Re: [PLUG] Rescuing data from a likely dead HD

[Mike James <mpjames53@gmail.com>]

a friend of mine said he actually opened the drive case and gave the
platter a nudge to get it going. not sure if I believe it or not :) I
have seen the trick with replacing the controller work.

kids, don't try this at home

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Joe Terranova <joeterranova@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I'd only try this if he's cool with potentially losing the data altogether.
>
> Your next option would be to try replacing the controller on the hard
> drive. If you can find a hard drive of an identical model and version,
> you can take the controller off of that and put it on the dead drive.
> Many hard drives have the controller on the outside of the casing, and
> you can replace it without exposing the platter. If the hard drives
> requires exposing the platter to replace the controller, you will
> likely lose the data if you don't do so in a clean room.
>
> Joe Terranova
> US20100864125
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Adam Zion <azion1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, ignore the last question- I solved that myself (will explain offline if
>> anyone's interested). This new one may be more difficult- or, at least, more
>> expensive.
>>
>> A home support customer of mine has had his notebook HD fry on him. He has a
>> backup, but it's old, so he'd like to restore data from the dead drive. I've
>> tried the deep freeze trick- all I get from that is a quiet sound that's as
>> if the drive is *trying* to spin up... but not able to do so completely.
>>
>> Is there anything short of sending this drive out to a data recovery place,
>> w/the associated costs?
>>
>> Thx,
>> -Z
>>
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