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
June 12th, 2009, 4:51
This drive was an external, dropped and has a noticable twist in the chassis. Had a quick look for obvious md and mha damage and it looks like a complete platter and mha exchange is required. Head 2 & 3 has not parked on the correct rail and appears damaged. I can see a couple of md spots on the top platter.
Sounds like heads were parked when dropped but the customer attempted to power up the drive after the fall.
Recovery chances?
June 12th, 2009, 8:46
Low. it depend on your skills and what do you have in lab.
June 12th, 2009, 9:40
Yeah low is unfortunately about right. I always want to do the job no matter but depends on if they want to pay for it. It must of been some drop to warp the hda about 3mm.
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