Broken Hard Drive DIY data recovery

[Eskimonster]

lol morans the lot

[dragon31340]

I'm only slightly tech savy, but my main oh ...ya its fake thing is...the needle head...its not moving...in a harddrive it jumps all over the fucking place.

[gunnarlarson23]

i dont think bill gates would be too happy watching this

[angelface22322]

Well, it had me going until I read all the brainy and logical explanations.

I have a Dremel that can go 1,200 rpm and if I can figure the ratio between the diameter of the drive wheel and the exact point of contact on the disk, I can come fairly close to either 5,400 rpm or 7,200 rpm.

The trick is keeping it steady and without going to the washroom for the time it takes to transfer 500GB of data.

[saik0pod]

that doesnt look like 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm....

[AwesomeMarioFan100]

1. That probably isn't the right speed.

2. The head isn't moving.

[HarryHeath1997]

well i cant fuckin do that give me something i can do!

[djtonyxxx5]

what a waste of time.

[maisteri]

Haha, bullshit !

[DmoneyS2K001]

I did this, it doesn't work,

[RoxyXPPC]

Fake, the HD moves not !!!!!!!!

[shyboyangelus]

my hdd crashed, i very carefully swapped the discs with a good but blank hdd without toching the disks, they were both completely useless after and the laptop would not even recognise either of them ??????

[strelok1911]

@shyboyangelus they're dead once they're exposed to the world (except for "clean rooms")

[Shan123456789]

fake me....

[ASKconard]

I thought exposing the platter to the open air totally ruins it and you can't get anything off it at that point.

[dannysanchez7924]

no, its the dust and small particles in the air that ruin the platter. Not just the air so you will still be able to recover some data but there will be loads of bad sectors

[burlapparatus]

I call bullshit.

[MEGAXSTU]

Thanks I'll remember that when the motor breaks!

[pjvermun005]

fake

[666Black666Rose666]

shit I can't belive it works! amazing! what a good idea!

[cotton509]

this is possible but they wouldent do itfor one, 2 the heads aint moving so it cant search, 3 the guy reached over and pluged the cable in in secret so FAKE butnice try =p

[leeroy2505]

fuckin idiots

[whiskeyify]

watch the guy on the right, at first he's holding the drive with both hands but then you'll see him reach over and press the power button on the laptop.

[bnssapp]

WTF!!!

it hurts to not move your hands for hours~~

i dont really believe u can read the hdd like this

[humanimalnz]

lol had me fooled at first but yeah, heads dont move /end lol

[sssdfghj1]

USB YES 2GB

[cat333pokemon]

This video is fake because the head is not moving. You probably connected another hard disk at the same time as you started spinning the platters.

[Mineav]

Not to mention that I doubt that spindle is spinning anywhere close to 5400 RPM, let alone 7200 RPM, which is probably the rotational spec of the HD.

[6V92TA]

cordless drills are lucky to clip 3,000 RPMs, let along 7200.

[Mineav]

True that.

[cjmillsnun]

Older drives were 3300RPM though ;)

[6V92TA]

oh well i see it workin then lol

[Pauninggio]

You just had the laptop connected everywhere else, or the hard drive just responded to the electro stimulation. :)

[tanbrolo]

Um....arm not moving?

[XFi6]

LOL WTF!

there's no way that can be real, but I rofl'd :D

[ACDCEvan]

wat the fuck

[kurojin97]

that's exactly what i said......wtf?!?!?!?!?!

[DigitalDarkPro]

Lol the arm isn't even working...

[1thomashall]

I work at a cleanroom data recovery lab, and I personally guarantee that this is a fake and will not work. (and not because I'm trying to get your business.. I'd just hate to have you destroy your drive.

Anyone in the industry will notice the heads do not read the service track, and can see they're just floating in place. What the video maker does is moves his hand to plug in a different external HD (you can see the cable move), which is the detected drive. NOT the one that's drilled.

[1990banks]

@1thomashall I want to use a recovery service but I'm a little worried that they might make copies of my data and view certain confidential documents

[AndNys81]

fake ! and stupid

[cotton509]

real but not worth losig data

[wolfsrain77]

Wow... how fake! The platters are spinning, but definitly not spinning at 7200 rpms. And look at the Actuator Arm(the thing that reads the data) isn't moving.

Nice try guys...

[cotton509]

its real the armes moed a bit so i opened a hadd sith seized arm if i got the a4rm toi mogve i could recover

[starkist1480]

Why? Can't you replace the motor?

[Bobensen]

Impossible

[hypercrites]

it is a fake only the disk's spins, not the heads

[aronginel]

hahaha

[mindlobster]

omg hahaha

[gahkgahkgahk]

That you this helped me recover my data!

[Turbo2200kBps]

bullshit

[abhitron]

That looks very risky.

[starkist1480]

Well you have to do it very carefully.

[playa1313]

lol

[slaterking1000]

ye right you search from and other hard drive. That cant work. FOr one it spinning at around 300rpm instead of 7200rpm. Also the head wasnt even moving.

[skm21]

thats is ACE! lmao

[freedrum]

Hey! My seagate hd stopped spinning after 4 months. All seagate offered was a new blank drive under warrenty. The wanted over $300 dollars to retrieve it. Great idea! Im going to try it!

[tehriot]

rofl