for changing heads thats it .
as for the platters u need something to lift it out .

you mean something like this

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thats expensive maybe something like a scissor without sharp edges and curved at the end thats what i use , works good .

How do you use a scissor without sharp edges? To keep the heads apart? Somehow to remove platters?

well, but all you use is just a scissor

I think we should make comment to sth after we used it~

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of course, remove the platter. If you use scissor, it's likely to damage the platter.

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also, that's too dangerous for data recovery

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For keeping heads apart u need to remove its limit < the things stopping the head from crossing its limit> then remove them from platters , and the scissor thing works for me maybe i will take some pictures of it and show u .
To davis_tan its not in any way dangerous if u have good practice i have done many successful platter exchange with that .

well, first you need some disk to practise, some disk you've abandon, and then, you can begin to operate on the disk you want to recover or repair~~~

practices make perfect. as that saying~

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For heads I use thin plastic like the blister pack plastic for toys, Ram stick covers, ect. Cut in thin strip about 1/4 by 1 inch and fold in half. Spin disk and bring heads out. Sqeeze the plastic into a U and slip under the arms where the spring steel part is after arms but before the heads. There is enough tension to hold the heads off the platters without distorting the arms. Makes it easy to reload as when you go to put heads back on disks you just swing them in and spin the disks and the strips just pop off when the v part hits the edge of the platter. Just be careful with any leads/wires on the arms. Remove the strips in the bottom of drive casing. Put everything back together and pray the alignment is good! Has worked for a couple of drives anyway.

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I think ST is a sub company of Lucas

Dear rameez,

We want to see your pictures of your scissor. It inspires our imagination.

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SalvationDATA--Profesionnal Hard drive solution Provider. MSN: sales.laura@salvationdata.com

You have gotten the point.

Use plastic strips and fold it into a V shape.
unloosen the head stack connecting the Aculator.
Lead the head out of the edge of the platter from the Landing zone.
Exchange platter by using some tool.

Shortscurcuits is experienced.

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Hi all. I'm new one on this forum. I would like to increase my hdd informations. You say that platter exchenge is easy and you don't need specific tools. But how to touch platter? I fought that it can be touched only on the edges. On the screens the tool looks like it touch the sourface of the platter. What kind of material it is made? Its from steel or alluminium, or maybe some rabber or plastic. I allways fought that steel is not good for operations like this because it can be magnetised. Please corect all my confusions.

Steel i think would be the best tool for the platter changing tool from salvation data is also made of steel and tool i use also made of steel .
This is the tool i use :

It looks easy but its not because head replacement needs alot of practise to align heads in proper position so they should be of equal distances from the platter . here is the video of the above picture :

http://d.turboupload.com/d/1723418/plat ... l.rar.html

From your picture, it's matxtor 2B.How about 6E?

and it's only prcatical for one platter. what if multi-platter HDD?

Well. I think ,we can use one hand to exchange the platter.

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yes u r right i agree with u can be used for single platter drives in most of the cases of platter exchange single platter is exchanged for multi platter drives heads are exchanged .

I have one question what do u guys do for alignment of heads .

That is pure nonsense, and you know it.

Many drives would not allow your instrument to fit over the platters, due to protrusions of components over the platters.

iam totally agree with david tan and salvation laura ..

I just purchased the HPE tools. It does seem to be nice for multiple platters.

I'll let everyone know how it goes.

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