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Hard drive recovery tool

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Dear Ben and everyone else out there

 

Isn't it about time someone got to grips with Hard drive recovery?

 

I have been knocking this idea around in my head for a while and have a concept based on the following:

 

1, drive must be kept dust free during recovery

(vacuum system?)

 

2, The user must be able to open the drive in a dust free atmosphere

(enclosure with vacuum?)

 

3, some sort of alternative to the drives own crashed heads or method to lift heads from the platters

 

4, If no power up some sort of alternative way to spin the platters

 

4a, perhaps some sort of freezing or heating component bolt in to expand or contract the metal platters

as I have read this can contract the surface away from stuck heads without mechanical force.

5, instant recording of the data.

(removable external drive for back up?)

 

6, portable

 

7, made from recycled components

 

From the many posts I have seen in other places, the platters can be read if spun and there seems to be a hex fitting bolt on an HDD platter that could be used to spin the disc.

 

Am I on the right track?

 

I.D.

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  • Your concept of Dust free is very different from the data recovery companies. To You a dust free room must equal a vacuum but dust is electrostatically charged to cling to most surfaces (hence when dusting you use a spray with chemical that is charged to attract dust) so removing just the air would not remove dust in the chamber that's attached to the enclosure and can come free and drift onto the platters. Data retrieval companies use specialized room that cost hundred of thousand dollars to build and it would make your project so expensive it would not be financial feasible.

  • in reply to william_hoffer

    Correct Bill, then as vacuum oblige to make small rooms, has a considerable cost to make it and keep and has also the problem of involving a lot of issues, after a correct dust removal (but the chamge is usually always dust-free as it is used just for this scope), instead of a vacuum chamber it is used a inert gas filled chamber, or anyway a sort of controller atmosphere.

     

    Enrico

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  • in reply to william_hoffer

    Correct Bill, then as vacuum oblige to make small rooms, has a considerable cost to make it and keep and has also the problem of involving a lot of issues, after a correct dust removal (but the chamge is usually always dust-free as it is used just for this scope), instead of a vacuum chamber it is used a inert gas filled chamber, or anyway a sort of controller atmosphere.

     

    Enrico

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  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    actually the chamber is not always dust free, dust survives even in a vacuum or with inert gases. Plus the smallest of these vacuum chambers (with glove holes so you can work on the hard drive in the vacuum, chamber) cost is right around 1600 dollars. Next and the most important reason this is a bad idea, as any computer tech of any length of time will tell you, unless you are a trained and work for a data retrieval company, don't mess with it. Leave it to the professionals. Its different if the hard drive is detected in Bios, or it simply does not spin up those are external hard ware issues or software issues that a little research and time any one can fix.