Steve's green light reveals failed data recovery attempt

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[@LastFractionZero]

"Louis does not open hard drives. If he does I'll kick him in the nuts." No no. You'll kick him in the PPBus.

[@DigBipper188]

I'd be weary about doing that. He's a MACsochist by virtue of repairing Apple products. He might find that very G3hot

[@QualityDoggo]

He'll just repair the PPBus no doubt :D

[@gildedlink]

as long as it's not getting any voltage.

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

That's even worse!

[@jr2904]

@@DigBipper188 *slow clap*

[@aletoledo1]

hard drive video repair is a cool addition to the content here.

[@LegendSpecialist]

And see that peoples are stupid

[@SainnQ]

That second drive made my skin crawl. That's a murder scene.

[@ramitch1794]

It's fine, the client can reuse it as a vinyl record

[@handsolo1209]

Worked on by Gotham City Data Solutions?

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

i'll just buff it out....

[@Feeeeerg]

"Oooh, ooh, ouch, WHAT THE FUCK?!"

[@charlesbenca5357]

Yeah it's a crime. It's so fucked up he could be getting fingerprints from it and figure out which technician screw up.

[@roscozone8092]

Customer bumps / drops drive Customer opens drive Customer sends drive to repair shop Customer yells at repair shop when data can't be recovered. True story.

[@randomkitty2555]

Costumer probably said "You can't fool me, I cleaned the platters myself using a microfiber cloth and non-streak spray"

[@JohnDoe-ml1ui]

Not true.... Even if HDD is "contaminated" or platters are damaged data can be still recoverable, of course, depending on the extension of the physical damage the percentage of recovery decrease.. Anyway you won't be able to recover 100% of the data but if it's possible to recover partial data from it, why not recover it and give a try? Anyway lots of times i've seen data recovery centers just give up without try sending back to the customers the drives and saying to the customers: "it's irrecoverable" when in reality the platters are crystal clear and data physically intact... They just didn't recover it because for them "it doesn't worth the effort" so it's not a kind of technical issue here but more than money...

[@roscozone8092]

@@randomkitty2555 Spit 'n' polish works fine on my shoes - should be the right thing for my platters to get 'em shining...

[@gblargg]

3:41 The problem is that client data can't be bought or replaced. A motherboard at worst can be scrapped and replaced with a new one. So if you are careless recovering data, fine, you don't get paid, but then client loses chance to have anyone recover it.

[@cataria3903]

"A motherboard at worst can be scrapped and replaced with a new one." not with the new apple laptops, fix the motherboard, or goodbye all your data :) thanks t2 chip....

[@gblargg]

A lot of the external hard drives have the USB-to-SATA board and it encrypts the data, even if you disable encryption. So if that board fails, the contents of the drive are useless, even if the drive itself is in perfect condition.

[@nothin1456]

@@cataria3903 Thanks soldered in "storage" and "t2" .. I will not be using or reccomending newer macbooks, personally. Only way that a new mac is ok is if you are backing up data to external devices every single day, multiple times.

[@pr0xZen]

@@gblargg For encrypted drives like those external ones, couldn't you swap the controller(s), over, to a donor board? Unlike a macbook board, those pcbs don't hold that many "smart" components and rom/flash modules. And in terms of swqpping chips - well... When in Rome.

[@gblargg]

Probably, it's just that they add a point of failure completely unnecessarily when you don't have encryption enabled. With a normal external drive, you can always pop the drive out of the case and hook it directly to a PC and read the contents without problem.

[@letterslayer7814]

3:20 oh my god, i would throw an absolute shit fit if that was my data, and rightfully so you can replace a dead cpu or motherboard, but you can not easily replace the 1s and 0s on a damaged hard drive :-0

[@LordDragox412]

You actually can easily replace the 1s and 0s on a hard drive, it's called formatting! /s

[@popcap990]

Just use a pin and scratch 1 and 0s on it. the plate will scream.

[@LordDragox412]

@@popcap990 I've heard that if you use the hard drive's platter as scratchcard, you can win 1 with six 0s!

[@popcap990]

@@LordDragox412 Perfect!

[@LordDragox412]

@@medmusic7977 I could come up with a few more jokes, but I'm afraid I'd byte off more than I could chew and they would be a bit worse than those above >:P

[@MichaelNiculae]

I have a friend of mine who plugged in his 3.5 inch WD external drive into some 20VAC adapter. Ordered a PCB from china, took off the 8 pin ROM's without hot air, swapped them around and the drive works to this day. That was loads of fun fixing his drive. And his reaction to it working, priceless!

[@3v068]

I'm pretty tech savvy. A few of my friends have asked me to repair hard drives and a couple were unrecoverable with software. I will not open a hard drive because I don't have experience. My friends get upset and it's like "dude, this is really delicate work" and this video proves it outright.

[@bardos]

I used to put the drives in the freezer. LOL remember that advice? Never recovered shit. Really enjoying Steve's videos. Learning a lot. And always great to watch a professional. Someone who knows what they are doing.

[@DDock3287]

I work in a computer repair shop and if a drive comes in clicking or we can't recover data using software, we recommend them to either Drive Savers and now Rossmann Repair! We are not qualified or have the equipment to deal with opening them. We open drives to destroy data!

[@EvertGuzman]

David Dachenhaus used to run a repair shop out of my bookbag. In high school, I’d have desperate kids ask the same.

[@lordfly911]

I learned the hard way 15 years ago that important data never resides in one location. I am at the point where if a drive crashes, I can get everything back easily. Profiles and data resides in the cloud and my server.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

I still burn photos, documents and other important stuff on a DVD's as third backup option, for larger files i think i would need tape backup

[@MindBlowerWTF]

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka don't cd/dvd disc degrade over time?

[@Cinkodacs]

@@medmusic7977 Make sure any flash based storage gets refreshed properly, they lose data over time.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

@@MindBlowerWTF yes 3-5 years for burned media it also depends on a disk brand and storing conditions/climate. But I have seen 15 years old burned DVDs working fine but it's small percent so you need check your disks and make copies time to time.

[@tin2001]

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka I've got burnt CDs 20 years old that still work. DVDs less old, for obvious reasons. Burn on the slowest setting for longest life. And store in a dry, cool place.

[@longnamedude3947]

Loving the new additional content! It adds new variety to the mix which is great :)

[@lordsetarurare]

Too many Techs don't want to admit where their limits are. Here at my shop we do data recovery but never have and for the foreseeable future will not do open drive data recovery. 1) We do not have the equipment & 2) I do not have the training to properly do that level of Data recovery. More Techs need to put their Ego and money hungry appetite aside and respect the customer and their Data.

[@AmusementLabs]

Me: I hope it's not bad. **Green light comes on** Me: oooohhh fuuuuuuuck.

[@Tech-49]

Kicking people in the nuts is a powerful workplace negotiation technique

[@y2ksw1]

I have been called to recover unrecoverable data from disks and my standard question was: who opened it, followed by usually a facepalm and some depreciation. Unfortunately, disks are opened regularly by people who don't have enough knowledge to even handle them closed.

[@Mystical_Zeus]

Because you make so many videos and because you do such a good job you're the only board repair/ data recovery place I would ever use. Thank you for you service in the right to repair and the effort all of the staff at your store put in.

[@wolkrastgh]

Man, i never thought that i'd want to see someone opening an hard drive so much

[@darylnicklen3685]

Thanks Steve the Data Recovery videos are a real bonus to the channel. Yes other commenters are right you do sound a lot like Louis

[@Guttabee]

I just started watching these vids, been watching this channels other content for a couple years. Is this a twin scenario? is this some kind of inside joke? Are there two? My mind is blown...

[@TheAechBomb]

their voices are way too similar, it's weird

[@TheFourthWinchester]

IKR. I was like he is Louis at first. But he is not.

[@enira]

Another great episode of "I should backup my data". The tremendous effort I see you goings doing is often in huge contrast to what most likely caused the customer to reach out.

[@twithnell]

Always backup your important data.

[@starvr]

Oh! The bad puns just kept flowing. Lol Love it.

[@m.k.8158]

This may be a silly question, but is it still possible to recover the data from the NON-damaged parts of the platter(s)? I would think so.

[@Ryan6.022]

Yes but it's no longer a simple service it becomes incredibly expensive.

[@nathanielhodges2239]

Lol the fbi has recovered data from a smashed hard drive which was thrown in the ocean.

[@swiftrealm]

Nathaniel Hodges Well yeah, it's the FBI. They have equipment the common mortal will likely never see publicly.

[@AtomTheReactive]

@@nathanielhodges2239 Yea, and that is extremely time consuming

[@TheSiriusEnigma]

That depend if the magnetic layer is damaged. If it is, the data on the damaged area is lost.

[@La-Volpa]

I have no idea why I'm on this channel or how I got recommended these videos. I don't intend to perform data recovery or fix Apple products but I'm here and I'm finding this all strangely relaxing.

[@ShamblerDK]

I work in a computer repair shop as a technician and we'd NEVER take a drive apart. We send customer harddrives, SSDs or USB keys to an external company, who specializes in data recovery. Once we received a harddrive from a customer, who had someone else open it but we couldn't see that. We sent it to the data recovery company and they refused to work on it because they could tell, it had been opened. Customer did not get his data recovered.

[@CarlosHernandez-nf4xd]

Reminded me last repair job of my shorted hard drive a few years ago. I went to eBay to find a donor pc board to replace it. Wasn't easy. Has to be a perfect match. Turn out I have to make the closest match as possible down to it's firmware . I bought it, replace it, and it works. Bear in mind it's a temporary fix only to recover data.

[@dakyth8160]

I would like to see some videos like this.

[@shifty2755]

You are doing.

[@KM-fl5jq]

This is also a grate video to check if your screen is dirty.. x.x

[@st_us]

I tried to Recover Data from an SSD the other day and I was disappointed when I took it apart, I think the computer store that took it apart before me kept the heads and the disks, all I found was the PCB, really disappointed from what that computer store did. I totally understand your frustration.

[@demonetized5215]

Maybe I'm high but I cannot figure out if this is sarcastic or not

[@EvertGuzman]

Demonetized agreed

[@leovbernardo]

I could be wrong, but for a microsecond between 0:50 and 0:51 it seems there is a scratch similar to the top one on the bottom of the platter?! 🤔

[@GrumsPlace]

it is a continuation of the original circular scratch.

[@TheAngryIntellect-]

I've repaired stuck heads by smacking the drive with a hammer. Twice. True story. Another drive was making clicking sounds and wasn't working, so I threw it at the ground, plugged it in, used robocooy in PowerShell to read the data and copy it off the drive, with the retry option set to 0, because if the drive keeps trying to read the same broken sector over and over, the damage spreads or gets worse. If a drive is super fucked, don't try run a drive repair before trying to copy the data off, that's a mistake, better off cloning the drive with errors in place, then software repair the copied data afterwards. I'm bored, going to go put 50 DVD's in the microwave along with some grapes. Should bring me 30 seconds of joy.

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

That second drive has bent pins on it as well.

[@onebladeprop]

What's cheaper than data recovery? Backing your shit up.

[@ChipGuy]

More data recovery videos please. Really interesting stuff.

[@nancyparker3732]

Louis, Steve, you are like Calgon, take me away! I don't understand a bit of what you are doing, that must be why it's so relaxing to watch. I've got no clue, so I can observe and listen to what you explain. Thanks for sharing! Sorry, not Louis, my bad! Your speech patterns are similar.

[@tenmillionvolts]

And soon you start to pick it up. You learn the ins and outs of drives and board repairs. You get excited and realise that you could do it too. You open a small business like Louis and Jessa from iPad rehab. You decide to make videos of your repairs for KZbin... And the cycle repeats :-)

[@Narxes081206]

Looks like a pin is bent a 3:56 too. Real shame about that drive.

[@MrZorbatron]

The other thing computer stores do is get their hands on a semi-functional drive, and then grind it to bits by running a file recovery product directly on the dying drive. That shows up lots of the time under a blue or green light, too, the almost milled look that the surfaces start to take on. I don't hesitate to tell customers exactly what I think happened, either.

[@milojkokitic6991]

MrZorbatron what is the best option if you can afford data recovery but need some files, is it good idea to just run ddrescue to make image and then work from there?

[@milojkokitic6991]

MrZorbatron i have hdd physical damaged by hitting my laptop, now when booting to ubuntu live cd sometimes it can see partition as raw and even access and copy files and somettimes it cant acces it and just shows unknown partition 999gb sometimes i have to unplug it and pkug it in again multiple times before it can detect partition as raw again would it be better to make image with ddrescue and then run recovery softwarss on image and then keep hard drive somewhere safe in case i really need to send it to data recivery lab

[@MrZorbatron]

@@milojkokitic6991 If you're not willing to go to a professional, and understand and accept that both the quality and quantity of recovered data will likely be lower, cloning first with hddsuperclone or ddrescue is the only real way. I will note that you need a SATA connection. Connecting the problematic drive by USB is a very bad idea. You can, however, connect the drive that you are cloning to or creating the image on, by USB. Don't forget to clone the entire drive, not just one partition, and use the log file! This way, it tracks what has been copied so you aren't redoing work. If you have to stop and start again, use the same log and image file.

[@DanielsGameVault]

Why is the green light making it easier to spot imperfections and dust on platters ?

[@davidlr97]

I'd like to know, too...

[@Trespasser249]

i would love to see A LOT more videos on how you guys do data recovery

[@mhn3773]

cue Shaggy - It wasn't me. The labels ripped, It wasn't me. The platters scratched, It wasn't me. The heads are bent, It wasn't me. It is full of Cheetos, It wasn't me.

[@edwinconcepcion1135]

Awesome videos about hard drives repair! Keep 'em coming!

[@Buddhalobez]

I want more of these videos, so much useful information. The only drives I open are dead already, I have purchased and installed a replacement and am turning the platters into coasters because I am a nerd.

[@jezeski2011]

Those poor drives. I feel sorry for the customer. I hope you can possibly find a way to get, at least some of, his data back.

[@Darieee]

I’d love to see more data recovery on this channel 🤘

[@NivagSwerdna]

You are right, Louis would pour flux all over the drives.

[@StYxXx]

That reminds me to make some backups...

[@TheSiriusEnigma]

It always come a time when people realize that data has more value than hardware. A good raid NAS with cold backup is a minimum. My NAS scan weekly for disk failure. An other solution is to buy those cheap USB 3.0 WD passport 4 Tb and use at least 2 for cold backup. Same info on both.

[@tin2001]

In my past job as a retail computer repairer, we offered 2 options for data recovery.... Send it to the pros, or not get anything back at all. We did also do ddrescue on drives with *some* bad sectors, but only after explaining that this meant we could no longer ask the pros to try because the drive would probably be dead afterwards.

[@alexmccauley503]

Thumbs up for the threat to kick Louis in the nuts

[@Reedith]

Fascinating content when I was in high school my computer's hard drive failed All of my pictures and videos from my high school life were on there and at the time I was quoted something well over $1,000 maybe more to repair I couldn't afford that obviously being high school so I think it just sat there and eventually they just destroyed itbecause a few years later I remembered that a business had it and I can afford it now bc he repair is much more affordable these days I called them and they had no record of it even being there

[@Aphex51]

Damn that sucks :(

[@invyt]

If you didn't pick it up for a few years, you can't seriously expect them to still have it lol, repair shops aren't storage facilities

[@kg790]

The drive with their records was stuck at another repair shop

[@OMGAnotherday]

Aww shame! I know how that feels. Not exactly same thing, but I moved house and one of the boxes got lost had all my younger life photos in it ☹️! The feeling is the same!

[@Reedith]

@@invyt yeah although I did it through a third party like I took it to the computer repair shop and the computer repair shop sent it to the hard drive repair shop and then they told me how much it was and I said I couldn't afford it but I think like they had already fixed it or already taking it apart or something so it was kind of like I needed to pay to get it back or maybe I said I can't pay yet but maybe in the future and they said okay and then time went by I thought that it was just at the computer repair shop but it turns out it was felt the hardware paint repair shop and they probably have a policy that they just destroy things after x amount of months

[@kennethconnors5316]

liked this honest opinion and exceptional skill set

[@christiangeiselmann]

I can't believe we still need mechanical parts rotating in order to store data.

[@DyadoPopets]

Great video. Very informative. Only feedback I'd like to give is: try to repeat "you know" and "stuff" less. I've watched a few of your streams and videos and it seems you usе these phrases a bit too often. Other than that, great work and enjoy your day.

[@no-eb2xx]

Most of the damage on the second drive was caused by heads scratching before it was opened, you can see that with circular scratches. The perpendicular damage was done by idiots.

[@MindBlowerWTF]

what about powering after the "fix"?

[@tin2001]

@@MindBlowerWTF Possible, but I've opened dead drives to remove the magnets and platters before and found massive scratches on one platter. Some drives fail that spectacularly.

[@no-eb2xx]

@@MindBlowerWTF you're right it could be damage from after somebody supposedly fixed it. Didn't think of that.

[@bookshelffury]

I took my car to a oil change shop to rebuild my transmission.

[@sumduma55]

Might as well. I can both change my own oil and rebuild my transmission.

[@tzisorey]

The shop I used to work at only ever opened up harddrives for data destruction for decommissioned servers (faster than DBAN,) for fridge magnets, and for frisbees.

[@buyit4lessbuyit4less22]

Thanks for doing this data recovery videos👍

[@tracker001]

Saw before you pointed it out .

[@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny]

Great content, keep'em coming!

[@ApocDevTeam]

That 2nd drive with the extensive damage, are drives like that 100% gone or can you still retrieve some data from them?

[@TheAechBomb]

data can still be recovered, but it's an extremely time-intensive service at that point

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Anywhere where there's a scratch, is toast. Think of a scratched CD/DVD, but on metal, and far more dense in terms of data layering. So anywhere there's no scratches, data may be recoverable; unfortunately, you'll likely have fragmented data all over the place, much like a skipping CD/DVD.

[@TacoBurrit0]

It can be done, but you're gonna pay for it. And it wouldn't be done by Rossmann group even though they're good

[@TheFourthWinchester]

About half of it can be recovered but not by Louis or his employees. And it might cost over a $1000.

[@effpeeeffpee7246]

A few years back I was asked to recover data from a laptop hard drive, I got nothing from it then I noticed a screw missing from the cover, I opened the drive and found NO read / write heads in the drive nope nothing they where gone!!

[@taith2]

Would be useful to give DIY tips of basic drive recovery for someone who have brilliant idea to recover own hard drive. Like NEVER freeze hard drive, use USB>sata dongle and see if it works, eventually clean electrical contacts of board/port pins from eventual oxidation. I think this basic level attemp won't ruin recovery chances, but might work (dongle worked for me)

[@ePocalypse]

Very informative video. Please do more hard drive repair videos please. Boy, I swear Louis voice has changed a lot these days. Must be too much Flux consumption.

[@kg790]

Went to Vimeo to watch this to be rid of KZbin. Did not even find the video. Dont really see the point of Vimeo now. I'm just going to stick with KZbin and accept the horrible user experience.

[@rossmanngroup]

I upload to both. Sometimes it gets stuck on one or the other and I have to reupload. I usually schedule the uploads while I am streaming another video and don't check until I am done and notice one of them got stuck.

[@kg790]

@@rossmanngroup Thanks for the clarification. It just feels like death by 1000 papercuts when trying to migrate to watching on Vimeo. This was not the only attempt I've made, but there's always something...

[@jasonisbored6679]

"Louis doesn't do data recovery." Next recommended video: "Louis attempts data recovery anyways!"

[@johnbovay8353]

I've had HDDs go bad enough times that I now have my currently most important data (as determined by how long it would take to reconstruct it) on 9 different drives in two different form factors accessible by two different machines--as well as via USB.

[@EvertGuzman]

D.O.A. One fire, and there go all of your backups

[@longnamedude3947]

Store locally, store externally, have at least one backup not stored in a facility powered by just the power grid. If it is irreplaceable data then you want a minimum of 5 backups, 2 in the same building but different locations, one that stays with you (in your phone or pocket), one with a friend or relative who lives in a neighbouring town and one stored on a remote "cloud" location that is located in another country. Preferably one that has Mutiple battery backups.

[@johnbovay8353]

@D.O.A. No. I'm not in a position to do that. However, I keep an up-to-date notebook + a pair of eSATA / USB 3.0 2.5" drives in a padded backpack at the ready. In addition I carry two USB flash drives with me when I go out. FTR it's merely a collection of personal files.

[@PeteRoe]

I just got into mdisks for critical data

[@PeteRoe]

@D.O.A. yeah you can get 25g 50g and 100g. Once your burn one the only way to loose data is break the thing in half

[@JohnnyTorontoEh]

Finally using some sort of ESD protection!! Hallelujah

[@iJo09]

Long life SATA SSDs...!!

[@kowalskidiazdegeras9190]

Oh, Spinpoint... I have some 2 or 3 old ATA Spinpoints, I think 40Gb 5400RPM. They bring me back lots of memories from an era (also one of those makes an awful bearing noise, idk why)

[@timehunter9467]

Even though I have an old bulky Seagate drive from my old PC, I think none of the parts in that are made anymore, I’d never take apart that HDD! It has no data on it, but these recent videos have satisfied my curiosity about it.

[@TheFourthWinchester]

Can u recover data from SSDs too? We need more of these HDD, SDD data recovery videos.

[@heroslippy6666]

Only if the data storing chips on the ssds aren't damaged then yes. Not sure if they do it at Louis Rossmann Repair.

[@imfloridano5448]

Kick him in da ding ding. Save the magnets they are pretty powerful.

[@michaelflanders8774]

Steve your vocal intonation and speech patterns are very similar to Louis's. I can see why he hired you! Also, other than the fact that you repeat yourself too much this is a really cool video. Keep making them!

[@break1146]

I don't understand why computer repair shops who have no people specialized in data recovery would even try to open hard drivers. I work for a company doing computer repair as well, among other things. I would try a software recovery if I assess the problem is most likely not hardware related. If it scratches or does any kind of stuff that would severely damage the hard drive when I start it up, it directly goes to a company specialized in data recovery if it is important data and worth the money. Otherwise, sure, I'll try until the hard drive is dead. Last time I managed to recover some data right before it died. But first asses the situation. I have no idea what to do once the hard drive is open and any other person like me should not touch things they have no clue about.

[@numbr6]

What were the "white spots" on the platter under the green light? They were extremely visible; the scratch not so much. What were the problems with these drives? Not spinning (stuck heads?), not reading, click of death?

[@Eyetrauma]

Sorry about your data, random customer.

[@VincentFischer]

Do you have to train (like medical doctors do) how to deliver bad news?

[@mrlithium69]

That drive is probably done for. You live and you learn. Its not worth the time or cost to skip all those wrecked areas. You can't prevent shit from hitting the fan, or heads hitting the platters in this case, but you can avoid sending your drives out to data-recovery. The drive manufacturers willfully take advantage of our ignorance, try to confuse us with changing names/models/specs/reliability, The "1 million hours MTBF" (mean time between failures)-the only actual reliability spec provided, means literally nothing, and the lowest-cost drives are usually terrible on purpose. They also play dirty tricks with the Externals, because they know its the easiest answer for most people. I've lost about 1 drive a year for the past 15 years before I figured it all out enough to break the cycle. 10 were Seagates. Theres enough "Data Hoarders" around now with the Internet we seem to have agreed on a plan to avoid it all, but if you arent "in the club" you don't know the tricks and you get screwed. It starts with researching which exact model number drive to get before you buy, and it changes all the time, and theres no way to be sure on externals. Next is you need around 33% or so more redundant drives vs. data size, RAID, or you'll always be at risk of losing something. 3rd is the backup plan. Even something as simple as running a script that prints a complete list of filenames, only takes a few megabytes to back up, and it will remind you what you had, if you do lose anything. My worst losses were when I didn't even know what I had lost. Theres a lot more too.

[@yearls]

I learned from a young age, if you're going to take apart an HDD, you better pray you know what you're doing. Luckily, the one I took apart was old and dead, and didn't contain anything important. The damage to those is disgusting, how can someone do that to another person's data?

[@the1spyderryder]

Can you get a replacement board for this drive thats the easiest way. Most data recovery companies have replacment electronics for the drives that they are going to try and recover.

[@ingos5233]

When I watched the last video my first impression of the WD pcb was, that thing got really hot, most likely by a ahort. Just look at the coloring of the unused solderpads and groundplanes around the screwhols.

[@mor4y]

I've actually watched a WD drive drop a red-hot chip into the bottom of my PC case, thing got so hot it desoldered itself from the PCB. Luckily I had a identical drive in another PC, and got away with a simple PCB swap to recover the data That was a few years ago now, back in the

[@spacejaga]

06:10 oh hi lieutenant Dan!

[@stephen88hox]

just incase you forgot, lewis doesnt open drives. he does board repairs.

[@arnodyck]

So those scratches mean absolutely no chance of any data?

[@MasterMindWC]

Scratches and Dandruff.

[@rocklorito]

What a great intro

[@chrisjones-fp5vd]

Is there a reason for the green light?

[@rossmanngroup]

it makes it easier to see platter damage

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

Oh man!!! That second drive... shit...that's NOT cool. You think you can get anything off that drive? I'll tell you what, if you can get anything off that drive, the next time I come to New York, I'll look you guys up and buy you a round of drinks and a game of pool, because then you're a miracle maker!

[@plamendimitrov5762]

Randomly clicked on the timeline and got that line again XD

[@GMMilambar]

Why are so many LR videos coming out with the auto-generated subtitles disabled nowadays? As a person with a significant hearing impediment, I am dependent on the subtitles to know what is being said, ESPECIALLY with the masks obscuring the mouth, so I can't even lipread.

[@MrMattNoir]

The worst part of attempts on data recovery by morons is that they don't understand the potential damage they can do. I never did any data recovery on this level (just software, for me), but I know that once I disassemble hard drive without proper equipment, it's most probably over. Only took apart one hard drive (it was a backup drive, no data recovery needed) and just wanted to see why it stopped reading and functioning. There was a tiny scratch with some kind of grease over it. It was my first WD drive that failed and it was cool to disassemble it and learn how it works. Maybe one day I will decide to learn this level of data recovery as well. Thanks for this content, I really enjoy it!

[@ariesr4883]

Have you repaired a WD Velociraptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 3.5" SATA Hard Drive? What are your thoughts about them?

[@johnbovay8353]

That 2nd one made me bark!

[@adamo1139]

With my hands and skill (none), it would look even worse. I will surely remember to not open any hdd's that have something of value on them in the future, but it's not like I have done it before, I only mess with my own hdd's. I am not working in repair shop, but I feel like sometimes people working there can get pressured by customers who would demand from workers to have every skill regarding PC's that's conceivable, which ofc is not the case, and it might make some people dig into hardware stuff they have no idea about.

[@Eddygeek18]

you don't need to power the board to get rom data off it.

[@BladedThoth]

I never crack a hard drive. Ever.

[@OMGAnotherday]

Is Steve Louis Brother, looks and sounds like him.

[@needaman66]

I prefer HDD to SSD. I just think when the shit hits the fan there's a greater chance of recovery. I could be wrong but.........I'm old

[@mrlithium69]

Valid old person opinion. I'd personally rather have a fast SSD for the OS, and store all the rest of my important data on redundant hard drives in a seperate NAS server. For every 3 drives, you can lose 1 and be totally fine as long as another one doesnt die before you replace that. And the SSD's tend not to randomly up and die overnight. The whole conundrum about Endurance and wear leveling was greatly overblown when they came out, and the SMART Lifetime stats tell you exactly how long they expect to last, unlike HDD's which also have SMART stats but they never seem to predict anything. Samsung SSDs are the way to go, they have a 5 or 10 year warranty for a reason. Most HDDs are 2 or 3.

[@maximilianmustermann5763]

Backups, backups, backups. And then more backups. It's the only thing that really saves your data, no matter what medium you're using.

[@RamsafRamees]

Will any green light do the trick?