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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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  • After a bit of looking around I have found a few people who are successfully re activating drives by taking them apart in dust limited environments, (kitchen table or bench) it seems to be luck of the draw if the problem is not fixable bey replacing the circuit board.

     

    This is interesting

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIPZtJyrVPw

     

    I was hoping for some sort of mechanised way of removing the lid, solving the drive problem and then extracting the data in one machine! (I would also like the moon on a stick)

     

    No harm  in dreaming I suppose!

  • in reply to Former Member

    Dust is minor but the video shows one of the worst dangers, if careful you can remove the heads with out scratching them, but one little scratch and you can literately turn a savable data situation into a no data situation. The Man who made the video is a data retrieval specialist. What I am saying is take it to a specalist to prevent a DIYer from making a bad mistake. In my home to prevent this I have my computer in a Raid zero config which stripes my data onto two drives which speed up programs to run but all important data I have saved to my NAS (network attached storage) which is in a Raid 1 configuration which mirrors my data on two hard drives tho I am thinking of upgrading my NAS to a Drobo.

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Dust is minor but the video shows one of the worst dangers, if careful you can remove the heads with out scratching them, but one little scratch and you can literately turn a savable data situation into a no data situation. The Man who made the video is a data retrieval specialist. What I am saying is take it to a specalist to prevent a DIYer from making a bad mistake. In my home to prevent this I have my computer in a Raid zero config which stripes my data onto two drives which speed up programs to run but all important data I have saved to my NAS (network attached storage) which is in a Raid 1 configuration which mirrors my data on two hard drives tho I am thinking of upgrading my NAS to a Drobo.

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