Multi-Platter Swap to Read Platters Individually (PLEASE HEL

[dobrevjetser]

Technically its possible with equipment that costs + 40000$ and very much knowledge and patience.
I dont know if anybody here has allready done this.

Dobre

[hddguy]

OnTrack does it everyday....

I hear they are able to lay golden eggs too

[beto]

Hi All:

Does anyone know if MHDD can help in re-aligning two platters in a hard drive? Is there any software or techinque that can be used to recover data off a multi platter hard drive once the platters have moved?

Thanks


pauli

MHDD nop MDD only its a soft wich works with ATA protocols send ATA commands got ATA registers status, control, error registers etc , to works with that this need more qualified machines, so expensives, and more knowledgment i dont have tools yet, but im thinking on my head on the process jaja

[dusty128]

I had the very same scenario as you - I had a broken harddisk and exchanged the platters into another (2-platter disk).

Although strictly technically everything should be lost, I was able to retrieve data from this misaligned disk - maybe Seagate built some correction algorithm in their firmware, so don't dispair, it may work. I summed this up a bit at the following page:

http://helios.himmelbauer-it.at/blogs/general/rescuing-data-from-a-click-of-death-harddisk-unexpected-success/

Best Regards + good luck rescuing your data,
Hermann

[einstein9]

This thread is more than 4 years old now...

and NEW USERS are trying to make a living here with HIS 1ST. POST
in order to PM and so.

just think about it

[jono-ats]

Oh great. More encouragement for DIY folks to ruin their data recovery chances.

[Cleanroom]

I use to work at Ontrack,(tho it was a long time ago) and no.... they would take the job and send it right back to the client. You have to take in account. did the client put the platters back in the right order and the right side. you can never assume in DR. if it was one platter sure, that would be pretty easy to do, but multiplatter...yeah...lottery chances there you will get it right and working.

Is it impossible... no... is it improbable, yes

it is possible i could get struck by a rogue meteor today as well.... but the chances are probably the same as me being able to brute force a 128 bit encryption and getting the right combo in 1 day.

You are SOL. no minced words here... game over.

Datarecguy,be honest, do you work for ontrack? Ontrack says they can do a lot of things, but in all honesty there software tools are pretty descent, but when it comes to hardware, they have nothing special then any other pro shop can do. They just have more people. They do have some smart people there, but some things are just out of scope for them and 99% of the rest of the dr population.


I have personally recovered drives they deemed unrecoverable. more then i can count on 2 hands as well.

Unless some dr company wants it for R&D and be willing to put in 5 digits worth of money. all of which you would never see again even if they did not succeed.

[Cleanroom]

This thread is more than 4 years old now...

HA.... just noticed....

reading comprehensions for the win