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lucbertrand
 Post subject: who can recover this? my friend drill hole in hdd
PostPosted: April 29th, 2014, 5:33 
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who can revover my seagate 1tb st31000340ns?

i have this drive with smart error and so i buy a new hdd to copy all files.

i tell my friend to drill hole in hdd after file copy, so no normal person can read data anymore. but he drill holes before i make the copy. he make big mistake

now the drive dont spin up anymore.
please who can recover my data for 50 or 100 euros? its very very very important data for my factory

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pcimage
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PostPosted: April 29th, 2014, 9:47 
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lucbertrand wrote:
please who can recover my data for 50 or 100 euros? its very very very important data for my factory



50,000 or 100,000 Euros wouldn't get the data back from that drive!

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lcoughey
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PostPosted: April 29th, 2014, 9:58 
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I had a drive come in where it had a few drill holes and we were able to mirror about 70% of the drive. However, they were only able to completely drill through the motor and not the platters themselves.

This drive is now only recoverable by Hollywood or by infinite amounts of money and time.

Sorry.

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HaQue
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i hope nothing important was on that drive, if so it is gone forever
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PostPosted: April 29th, 2014, 13:43 
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Something doesn't seem right about the "explanation" to me . . .

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Doomer
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This is not a ST31000340NS drive on the picture.
So either you mistaken about the model or it's not the drive you should be worried about.

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pcimage
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Doomer wrote:
This is not a ST31000340NS drive on the picture.
So either you mistaken about the model or it's not the drive you should be worried about.


3 platters :-)


Good spot!!!

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lucbertrand
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i tell you this is st31000340ns
here you can see more clear
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so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow
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bobbydigital
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PostPosted: April 30th, 2014, 5:38 
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Just signed up to the forums after lurking alot and this is the first post I see. :lol:

Cheered up my day, sorry if this is a serious post :)
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He didn't mean to drill it to put a hole on the data inside but he did it to encrypt the whole device instead :D

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lcoughey
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lucbertrand wrote:
i tell you this is st31000340ns
here you can see more clear
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so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow

Good luck with that. Find a lab that makes claims of 98% success rates and send it to them.

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Doomer
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Unfortunately I can't see the second picture, so I don't know what's on it
But PCB and Motor on the first picture are definitely not from st31000340ns
Also as it was mentioned before the drive on the first picture has 3 platters while st31000340ns model should have 4 platters

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I almost blew my coffee reading this "so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow"! Too funny!


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lucbertrand wrote:
i tell you this is st31000340ns
here you can see more clear
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so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow


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HaQue
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John Doesnt exist... He once met himself in '92 and tore the time-space continueum, erasing himself. He also took out the Linux desktop and Quantum computers :(

Soldering the hole up, on the other hand will continue to make us chuckle, and is probably worth the effort (to keep people that think like this away from other more rational humans.. at least for a while)
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Dmitri
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lucbertrand wrote:
so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow

Disregard these pussies, they're so spoiled that 100 Euros for a couple of holes in hard drive ain't a dough for them. Be a man, only DIY recovery, only hardcore!

And notice the burrs around the holes in the platters, I suggest you to sandpaper them after soldering to make sure heads will move smoothly. Should that not be the case you may want to add some lithium grease to the platters to let heads glide like a charm.

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lcoughey
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Dmitri wrote:
lucbertrand wrote:
so if you all cant recover, then i try on my own. just need to fill holes with soldering maybe. i will try tomorrow

Disregard these pussies, they're so spoiled that 100 Euros for a couple of holes in hard drive ain't a dough for them. Be a man, only DIY recovery, only hardcore!

And notice the burrs around the holes in the platters, I suggest you to sandpaper them after soldering to make sure heads will move smoothly. Should that not be the case you may want to add some lithium grease to the platters to let heads glide like a charm.

You forgot to suggest that he buff out the scratches on the top platter too.

I'm curious to know who he's going to keep the platters perfectly aligned while filling in the holes...and how he is going compensate for the off balance platters.

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Dmitri
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lcoughey wrote:
I'm curious to know who he's going to keep the platters perfectly aligned while filling in the holes

There's no thing a piece of Scotch can't do!

Or just put labels on the platters' edges with a black marker and simply realign them together afterwards.

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