Hard Drive Repair

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Hi,

My hard drive is dead and there is some data that I need to get off of it. The data recovery services are certainly going to ask for a good bit of money. Any personal experience or guidance as to which companies might be better.

To give a little more detail, the controller board got fried due to a voltage spike while the drive was spinning. I have an identical drive and did swap the contoller board and the drive started spinning, but is making the clunking sounds suggesting there is more wrong inside which needs probably opening of the drive in a clean room.

Any help or poniters shall be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[InlineFive]

First let me tell you that I have not tried this stunt on a dead hard drive before. But to me it sounds like your motor is breaking. If it were me (and if it were possible) I would just try to pull the platters from the old drive and put them in the new one.

-Por

 

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Hi,

Thats exactly what I need, to transfer the platters to an identical drive with good motors and heads. The only problem it has to be done in clean room, otherwise the dust and suspended particles will make the disks pretty much unreadable, unless someone has some tricks they can share.

Thanks.

 

[warmachine]

U dont need a clean room just a [clean box ] to work in.
I would just build one old fish tank or bran new plastic storage container.
glovebox
I read about a guy that worked on his HD in his bathroom just ran shower
real hot for awhile then waited a little then went in and did his thing.
He put a window in the top of his drive. I have 2 drives I am going to try this with because
I just had a fire drives are all melted.