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
October 1st, 2007, 7:41
hi,
just been reading and having a look at the salvation data platter exchange tool and wondering if anyone has purchaed one and their thoughts on this tool.
this may be a stupid question but assuming i have amultiplatter drive for repairs and the heads are faulty and i source an identical drive, could i just use the platter excahnge tool to swap the platters from the faulty drive to the new donor drive ? or am i better replacing the heads?
thx
October 1st, 2007, 10:26
Yes, I've bought one.
It's OK, seems to work.
It's nearly always better to swap heads on multi-platter drives, especially as you got to move the heads off before you change platters anyway!
October 2nd, 2007, 9:31
I have the tool too. It works great. I use it whenever I have to do head swaps on drives with a parking ramp and multiple platters.
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