If I take out the platters from an electronically damaged hard disk drive and put them inside of a working drive [different capacity, model & maybe different brand], is it possible for it to properly function, at least until recovering data?
Or it needs to be an identical unit to the one I take out the platters from?
2007-07-10 23:05:51 · 15 answers · asked by adrian_nistorescu 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Thanks to all who answered! Waiting for more opinions.
It's true I do not know much about HD drives, but I know that at least some are NOT "atmospherically sealed". They have special breathing holes that are especially marked not to be covered.
What I need to know is if there is some chance to recover the data w/o paying a bunch to some company for recovery, and not to have it work for the next 2 years.
2007-07-12 09:07:14 · update #1
this is not a home job ...................... ll
2007-07-16 06:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by I AM BACK 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you take the platters out it's completely destroyed. The platters have to stay in the correct rotational alignment with each other or your data is garbaged.
If the electronics are messed up you have got to find an identical (working) disk drive and swap the electronics over. Or at least a drive with identical electronics. And that may not work if the way the disk surfaces are mapped out is different between the drives.
I say again, do NOT take the platters off the spindle. If you do it you will never get them realigned and working again.
2007-07-10 23:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard Drive Platter Swap
2016-11-08 02:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by bubba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moment you open a hard drive, the drive is no longer considered usable. When you open them, you allow dust particles into the workings which will contaminate and damage the inner workings. I suppose if you had a totally dust free working environment like those used by the companies that manufacture the hard drive, swapping platters might work provided both drives were identical. But for any individual to just open and swap them would only lend to 2 bad drives instead of the one. Companies that need environments like this spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build and maintain these rooms.
There are companies out there today that can attempt data retrieval from defective hard drives at a cost, you might consider contacting one of these to attempt the retreival over attempting this yourself.
2007-07-18 04:43:09 · answer #4 · answered by John S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know nothing about hard drives.
Hard drive platters are atmospherically sealed and you cannot just plonk a platter in a hard drive and expect it to work. The read/write heads are microns from the platter surface and even finger print would cause the heads to crash into the foriegn matter, the read/write heads float on a cushion of contamination free gas that is a small fraction of the width of a human hair. The alignments needed and all the technical know how is going to make your ambitions fail. You would need dedicated equipment and knowledge.
Your idea would NEVER work - 100% guaranteed
2007-07-10 23:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pay the dosh or don't - either way you probably won't get it back. magnetic fields are touchy about electronic damage and that is exactly what a hard disc platter is - a magnetically aligned field of data. If you try to do the job yourself you will destroy two hard drives. No point in even trying, you might as well just start from scratch again and this time periodically back up your crucial data incrementally.
2007-07-18 20:02:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree with the other comments,this is a recipe for disaster,it is totally impractical to even think of trying to swap platters from one drive to another,not only would you need a TOTALLY dust free room even if that was achieveable you would have to ensure the heads were perfectly aligned.and of course you would void the warranty on the working drive by opening it.
this is a reminder to BackUp your critical data in case of hard drive failure.
2007-07-18 11:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
agreed; you could'nt swap a disk without at least a lab, but then again, i don't think it's done. the only thing that people would do, and i mean really lab people, is replace broken pieces from the hard drive, like the actuators etc . but, again, go to a data recovery center, if they can't, nobody can't... for normal amounts of money.
2016-03-19 06:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it to the professionals if you want a remote chance of recovery. Otherwise kiss the data goodbye.
2007-07-18 15:51:16 · answer #9 · answered by Jag 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at you tube videos, it does not look that scary. I watched a few videos, people have been doing it successfully. Overall it is always advisable to take the drive to a data recovery service if the data is important.
Thanks.
2014-04-13 15:34:56 · answer #10 · answered by mash 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, you cannot open a HDD because its alighment so delicate that if you try to open a woking one you may damage it. It is fine to open a damaged HDD but it is strongly suggested not to open a working one.
2007-07-10 23:11:10 · answer #11 · answered by vicky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋