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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Identifying HD parts with problems

April 1st, 2016, 17:21

It's possible to know if the head is damaged and if the platters has surface damage without open the HD?

How DR companies they do it? They use some type of x-ray to look inside the HD?

Re: Identifying HD parts with problems

April 1st, 2016, 17:30

One could do x-ray but it's expensive. Opening is much easier for a DR company.
X-ray is often used by manufacturers to do a quick diag w/o opening a drive

Re: Identifying HD parts with problems

April 1st, 2016, 20:17

Spildit wrote:No on would use X-RAY as drive would have sereval platters and X-RAY wouldn't be able to show damaged heads/platters on the middle.

I don't think that's entirely true
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