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
April 3rd, 2023, 11:48
Hello
We have a WD 1tb slim with broken heads and need replacing. It has one platter and there is nk scraches on it. After swapping the heads will i be able to read the data just connecting the hard disk to the laptop and reading it using windows? or do i need PC3000/MRT to read the data after head swap?
April 3rd, 2023, 16:32
If you don't have proper tools for recovery, please don't change heads!
The difficulty of the work is always after the head exchange, especially with SMR drives.
April 3rd, 2023, 20:51
saltwater wrote:If you don't have proper tools for recovery, please don't change heads!
The difficulty of the work is always after the head exchange, especially with SMR drives.
I have the required tools: Laminar, MRT... etc but i was wondering after swapping the heads is there any difficulties? so i know beforehand and be prepared. the reason i asked if the windows would be able to read the data after head swap is because the WD takes micro B and need to be converted to be able to connect it to MRT.
April 4th, 2023, 1:49
You could put some known data on a working drive, Drop it until it breaks and then experiment all you want. When you succeed do it all again, then you are ready for a client drive.
There are a lot of precautions needed in a WD SMR drive.
April 5th, 2023, 2:12
After swapping the heads will i be able to read the data just connecting the hard disk to the laptop and reading it using windows?
the short answer is: no.
There are several things to take care of, you would probably fail even if you had access to the aforementioned tools.
You'd be better outsource it.
pepe
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