Is it poss to read only 1 platter from a multi platter drive

[NeilC]

Hi forum,,, think i know the answer to this now but thought id post just for my clarification.

I took apart my multi platter drive (TOSHIBA 80GB HARD DRIVE MK8025GAS) a few weeks back seperating the platters and found a scratch all the way around the underside of the bottom platter.

If i get an identical drive and put in the good platter only will i be able to see any data if connecting it via a caddy?

Thanks in advance
Neil

[HDD Spaz]

no.

[pcimage]

Unfortunately not.

[N.C.]

generally agree with the others, but there is still something....

I am working on a solution for reading platters one by one, and now i can do it on some drive models, but not on all of course.

But i need to add, on your case it is allmost impossible, because it was opened outside of cleanroom.
So if i think about the "normal" price for ths solution + the scored platter-problem, the price is huge.
I mean it is not worth, i am sure.

Simple: No.

[hddguy]

I took apart my multi platter drive (TOSHIBA 80GB HARD DRIVE MK8025GAS) a few weeks back seperating the platters....

Why would you do this anyway?

[BlackST]

I have a solution but it's gonna cost £££££££££. Simply NO.

[NeilC]

I took apart my multi platter drive (TOSHIBA 80GB HARD DRIVE MK8025GAS) a few weeks back seperating the platters....

Why would you do this anyway?

Curiosity. Live and learn!