DIY Hard Drive Repair - Seagate Platter Swap - Data Recovery Video Project 3

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10 жыл бұрын

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Do it yourself hard drive repair and data recovery on a Seagate 750GB hard drive. **WARNING** This is NOT recommended for situations where you are trying to recover critical, irreplaceable data. The chances of permanent data loss are extremely high. In this video we show you the process for transplanting hard disk platters from a hard drive with a damaged spindle motor. We made an effort to do this using simple tools to show that it could be done. We DO NOT recommend this method at all for those who have important data that needs to be recovered.
Please note, this process only works with 7200.10 model Seagate hard drives. Do not attempt on any other model Seagate drive, or any other brand hard drive...especially Western Digital.
Hard drive data recovery is much more involved than what can be shown in simple videos like this. Professional data recovery requires the ability to not only properly diagnose your failed hard drive, but also having the right equipment.
Clean rooms for data recovery are not as critical as having the proper knowledge and experience. In addition, having proper software for imaging is crucial. After the platter swap in this video, this is absolutely no way this drive would have been accessible on a computer, no matter how it was attached. The drive had many areas where it really struggled to image completely, and our Deepspar Disk Imager is one of the few tools on the market that intuitively knows how to handle unreadable sectors without pushing the hard drive to its limit.
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@fellblade0 6 жыл бұрын

I have actually had very good experiences migrating platters with the tape and spacer method. 4/5 of the drives I've recovered using this method were successful. Good video!

@Assassin1710 9 ай бұрын

I spoke to you on the phone today. Dave , your a Beyond Awesome man. Good men like you. Are very hard to come by. God bless you my Bro.✝️

@jade43296 8 жыл бұрын

This video is putting my anxiety on max. However super relieving when it's done succesfully.

@watong9232 8 жыл бұрын

You posting this just earned my dollar when I need to spend it. Subbed. This is a video I never thought I would see. Thank you.

@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787 6 жыл бұрын

I've so far purchased 75 drives and only three of them failed. One WD, one Seagate and one Maxtor that got burnt inside the computer. Hard drives bought 18 years ago are still alive and kicking. Good performance.

@antonywarwick6156 9 жыл бұрын

Round of applause for the smooth transfer of platters!

@ISmellBurning 10 жыл бұрын

What an excellent upload! You did a great job there, talk about detailed, well flowing and excellent video quality, plenty of warnings right from start to finish. I have no real interest in pulling apart any HD's.... regardless I watched all that from start to finish! That should tell you how good the content was! Thank you!

@computerrepairokc 7 жыл бұрын

Just used this method to fix my broken HDD. Thank you so much! I backed up 99.99% of my code, but go figure, I need that 0.01% today. Just messaged you on Facebook. Great work!

@Gandoff2000 9 жыл бұрын

Good video! It is a good reminder to have a backup NOT ON YOUR MAIN Drive! Thank you!

@bertollini 9 жыл бұрын

Great platter transfer ! ! ! WOOT WOOT!

@turbo6941 5 жыл бұрын

great. nice video. definitely do it in future with all of my drives if it'll have this kind of issue..no more repair companies. no more money waste. . thank you mr. cool!!

@justinc4139 11 ай бұрын

I just did this with a 4tb WD Passport. The white plastic head divider just clicks back while keeping the heads separated. You can pull the filter and put the tape on pretty well. I transferred all of the disks pretty easily. Unfortunately, the top platter was too damaged for the new head to read. Still, not bad for learning on KZfaq. Good video.

8 жыл бұрын

Even with the poverty of tools you used, that work was epic

@adamland12345 9 жыл бұрын

finally what i needed to know and see. this is the most informative and practical video on recovering data i have ever seen. thank you.

@acsdata 8 жыл бұрын

+adamland12345 Thanks for the kind words.

@jensh.s.tingleff4487 8 жыл бұрын

Cool no doubt about that! - One thing to mention! - This was the Seagate 7200.xx - And some late Maxtor disks. Yet other makes are different inside, thus the amateur going ahead opening those will be in troubble.

@paolofortuni9305 8 жыл бұрын

You make it look soo easy lol, great vid. Thanks!

@Cojones1972 8 жыл бұрын

Seth Rogen, you're a genius!

@TheeRocker 8 жыл бұрын

I swear we all took a breathe at times,,, It's a tough par 8 hole 18,,, avoiding all the hazards that make it a par 8 hole, lol,, At the end I actually gave a golf clap :D thanks for sharing,,, great demonstration !!!

@IsraelSocial 8 жыл бұрын

epic movement !!! nice first try and thanks for share! subscribed

@mohamedsayeed3165 2 жыл бұрын

Truly amazing video ,superbly explained thanks

@acsdata 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

@Ilovecomedy7 9 жыл бұрын

Very informative! I will try mine

@nicholasrobinson41 8 жыл бұрын

This is great! Thanks a ton for the info. I was going to attempt to do this before i saw this video. You are extremely talented! I have to just accept the fact that my stuff is gone :)

@nicholasrobinson41 8 жыл бұрын

Just gave your channel its 7000th sub. Congrats!! :P

@refink33 10 жыл бұрын

@24:45 thought the air filter was a dust collector. Great upload btw.

@KillerJay101 8 жыл бұрын

Bad assery I love videos like this :D

@UTUBE5388327 9 жыл бұрын

Well done gentlemen. Your information was excellent.

@acsdata 9 жыл бұрын

UTUBE5388327 Thank you. Much appreciated.

@benjaminlenz3482 4 жыл бұрын

Had my breath held while you had the platters out of the drive... :D

@boontiong376 8 жыл бұрын

+acsdata Your voice in video feels like watch Golf (PGA Tour) Thumbs up! very informative!

@katabazianthony 6 ай бұрын

With love watching from Uganda

@dataafrica 9 жыл бұрын

wonderful video

@Tuttomenui 8 жыл бұрын

This video has officially scared me away from trying a mechanical repair on my neighbors hhd. I already tried a board swap that failed tonight. found this researching mechanical fixes. I wouldn't have to swap the platters but it is a western digital. So if head alignment can be messed up by opening it I think I'd rather he got professional help.

@PepsiManX360 3 жыл бұрын

Much respect for this!

@acsdata 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@dominicdavids6503 9 жыл бұрын

really appreciate you've uploaded this video, and have laid down perfectly where you stand on taking you this assignment. The commentary also is perfect. As a suggestion if you where to do such a video again could you shoot with 2 cameras looking directly down into the drive. and switch between the two view so that we can see with a wider understanding to whats be done and how you moving and placing items during the entire process. Thank You

@tristikov 9 жыл бұрын

EPIC HDD MANEUVER.

@acsdata 9 жыл бұрын

tristikov Thanks. It's sooo sketchy it makes me nervous to even watch it. lol

@acsdata 8 жыл бұрын

We work under a Class-100 laminar flow hood, which concentrates highly filtered air into a relatively small environment, which is perfect for working on hard drives.

@salhiayoub 5 жыл бұрын

Well done !

@alexandrui.cotiac9561 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, this was amassing! I cannot imagine what idiots disliked this, because the skill and the way yow did it was absolutely breathtaking!

@thunderlipsjoe216 8 жыл бұрын

great vid

@tubzvermeulen 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@pwrxbr 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video!

@acsdata 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@manosgalanakis7860 7 жыл бұрын

Nice Job, very nice job

@acsdata 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@soziograph 9 жыл бұрын

Hey thx! That's a great Video! I can't believe it worked! I have a problem with my toshiba dt01aca300 (3 gb). The head is constantly clicking, but not stucked to the platter. The data is not so important, that's why I want to try it myself. Would you rather swap the platters in the way you showed or just swap the heads? Thx alot for your video!

@MsTekoman 9 жыл бұрын

thank you sir :)

@TimFuzail 5 жыл бұрын

video starts at 8:50

@uberloler 7 жыл бұрын

So if someone has missed the point. DON'T DO THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR DATA!

@diolievecbdproducts8378 9 ай бұрын

The first thing I saw when I opened the drive was one of the tiny head sliders on the platter. After looking at the head I found the there were no sliders on it at all. Not only did I have to remove the platters but I also had to find the sliders. WHere were the sliders? All on the platters. Everything went back together and the drive worked, after I got a new head.

@ItsSpice 7 жыл бұрын

i have 5 hard drives were gonna recycle either way and want the disk out if it because it looks cool tbh.

@jeniaxxx 8 жыл бұрын

Great vid. thanks alot for sharing! i've been wondering since my Seagete drive also failed. and in my case i think it might be the logic board. but if its not.. and i want to attempt this transplant do i need to use the same model housing or any other will do? like how do i tell because they have different Models/PN/FW ?

@dersammler9733 9 жыл бұрын

Great job!

@int0x13 9 жыл бұрын

Impressive work, impressive skill. You're very confident and you dont shake hands at the most intense and delicate parts, respect. I wondered some question during watching: 1)What dont you use magnetic screwdriver to screw/unscrew so you dont take the risk to let a screw fall on the platter? 2)Where where you when you did the whole process? It seems not a clean room? Is it a normal room or have something special to limit the amount of dust? Which place/room and equipement would you recommend to do some DIY HDD repair at the best? 3)I see you comment you work afterwards, its not live comments, right? The action of talking and open mouth could lead to dust contamination or not? Thank you for sharing.

@FIN0LKI11 9 жыл бұрын

A magnetic screwdriver would ruin the drive... And he is in a clean room, he said in the video. Also he said he used a separate microphone to do the commentary after the video was recorded.

@acsdata 9 жыл бұрын

TSpider Keeper That's correct. We use a laminar flow hood. It creates a high pressure area of filtered air, which prevents "dirty" air from entering the work area. We aren't working with DNA so we aren't worried about contaminants, and in actual recovery work we will generally use a suit as well, but we don't in demonstration videos. If you have a newer drive that is non-functional, you should open in it. You'd be surprised at how much dirt and contamination we find in drives...especially newer drives. I'm surprised some of them work at all, it's ridiculous how much dust is in them.

@tspiderkeeper 9 жыл бұрын

acsdata For dust to be in a hard drive when first opened ever.Then it should be taken up with the maker.most drives anymore has a seal on them

@noyuriii 9 жыл бұрын

TheYellowBandit Why would a magnetic screw driver ruin the drive, when the drive its self has a magnet inside that is over 1000 times stronger than the screwdriver.

@vincentwhite6707 10 ай бұрын

In some cases a platter move is not necessary! Replacement of the reader head or arm can fix a non reading issue., some times. If there's no platter damage and your platter motor works. Impacts can damage both the platter and your reader heads. I love this video and this can work in extreme conditions. But it's not always necessary!✌️

@turnkit 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for creating this. Makes me want to find an affordable pro recovery business and send some old drives in. (Is that an oxymoron?) Btw the mic audio is messed up from 48:30 on for a couple minutes.

@bjornvanoppen 8 жыл бұрын

great video ! no need to destroy the sticker just put your screw driver true the sticker ;-)

@Pfirtzer 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question so you use the same brand obviously and same type of per example if you have 2TB Seagate you get a good 2TB harddisk and transplant it from bad to good one? I guess it's not possible to use another brand of harddisk 2TB or a 1TB disk?

@dominicdavids6503 9 жыл бұрын

we live in a world where people dont know how things work....when you said that the two magnets and the magnetic field. I find that exciting its like really smart and powerful engineering.

@TehIdiotOne 9 жыл бұрын

It's a fairly complicated piece of equipment, so no wonder the average person does not understand it

@irinapotoropina4322 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. My Seagate hard drive stopped being detected by BIOS. I got the identical drive, but different serial number. Is it better to swap the platters or the magnets and the arm?

@JellyMonster1 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. How did you not drop a screw?

@CharlesGuzman 8 жыл бұрын

The other day, I bumped my laptop into a wall while walking into another room. For the next week or two, it would freeze about 30 minutes after turning it on and being usable. I think I may have scratched the disk by jarring the laptop so hard. For my solution, I re-installed ubuntu and put the whole OS at the end of the drive and only made it 350 GB instead of the available 750gb. I also put the swap at the end too, and only left the boot manager which is like 50 mb at the start of the disk. What I was trying to do was put the data in a part of the disk that I suspected was not damaged. So far, my laptop has been running fine for three days straight and I have had no issues with freezing or slowness like I did before. My partition manager shows that 350 GB is unused from the start of the disk and then after that, my new Primary partition starts. Do you think my methodology work? I've heard that the drive doesn't physically do what I was trying to do (which was install the OS 'past' the damaged area), but rather the drive/system puts files where ever space is available. I am using Linux Ubuntu 14.04 and this method seemingly has worked! I just wonder for how long before the system just starts writing into those bad areas... lol thanks for any help you can offer.

@OldBuford 7 жыл бұрын

Just here to watch, I have a drive that is D-E-A-D DEAD and I was curious if platter replacement was possible. Seems like more work and money than it's worth for a 2tb drive but fun to watch anyway

@kazeemkamorudeen5792 8 жыл бұрын

thanks alot...

@acsdata 8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@sirMAXX77 9 жыл бұрын

This guy should have added NASA control room sound effects with radio communications while he was doing this. Would have been classic. I might do a parody of that. Sounded llike the procedure was that intense, like launching a shuttle. It would be cool to get a couple junk drives, that work initially of course and try out these procedures to try to do it successfully. I would love to see HowToBasic try data recovery.

@thekaiser4333 6 жыл бұрын

The video starts at 9:00 .

@josephbrennan4622 4 жыл бұрын

You need an overhead camera, but great vid thank you.

@exclusivelynyc 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. I have the same drive. It dropped on its side on a shelf. All heads are in great condition but the platters won't spin. Would I have to move the platters to a another drive or is there something I can do to get the platters to move? Thanks. The data is not that serious but I'd like to try after I saw this and it just happens to be the exact same drive. I brought a replacement drive for the swap if need be from Newegg.

@ryukishisama 9 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm in the process of changing the head of my disk, I'd like to know, I had the click of death problem and when I opened it I saw a scratch along the inner circle of the top platter, it seems that the arm that was clicking has done that scratch, should I continue the head switch or the disk is pretty done? Thanks

@rodsims8471 8 жыл бұрын

I held my breath , watching this video , waiting for one of the plat screws to fall on the disk , wow . real smoooth action Nice work , what's your average cost for a plat replace ?

@acsdata 8 жыл бұрын

+rod sims Thanks. Depends on the size of the drive really. To do it the right way...not this sketchy risky way...any company that can actually do this without making the situation worse will charge at least $1,200. Aside from us there is Drivesavers, OnTrack, DTI, and CBL that are all reputable companies.

@luisozonas 9 жыл бұрын

It would be wonderful if you could place a camera and a light close enough

@micheldiz 9 жыл бұрын

One thing I wish to know is. We can test all the parts of the drive before do this? We can test if the motor is running maybe with a Multimeter? We can replace all the boards or test the boards with some precision? Using electronic tools like capacimeter or Multimeter. Best regards.

@travisreboah6344 8 жыл бұрын

Great video, but would like some additional advise. I have two identical Seagate 7200.07 (ST3160828AS) drives , one good/one bad. Can I simply swap platters from one to the other by not removing the head assembly and just removing head assembly hardstop and swing the assembly clockwise which presumably would allow enough clearance for a platter swap? If not, and I have to remove the head assembly, would it be easier to use the head assembly plastic comb used for parking the heads to secure the heads rather than the bent plastic shims (I will have one extra since I have a second drive)? Alternatively, would you estimate it is easier to swap the platters from one drive to another or swap the head assembly? thanks in advance.

@hddrecoveryservices 9 жыл бұрын

thats they way to do it ;)

@tarekmahmudbhuiyan7368 6 жыл бұрын

Loved this video. I have a 2TB seagate drive which has failed heads. If I put the platters into a working 3TB seagate drive (same generation as the 2TB), will there be any chance of recovering the data? I have a spare 3 TB drive FYI.

@Sertdatarecovery 9 жыл бұрын

Nice platter swap!

@rickybrenay6249 6 жыл бұрын

Well thanks for the tips. I unfortantly do not have the skill you do lol. $30 down and 2 hours.

@DanielsGameVault 9 жыл бұрын

This may be a stupid question, but if I have a 500Gb HDD with a crashed head, will a head from a 1TB one work in its place ? Same make and model obviously (Seagate for the record), but once I carry the head over to the bad drive, must the firmware and capacity also match ?

@acsdata 9 жыл бұрын

Daniel's Game Vault We have used heads from larger capacity drives to recover data, but there are other parameters that have to match up. If the head swap goes without issue, which it most likely won't, the firmware will deactivate the heads that aren't needed.

@LayJD_ 9 жыл бұрын

How come hen I open one of my drives it still acts like it is working even in a dusty area?

@Shyzah 9 жыл бұрын

What happens if you drop something onto the first platter.. A few months back, before I saw this video. I opened up my old Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 IDE HDD and while I was opening it up, the sticky insulation on the edges fell off of the top metal onto half of the platter and it went on the head. No matter how careful I was trying to lift that rubber, It bent the whole head. I now have another same exact hard drive and I want to swap heads. I'm not really willing to send this to data recovery because I don't know what files are on there. You guys think that I will be able to get some data off of it still? If so, wanna make a DIY head swap for a similar HDD?

@NightOwlMusiq 2 жыл бұрын

Would you all consider this process to be harder or easier for smaller drives?(particularly momentus 5.4K 320gb)

@melechhaarayot9273 6 жыл бұрын

that Platter transfer tho!!!! (....Holds up a card with a 10).

@JohnB-2021 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, Thank you for the demo. I wonder if you can confirm one question. A data centre returned my drive, I couldn't afford the £400 for a 70% chance of getting the data back. (Seagate 1TB) Q/ if one of the 2 disks are rotated from the original position, are you saying the data is gone? Thank you John (UK)

@KammaKaraiMuttuSanthu 7 жыл бұрын

nice

@francisconiv8920 7 жыл бұрын

Great Work! Where I'm buy this tape for 2,5" disk plate?

@LayJD_ 9 жыл бұрын

So hard!

@voiceinthewilderness3128 7 жыл бұрын

i am getting ready to attempt this same swap and will be using the hand made plastic inserts to open the heads b4 moving them off the platters. i have made a practice move of the heads (Iomega 500GB External Drive) and find that the heads to not move all the way off the platters, but stop on the edge, making it impossible to remove the platters unless I remove the heads completely. I am hoping to not have to do that. I want to move the heads of both sets of platters from 2 identical drives, and then swap the platters. Can someone advise if there is a way to get the heads all the way off the platters w/o having to remove them physically from the drive?

@Ace2789 Жыл бұрын

great video! but I have a question about some of the newer versions of the 2Tb HD, on my 'arm' I don't have a Phillips notch but it appears to be a counter sunk screw(?) any ideas how to remove that?

@Ace2789 Жыл бұрын

I stand by my statement good video! but apparently its held down by force, the arm just lifts off. Cheers!

@bushivijayaakash3345 2 жыл бұрын

great

@NaineshDesai 9 жыл бұрын

Hi , Very Nice Video , good work . Please let me know which material you have used for Head Replacement , also what is plastic tape make for sticking platters sideways. waiting for your reply.

@krishnabairi1581 Жыл бұрын

Excellent. What is the tape you used to lift the platters? As a universal truth that all problematic hdds are from Seagate.

@jayt9665 7 жыл бұрын

just wondering what brand hard drive do you end up recovering data from the most western digital or seagate

@iwansetiawan5721 2 жыл бұрын

Good

@filmphenomenon6193 7 жыл бұрын

Can you carry out this procedure on a Hard Drive which is not being recognised by any computer because it has a flashing light?

@GCS88 5 жыл бұрын

If you do a platter swap can you use the drive straight away or do you need to do some more recovery procedure?

@NetRolller3D 9 жыл бұрын

The one thing missing is what software you would use for imaging: as you probably don't have a Deepspar at home, the closest thing you can have is GNU ddrescue 1.19 or newer, preferably with ddrutility and the passthrough patch. If possible, use a PCI-based or onboard SATA port, and not an USB device - that way ddrescue will have better control over what ATA commands get sent out to the drive.

@acsdata 9 жыл бұрын

NetRolller3D Skip to the 40min mark. All we use are Deepspar Imagers, and we have multiple systems in place. This particular example is just a demo that we did with an old drive one night, not an actual case. And yes, you definitely need something more than off the shelf software after an involved process like this. That is one point I bring up...even if you do this at home...most likely you aren't going to have the ability to get a clean image of the drive, because they operate in such a degraded state afterwards.

@MrFree123abc 6 жыл бұрын

Where to buy the casing?i want to replace PCB but the motor burn and smells..and need to replace with the new casing

@CreatureOfTheVoid 8 жыл бұрын

is there anyway (software) to force load or access a drive tht has suffered a head crash and wont load but still spins up? ... I popped the case to make sure it wasn't just a case of stuck heads only to find a nice scratch ring just off the centre of the top platter... I can only assume the other platters will have likewise been damaged

@williampierson4340 Жыл бұрын

Hi, great video. I've seen some other folks go to great lengths to keep the hub facing the identical relative direction to the platters. They say that the hub is typically notched or weighted so that it balances the platters as they spin. Thoughts?

@radunicola3836 6 жыл бұрын

Hi, I've got an Hard disk port reset error on my 750 gb wd hdd drive. Could you tell me how to fix it ? I am not from US and I badly need my data back. We do not have in this city a data recovery company to go to. Thank you. Btw...tried with different SATA cables and ports in motherboard.

@geoffreytylerpayne 8 жыл бұрын

can I swap the platters into an identical drive without taking out the heads? (Or anything else ideally)

@numbr6 6 жыл бұрын

Great work. Amazing the drive read any data at all. Did you spend more time trying to image the drive? If so, how much data did you recover? I've opened two throw-away drives, looked around, then put the cover back on, and they worked. I wouldn't use either drive for anything serious after opening. No clean room or air cleaner hood. I was lucky. I'm totally serious about backing up my data. Nice to know data recovery services are out there, but good backups make these services unnecessary.

@mtjoy747 7 жыл бұрын

I know this one might be a bit off-topic, but IF you wanted the convenience of a physical switch, single pole, so that you could (when the computer is OFF) swap to a second HDD within the machine, how easy would that be?

@Matthew19002 8 жыл бұрын

I lost music lyric that I wrote on a toshiba 500GB portable usb 3.0 hard-drive and over leaving the faulty hard-drive plugged in my computer ended up having complete freeze glitches... any theories on that? I thought it was a firmware glitch so I pulled the solidstate drive I had hooked up internally when it froze and it rebooted and I've had no issues like it since..

@Awed1b 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. 1st question: Once you had affixed the first larger piece of packing tape to the platters, what kept you from spinning the platters so that you could affix a second large piece of tape instead of squeezing the small pieces onto the opposite side? 2nd question: Would you be able to voice over that last part between about 47 and 51? Your audio drops considerably along in there. Thanks again. B.

@acsdata 8 жыл бұрын

+William Brown There are spacers between the platters that are anchored to the drive chassis. The small pieces fit into a tiny gap in those spacers on the opposite side.

@hibriddesign 8 жыл бұрын

+acsdata well you almost made me cry, I was about to try this to my 2011 Western Digital 1TB HDD which I bought late 2012 :(. I am sure my motor is not spinning up. I am not sure what all data I have in that drive and if its worth to invest in data recovery.