full rebuild of WD passport to get data recovered

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This hard drive was sent to us by another data recovery company. After a heavy fall, this drive left most of the head sliders on the surfaces of the disk. Our client also mentioned that the hard drive was making buzzing/beeping noises. All 6 sliders broke off from the suspension. First, we had to locate and plunk all heads that were stuck to disks. Once all 6 heads were found, this drive was decontaminated and rebuilt with a donor head assembly. To work with USB interfaced drives in PC3000, we convert them to SATA first. After the rebuilt and PCB adaptation, hard drive kept buzzing on startup indicating a spinup problem. This issue was later resolved by a platter transplant into a donor chassis. PC3000's WD utility was used to prep and image out the content. The hard drive was recovered fully, and the data was saved.
if you want to ship your failed device to us for data recovery and free evaluation, simply fill out this form: www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us/
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HDD Recovery Services
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Ottawa, ON
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this video: • full rebuild of WD pas...

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@kevinkang4308 4 жыл бұрын

KZfaq recommended your video, at first I thought you were working in a hard disk company's lab. Excellent job done!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

I am glad you liked it Kevin!

@esatd34 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same situation here.

@RealSergiob466 4 жыл бұрын

Me too. It looks like the lab

@jamilgomez8611 4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@caillousdad5786 4 жыл бұрын

I used to do this on a budget for folks who nearly trashed their drives. Back in the 90s it would cost around $5000 - $10000 for regular people to have their drives recovered. Today it starts at around $100 and up.. and that was my price back then... so I don't do it anymore. I used an acrylic box with gloves and vacuum pumped it. Not a professional way to do it, but I had a 90% success rate. If I didn't get the data, I didn't charge.

@chris01479 5 ай бұрын

That's awesome. Did you reeplace the heads by used with the same models and first 3 characters of the s/n? Did it works and did you recovered your data??

@szeemee 4 жыл бұрын

Huge respect for your patience! I think the customer was delighted to receive the data back! Thank you for uploading!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yeah the client was very much please

@jordanking6939 4 жыл бұрын

I seen expensive Hard Drive repairs on KZfaq, this by far has ASMR elements. The guy is literally performing surgery on the Hard Drive

@stayathomequiz2131 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! The air-filter noise makes it feel like a quality working environment! Very impressive!

@123kkambiz 4 жыл бұрын

I like when he beautifully discusses the problem and solution of the recovery procedure. Keep it up good work.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@JOELwindows7 4 жыл бұрын

This is your daily dose of Recommendation Full rebuild harddisk

@odddellarobbia4 4 жыл бұрын

It's like surgery Computer surgery

@crazyksp8344 4 жыл бұрын

They done a surgery on a hard drive

@misterhash9329 4 жыл бұрын

Brain surgery*

@chancho00 3 жыл бұрын

That's a mild way to say what it actually is, hardcore computer pornography.

@francisberesford1216 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderfull to see a real professional at work. I wish that you were accessible in the UK. Thanks

@Zedman3333 4 жыл бұрын

Hardrive dental work, amazing. That was VERY interesting, i had no idea a HD had a few platters, you're very talented.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@_____-ze5ow 4 жыл бұрын

This is a masterclass work here. I am really thankful to get this recommendation and seeing how a pro do their job...this is just awesome to see

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@nicholasjude7937 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing Video ! one of the first video of HDD recovery and rebuild i have ever seen ! so meticulous and careful in each step ! Great Job Bro !

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@DuckDevAI 4 жыл бұрын

best video of an hdd hardware recovery that i have ever seen on the web

@MulyonoHerman 4 жыл бұрын

You are awesome man, I know it is really hard to recovery data from broken hard disk.

@curtismenzies428 3 жыл бұрын

What blows my mind is the level of care that needs to be taken when handling this. I was just watching a video from how a nuclear core went critical because of a scientist's screwdriver slipped.

@juandenz2008 4 жыл бұрын

Super interesting video ! I've lost count of the number of friends and colleagues who have lost precious photos etc because their hard drive failed. It's so important to take regular backups as not everyone can afford this kind of rebuild.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, thanks for watching

@Chriva 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect Friday evening video. Thank you, Erkin :)

@Rodionnx 4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. By recommending me this vid, Universe is trying to tell me to backup my important data... THX!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Haha totally

@sushisashimi672 4 жыл бұрын

It's why u need to clone ur HDD regularly at least each month, so that when ur HDD fail and u could just use the clone one and sent the injured HDD to the clinic

@pebear 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is cool. I have sent several drives off to get the data off of them over the years. You can def make good bank doing this.

@hippa2dahoppa2 4 жыл бұрын

i bet they were seagate lol

@pebear 4 жыл бұрын

@@hippa2dahoppa2 I'm hoping M.2

@mariorossi1633 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You for sharing with us all this very interesting stuff

@tirbomax 4 жыл бұрын

just stumbled upon your channel, and now subscribed!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome Max

@MrShandyIson 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, very educational in respect to hard drive rebuilds and recovery. Good video.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

@haralamc 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video I have two wd 1tb with same issues been saving them for price of recovering to come down. Definetly a wd defect

@sshado2 4 жыл бұрын

This is a wonderful quality video. Thank you.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mgdu1023 3 жыл бұрын

I actually might have also learnt a couple of surgery skills to perform on my failed drives LOL My silly joke set aside, thanks for the great content you delivered here. I'm quite impressed with how far you had to go for something coming up seeming not that big of a problem at the beginning of the operation. BACK UP YOUR THINGS, PEOPLE!

@BlueRice 5 ай бұрын

Easy said than done. Back in early 2000's. Terabyte of data on hard drive is expensive. I had some in raid and heat killed the drive. After 15 years I have them lay around and some of the drive missing. Now I don't know if that could be recovered

@chris01479 5 ай бұрын

@@BlueRiceHave you ever done it to replace the heads by used with the same models and first 3 characters of the s/n? Did it works and did you recovered your data??

@BlueRice 5 ай бұрын

@@chris01479 i never perform head replacement but i replace the PCB which i dont know if thats incorrect one or theres something wrong with the head. i didnt want to dissect it since i dont want to mess it up even further. there's one movie i have on the HD that i dont know the name of. i remember watching 2 min into it and want to watch later. the movie was a master piece. the most beautiful movie ever made. im willing to pay 1k just to recover that movie..bascially paying to find out the name of the movie.

@Emilthehun 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work and great specialized tools!!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@adamw.8579 4 жыл бұрын

I see, this drive had heavy impact. Heads was rip off and probably spindle bearing was locked too. Only solution is move platters to functioning drive and pull data off. Edit: Good work to extract data from dead disk drive.

@vnukchaknorrisa5964 3 жыл бұрын

С такой кропотливой работой алкоголь исключён вообще наверное))

@alexeyastakhov5137 3 жыл бұрын

Мне кажется наоборот - тут же одно неверное движение и прощай хард. Слышал что хирурги часто выпивают после тяжелых операций.

@NehirKaya 4 жыл бұрын

what a great job man! Respect!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ramon

@lesrogers7310 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is impressive stuff. You certainly have skills sir...

@r4microds 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! But a gentle reminder, its now 2020, if you haven't yet backed up your data somewhere safe, consider doing it now!

@smoejith9283 Жыл бұрын

Nice! Not many REAL hard drive videos coming out these days.. solid state junk... lol .. thanks for posting these, I love the hd surgery videos!

@jean-mariebluteau4549 4 жыл бұрын

Could watch you do this all day...

@DeKempster 3 жыл бұрын

Really shows the importance of a good backup strategy.(and testing said strategy)

@hddrecoveryservices 3 жыл бұрын

Yep 😁

@TheDopalgangr 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work. I use 1 or 2lb fishing monofilament to pluck those sliders off. Less chance of scratching the surface

@lisajohnson8566 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing work and it's all magic for us lay folks. Very interesting to see that data is recoverable in some cases. So interesting and thanks for sharing your expertise and for the great video too.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lisa

@asawik 4 жыл бұрын

Hello from Poland. As for me - what you do is magic 👏🎆

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Hello! thank you!

@razcann3597 4 жыл бұрын

Obviously you have done this many times, you are so quick

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

This is what I do for living, so I do this everyday

@aneomgr7798 4 жыл бұрын

1:50 I tilted my head to the right to see what he was doing xD

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Haha, removing the head screw

@italiaassistance4464 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices hi :) your video is very cool! u are cool :D i have a question, what do you use to cut heads?

@paulsmith9574 11 ай бұрын

I learned long ago to keep at least one other backup drive for important data. My DVD/CD burned came in handy for that. But now I have well over 200 discs taking up space. When the main HD fault happens, there is no data loss, just cash loss, replacing the drive. I was wondering, if the head arm is stuck, or the platter doesn't want to spin, if there is an oil for the bearings. I have seen on larger greased joints in things, the grease gets hard like glue. Just enough lubricant to get the data if needed.

@Djmaxofficial 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that the drive is dusty but my screen was :D

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

That's funny:)

@hashtaglobotomy2655 4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget to break out your 1 inch air impact and really torque em down.

@pgtmr2713 3 жыл бұрын

At least 7 ugga duggas!

@CharlieQ7400 4 жыл бұрын

I don't really understand how i'm not subscribed , new account anyways , Thanks for helping the community , and like always , ThumbsUp!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel

@metap0Pe 4 жыл бұрын

Just a tip, it would be SO much easier to read the text on screen if it was much, much smaller, and just located in the bottom like regular subtitles.

@JM-yx1lm 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, its fine.

@celltronix 4 жыл бұрын

i have hear that hard drive cant or never been repaired but here it is repaired everything is possible in this world

@JohnnyTorontoEh 4 жыл бұрын

Recovering data is basically fixing the drive but it's only a temporary measure. You should never use a 'repaired/recovered drive after the fact.

@TomBudin 4 жыл бұрын

you can just depends on how much you wanna spend to recover the data

@worroSfOretsevraH 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. Please explain why you did not fix the platters to each other for keeping their relative position. You used to tape the sides with scotch tape in some of your videos. Thanks, keep it up.

@steeveedee8478 4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering that - I thought the platters had to be perfectly vertically aligned??

@gustavinus 4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about the alignment as well...

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

@@gustavinus we keep the alignment by etching the drive and setting it back lined up by etches

@donbeckham 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices Do you have a video of this process? And what's the tolerance on alignment (in radians) ?

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

@@donbeckham I don't

@nicholasdavidowicz9832 4 жыл бұрын

Wow simply amazing work.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Ryzler13 4 жыл бұрын

I am watching you work like a hungry cat watching a fish bowl... That is amazing tech people dont realise what they have in their hands.... You can do anything with the right tools. (Bows to Asia) and the right minds.

@lerkzor 4 жыл бұрын

I was amazed that there is a way to read multiple platters after reassembly, since there is no chance at all that the platters were re-installed in the exact same rotational orientation relative to each other.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

What makes you so sure they were not set back the same?

@lerkzor 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices I don't mean top/bottom/position in stack, I mean turned a little. Are the platters keyed to the spindle?

@kenmasters916 4 жыл бұрын

quite technical thank you for sharing !

@ReinaldoGonzalezreix2x 4 жыл бұрын

Beautifull! i though data recovey was way easier, now i understand why it is expensive

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

;)

@r100curtaincall 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it can sometimes require an extensive amount of work and special equipment...

@douro20 2 жыл бұрын

@@r100curtaincall And the cost of the tools is very high. Most people may not realise this but the head comb, which is used to secure the heads on the servo arm during handling, is actually the single most expensive tool he is using in the process of performing the mechanical work on the drive. It is made of titanium and a set of those can cost over a thousand dollars.

@r100curtaincall 2 жыл бұрын

@@douro20 Yeah they're super expensive. The tooling required to make them is as insane as the task that it is used to perform. Many people diss hard drives now in favor of SSDs, but they are a true mechanical engineering marvel all their own, from assembly to performance. I daresay they are probably one of if not the fastest precision micro instruments ever created by man.

@chhupparustom 4 жыл бұрын

At the end, on your left, is that the laminar flow work-table with lights on?

@steve2me414 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work, I like this stuff.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@engenglish610 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, good job. Do not hesitate to present pc3000....I want to learn more about it.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

PC3000 is a tool that has a huge variety of features. We demonstrate a little bit at a time in almost every hard drive recovery video

@engenglish610 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices thank you

@Zone1242 4 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. I enjoy watching you work. I assume the head damage, in this case, was caused by the slow (or stopped) platter meaning the heads were no longer flying properly. Is that correct? If so it's very fortunate that there was no platter damage. Cheers, John

@paulveitch 4 жыл бұрын

I think he said the drive was dropped. I imagine that is when it was off which meant that the heads were parked.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

The fact that the spindle failed, actually saved this drive from platter damage. With sliders missing and suspension on the loose, it would only be a matter of a few power ups :)

@cocobongo268 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices Exactly, we could have a nice shredding platters on new head stack assembly ... one thing to point it out is the aligment, the platters were previously marked so the cylinder remains, therefore the data is more likely to be extracted. As you do my friend, I always create a head map for detecting either weak heads or zones on the platters. You are my hero, keep going man.

@TwcFan 3 жыл бұрын

To get the platter unstuck from the arm reader, find a screw in the middle of your hard drive and then unscrew it and try to see if it would spin again. Never open up the hard drive or that's it.

@nosnitrous 4 жыл бұрын

Nice job, very professional :)

@jimmyqballs 4 жыл бұрын

This looks like a fun and rewarding job. And if all fails and it doesn't work, you can just say you tried your best and blame it on the hard drive :)

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

sure is, but why blame the drive? :) its like a hard drive er, patient either come in recoverable condition, or it is DOA. If the drive is partially recoverable - we recover what can be pulled

@dr.ramondetorres4838 4 жыл бұрын

I was almost literally on the edge of my seat. Fascinating work! I could do that, but I don't have the equipment... and especially, not familiar with the software. Great Job.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

It's not too late to start :) this industry still has a few years I think

@dr.ramondetorres4838 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices I have a doctorate in information systems and leadership. Unfortunately, as a former computer repair technician, the doctorate was more about leadership than tech. No matter. I truly enjoyed the video. Thanks.

@Ka9radio_Mobile9 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that I could do this my self if I needed to, boy was I wrong! Thanks for this great video. I'm putting your name in my address book! :-)

@ucupi 4 жыл бұрын

Looks easy...u need all the tools..&the one pc3000 without it bye bye data....

@CodeAsm 4 жыл бұрын

@@ucupi Its not inly software, its special hardware aswell... ive recovered data myself without fancy tools, or software but any attempt at platter or head replacing failed, as most of these drives have firmware on the platters and these platters apparently need allignment (?) maybe youtuber can confirm this. Anyway, I recomment going to a recovery lab FIRST if data is important. ive only tried my own drives or friends harddisks after they learned the price (most offer diagnosis for low or free price, actual recovery costs money).

@KotauFPS 4 жыл бұрын

@@CodeAsm any side effects to doing it without specialized tools? I'd assume data loss is basically inminent if you try to do this the ghetto way, but the hdd would be reusable.

@CodeAsm 4 жыл бұрын

@@KotauFPS ghetto style is posible depending on the case. Dd, ddresque, testdisk and the best Rstudio might do the job for allott of software isues people might have. Hardware isues depends. Replacing flashrom, capasitors connectors, sure. If you have a cleanairroom and use gloves, maybe. But too many try and then go to a recovery company and actualy made it worse. If you wanna learn, and probably lose data, go ahead. Investigate why those paid hardware and software is so good, why are they using custom hardware? The hdd also have special controllers, maybe learn how to controll those

@amak1131 4 жыл бұрын

@@KotauFPS Dust is the main culprit. You MAY get lucky, but generally a spec of dust rotating at 7200rpm is like crashing into a boulder. That's why every shop has one of those fancy clean booths: you can spend 30mins swapping parts, but a single spec of dust or even a small hair can destroy the drive.

@rar2k11 4 жыл бұрын

How do you re-align the platters after moving them around? Is the angle at which they originally were important, or is it self read from info on the platters? Does it matter if the individual platters are not as they were, or are they read at different times and the indexes are on the platter themselves? Thanks.

@JohnnyTorontoEh 4 жыл бұрын

Are your plastic rolling chairs grounded to your non anti static floors?

@lakmalsiriwardhana 4 жыл бұрын

after looong time bro. nice work. wow

@romahago 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you get parts? I need the same arm with heads as you replacing in your video. Thanks ahead.

@tausifpatel6720 4 жыл бұрын

Your video is very helpful 🙂

@HashimAziz1 4 жыл бұрын

Some amazing skill here. I'm really curious as to what you ended up charging for this case.

@gassanali8667 4 жыл бұрын

I'm here to learn...

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

you are in the right place :)

@orckaso6513 3 жыл бұрын

I just have a question.. do you need to align the HDD discs, donuts, after replacing the head reader...? appreciate your videos and answer. Cheers

@johnymicheal3118 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@sathyaj 4 жыл бұрын

Great Job Bro..

@neilbedford2756 4 жыл бұрын

Great work!! A quick question, I thought you had to keep all the platters in alignment?

@AlexCortinovis 4 жыл бұрын

Me too, i've been taught that misalignment would cause complete data loss.

@neilbedford2756 4 жыл бұрын

Alex Cortinovis Yeah would be good to get a reply..

@AlexCortinovis 4 жыл бұрын

@@neilbedford2756 He replied some comments below, look for the comment of worroSfOretsevraH

@ASAPDataRecoveryLosAngeles 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely video Bro! BTW, to all potential customers, none of "cheap, flat rate" data recovery companies will perform this kind of recovery for you.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! Happy New Year!!!!

@alexIT80 3 жыл бұрын

Hi wow amazing stuff. I have a question how do you deal with platters alignment to each other?

@JuanDiazSilvermyst 4 жыл бұрын

What is that tool called that you put the platters in? Ive never seen anything like that...

@orckaso6513 3 жыл бұрын

I will adore to do this job

@Nanogrip 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, really puts into perspective on how the work is done. I've had some ideas on how repairs were performed, but no idea what tools were used! I have a question: Would this repair work if the platters were transplanted into the working hard drive instead of replacing the reader head? Thanks for your video and look forward to more of your work!

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

You can't take out platters without taking heads out. If the motor is not damaged and chassis are not contaminated by platter dust we don't swap platters

@Nanogrip 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices okay understood, thank you for your reply!

@ashishahuja4592 4 жыл бұрын

Superb task

@Biffo1262 3 жыл бұрын

I reckon the original drive has suffered some major mishandling malfunction in short.... dropped. Whilst I was watching it occurred to me wouldn't it be simpler to put the old platters into a new drive already stripped down. He ended up doing that anyway but hey I'm a complete amateur whereas this guy is the hard drive magician. I now know why there is such a market for donor drives. I'm a belt and two sets of braces man despite all my computers having solely SSD's Storage is so cheap (relatively speaking) I have three copies of everything backed up to external SSD drives one after use and all of them weekly. I simply cannot afford to lose customer photos or the work I have done on them. The day of mechanical drives is past and SSD's these day are a must.

@GeneralTsosChix 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't platter alignment have to be maintained critically close for it to recover any data? I was under the impression it needed to be within thousandths of and inch, otherwise its just a headache. Is there redundancy between platters that allow for them to be out of alignment of each other?

@vittoriosilva1454 4 жыл бұрын

It was my understanding that maintaining the phase relationship between the platters was critical ?

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

On some it is more critical than others, but it really boils down to ability to work with individual heads.

@vittoriosilva1454 4 жыл бұрын

I think he can get away with it because of the thousands of dollars worth of specialized software/hardware he uses ....

@SmileyJack. 4 жыл бұрын

I thought that platters need to be aligned (take out and insert all at once and not one by one). Is it critical only for some models or cases?

@ibrennan 4 жыл бұрын

Impressive!

@marksz06 Жыл бұрын

Hello, I once heard or read that when you replace certain parts on HDs that the parts need to come from the same model# and DCM of the new HD. Like for instance, I have a western digital WD10EZEX - 00BN5A0 with DCM: HANNKT2MHB so would I need an exact HD match to pull parts for that? Also, is there a torque specification for the screws that has to be exact?

@gopalnarahariburud7102 4 жыл бұрын

You are awesome !!!

@recndcmm 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, may ask, i saw someone doing a procedure like this before, he mentioned that each disk should stay in the exact same position in order for it to keep the same sector aligned, care to comment on that ?

@SirHackaL0t. 4 жыл бұрын

Does the orientation of the individual platters in relation to the other platters matter?

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but we keep it lined up

@unconfirm3d 4 жыл бұрын

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@cocobongo268 4 жыл бұрын

First comment dude. I am always eager to watch and share your videos.

@rapidrabbit7175 4 жыл бұрын

It looks very labor intensive to me and the majority of people want cheap. Consequently, the main reason I've always avoided the computer repair business. Three things to always remember . . . backup, backup, and backup.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Backup is a must

@Laxpowertoo 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! I love watching you work. Just out of interest, what would you use to remove finger prints from a platter? I have the old HD from my laptop which I didn't intend using, so i took the top off for a poke around and managed to leave prints on the top platter. Now years later I was hoping to extract the contents again, but I don't want to damage it trying to clean it. I heard alcohol works.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Alcohol works if used right

@bentelashley 4 жыл бұрын

I’m impressed Cheers buddy

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@josephmatey127 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work man! Where did you get that jig that holds the drives in this video?

@stevearkwright 4 жыл бұрын

Michael Matey: It looks like it was custom made.

@ningen1980 4 жыл бұрын

I wager the PCB was toast, aside from the heads. I'm still sitting on an old WD20EA that has a PCB that literally blew 3 chips. Has over 10 years of music production on it.

@faitohiateraiamano9757 4 жыл бұрын

good job

@techalyzer 4 жыл бұрын

My IT business failed after about 4 years and I can't stop thinking if my problem is local or global. How do you get past the "Oh, it costs me $400, here's $5" part? Doing an average, I never even came close to at least minimum wage monthly... cashed in, before taxes. I am actually earning about 10 times more now delivering food with my car... :))) I love IT and I'm definitely working ok, I mean it's not that I do a bad job doing stuff... it's just.... nobody seems to pay what it actually costs.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know about IT business at all, but in DR business there are 2 challenges only: 1. you need to know your shit, and that comes from years of grind. 2. you need to find clients who need data they did not back up. (not repair my computer because it does not work anymore) Get good at both, and you are set.

@techalyzer 4 жыл бұрын

@@hddrecoveryservices Nah, must be the location. The clients who need their data here would stiil be like "Oh no, can't pay that, here's $10, and I'll bring another drive for this price". About 90% of them, if not more. I did find people who pay, but not enough to even support a business, let alone enable me to also get an income out of it. Also most companies are set on fraud schemes, tax evasion, all sorts of "smart" stuff I never wanted to have anything to do with.

@fuanka1724 4 жыл бұрын

How does he keep platter alignment? He does not seem to do anything in that regard. What am I missing?

@unconfirm3d 4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t.

@marcd7332 4 жыл бұрын

Roger Williams He did, don’t spread misinformation if you don’t know the facts

@madcalm2024 4 жыл бұрын

If a data sector is located fully on a platter (can be accessed by a single head) then such alignment isn't necessary me guess

@briand7890 4 жыл бұрын

above he says they etch the platter and line up the etches

@davidbrown1573 4 жыл бұрын

You said that's it, but I never saw you put back the part you removed at 8:55. Is that just a plunger to keep the actuator and heads from moving?

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

That's a head separating comb. Prevents heads from touching each other when they are out. It also keeps them leveled with the ramp. That part is a tool, not part of the drive

@QuickishFM 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video man, why did you erase parts of the firmware on the chip and then recalculate the checksum? Wouldn't filling it with 0s just empty that portion of the eeprom?

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Those modules are on the disk, not in ROM. It is done do disable bunch of offline activity that the drive comes with to not accumulate defects and such.

@FAN83828A 4 жыл бұрын

If a drive is operated over time in a certain orientation such as label side up, and you try to run it label side down, the bearings can wear in such a way that can cause the knocking you hear.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

Positioning the drive just right sometimes does improve performance during imaging

@FAN83828A 4 жыл бұрын

HDD Recovery Services So does smacking it with the end of a screw driver can sometimes can unstick things 🥴

@tjmcde3 4 жыл бұрын

I have this WD passport that display RAW in disk management what is the best thing to do for recovery the data?

@MrLollko 4 жыл бұрын

epic video :) , thx for sharing

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

@vincebaker3384 4 жыл бұрын

Great video I was just curious what did you do that saved this drive that the previous recovery shop could not due. And can you tell me approximately what this repair cost the customer.

@hddrecoveryservices 4 жыл бұрын

In this industry success rate grows hand in hand with experience and expertise. Another shop cares about delivering data to the client as oppose to attempting to get paid even if it comes at cost of client's data getting permanently damaged. It is the right approach, and it is a core thing that will be discussed in one of the episodes in nearest future.