Can someone recommend me who can replace hdd platter ?
I have 2 indentical drives one is working and other is dead
and it seems replacing platter is the only last hope left for me.

'Seems' is the dangerous word there. Proper diagnosis is critical before making any move. However, if you send it to a Pro, it's not important

Tell us where you're located.

well, whats wrong here , what´s happend with the people actually its the same situation here on mexico , why, the first impression, its exchange platter´s, exchange, exchange...
thats wrong, we need to understand HDD´s, are a piece of engineering the most important its an diagnostic, we has cases were the people left like unrecoverable because they did an platter exchange, where´s doesnt need it,

Best Regards and carefull with that

Sinceraly

Alberto

Maybe it's because DR is a very complicated process, yet some people need to think of it in simpler terms. Maybe we should start advertising we do 'Platter Swaps', and then just do whatever is needed to recover the data

I still don't know where they get the term Platter Swap. Maybe Salvation?

Maybe we can make a lot of $ (money) selling torx screwdrivers, tweezers etc. and a leaflet with "instructions" etc. as a kit like the refilling kit for inkjet cartridges... label it with "HARD DISK ESSENTIAL REPAIR TOOLS" and sell them, poor results but the objective is to sell the kits LOL ....

A customer went with an opened HDD... "have disassembled the plattters, the heads now move freely, I have installed the platters IN THE SAME ORDER, yes, there's a little fingerprint on the top but I think it's ininfluent, but I still can't see the folders on XP... how strange, the heads move toward the platters but they hit this... er... what's this ? a stopper , yes.... why you look at me this way ? what did I wrong ? You mean this is not recoverable anymore ? Oh, be serious, policemen and detectives nowadays are able to recover everything, it's their job... when you say it's beyond repair it's because you are not able to do it !"

The evolution in DR : first there were the programs that regenerate the surface, recover everything and...oooohhhh !!! can read drive temperature and predict life expectancy of the HDD.
Next step : PCB swap.
Next step : PLATTER swap.
Next step : HEAD swap.
Next step : Entire HDD transplant (maybe).
The final solution : CUSTOMER swap.

Did everyone invented the backup in the meantime ?

(Just a bit of humour)

Best regards.

we got some cases unrecoverable , because the people tried to "fix" his hdd´s , different solutions " exchanging platters, , trying to did an head exchange, causing an damaged over platter´s, or trying to "repair" the heads , lifting up the most visible head " , im think the people ,customers, or TS think ....on first im going to tried to "repair" by self and if no works, send to a DR Company ,even we are trying to put on our website , information why dont tried to repair by self, but u know the results

Best regards

Believe it or not, that is a good strategy. Advertise a complex service that most of your competitors can't do, and anything below that is assumed to be within your capabilities. That strategy works for me very successfully (I fix Exchange servers).

As users get more desperate, they do more and more research. Eventually, they find out the major ways how the drive can be recovered and start to look for very specific terms, such as "platter swap".

I am working on a StarTrek transporter to dematerialize the platters and put them in a donor, all without opening the drive. My food replicator can reproduce all the donors I need for a successful recovery.

P.S. I bet no one else can offer those services at down to earth prices.....

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That's nothing. I'm working on software that, using a quantum effect, actually alters matter and repairs bad heads, preamps, shorted motors, and can even permanently repair frozen bearings. Why pay a fortune for just the data, when software can fix the drive, and your data? With this, you can buy the crappiest drive, and let this program run in the background to keep it in perfect health. This will sell for $19.95, and put out of business all of you guys.

It will be an easy sell, as it seems many people believe this already exists.

Hi Cosxp,

First, you should diagnose the HDD and find the problem. Platter Swap is the last solution when there is motor seizure and unkown chassis damaged.

The term "Dead" is really unclear here.

If you can provide more details, we may offer more useful advice.

Regards

Laura

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You know one thing i dislike about Salvation Laura is she pretends to be smart all the time but in fact she knows nothing about data recovery, all her posts and infos were gathered from this forum passed around and recycled. And guess what? eventually selling and promoting her products which sometimes i find it unbelievably annoying.
In other words her posting has no substance.

Regards
Real Jose Pinto

BlackST beats the competitors! I just bought a magic stick, now we can fix every drive as low as 1.99$ LOL

we can do a recovery for you

but your item would have to be sent to the uk for recovery.

dead drive could be a faulty logic board or a short on the motor

if the drive is working clicking away its more likely faulty head.

when posting for help state the make and model of the hard drive
and tell us how it died.

all we know you might had dropped it from the top of a building

salvation data tools works on very limited number of drives, it is not good for new drives such as seagate samsung even some ibm ( i know i bought that tool ) . basicly it can work on some older drives that do not have problems with motors. Basicly it is not usable not funcionall as well as their soft tools...

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Huh! All you guys are making fool. There is no such machine you have! All you are talking is just unbelievable and looks really fake.....

Because there is only one manufacturer of "really" workable head/platter/drive repair tools, and that is "The Bug Recovery Services" named as "The Bug Device". It is the single device, which can automatically diagnose,determine and repair any sort of logical as well as physical error. It contains a lot of utilities itself to get any drive perfect in less than a minute. Some of the major features are:

1. Built in servo writer:- to write any sort of servo tracks/info. And yes, it can automatically determine the writing method/data as per the drive model. It has the database of all the drives manufactured till now, and it can automatically use that to build the servo table.

2. Built in Next Gen. Signal Trace Device:- When there are heads crashed/burnt/broken/no heads at all even, it can read the whole surface of all the platters, and record the data immediatly on the other drive attached to it. Ofcourse, you will need a good drive to make image to (If it's not good, our tool will repair it first, then will start cloning). The imaging time differs from drive to drive, for example, 14-18 seconds to read the whole 40 GB platters and 30-40 Seconds for an 80. (Please note, it may take additional time of 10 seconds, if there are severe scrathes, burnt platters, platters not in the shape, broken platters, platters with been contacted in water or any other such problem).

3. Built in Magnetic Surface Regenerator:- Just an another function of our tool, it can regenerate the whole magnetic surface in 8 seconds (for any drive) to get rid of any sort of bad sectors. Usefull for mass refurbishing.

4. Built in The Electronica(TM):- Many times you recieve a drive with some electronic faults in them. Our electronica device can repair all of the electronic problems related to not even PCB, but any sort of chips and ic's set. As long as there are PCB's/IC's/Diodes exists there, our device can work (In case, where some component ie any ROM IC is missing, you will have to specify the model of the drive for the Automatic component generation.)

5. Ease of use:- That's one the excellent feature of our tool. There are ONLY four buttons on the device itself. One is for power one is "Auto Repair and Recovery". Then Yes and No buttons to guide the program. All you have to do is just put the Drive on the device and press the "Auto Repair" butoon! The device then will start diagnosis and repairing the problem, and in the worst case, it will take 2 minutes. We have tested thousands of drives and the worst time we got to repair is 113 seonds. No need to open the drive even no need to connect it either with IDE or any port. just put it on our device, as it uses "The Third Energy" molecules from the atmosphere, it can operate the drive remotely even. The range is 500 metres (Although, this can be expanded to virtually unlimited if you place the device near any telephone line/internet line).

6:- Portability:- Our device is only 200 GMS in weight and 2ftx1ft when operating. Though in idle mode, it is foldable and could be folded in a pocket size of 4inchx2inch.

The tool has been launched commercially. So, what are you waiting for? Just place your order. The price is 9.99 $ but for the first 100 customers, it's only 4.99 $. Interested customers can E mail me.

PS:- Free lifetime upgrade and technical support. Delivery is free for the initianl and all of the updated future releases components.

Harddiskbug, I bet ace and salvation won't be pleased Lol !!!

ace and salvation do not belong even in a same sentence...

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why not ?

firstly, im just interested in this field. so im learning from you.

i read many articles in this forum. and i found

it seemed that you are always critical of salvation.

and is ACE really very good?

any one can tell me the difference between them. or some example:
the data can be recovery by ACE but can't be recovery by salvation

or just some prejudice.

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Koala, I am not critical about SD and I think neither of us is unless there's a reason to do it. Also, you can have all the tools available in the world, without knowledge and experience background you can't do nothing (luckily).
Data is not recoverable neither by ACE nor by SD without "human intervention".
And data can be destroyed because of "human intervention".