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    What in the world is wrong with this HDD? [VIDEO]

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Clearik, Nov 27, 2013.

  1. Clearik

    Clearik Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm sure this HDD is done for, but is there anyway I can recover the data from it before I dispose of it?
     
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    You've opened it? Then, it's very likely that you destroyed part of the data on it. The heads glide on a thin layer of air over the platter and even a tiny speck of dust between the two is enough to ruin part of the platter.
     
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    Not affordably now. Never open the cover on a hard drive you want information from.

    facepalm.jpg
     
    WackyT, Nov 28, 2013
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  4. MrDJ

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    if you have a parrot you can use the disc as a mirror in its cage. thats all its good for now.

    hard drives have to be opened in a clean room with filter extraction which can cost megga wonga to hire.

    all its good for is the rubbish bin now.
     
    MrDJ, Nov 28, 2013
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    That drive is worthless once you open it like what the video is showing. You want to recover the HDD data use software to recover. Opening it makes it a table weight and no amount of closing it will fix or let you recover it. Once you open it - it's trash regardless of what you may think. You need a high level clean room to begin to even open the drive to work on it and the right equipment to even start recovery of the drive.
     
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    You could've used the freezer trick, but no, you had to go HAM on that poor hard disk and now it's just garbage.
     
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  7. HTWingNut

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    Sorry you had to learn the hard way. But (a) backup your data regularly (b) backup your data regularly (c) backup your data regularly (d) never open a mechanical hard drive if you want to try to recover data (e) backup your data regularly.

    On the other hand, you could turn it into a cool looking clock...

    [​IMG]
     
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    Or if you're handy with a dremel tool...
     

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  9. MrDJ

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    just in case its not been mentioned, backup your data regularly :D

    now thats a ruddy good idea HTWingNut. on a monthly basis the cage in the basement of my hospital has roughly 2-300 computers dumped in there awaiting disposal. we could make a mint making clocks out of drives.
     
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    I've actually made a clock like the one I posted, it's not too hard really. But the one posted by rcb.to.ca would take a mighty fine hand with detail... and lots of patience.
     
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