Hard Drive Data Recovery-Hard Disk Repair How To

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Notebooksquad.com In this video we discovered the physical problem of the drive prevented any further testing. In the mean time, it gives you an idea for doing your own data recovery work. Drive: WD Passport Portable External Drive USB 3.0 Western Digital Products 2 TB Some Ideas for your own data recovery work: You can swap platters, or heads often to fix problems. In this case the heads were destroyed, so we would have swapped the platters just to recover the data and toss the old drive away. Swapping heads is more of a problem, as you need to align the heads, as platters don't need alignments. If you must remove heads, try to keep them in the removable landing, or parking lot I say as best as possible. That little Orange Block in the video. Holds the heads Separated, and still. No need for any fancy tool for this. I seen men's hair combs do a good job at this as well. Usually I use Kapton tape to hold the platters, and keep the black marks true.(as Per the Video) All drives have markings on the platters to show platter syncing marks factory placed. All drives are actually RAID internally, yet on the outside, it is 1 regular drive when we see it. It is really 4-10 Drives, depending on platter counts. Hard Disks write on the outside first, and work their way in as tracks add up. Track 1 will be across all platters. As will be 2, and 3, etc. Those platters are RAIDed internally. (Parallel Written across Platters) So one broken or damaged platter, usually renders the entire drive useless, or a parts box. Especially for data recovery. In most cases we hope to at least get some info from the undamaged tracks when ever possible. But we didn't care much in this case as the drive already was destroyed and visibly showing it. And data recovery with heavy physical damage is virtually impossible, Unless the customer wishes to spend a couple $1000 or double. Just in inspection fee for this like we are doing here is a $100-$300. And it doesn't guarantee any success. But we can preserve any further damage. In most cases I can actually recover the data. Especially with scratches, scuffs, or head breakage. But a broken head acting like a finger nail file on the platter, is pretty rough. A Clean room is always a must. Use only no lint no dust rooms and tools and cloths. A good filtered air supply for blowing dust off parts. Though many videos online, or on youtube show the whole gear, gloves, hat, mask. Out of some sci-fi movie. It is more for show, as you only need to recover the data for one time then to have the drive last another 10 years. Then if 10 years more of use was the case we will use a ultra sterile environment. In most cases though, once data is recovered from the drive, it is destroyed per the customers wishes.