stuff ....

[@kfftfuftur]

wait a second i just bought a WD 2TB drive a week ago and you tell me now that these have the highest fail rates of 12.57 % per year?

[@user735_]

This guy seems legit.

[@ziploc53]

Interesting

[@MilMike]

thats awesome!

[@collinspeter7125]

hi good morning this wow i just want be like you i want too know more on data recovery

[@yourmylover371]

Sweet

[@sajiddx5668]

Computer sirf 3 cheezoon se chalta hai, Backup, Backup or Backup.

[@whovisionsCGI]

Yeh much easier with a hot air gun...specially on repairing mobile phones.

[@d3spis3m3]

Now try recovering a drive with a dead spindle DCM ;)

[@yalgret]

d3spis3m3 by an identical drive and swap motors?