The thing that differentiates HDD repair is that I don't think people realise just how much is involved, how fine/small/fragile they are.. not many of the others have such small tolerance for a DIYer to fix it or kill it.

Plus, all the others have much detail out there provided by the vendors etc, but no service manuals exist until you start buying tools or shelling out the $$

I didn't see any hard disk drive manuals or flash drive service/repair manuals there in the quick look I had.. that is what I was referring to. Do Western digital/Seagate/Toshiba even produce them?

Say I needed a tech manual for a 3TB WD. Where is the service manual that lists all the exact parts, the specs, and all the service specs and adjustments? There are none.

I'm working on something along those lines ...

BTW, you were probably thinking of High Country Service Data.

I think that is a gross overstatement. Simply using the wrong operation for recovery in whatever circumstance is what is the issue.

The absolute most important part of DATA Recovery is the diagnosis. It may be perfectly fine to run software recovery on 25 drives in succession. If the drive is not diagnosed properly, the rest is just guess work.

Yes there is probably a smaller percentage of drives that are not obviously screaming hardware damage, and when recovery is attempted without proper diagnosis, the drive dies.. and I would say this gives a sense of security to the DIY people, and possibly the other factor is that people shout their success and shield their failures.

The people that are absolutely not in a position to go to a DR Company may as well try DIY.. why not? But there is nothing wrong with seasoned Pro's telling them what the dangers are, and likely chances. On the flipside, we can often look at a situation and think it is all over, but it turns out to be an easy fix. The part that I see gets lost is that people forget that each drive is so complex that every possible issue on the spectrum could be the case, and we cant just have a bucket with 10 or 15 fixes, and pull one out each case and it will fit.

What I hope for is that every person that comes here for help would describe in detail what they tried, importantly WHY they tried it, what was the outcome, what they learned additionally in the process and not just for successes.

It would give a much better overall picture.

if the drive has got physical failure not someone who deleted there files

and you recovery it with software
its more likely going to damaged it as the software will try to correct the errors with the files

we have tested this and its correct.

Unfortunately, too many people see the data recovery profession as greedy, mercenary vultures who do very little work for lots of money. Therefore, when a company makes free stuff available for download, they are engaging in what is known as "public relations". In this way they can then appear to be helpful without actually providing any real help at all. That's a win-win for them.

That said, I personally would prefer to deal with a company that genuinely tried to provide tools and information that would enable me to recover my own data, within reasonable DIY limits. Of course the company could issue warnings and disclaimers, but the decision should always rest with the end user. People are offended by patronising, condescending attempts to withhold information, ostensibly to protect them from themselves. Instead they see such behaviour as disingenuous, especially when the Internet is full of stories of successful DIY recoveries, many involving very little effort at all.

if software attempt by user or client it is ok at least we can agree..but in our country how they HDD is coming many times,opened HDD anywhere in public place or there bedroom office, there are telling us that , i am engineer i know data is there you just swap platter to any other chassis you can recover data..i do it myself many times..for this i don't have screw drivers..that's why i bring it to you.!!

There is only one way to stop this to be happening. We have to implement this as an professional board for DR engineers. As what architects,civil engineers ,doctors practised it ,we should do the same. When we have our own DRPB (Data recovery professional board),we can control things and we can put our profession to the new high levels.

This only works if data recovery were to be offered as a university degree at universities world wide where data recovery technicians can be trained at an equal level within an unbiased environment.