Two Platters & A Truck

[jono-ats]

We routinely recover data from hard drives that have been submerged in water or damaged by fire. We get to work with laptops that get thrown across the room by angry spouses, or ripped from desks by excited pets.

This particular drive came out of a laptop that was run over by a truck.

In spite of the massive damage, we were able to successful transplant the platters to another drive chassis, and retrieve the client's data using new heads and other parts.

We never "tire" of new challenges!

Jono

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[drc]

Lucky it doesn't jingle when you shake it

[jono-ats]

Lucky it doesn't jingle when you shake it

I know das' right!

[Vulcan]

We never "tire" of new challenges!

Very funny

Congratulations on the successful recovery!

[w.simon]

GG !

Regards

[warnerr]

AMAZING! Well done!

[northwind]

That 's fantastic Yianni.

Was there no damage to platters due to the chassis being bent?

We had a case like this, where owner accidentaly dropped a large frame on it.

No dice:

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[dobrevjetser]

We had a similar case some time ago http://www.datarecuperatie.be/en/news-cases
Also hitachi.
Could also recover all data.

[Doomer]

Was there no damage to platters due to the chassis being bent?

Hitachi uses glass platters in 2.5s

I think it would be possible to get data from the bottom platter on your drive. At least some data could be recovered. But not every client would want partial recovery

[northwind]

Yes we proposed partial recovery but cost/result ratio was not accepted.

So using glass is the reason why the platters of these drive get shattered into bits (literally )