a customer with " very critical and high valuable data" as he mentioned , was smart enough to open his 4311.9 MB drive !
with a screw driver from the side of the green mark in the pic , so he hitted the platter causing damages marked in red .



the drive came with upper li d openned , not heads inside !!!!!!! yes he just removed them manually , the platter is full of finger prints "not that big problems compared to the scratches "


the hard drive is too old , and i donut have but one exact match , that not willing to wast the head set on a non recoverable case and just trash thee heads .

do u see any chanse recovering some thing from this drive ?

thank you

sorry , i don't know where the subject line has came from

your other issue is whether the platter is on the right way since it looks like the platter was removed since it only has 2 screws holding it in and should have eight.

Since it is only one platter i would check the other side of the platter to make sure it is not even worse.

Chance are very slim with those scratches on the drive that a good set of parts will stay up long enough to get a good amount of data from it.

I would get a high dollar amount commitment from your client that if you are successful they are required to pay. Get a credit card auth before hand.

chances of a getting data , maybe 10-15 %

If this was a modern drive and taking into account the background history, I'd say 0% chances of success.

But since this is low density, there might be a chance to recover *some* data.

I would request high $ non-refundable fee for spares etc and a very good fee in case of success.

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The older models are sometimes more durable than modern ones.

What is the full details of the HDD? Also, I assume the photo posted is one you took from your workplace. If you plan to open clients disks you really should invest in an appropriate working environment for opening them...

To me it is physically recoverable, depending on condition of the lower side. Maybe not totally, but it is. And at an high price.

I have recovered worse looking drives, incompletely obviously but better than expected given the extent of the damage.

But as BlackST says, a high price.

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My God, disc pollution is serious, need to be cleaned, want to extract the data, it takes effort, of course, this does not include scratch

the magic spray will fix this issue

but again its possible to do the recover by reading reverse

we had a drive where the client removed it from the case and decided to swap the platters by hand.
and that the end of the story lol

I successfully recovered even from removed / shifted platters (2) , a PITA and took a long time, "never again" .... Uhm, depends on €...
In this very case the chances are let's say "not slim" but there are many variables at play. First, what exact model of disk is ?

I think in this cases of low density HDD the recovery success chance is about 35%. Maybe not totally, obyoubsly scrashed areas not will be recoverable.


But take in mind you problambly need some good contition heads.

Good look and report us.

the drive model is
AC14300-00RT

the serface 0 has alot of finger prints , but no scratches at all .
thinking that the user didn't flip the platter when he removed it , as the scratches are located on the upper side supports the scinario that user did those scratches with the screw driver while openning the drive .. so i think the platter place on the right way ..

what methods do u prefer to clean the platter ? i normally use one of those
http://www.malestandard.com/wp-content/ ... /q-tip.jpg

thank you for your ideas ..

You'll never know if the user has not disassembled the hub and then handled the platter with bare hands and put the platter upside down maybe the bottom surface is covered with fingerprints too....

the bottom surface is covered with finger prints only , and no scratches at all , that supports that the user didn't flip the platter , as the scratches that were made because of the screwdriver suppose to hit only the upper surface , not the bottom surface , and only one surface has scratches , that makes it the upper one .
just the way the drive came in ..

In a nutshell, it is yet to know if the platter has not been flipped and if there is eccentricity problem. At least for the flip over issue you have 50% probability