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indhay
 Post subject: What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?
PostPosted: March 13th, 2012, 3:59 
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What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?
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northwind
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PostPosted: March 13th, 2012, 9:40 
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Is this a joke?

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I really hope this is just for curiosity and not a clients drive.

If you have to ask this question then you are not prepared to handle this.

There are very few reasons why you would need to swap a platter to another drive. What is the problem with the drive?
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hddguy
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Cleanroom wrote:

If you have to ask this question then you are not prepared to handle this.



Exactly! :good:
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lcoughey
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indhay wrote:
What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?

Watch for companies and technicians who don't have the tools or experience to handle platter exchanges.

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fzabkar
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If your drive has more than 1 platter, and if its heads park on the platters, then here is what a platter swap entails:

Head Stack Replacement: Questions and Answers:
http://hddguru.com/content/en/articles/ ... k-Q-and-A/

Head replacement and platter swap demo:
http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010 ... swap-demo/

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This still is a joke, ain't it?

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indhay
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northwind wrote:
This still is a joke, ain't it?


This is not a joke, I just want to learn about the technician hd, but thank you for ur comments :)
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indhay
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Cleanroom wrote:
I really hope this is just for curiosity and not a clients drive.

If you have to ask this question then you are not prepared to handle this.

There are very few reasons why you would need to swap a platter to another drive. What is the problem with the drive?


Well ... this is my hd.
motors run unstable, first slowly, sometimes stopping for a moment, if I jiggle or agency or shake at body hd it will spin faster. hd is not detect in the bios, can you analyze this event, thank you before
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indhay
 Post subject: Re: What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?
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fzabkar wrote:
If your drive has more than 1 platter, and if its heads park on the platters, then here is what a platter swap entails:

Head Stack Replacement: Questions and Answers:
<span><a href="http://hddguru.com/content/en/articles/2006.02.17-Changing-headstack-Q-and-A/" class="smarterwiki-linkify">http://hddguru.com/content/en/articles/2006.02.17-Changing-headstack-Q-and-A/</a></span>

Head replacement and platter swap demo:
<span><a href="http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010/06/22/head-replacement-and-platter-swap-demo/" class="smarterwiki-linkify">http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010/06/22/head-replacement-and-platter-swap-demo/</a></span>


Waow...wonderfull answer, you have given the material about head replacement. but I did not find an answer on platter swap. please give me "The characteristics of donor drive compatibility for platter swap/replacement".
Thank you very much, success always for you :D
:D


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indhay
 Post subject: Re: What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?
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lcoughey wrote:
indhay wrote:
What to watch for if I want to swap the HDD platter?

Watch for companies and technicians who don't have the tools or experience to handle platter exchanges.


yah..that's true
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DanR
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Is the data on your drive important?
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customukr
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Use a pair of pliers and take each platter off individually, then flip them three times like a pancake. Put them back in, problem solved. Guarranteed fix.
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jono-ats
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The only time a platter swap is needed is if the motor is bad.

The first thing to "watch for" is to make sure your diagnosis is correct. With Seagates the motors usually spin up or they are locked. I doubt you have a motor issue.

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jono-ats
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I wouldn't use the platter swap tools shown in the video. Also, they are useless with any Seagate drive with multiple platters and separators.

Bad advice, Frank.

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labtech
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IMHO the starting point is to research on crafting together a way to connect to a machine so you can check the drive's terminal output. You can search here on the forum or Google it using keywords such as "seagate terminal" for example. Plenty of info available to guide you.

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Cleanroom wrote:
If you have to ask this question then you are not prepared to handle this.

This! :lol:
If you have a box full of drives to try this out on, you'll do fine. Like others said, if it's important data, you're playing with fire... in an explosives shed!
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