I have a samsung hd403lj (400gb) in a external case. I believe it has 3 platters, so im guessing that means 6 actuator arms/heads. For the most part, there is nothing of critical value on it that is gonna make me go dish out a g to a specialist, but I want as much of it back as possible through whatever programs or techniques i can do myself.
Anyways, so I had it on a vertical stand in front of me while I sat back on the sofa. Forgetting it was there, I lowered my foot and the my back heel hit it (not that hard might i add). It knocked it down and the shock was big enough to damage part of the mechanism.
The drive partition is no longer recognized in windows. There is alot of clicking, so im assuming i broke one of the actuator arms and its either scrapping on the disk or just not aligned to read properly.
Ive been using power data recovery v4 to get most of my files back, mainly stuff that are on the platters that dont have a broken actuator. If the file I want to backup is where the broken actuator is, then the software basically tries to read wrong data at a extremely slow rate (like 1mb per minute). Thus I got to manually pick small grps of files to backup at a time and stop it when it lags reading a file thru the broken actuator. Anyone know a data recovery program in which I can tell it to skip files that it has problems reading -or- can tell me which files are on which platters so I can simply and quickly backup files I know it wont have problems with?
Also once i backup everything that is possible to, I definitely want to go back and get the stuff i couldnt. I have no warranty on the drive any more i believe, so i might as well open it up. What i was thinking of was to move the platter to a working actuator. Is this possible?
Anyways, so I had it on a vertical stand in front of me while I sat back on the sofa. Forgetting it was there, I lowered my foot and the my back heel hit it (not that hard might i add). It knocked it down and the shock was big enough to damage part of the mechanism.
The drive partition is no longer recognized in windows. There is alot of clicking, so im assuming i broke one of the actuator arms and its either scrapping on the disk or just not aligned to read properly.
Ive been using power data recovery v4 to get most of my files back, mainly stuff that are on the platters that dont have a broken actuator. If the file I want to backup is where the broken actuator is, then the software basically tries to read wrong data at a extremely slow rate (like 1mb per minute). Thus I got to manually pick small grps of files to backup at a time and stop it when it lags reading a file thru the broken actuator. Anyone know a data recovery program in which I can tell it to skip files that it has problems reading -or- can tell me which files are on which platters so I can simply and quickly backup files I know it wont have problems with?
Also once i backup everything that is possible to, I definitely want to go back and get the stuff i couldnt. I have no warranty on the drive any more i believe, so i might as well open it up. What i was thinking of was to move the platter to a working actuator. Is this possible?
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