yeah, but it could be power company or thunder or something, obviously not making backups means no sweets for you either
anyway, only real waste is your hard work, everything else is abundant on internets
Guardian
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yeah, but it could be power company or thunder or something, obviously not making backups means no sweets for you either
anyway, only real waste is your hard work, everything else is abundant on internets
‡ Borat Sagdiyev ‡
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What are sweets...you mean candy? lol jk
Good luck on getting your data back!
the o'lol factor
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sell your kid on ebay.
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you guys
or force him to study l33t file extraction.
The mom was watching him ffs.
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Well what was the drive doing on the floor? Also dude it's not that hard to open a HDD just be careful you may be able to swap the platter out with another hdd
Shovel Ready
No way.Originally Posted by Detale
Absolutely no way.
Dust, although by far the greatest danger, is not the only problem.
Even assuming that one could successfully transplant the platters to another housing there is the matter of aligning the heads so data could be read.
I don't pretend to understand the complexities involved- I'm just regurgitating the spiel we got from the data recovery firm- but there is more to it than one would suspect.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
Guardian
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yeah, i personaly fixed several mechanical drive failures by gently pulling drive open only over arm rest, not over platters and fixing position of a magnet. and even some continued to work without a hitch it's definitely not something anyone should do with ANY kind of really valuable data. it's basicaly a gamble. diy swaping burned electronics is ok, but one should think twice before opening sealed head assembly
Software Farmer
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Dam kids can't figure out whats harder on computers , wifes or kids ? I know this will sound dumb but try the old HDD in the freezer trick ? Easy to do as its external .
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Here's a thought, assuming that sending the disk to the data recovery people is a non-starter.
By default, the heads "fly" about a micron above the disk surface. The pits in the damaged platter would probably cause the head to crash so the head alignment techniques that the data recovery people use is so that they can get the heads at that distance from the platter without it actually "flying".
The probability is that bits of the disk surface are now rattling around inside the platter chamber, but most of the damage will have taken place on the heads themselves. Since you can't currently get any data from the drive I can't see any harm in at least trying Detale's suggestion. It will cost you the price of an identical drive to swap the platters into, and may not work, but I don't see another option.
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n00b
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it is 99% ur data will lost
sorry
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