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Hard Drive Data Recovery – Western Digital Head Swap

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25 Comments

  1. Comments  samanthms123   |  Tuesday, 02 February 2010 at 10:33 pm

    SSD’s do NOT crash and there is no chance of data loss unless power is cut while data is transferred or heavy electromagnetic interference is near the ssd…

  2. Comments  klote2314   |  Tuesday, 02 February 2010 at 10:43 pm

    so if every one starts buying SSD’s
    are you going to have to find a new job ore can you recover those aswell?

  3. Comments  klote2314   |  Tuesday, 02 February 2010 at 10:56 pm

    Maxtor does fine for me :

    just dont get a Seagate that one really sucks

  4. Comments  gorgi991   |  Tuesday, 02 February 2010 at 11:49 pm

    well i have 3 st and no one got a problemm ^^ one friend gift me a wd 80 gb and it broke on 1 month so ii suggest u guys to get st!

  5. Comments  Stratos4Kamikaze   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 12:31 am

    Nice because i have a new WD but i only saw videos with problem.

  6. Comments  darkwizzard   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 12:50 am

    @Stratos4Kamikaze actually everyone says wd is the best

  7. Comments  Stratos4Kamikaze   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 1:20 am

    So what is the best Hard Drives company?. Because everibody say WD sucks…

  8. Comments  ascmx1   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 2:15 am

    oh.

  9. Comments  acsdata   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 3:09 am

    Thanks. Our entire floor within the lab is anti-ESD material, along with the workbenches.

  10. Comments  GrooveSafari   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 3:24 am

    Search “RAID Hard Drive Data Recovery” on Krustbox (dot) com.

  11. Comments  InfiniteBoXX   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 3:54 am

    i am currently recovering my friend’s 2.5″ 500GB external usb hard drive, and ffs its got 92 billion sectors.. -_-

    and after 5 hours its go through (my recovery software) 23 billion sectors and found a some data.

    The drive was accidentally formatted and no i am not just using a backup to recover it, its actually finding data on the formatted drive. =/

    ty for vid anyway.

  12. Comments  NTComputer86   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 4:26 am

    those magnets are strong, i held one up to my ipod and it restarted it

  13. Comments  NTComputer86   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 5:21 am

    read the side bar

  14. Comments  jjeremy350   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 5:53 am

    how much does this cost to recover the data???

  15. Comments  pmgodfrey   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 6:26 am

    Nice work area. I really like your ESD mat.

  16. Comments  PARADOGGZz   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 7:20 am

    thx m8

  17. Comments  Peterpancase   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 8:08 am

    @PARADOGGZz not the same. In the video there is an old 60 Gb disk.

  18. Comments  PARADOGGZz   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 9:04 am

    1000GB Western Digital 7200rpm 32MB Cache Serial ATA/300
    is this the same in this video?

  19. Comments  Grillzor   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 10:04 am

    Thanks.

  20. Comments  Peterpancase   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 10:48 am

    @Grillzor The stickers normally for covering screws (warranty void if opened)or some of them one can look on surface of the lowest platter. If there is a big one on the side it is for factory servo writer (to write tracks at the first time to the platters in factory) Do not cover hole is that air can go inside the disk. There are very small air filters inside the disk so they are not air tight.

  21. Comments  Grillzor   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 11:47 am

    On the sides of hard drives, what are the holes for that are covered by silver stickers? Are these holes used to suck out all the air, then covered with stickers? Also, what is the purpose of the hole found on top of the hard drive that usually says “Do not cover”. Are hard drives air tight?

  22. Comments  Peterpancase   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 12:18 pm

    Realigning heads if needed. Check that all the screws are in the midde of the holes of the cover when putting them back. Accationally one have to clone the cover open and do realigning with a guidance of screw driver. WD:s have “loose axel for actuator arm” that makes it abit hard to get the head stuck in to correct position. It needs some testing.. cover of and on couple of times and some time …. Macthing of the donor and symtoms of bad heads you said on the video. You do not watch them?

  23. Comments  shorty5352   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Hey i got a question. i had a same hard drive like that and one day i started my computer it started fine and it was at the home screen then i started hearing clicking and then the hard drive would crash and would restart all normal again and then five min later it would do the same. So what would it be the problem

  24. Comments  acsdata   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 1:17 pm

    We use a variety of equipment. That just happens to be a product from ACE labs.

  25. Comments  acsdata   |  Wednesday, 03 February 2010 at 2:16 pm

    Just curious….when you are saving “your 1000 Dollars+ fees”, how are you realigning the heads? What are you matching in order to maintain parts compatibility? How are you making a proper diagnosis that the heads are actually bad, and it’s not just a firmware or electronics issue?

    Yes, the process itself is not that difficult, but we get at least 10 drives a week where people have tried to do this themselves, and in most cases they have made the situation much much worse.

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