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.
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.
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!
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..
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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?
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
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.
@@hddrecoveryservices how relaxing is the price for this kind of job? is it cheaper if the client can supply a donor? and is the statement "the damage is over the area used for drive initialization - this is unique to this single hard drive and cannot be recalculated" correct? Watching this video, it would appear that it is actually false?
@@phishu106 LMAO If a client knew how to supply the donor drive, they would be doing the work. It is a lot more than matching the same drive model #. If you asked me that in my shop, I would know right away you were cheap and I do not want the business. Really, no clue on donor drive from boards, BIOS, heads, et cetera. I've used 3 drives for 1 data recovery job before-this work is not nearly as simple as it looks on TH-cam and I have 25+ years in this business.
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 ?
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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
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
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]
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?
At 6:57 start a life of DJ , call people who are having hard disk problems and dance with them ... When the dance over, hard disk get itself fixed, believe me.
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
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 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?
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?
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 :)
@@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?
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.
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 :)
@@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.
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?
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.
Very good job,if i can do this problably i can save my Toshiba 500 GB and my stuff.Hard,very hard it seems to me.I'm very far from USA.I will try but.... Thank very much.
@@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.
Can you please email me process and payment sir on my mail id harshvadan1992@gmail.com Because I am in India how can I give you hardisk and payment method? Please suggest me
Hi. Thanks for the amazing content that you are making. I have a 1TB western digital hard that has a head problem due to falling and a recovery company changed it's heads and said head swapping was not successful and it's data was not recoverable, can I do anything else or is there any hope that a second change of heads by someone skillful like you help recover my most valuable data? You're answer will help a person in need a lot and bring back hope to several families. I'm waiting for your answer. thank you.
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
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?
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.
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.
Thank you.
Hi Bro, glad to click on TH-cam notification when HDD Recovery Services comes to the show... amazing head stack assembly and replacement.
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.
Particularly enjoyed this one.
Not sure i've watched a video of yours previously where the platters had damage.
Thumbs up🙂
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
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
My favorite recovery channel
Hey, thanks!
Brilliant video, very enjoyable to watch. Subbed :-)
I agree. He is an amazing professional. A joy to watch. And I am learning little bits as I go along...
Hope your doing okay Erkin. Stay safe.
Nice, a new meditation video, Erkin doing his thing!
haha :) thanks dude
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!
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..
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.
This was super cool. Thanks for the content!
Great video, how do you deal with platter alignment or is it not relevant on these drives?
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.
awesome video, thanks for the cool content. you data recovery guys are wizards!
Great videos. Which programmer do you use for NAND / EMMC chips?
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
I enjoyed watching again. great vids Sir.
When you screw back the hard drive cover is there a specific torque setting?
Excellent engineer and tool.
THank you Toni
Enjoyed watching you your an expert thanks for sharing
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?
Hello, Dear its really too good. I love to understand how it has been done ..
Good videos as always.
So glad I had my noise canceling headphones on for this.... Very educational. Hope to send you some business.
Superb job sir,well done
after watching this video my hopes of getting my old photos back have me feeling butterflies in my stomach...
my hdd's reader goes back and forward continuously
What do you use to clean the platters? And what do you not use to clean the platters?
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.
Hi bro, your videos are practical classes, one thing i did't understand about head cutting.
Head cutting is not just a mechanical process. Drive needs to be prepped to understand that head is missing and to keep translator intact
excellent !!
That was so cool. Thanks :)
Great demonstration :-)
PRO in action!!!
Hi5 dude
Very good video as always
Thank you
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
Do you have any examples of visual platter recovery?
Seeing this video gives me a small glimmer of hope that you can possibly help me. Contacting your company right now!
Sounds good! Will be happy to help
Hello. What is the scissors you use? How far does the cut?
Very good job thank for sharing
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
In what order is the data stored on the platters? Intuitively it would seem that it should be interleaved for maximum speed.
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!
How do you maintain Platter alignment with this type of platter extractor ?
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?
1:48 Is the damage visible on the video? I'm just curious how it looks like and how big it is.
thank you for the education!
No worries
were you in a clean room when you did this?
I am not good for English. But the prcedure and viewpoint are great!!
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
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.
Very relaxing nerdy video. THxX
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@hddrecoveryservices how relaxing is the price for this kind of job? is it cheaper if the client can supply a donor? and is the statement "the damage is over the area used for drive initialization - this is unique to this single hard drive and cannot be recalculated" correct? Watching this video, it would appear that it is actually false?
@@phishu106 LMAO If a client knew how to supply the donor drive, they would be doing the work. It is a lot more than matching the same drive model #. If you asked me that in my shop, I would know right away you were cheap and I do not want the business. Really, no clue on donor drive from boards, BIOS, heads, et cetera. I've used 3 drives for 1 data recovery job before-this work is not nearly as simple as it looks on TH-cam and I have 25+ years in this business.
What are the tools that you use?
How much total did you charge for the work?
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 ?
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.
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
@@hddrecoveryservices ahh ok, thank you!
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?
What a great video! Thank you for sharing! I am assuming when removing platters, they need to be aligned, correct?
Yes
Keep up the great videos, please! Thank you once again!
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
hello What software can I use for hard disc diagnostics instead of PC3000 ? ,I am searching for a software which can replace PC3000.
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.
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
HI if i must change a disk to another what i must look have the same MLC: ? P/N: ?
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
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]
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
The whole time your doing this, all I hear is The Bionic Man theme song! I must watch too much tv!
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?
apexlabtools and hddsurgery
Can anybody recommend a company with this level of skill in the UK?
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?
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
4:19 disk marked?
Nice good job brother
Thanks
At 6:57 start a life of DJ , call people who are having hard disk problems and dance with them ...
When the dance over, hard disk get itself fixed, believe me.
Lesson of the Day Backup your data so you don't have to cross fingers at data recovery.
Not to mention it's very expensive
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
Give you lessons in data recovery? , I need it, I love your videos, help me
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.
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.
@@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?
Can i ask sir how to fix usb that has no controler vendor..that even chip genius cant detect? Please help me..
How can I get into contact with you. I want my data recovering and I feel like you can help me.
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?
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 :)
@@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?
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!
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.
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 :)
@@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.
Can I use a dvd optical drive to read hdd platter for data recovery
Yes
this dude is a pro
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?
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.
Very good job,if i can do this problably i can save my Toshiba 500 GB and my stuff.Hard,very hard it seems to me.I'm very far from USA.I will try but....
Thank very much.
Maybe a short video on the head modification procedure (basically where to cut it off at). You should also do a patreon thing.
Haha, you and every other data recovery company owner :). We may be teaching classes on the subject, but not online
@@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.
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
Chandigarh data recovery can help with that. Owner's name is Amarbir
Can you please email me process and payment sir on my mail id harshvadan1992@gmail.com
Because I am in India how can I give you hardisk and payment method? Please suggest me
Hi. Thanks for the amazing content that you are making. I have a 1TB western digital hard that has a head problem due to falling and a recovery company changed it's heads and said head swapping was not successful and it's data was not recoverable, can I do anything else or is there any hope that a second change of heads by someone skillful like you help recover my most valuable data?
You're answer will help a person in need a lot and bring back hope to several families. I'm waiting for your answer. thank you.
Data recovery price?
Hello Team
Any update on my drive ?
where did you get the green lighting from? thanks
Link to it in description
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
Back up is the only long lasting solution
Dam, you really have to know a lot of things to be able to handle that PC-3000 program because you can easy totally brick a hard drive otherwise.
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?
By the way, your videos are awesome
How do we reach you?
platter alignment ?????
I need mines fixed
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.
Yeah you killed it
I need your help 🙏🏼
How do you get the platters rotationally aligned after removing them?
I think there are some marks on the platters that he aligns. There was a discussion about this under a different video.