recover data on hard drive with platter damage

[@tangentarc7477]

Erkin, love your videos. You've saved me from losing everything I'd ever written and every piece of music I had produced over the last ten years. I gathered enough info from your videos to successfully recover the data from my broken HD. I know that when you share this information with the world, you are decreasing your potential market, so it is especially kind of you to share this info, knowing it could cost you business. If I could ever afford professional HD recovery, you will be my first port of call. Thanks.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you.

[@KenYoungIII]

Just stumbled upon your channel today and I can honestly say that I appreciate the microscopic view of the problems at hand. Great explanations as well. Very enjoyable and I intend to watch many more out of intrigue and even boredom. That white noise from the fan might make me fall asleep though.

[@cocobongo268]

Hi Bro, glad to click on KZbin notification when HDD Recovery Services comes to the show... amazing head stack assembly and replacement.

[@totaldatarecall]

Great video, how do you deal with platter alignment or is it not relevant on these drives?

[@shifty277]

Particularly enjoyed this one. Not sure i've watched a video of yours previously where the platters had damage. Thumbs up🙂

[@richardchism1509]

You are a master and incredible to learn what's involved in recovery important data. I will do stuff put in a much lower scale

[@gassanali8667]

My favorite recovery channel

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Hey, thanks!

[@Mymatevince]

Brilliant video, very enjoyable to watch. Subbed :-)

[@I-talk-about-tough-topics]

I agree. He is an amazing professional. A joy to watch. And I am learning little bits as I go along...

[@DiskTuna]

Nice, a new meditation video, Erkin doing his thing!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

haha :) thanks dude

[@kingkappa9916]

Hello Erkin - A quick question - How do you maintain alignment of the platters on disassembly/reassembly? Are you doing this freehand or do you draw a mark on the platter edge or do you use some other method. All the best.

[@NACHOXVALLE]

May exist very proffesional ways to do it, i've made a little but perfect alluminium squad. First i paint the edge of the vertical axis with permanent ink, later i put the squad on the floor of the hdd case (the heads stack must be obviously removed before...) & go carefully to touch all of the platter's edges while securing them firmly, leaving there the fresh ink mark. Give this mark several seconds to dry. It's obviously a *never do* to "wash" the platters with propanol or other special liquids to decontaminate them, just use those very special cleaner pads for camera's sensors instead. U can sllightly wet the pads with the best quality propanol or cosmetic distilled water available in the market (some proffesionals talk even about acetone but i don't like such kind of risks), 'cause flooding the discs it's unnecesary & u'll live a synchro nightmare if those marks dissapear..., or a total data loose. Anyway, u've gotta do this kind of clean ops very carefully, avoiding always to touch those synchro marks. Personally i do a final clean step by blowing the whole open structure with air at 25°C very near to the extractor's filtered fan to be sure as possibly of not leave debris inside. This last detail is very unlikely, but it can be helped a lot through the interface & software of AceLabs or Dolphin; you an execute a high speed platters spin leaving the heads stack in sleep mode to help the case's filter to trap debris before start any analisys & data rescue ops.

[@kingkappa9916]

@@NACHOXVALLE Thanks for your comment Ignacio - Precision work needed here. It would be quite easy to get this wrong and render the drive totally useless.

[@NACHOXVALLE]

@@kingkappa9916 U'r welcome. It is, that's why much practice & discipline helps a lot. I've lived that nightmare, that's why i've learned. I've cleaned a little room as a fanatic, later i've built a big glass box with holes for hepa13 filters and large anti-static gloves, green and white leds on the top, and a couple of hepa13 air conditioners; a very little one (5v) inside the box and a larger one for the entire room. Breathing through a mask is necessary, and proper clothes for the job, covering the hair too, almost as a covid helper volunteer. But the thruth is to get several functional and non-functional hdd's (non vital for nobody) & start to experiment. Another essential for those who can't buy PC3000 or Dolphin sets is to work through Linux distros or DOS plaforms, instead Windows or MacOs, because a huge stress difference at the moment of get a pacient drive image.

[@bogdankalyta8661]

Nice video, but there's one thing I'm curious about. How did you manage to perfectly allign the platters while putting them back? I thought the only best solution would be using a scotch tape and move platters altogether

[@NACHOXVALLE]

May exist very proffesional ways to do it, i've made a little but perfect alluminium squad. First i paint the edge of the vertical axis with permanent ink, later i put the squad on the floor of the hdd case (the heads stack must be obviously removed before...) & go carefully to touch all of the platter's edges while securing them firmly, leaving there the fresh ink mark. Give this mark several seconds to dry. It's obviously a *never do* to "wash" the platters with propanol or other special liquids to decontaminate them, just use those very special cleaner pads for camera's sensors instead. U can sllightly wet the pads with the best quality propanol or cosmetic distilled water available in the market (some proffesionals talk even about acetone but i don't like such kind of risks), 'cause flooding the discs it's unnecesary & u'll live a synchro nightmare if those marks dissapear..., or a total data loose. Anyway, u've gotta do this kind of clean ops very carefully, avoiding always to touch those synchro marks. Personally i do a final clean step by blowing the whole open structure with air at 25°C very near to the extractor's filtered fan to be sure as possibly of not leave debris inside. This last detail is very unlikely, but it can be helped a lot through the interface & software of AceLabs or Dolphin; you an execute a high speed platters spin leaving the heads stack in sleep mode to help the case's filter to trap debris before start any analisys & data rescue ops.

[@aitortilla5128]

At 4:35 you said that the disk must be decontaminated. Why didn't you opened it in a clean room from the beginning? Wouldn't have that prevented the disks from getting contaminated?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

We work in laminar flow benches. The air is purified inside of the bench to spec. You are confusing the type of contaminants that we are talking about. Disk, when they grind, will spread magnetic platter dust inside of the chassis. That will lead to platter contamination on the entire platter pack.

[@luckycharm1]

Watching this video makes me feel like I’m watching a surgeon operating on an open heart surgery minus the blood. I’m here because I have a bad drive. I might go apply at Some recovery services to learn these technique so I can repair mine. I also like doing these kinds of stuff, just don’t have the proper tools and clean environment to do it.

[@Simon66noob911]

I see that you removed the splatters and didn't really mark their orientation. I thought that if all the platters are not aligned, the data is lost. Am I wrong?

[@donbeckham]

He seems to be very secretive about this topic. I have been wondering if he has discovered alignment is not as critical as everyone expects

[@akanghadibatam7285]

4:19 disk marked?

[@blendonator]

That was very cool! I remember seeing PC3000's promotional videos what must be a decade ago now and always wanted it just for nerd value. Very cool to see an actual recovery with it!

[@Astinsan]

How are you keeping them indexed? The platters... I have used a few methods. Strips of adhesive. Cut cellulose film and UV glue works best(but you have to be careful). Also is there a way to read from drives without the use of the sector rom?

[@j7ndominica051]

In what order is the data stored on the platters? Intuitively it would seem that it should be interleaved for maximum speed.

[@mikeiver]

Yah, I learned that I ain't Fing around with an HDD and trying to recover data myself! Nice work in the recovery of all the other data. Just had an SSD get fraged byMS windows update and do a boatload of file system damage. Was able to finally recover most of the data but what a nightmare. Had to reinstall windows on another drive, then use DMDE to reconstruct and recover the data files. Nothing lost really but time. I'm an idiot too since I have a NAS RAID5 array with 48TB of storage and an iSCSI target. I could have been backing up and not had this issue! Backup people.

[@Myth_62]

Hope your doing okay Erkin. Stay safe.

[@bbityoshi]

Great video, does that platter suction device hold the platters in place? I thought the platters had to be oriented in the same position in order to be read. The way I was taught was to use tape when taking out platters.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

They have to be more or less. It's the ones that need to balanced are a pain in the butt. But ones that sit snug are good to line up by etching / marking the edge

[@bbityoshi]

@@hddrecoveryservices ahh ok, thank you!

[@samirmurgic]

Great videos. Which programmer do you use for NAND / EMMC chips?

[@pointer2null]

noob question (just found your channel) - is it ever worth getting the data from the good heads, then going back and trying to see what remains on the damaged surface? [30 years ago I worked on the production line for the Hewlett Packard Coyote 2 HD - 80MB!! I worked the degreasing machine that cleaned all the parts before assembly]

[@hddrecoveryservices]

usually, we try and see what we can get with original heads first. Head stacks with multiple heads most often can be manipulated via software

[@bluelingen]

1:48 Is the damage visible on the video? I'm just curious how it looks like and how big it is.

[@daedubedb]

Amazing skills, i had so many drives die on me, I wish I had these tools and knowledge to have fix them. Very cool videos and explanation

[@mrg466]

What do you use to clean the platters? And what do you not use to clean the platters?

[@graealex]

Would have wanted to see a bit more about the decontamination process of the platters, although I do understand that the exact procedure is a trade secret. At least some detailed before/after pictures to show the effectiveness.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Maybe on private classes this kind of thing could be explained. As it is every second hard drive we get comes in opened. Dealing with unsuccessful decontamination attempts is not my wish list :)

[@graealex]

@@hddrecoveryservices I'm not the target group to get training on it. I read on a few other sites, and I think just a superficial look on how the decontamination works (chemically, mechanically, abrasives, polishing) would more than suffice, just to explain what you're doing in between the jump cut, and how long it takes you. Although I totally understand if you don't want to share.

[@mikki58]

Erkin, thanks for answering the platter question, can you show how you physically decapitate heads off the head assembly stack ? or at least talk about the process if you can

[@mikki58]

How do you maintain Platter alignment with this type of platter extractor ?

[@laarrl]

my hdd's reader goes back and forward continuously

[@johnrand93]

I have a hard drive that just went down on my tivo and I just ordered an new hard drive but I have 6 years of TV shows that Id like to keep. I opened up the unit and destroyed the head but there is no damage to the discs. Id like to put the disks in the new hard drive. What make me angry is if I had just left the unit alone and just changed out the electronics, I would be up and running but no, I had to damage the heads. can the head with all the information be swapped to the new exact same hard drive?

[@Saero-e6q]

Can I use a dvd optical drive to read hdd platter for data recovery

[@JohnJacobGarza]

Yes

[@AdrianFrancisconi]

Hello. What is the scissors you use? How far does the cut?

[@mrbigb12]

Do you use combs specific for each model hard drive?

[@crazyksp8344]

When you screw back the hard drive cover is there a specific torque setting?

[@Astinsan]

Do you have any examples of visual platter recovery?

[@adriang.4628]

were you in a clean room when you did this?

[@numptyyy1]

How can I get into contact with you. I want my data recovering and I feel like you can help me.

[@TheAbderaman]

i have my 15 gb HDD maxtor which crashed and have a scrash from the head , how much it costs to recover the date from such large scale damage ,? it was my oldest hdd full of memories i was sad for its death , i opened it saw the damage and closed it

[@javadkazemi9913]

hello I have a scartched hard disk platter problem. my hard disk is wd 4 tb.could you please recommend to me a service place to repair the hard disk? Tanks

[@kamal9000]

Wondering if you have any solution for Verbatim's 128GB Store 'n' Go Vx450 external SSD. It has 2 components. After initial observation and comparisons with the identical SSD drive I learned that the main component, the connector is working, however the part 2 wit the additional card controller interface and 4 memory chips is not working. Also, I learned the back side of chip has pins. Wondering, what is the easy way to recover data from the driver. Any videos to share?

[@coolhead8686]

How much total did you charge for the work?

[@gordybelike]

Where can you buy the tool that you use to keep the space on the heads when removing that part so they don't touch?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

apexlabtools and hddsurgery

[@haddaphone7266]

Thanks for your videos. With a drive with more than platter, does the platters must be syncronized for normal use in PC? In your video you seem you did not care about it. Others use scotch tape to keep the platters syncronized.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

After work on platters hard drive will never work on its own. We use special tools such as PC3000 to keep drives on life support.

[@haddaphone7266]

@@hddrecoveryservices Thank you sir. One question more: If there is only one platter and we change head assembly, does the drive work on its own again?

[@LuisFreites]

Hello. How are you? .. I want to start in this world of disk repair and data recovery. I have very little experience for now. What do you recommend me? .. where to start? .. are there courses to do online ?. What tools and software to start with? . Thanks a lot. Your videos are inspiring. Greetings from Argentina

[@Gilfar]

If I may ask, hwinfo show on one of my hdd(toshiba hdwd130) this: "Read Recovery Attempts:621 &Number of Mechanical Start Failures:6", should I consider buying a new hdd and copy my data ?

[@rpbessupport5565]

What a great video! Thank you for sharing! I am assuming when removing platters, they need to be aligned, correct?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Yes

[@rpbessupport5565]

Keep up the great videos, please! Thank you once again!

[@tehnics-optics4560]

hello What software can I use for hard disc diagnostics instead of PC3000 ? ,I am searching for a software which can replace PC3000.

[@filmfiklmtin]

I cleaned the hard disk with a tissue and cleaning liquid. Did this damage the hard disk? Or not? It basically does not work and makes a sound. I wanted to transfer the disc to another healthy hard disk to save the data.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Yeah you killed it

[@sczullkjengker8380]

What are the tools that you use?

[@nickbosenko]

Hi! I have a question, quite important. I have got a Hitachi HDD 3.5 a few day ago. Before someone was trying to repair it. I found out that the head was really damaged, but the biggest problem i found out on the platter. Looks like someone was trying to clean the platter with alcohol and napkin. I changed the head to the new one, from the donor HDD but looks like it cant read the platter. Can you tell me please, what you use to clean the platter when there are some fingerprints or even worse?! And if it was cleaned with something like alcohol, is that still possible to clean all that out and recover the data? Thank you a lot in advance!

[@emufasar1789]

How do you get the platters rotationally aligned after removing them?

[@I-talk-about-tough-topics]

I think there are some marks on the platters that he aligns. There was a discussion about this under a different video.

[@georgegian4115]

HI if i must change a disk to another what i must look have the same MLC: ? P/N: ?

[@SireSquish]

So how did you actually clean the detritus off the platters? Was it just filtered compressed air?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

No, not with air. But I don't want to encourage ppl to do the same. We get enough wrecked and contaminated drives that were opened at home as it is. Last thing we want are cleaning attempts gone wrong :)

[@SireSquish]

@@hddrecoveryservices Fair enough. I know enough to know that I don't know enough to even think about trying the kinds of things you show off on your channel. I was more curious as to what the cleaning process involves, even if that answer is "secret blend of chemicals" or somesuch.

[@1973Dean]

Hi. I have emailed you and I am hoping you can help. just so I understand the recovery you are doing here. You are eliminating the damaged platters by removing the heads that would usually come into contact with scratched platters? I have a HDD with scratched platters on #3 and #4 and was told that it is unrecoverable as they just damage the donor parts when they were installed but looking at tis recovery, suggests that it may be the way to recover some of the data at least.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

with correct approach, partial recovery is possible. Not cheap by any means, but possible. Best way to contact us Dean is by this link: www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Got your email, and responded

[@alissonevandro4778]

Hello, how are you? I work in this area here in Brazil, and I would like to know if the records do not lose the sync of the CYL when you take them out to analyze. When I pulled the media out of an HD and didn't keep them perfectly aligned, the HD can't boot ... Can you help me?

[@alissonevandro4778]

By the way, your videos are awesome

[@chrisw5742]

Where can I get one of those head combs for a WD 4tb drive?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

www.hddsurgery.com

[@dcswings]

after watching this video my hopes of getting my old photos back have me feeling butterflies in my stomach...

[@tolyan4316]

Can the discs in hhd wd 3.5 160 be shifted by 1 mm or should everything be 0 mm there?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

It may have an effect on performance but I don't think it would be a problem.

[@tolyan4316]

@@hddrecoveryservices Thank you for the information, the motor phase burned out, had to rearrange the disks,👍

[@fd3871]

i thought that if you change the alignment between platters (by taking it out separately instead of as a unit) that screws something up?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

In wrong hands sure

[@fd3871]

@@hddrecoveryservices I just don't get it, you'd need a robotic arm to perfectly put down the platters in the same exact spot as where they were to maintain the alignment. A human hand isn't capable of that. Is there some part of this device that assured the alignment is maintained?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I am not a robot :) and you can see that the drive works after reassembly. With practice and proper tools possiblity are almost endless

[@fd3871]

@@hddrecoveryservices i just don't get it haha. i mean look at 5:32, if your wrist turned even a fraction of a degree the alignment would change between platters no?

[@erdilaras]

Hi Erkin, what are your thoughts on burnishing and gliding procces on damaged platters? Does it really make a difference for data recovery from those platters?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I don't know if those machines have any benefit as I never used them. There are other ways that work extremely well. All I can say is that we get ubrecovered drives from company that claims that this burnishing machine does magic, and we end up recovering the content :)

[@erdilaras]

@@hddrecoveryservices thanks for the reply! Don't get me wrong, i'm a fan of your work and need help here in Istanbul/Turkey. I've got a hdd that contains 15 years worth of memories with crashed heads. :( Do you accept any cases out of Canada?

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

Hi. I am going to build Supermicro workstation for 3D Graphics soon. I have dilemma in choosing storage. What do you recommend for high end hard disk drives? I mean the long lasting ones, durable. No need to be fast, but durable. Thanks

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Back up is the only long lasting solution

[@RmFrZQ]

Out of pure curiosity, is it possible to switch platters to read them with healthy heads and then use software to combine data from platter #1, platter #2, platter #3, etc?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

With some drives yes. But not without special modification and programming

[@naami2004]

04:18 is it ok to touch the platter like that ?

[@pmf026]

he was marking the platters for alignment I presume.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

On the sidewall? Yeah

[@jasonfreeman8683]

internet trolls, you gotta love'm

[@azzajohnson2123]

Head doesn’t read the sides mate.

[@peterkellegher8146]

detailed repair videos, I have 3 x 2.5 drives which i now want to try to fix....... slowly but surely I will try to troublshoot these. Your videos make it look easy but I am sure it would not be

[@ryanlent]

Do you have to use non magnetic tools?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Preferably

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

Platters vertical alignment to each other is no longer important? Why?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

tools we use allow us to to many things in post

[@ezzokenan]

can u show us psl how to clean disk if there is dust or dirt on it even if its not dmaged ,

[@hddrecoveryservices]

:( unfortunately not. I don't want to encourage ppl to do it at home. It's a very fine skill and KZbin will make it look like it's easy. End result we will be getting more drives that hometechs tried to repair

[@ezzokenan]

@@hddrecoveryservices am an electronic technician and now am getting into data recovery in my country Algeria . still learning so for education purposes why not? or maybe u don't want to share technics > but thanks anyway

[@ferasalfarsi897]

Excuse me, I have a question for you. From where have you learned data recovery?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Doing this job since 2005 . There is no specific place to get all the knowledge. You get it by working with tools a s learning as you go

[@ferasalfarsi897]

@@hddrecoveryservices Thank you :)

[@ferasalfarsi897]

@@hddrecoveryservices I highly recommend you to make online classes for people who wants to learn this knowledge. (paid online classes). Please, think about it, you will help a lot of people over the world.

[@tristangarel-funk3236]

Can anybody recommend a company with this level of skill in the UK?

[@panosX2]

Can an HDD operate with platter removed? E.g having two platters with one which is damaged removed?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Sure as long as Service area is readable

[@panosX2]

@@hddrecoveryservices Misaligned platters can be align again someway?

[@csabakucor9506]

i enjoy watching this work you are doing... just don't stop uploading videos. and you can do that more often even it looks like that same issue as you had- once... i had only few bad hdd-s but never ever i have the exact same issue.. ;) Keep up the good work and waiting for the next upload..

[@sviktor4]

Hi, would you make a video about the worst and the best hard drives on the market, or is just an unwritten rule that people don't speak about them? Is Seagate really that bad? There is no hard drive reliability data available, backblaze the only company who shares their data, but those drives mostly enerprise. I'm mostly intrested about Toshiba drives as a cheap alternative instead of WD black. I only have one 2,5 years old Toshiba drive wich works fine and several WDs, two of them are 11 years old, one Blue it developed 2 bad sectors after 10 years, the other one is Black still fully functional.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

We don't test how good or how bad they are. We recover what comes in. It's hardly has any statistical impact. Yes we get a lot of WD passport and Seagate mobile, but that's because they sell like hot cakes and ppl buy them the most. As a result we see a much higher numbers of them failed than say Toshiba. That doesn't make Toshiba drives any more reliable

[@oliverarsic]

Where is the parking position on wd 3200js desktop hdd, i dont have landing zone?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

On platters disk park by the spindle

[@oliverarsic]

@@hddrecoveryservices like this? www.alamy.com/hard-disk-drive-with-removed-cover-hdd-inside-flat-view-spindle-actuator-arm-read-write-head-platter-ribbon-cable-image178086347.html

[@kaiserschnitselsr]

whats your take on the most recent seagate driver? exos... ironwolf...

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Same thing. Tools keep up with those. New WD stuff is different story

[@Veso266]

Could a hardrive work with only one head and only one platter I gues it would be small in size but could it teoretically work?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

You mean like cut all but 1?

[@sjgelacio9364]

Can i ask sir how to fix usb that has no controler vendor..that even chip genius cant detect? Please help me..

[@eldas581]

How you can dislike this video ?? This is crazy work, i would love to have your skills in this ! Are you working alone ? Can you show us how you cleaning the platter in the future video ? Thanks a lot.

[@rsuryase]

What tool is used to decapitate the heads?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Phisicaly or in firmware? Microscope and something sharp that can cut clean, firmware prep with PC3000 to work with absent heads

[@jermainehanspard7086]

How do we reach you?

[@moonman19]

platter alignment ?????

[@Ultravore]

is it possible to recover any data from the scratched disc? the parts that have not been damaged?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

In some cases yes. Where the head travel could be restricted, but not in this case. Deep scratch is few mm after the parking ramp will destroy new parts immediately

[@suomalaine1337]

Hi, i have st3000dm008 with firmware failure. it went to seagate labs to get data recovered but they could not do it, they said it is firmware failure. What do you think? is it possible to get my data off from hdd and is it really that hard? i'm sturggling with this problem, i have estimate quote for 300euros from another company that said it possibly could be done but i just dont have that much money to spare. how much you charge problems like this?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

It won't be cheaper here. I am surprised that firmware issue was not resolved by Seagate. Was it sent to them for warranty or data recovery?

[@suomalaine1337]

@@hddrecoveryservices warranty, i did negotiate free data recovery but it went just like expected. Well, i'm not buying seagate anymore. Lesson learned.

[@chiranjitsaha6680]

Data recovery price?

[@CrudeOYL007]

where did you get the green lighting from? thanks

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Link to it in description

[@divyab7931]

Sir.. is it possible to recover datas from a damaged platter at the center of harddisk.. ? Pls reply..

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Hard to say

[@scotthanvey8832]

This was super cool. Thanks for the content!

[@EvanPang-w4i]

How much of the total data did you get? (I know there was loss as the drive was damaged)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

This was years ago. Who knows

[@billybob2025]

Can you recover stuff from a drive that loads but will not show up and another that reports as raw.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

On daily basis

[@billybob2025]

@@hddrecoveryservices do you know of any available software I might be able to give it a go myself? I have tried a few they get so far and stop.

[@darkgrey1790]

Where did you learn how to do this stuff?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Years of experience working on hard drives right here. Start small and learn as you go ( just don't learn on clients drives)

[@harshvadansinhzalaofficial]

Your video is great I am from India and I want to give you my damage harddisk 1tb W.D click sound problem and head damage

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Chandigarh data recovery can help with that. Owner's name is Amarbir

[@harshvadansinhzalaofficial]

Can you please email me process and payment sir on my mail id [e-mail] Because I am in India how can I give you hardisk and payment method? Please suggest me

[@jesperhansen6422]

How do you clean the discs

[@grabasandwich]

Ultrasonic cleaning is my guess?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Million dollar question. We will have 3 day classes soon for mechanical repair of hard drives where we will demonstrate our techniques.

[@jesperhansen6422]

Thanks

[@donbeckham]

@@hddrecoveryservices When will you hold the classes and how much will they cost?

[@Nithinsnv]

Hi bro, your videos are practical classes, one thing i did't understand about head cutting.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Head cutting is not just a mechanical process. Drive needs to be prepped to understand that head is missing and to keep translator intact

[@kb8978]

Hey Erkin! We talked a bit maybe 6 months ago through phone and Email about my Seagate with platter damage on the top platter surface. Any chance a process like this may work now? Back then it was discussed as not likely. Great work again! Great video.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Maybe, sorry but I don't remember what I would have talked to someone 3 days ago :). Please drop a new request here: www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us and we will catch up again

[@gunnaralv]

I sawanother video and the guy was very concerned about platter alignment and used scotch tape to keep platters aligned, but seeing how you work, it does not seem so important. What am I missing?

[@donbeckham]

He seems to be very secretive about this topic. I have been wondering if he has discovered alignment is not as critical as everyone expects.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

not really secretive, I just don't want to encourage people to kill their drives beyond repair sorta speak. Without proper explanation, and guidance its a highway for irreversible nightmare. We get enough opened hard drives as it is :)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Depends how you look at it I guess.i dont see it that way.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I really don't see an average person split disks apart on their own to recover data. Data recovery business who want to learn this, will get a chance to learn it from us on future.

[@donbeckham]

@@hddrecoveryservices Thanks for the reply... I have asked this question before with no reply. I think you reply confirms that alignment absolutely does matter. I thought maybe since PC3000 is controlling and reading the heads independently, alignment is no longer critical.

[@TheDopalgangr]

Maybe a short video on the head modification procedure (basically where to cut it off at). You should also do a patreon thing.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Haha, you and every other data recovery company owner :). We may be teaching classes on the subject, but not online

[@TheDopalgangr]

@@hddrecoveryservices That was meant for others, I don't own a data recovery company but yeah I get it that you dont want to give out the secret sauce.

[@TheDopalgangr]

So was any of the data actually recovered uncorrupted though? You are missing an entire platter surface still.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

hell yeah, like 70% at least would be intact and full structure too.

[@TheDopalgangr]

@@hddrecoveryservices GREAT job! I do this same type of work and have never been that lucky, all of the important files ended up being corrupted due to where they were located and the missing platter information.

[@zigaudrey]

So, this is how surface platter damage look like. It's frustrating how a small damage could make a disk unworkable. It come out without warning!

[@tonibkassab]

Excellent engineer and tool.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

THank you Toni

[@rk.x01]

Hi my hard drive given to data recovery service provider, but they said to me couple of scratches on platter. There is no data recovery possible. So can you recovery my data from that. Please reply me

[@jvanderhorst2011]

PRO in action!!!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Hi5 dude