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[darkforce1]

Hello friends.

Today I am very excited and want to share a good news with you. I have received a hard disk rejected by India's leading data recovery company saying data recovery is not possible from the hard disk as it has got some scratches on the Media due to head crash.

Customer want the data anyhow. I tried and I was succeeded in recovering 100% data what client wants.

Attached are the pics. Its not necessary to always have Class 100 room or Lab all u have to have is trust and self confidence on your self and on the top Luck

DF

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[rameez]

good job what condition was the hdd in , was it clicking or fw etc .

[darkforce1]

head damage and it has created a lot of scratches on the Platter.

DF

[rchadwick]

I've always wondered... Why do people say that if there's a scratch on the platter(s), there is zero chance of recovery? Obviously if the entire surface is scratched, it's not going to work.

[Doomer]

I've always wondered... Why do people say that if there's a scratch on the platter(s), there is zero chance of recovery? Obviously if the entire surface is scratched, it's not going to work.

because people know what they are saying
darkforce1 is lucky guy because he got a Samsung drive
Maxtor with same problem might be unrecoverable

[rchadwick]

So what would happen if someone tried to recover such a drive? Would the scratch make the heads crash? Or is there something else that would prevent reading of the rest of the surface?

[darkforce1]

So what would happen if someone tried to recover such a drive? Would the scratch make the heads crash? Or is there something else that would prevent reading of the rest of the surface?

Surely head damage. I am really lucky. But one thing is there as the damage was there but not that much. At least big company should try it if they are charging like a hell.

They just opened the disk and said not possible. you can see N/P mark on the top cover of the picture.

Without try you can not be sure, and in hard disk experience do change from hard disk to hard disk. You can be sure or perfect but not every time.

Correct me if I am wrong

DF

[rameez]

The drive would have been unrecoverable if the scratch damage the SA contents .
But there is no way to find out if the scratch is on the service area or not only way to find out is try it like DF did .

[hddguru]

I recovered a Toshiba 2 1/2 inch drive a few years ago with a ring scratch in the middle and I recovered the needed (not 100%)data.

I think if (in your case) the landing zone is only scrached you will have a good chance. I would also set the endstop so that the good heads will not make contact with that scrached area. Other than that it is possible....the question is "Do you want to risk your good heads" on it?

[darkforce1]

I know that there are scratches in Landing zone and some on the platters. And of course I have taken a risk of replacing a good head. I know there is no another alternate to it.

Results could be Negative. But at least I have tried.

DF

[cryoborgofthevenus]

Nice experience to share DF1 !

[prodata]

nice Friend..

If you Found the scatched area is not Data and SA Area. of course there is still Hope to recover Data. So the most important is you must to KNOW WHERE IS SA ZONE AND DATA ZONE. where is the Beginning and the last position of DATA ZONE. with this Knowledge you will know the recovery possibility from a sratched media.

[beto]

Hello darforce, we have got sucess even like u on this month we receive a case Samsung SP0802N double head crash not at Land Zone on user data area zone, by this reason we can get only like 60% of data but another company here on mexico said " its not possible to recovery it" the client send to us the HDD by parts je, platters, head stack out of HDA, electronic etc and thanks GOD we did it , and on Maxtor we have sucess too on a 10GB case with head crash too on land zone, on this case we can get like 80% of data i hope take a snapshot with camera and send on this days .

Best Regards from México

Sinceraly


Alberto Pavón
IT & Data Services

[darkforce1]

Hello Beto Sir

Its really nice and great that you have recovered the data from such kind of hard disk.
Please do post the pictures. I am waiting for it.


Failure is batter then not trying.


DF

[beto]

Hello DF here are some photos im trying to get photo from samsung but with my camera , its not showing , im going to try to get another with more megapixels, u camera how many megapixels has?


Best Regards

Sinceraly
Alberto

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Head crash on land zone Maxtor on this case we can recover like a 80% of data

[darkforce1]

Hi beto

My is 6.2 MP nikon. with 5x optical and 20 x digital zoom.

DF