Advanced Hard Drive Data Recovery Part 5

[georgeleus]

Respect for those guys !

[AcenZac]

Wow, the videos were amazing.

Learnt some stuff about HDDs I wouldn't have known otherwise.

Thank you

[Derangedteddy]

I commented on one of the videos in the series and I just want to say it again: thank you SO much for this information!  As a novice computer tech looking for professional work this helps me out a lot!

[o1circle0]

OK, no answer lol, got impatient (well it happened 2 years ago}, used glass cleaner thinking it wouldn't leave a reside like alcohol, or melt glue etc. low pressure air to dry, well, live and learn, I pretty much decided to bath it in a pie dish as to touching it physically,and yes I know compressed air has moister, guess I should have got that air in the can.

[o1circle0]

Well, you know that blue stuff in windex? At first I thought it may have got bearing lube from the spindle all over everything, but after letting some windex evaporate, was pretty obvious it leaves a residue, so now I am going to use Alcohol 99.99 and micro wipes? q-tips? Anybody want to stop me LOL Sadists LOL

[o1circle0]

Yes I backup, not everyday, I am just trying to see if I can recover some original music I recorded on that drive. It's a 14.4GB IBM have the board from another, month difference in date, both made in Hungry. I opened before these vids as another logic board I used didn't work.Oh well Links to my music here, shameless self promotion LOL .myspace. com/mickey_emerson

[o1circle0]

yep, just enough went inside to mess it up, got a something or an other was being exited error on blue screen, then i shut it off, I hve original music I recorded on it and finally opened it up after switching boards as it was making a noise inside. So what would be the correct cleaner and can the platters be wiped of with a soft lens cloth or blown off with low air pressure after using a cleaner?

[o1circle0]

AAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH ha ha, lol, just had to do that, great vids, hats off to to superfly 4 posting, great great vids. Thank you. But one thing, I have watched 12 vids so far and no one has asked how to clean platters, glass cleaner and air?? alcohol would leave a residude, might melt glue, but people spill stuff on hard drives all the time, in my case cappicino.

[tonychiu24362685]

i had a seagate 500gb(oem,from a maxtor external HD) and the hard disk started to make a sound, and I cant read all data from the second platter.How can I fix it?

[tolishel]

nice guy.I hope there were more people like him around.

He makes perffect sence. I have a lot of old pictures trapt on a drive that i would like to recover, but i wouldn't even spend $500 for a recovery. my 80GB segate would spin up, and shut off right away after gets up to speed. Any ideas?

[scampc]

when puting the damaged platter into a new drive, does that drive need to be identical? or can if be same brand only? same size only? or similar model at least? basically, if i don't have a working identical drive, how can i improvise?

[thetech250]

I'm trying to do a head replacement on a WD Caviar SE (SATA 80gb) Date: Nov 2004, its a single platter but i don't seem to find a match for this drive. All the ones out there are multy platter year 2005 and up. What can I do in this case, would WD have a differrent model with a complatible actuator arm? Thank you

[busybjorn]

I've once had 2 identical drives failing at the first run. They started spinning and then spin down again making the worst noises.

There was no data on it yet but it made me think about RAID and solid-state disks.

[seelivetiger]

I only buy WD drives and to this day i have had no problems, i have set up raid0's and switched back and fourth swapping in and out of different computers and to this day no problem :) btw great video

[BIGIRISH1]

Keep in mind the fact that he gets mre Western Digital dead drives could be as simple as the people who are willing to pay to get thier data recovered just happen to own WD drives. I have a WD drive tha still works, its the original 4.2 Gig drive from when 200 Pentium MMX was state of the ART, LOL. Unfortunatlly, I just lost alote of date and it was in a RAID O array. I think he just gets more WD drives because WD has alote more drives out there than the others do.

[egonsky]

when you get the spin-klick-klick...klick-cklic­k sound...is that a head problem ?

[SolidSnakeSK]

yep

[BIGIRISH1]

Actually, it could be one of several problems. Most likely thuogh its the head hitting the platters. Do yourself a favor and watch all his videos till you undertand it all before you do anything.

Btw, thank you SuperFlyFlippingA for posting these vids.

[Dax47]

I had wd 60, 80 LB, 80 JB, 160 JB, 160 JS, and now 250 KS. They all still work.

I lost : seagate 40 gb, samsung 160 gb sata II (in january 2008 - it won`t start).

[vox2007]

I agree, I have a WD drive in this 2001 Dell 8200, although I did buy another WD drive, the old one I took out still works, and this one I have now, that replace that one is still working. And it's 2008 folks, and I run my PC everyday to.

[esotereo]

Well, it looks like I'll be buying Seagate from now on. I just lost 300 gigs of work (non critical, thankfully), so I'm going to invest on a NAS with Seagate drives in RAID 5. This information is extremely helpful though, thank you very much for uploading.

[nat0snake]

Wow Im surprised hes had the most problems with western digital's. I would have though it would have been Maxtor's

[Meowbay]

Like he says: That's not a fair judgement, since the market-share of WD is pretty high these days. Funny enough, my personal experience is that Seagate drives die on me most often.

[VideoJunkei]

I had 2 maxtors die, not able to spin up with a chirping noise. They replaced them, but with the same drive #!!!