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Platter has small scratch, possibles of recovery?

April 25th, 2016, 17:19

This is a seagate platter 2tb, do you think there is a possibility of recovery if we replace the heads? or are we toast?
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Re: Platter has small scratch, possibles of recovery?

April 28th, 2016, 6:48

Hey crobison,

You can try it, but first you will need to clean heads.
For that you need a vacuum cleaner process, it's costly to do so, but chances of recovery are decent.
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