Allegedly done by a local "PC expert guy" (Not UK) ...

Exactly as we received it.

So many issues it's almost laughable

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Guess there is no denying that they were messing with the platters, eh?

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but you can fix it, right

Sean Sir ,
Damaged Seems To Be On Top Platter ,Might Be you Can Clean It ,Install New Heads And Try Out i Give it 50% Chance of Recovery And In Your Expert Hands Might Be 75%

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Top platter also has radial "slipped screwdriver" scratches on it too

Who knows the order and what way up the platters are meant to be, and what damage caused by the platters being pressed against each other.

I've backed out of this one!

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50% chance!!! are you crazy, I'd give that a 2% chance of getting so much as a single sector read. Anyone who's dumb enough to have messed around with the platters like that has also tried every DIY hack technique in the book. I'm sure it's already spent a night and a day in the freezer, been brutalized with Spinrite, left clicking for a couple of days, etc.

Quote $1000 + parts with no guarantees of getting any data back. That's what I would do.

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$1000? I'd be thinking an up front fee of $5000 for the attempt and an extra $5000 if we are able to recover anything at all. Then give them a list of labs who claim a 99% success rate.

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Not sure but are those blood stains I can see towards the bottom right?

They just "opened it, looked inside, and closed it", I presume...
This is totally FUBAR.

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No, they are marker pen marks.

Haven't checked this one, but the last two drives we had in from this dealer (who says they came in from another "data recovery company") had the same marks on the base along with similar marks on the platter edges, presumably a futile attempt at platter alignment.

One of the last ones had so much ink splodged on it that it had seeped onto the platter and had coloured the head sliders purple when looked at under a microscope! It was a Samsung HM100UI that shows an "unpack error" in terminal with no spin. Any half decent pro would recognise this fault and know that this guy almost certainly had no business switching the 3 platters to another chassis and getting fingerprints on all 6 surfaces

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oh wow, that looks nasty.

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How does that phrase begin again?

"There's a special place in hell....

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I hope you do not get to many jobs from that dealer Sean

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Unfortunately (for the clients) most of the jobs from this particular chap are butchered to some extent

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i assume that the rest of them is become expensive

Got one today that was also opened by the client first....
Filter full of debris and all over the chassis too.

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its dandruff from scratching their head trying to make sense of whats in there!

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Its not only DIY that goes wrong, I got two drives in from two different DR companies that claim to offer clean-room labs in Germany: "device has been handled under appropriate clean-room conditions".

Opened one drive today and there was a mess, not only limiter & filter missing but fingerprints & dust everywhere . And what was really sad, they did not even checked pcb contacts first - might have been the problem the drive had in the first place ...

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