Another platter transplant tool?

[helpdisc]

They sold the code to the US government. Thats why the boss retired ;o)

Anyway it worked on WD Enterprise drive (4GB SCSI) nice and easy lol

that is not corect

[granaryloaf]

We are a reseller of SalvationDATA recovery tools, however SERT has been developed in-house by Computer Science Labs technicians.

Hi Sejal,

I thought that Lourens off of South Africa was the one that created this tool for you?

[guru]

That is what I heard direct from the horses mouth as we say :O) What did you hear?

They sold the code to the US government. Thats why the boss retired ;o)

Anyway it worked on WD Enterprise drive (4GB SCSI) nice and easy lol

that is not corect

[helpdisc]

That is what I heard direct from the horses mouth as we say :O) What did you hear?

They sold the code to the US government. Thats why the boss retired ;o)

Anyway it worked on WD Enterprise drive (4GB SCSI) nice and easy lol

that is not corect

I asked one of the peopple You mentioned, it was not horse but he said You do not have a clue hehehe

[guru]

well maybe it was just propaganda back then ;o)

[shaun]

My 5 cents to the signal trace project stated some days ago here:
as one designing such a device in these days would not want to rely on alignment issues (platter to platter), any surface could be recorded individually. It would just be a matter of keeping the head in a track of differing (from drive to drive), but always decreasing width, locking onto a bunch of different servo information, decoding different standards of PRML, reverse engineering the data format, the translators and then you go. Data rates of 10GS/s would probably be a point to
start with.
Did I miss anything?

[guru]

well it was a nice proof of concept back then

[book14]

We developed some similar tools, and I think it is easier and even don't need a sturdy table.
You can work with only a clean champer.
I have tested in some of Seagate ,WD and Hitachi models and work well.
I don't sell the solution, but if you are good enough in DR, we can exchange the experience.
I'd like to collect tricks in data recovery.

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[shaun]

What the hell is that? A tool to rip the spindle out of the motor together with the platters
The top shaft looks a bit like the tool I have to free seized bearings, but the mileage is poor - less than 1 out of 10 drives run smooth enough to allow for imaging, so my mech is working on a platter transplant tool. Don't like the tools available at the moment...

[book14]

What the hell is that? A tool to rip the spindle out of the motor together with the platters
The top shaft looks a bit like the tool I have to free seized bearings, but the mileage is poor - less than 1 out of 10 drives run smooth enough to allow for imaging, so my mech is working on a platter transplant tool. Don't like the tools available at the moment...

I agree with " to free seized bearings, but the mileage is poor "
and the tool is disigned to get the platterstack to another donar drive directly. and almost 100% successful rate.