Working on Scratched Platter

[shahij]

For severe scratch on the platter due to bad head, replacement of the head does not work, it makes the head broken again. I read a great news about Filling up scratch area of the platter to read/extract good area data.

http://www.salvationdata.com/data-recov ... s.htm#1215

[rchadwick]

Hard Drive Spray?

Seriously, there may be a technique that would help, but I am under pressure not to share...

[HDD Spaz]

you cant beat a good industrial sander.

[HDD_MASTER]

I like to use poly-filla and spray paint on the damage. Makes it look lovely

[thatdellguy]

Nothing beats good old Hard Drive Spray!

[BlackST]

Do SD have a commercially available solution apart the Hard Drive Spray from ThatDellGuy Inc. ?

Seriously, I want to talk about some ideas for scratch recover, but not here not in public and for elite only. Any suggestion ?

[drc]

As for drives of multiple platters, the system will record the platter alignment by using optical image before separating the target platter from the platter assembly; so that the platter alignment can be easily restored after the scratch restoration.

Also had to laugh at

optical imageology technology

[PijoMax]

I did some microscope photos and a scratch is not a single row... even if it seems. So SD method seems a little far from reality...

[BlackST]

VERY FAR. Agree.

[N.C.]

I did some microscope photos and a scratch is not a single row... even if it seems. So SD method seems a little far from reality...

I don't think, it is so far...
Please, don't think about high speed rotating platter, think about a very slowly moving object.

Anyway, this is only opinion.

Janos

[beto]

Well but u know the data its stored on a "flux" -> <- way, wich its readed " sense" from the MR Sensors, if the surface its damaged the field could be damaged too, in know there are different levels of coating over the platter but all depend´s where´s the surface coating was damaged, thats my humble opinion

[TerraNova]

IMHO, you cannot patch the scratch without interfere with the adjacent good surface, not to mention you need to rotate the platter to distribute the lubrican evenly across the surface of the damage area (roatate at 7200rmp will defintely mess the whole surface up). I dont know i am not an expert in chemical thingy

[hddguy]

I always dread a clients drive having platter damage, but as long as client is aware of the damage and the potential of any attempts being unsuccessful, I am on many occasions willing to attempt physical work and sometimes I surprise myself!

Maybe what we need is not to 'repair' the damage, but share thoughts and experiences as to what level of damage can realistically be recovered from. I can post a few pictures of the damage I have recovered from, might make a interesting read if others did the same?

[coffeebean]

SD idea, (no, I don't have any of their products) is nothing new.

They only want to avoid damage to new donor head and still
have capabilty to read OTHER (possibly undamaged) parts of the media.

Nothing new and very possible at relative low cost.

[sempre]

I always dread a clients drive having platter damage, but as long as client is aware of the damage and the potential of any attempts being unsuccessful, I am on many occasions willing to attempt physical work and sometimes I surprise myself!

Maybe what we need is not to 'repair' the damage, but share thoughts and experiences as to what level of damage can realistically be recovered from. I can post a few pictures of the damage I have recovered from, might make a interesting read if others did the same?

Hi!!

Already I got success in date recovery with platters striped and dirty, but with platters of only low density (20GB and 40GB). I find its idea of postar photos interesting, I can also show my photos (platters)…

[sempre]

SD idea, (no, I don't have any of their products) is nothing new.

They only want to avoid damage to new donor head and still
have capabilty to read OTHER (possibly undamaged) parts of the media.

Nothing new and very possible at relative low cost.

I find that it must very increase the possibility of success in these cases (platters risks)

[BlackST]

May be someone want to reinvent the wheel/hot water, and/or want to teach the STallion how to make horses, and getting money from it... Aaaaargh!

[humbug]

are there no other solutions to this?

is it all just a pipe dream? is it just a really well kept secret?

if all above answers are 'yes' then is there a company who can just do that job? how much would they be charging? I wouldn't imagine it would be very labour intensive...

[N.C.]

I have a lot of techniques to handle damaged platters.
Sometimes i can get the needed data, but sometimes not.
If you want to try, show me photo or what you have, and we can talk about this...

Janos

[craig6928]

Nothing beats good old Hard Drive Spray!

when is this product coming out can we have a two for one offer on this magical hard drive spray