full rebuild of WD passport to get data recovered
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This hard drive was sent to us by another data recovery company. After a heavy fall, this drive left most of the head sliders on the surfaces of the disk. Our client also mentioned that the hard drive was making buzzing/beeping noises. All 6 sliders broke off from the suspension. First, we had to locate and plunk all heads that were stuck to disks. Once all 6 heads were found, this drive was decontaminated and rebuilt with a donor head assembly. To work with USB interfaced drives in PC3000, we convert them to SATA first. After the rebuilt and PCB adaptation, hard drive kept buzzing on startup indicating a spinup problem. This issue was later resolved by a platter transplant into a donor chassis. PC3000's WD utility was used to prep and image out the content. The hard drive was recovered fully, and the data was saved.
if you want to ship your failed device to us for data recovery and free evaluation, simply fill out this form: www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us/
and send your drive boxed with bubble wrap to this address:
HDD Recovery Services
391 Bank St, Suite 201
Ottawa, ON
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CZcams recommended your video, at first I thought you were working in a hard disk company's lab. Excellent job done!
I am glad you liked it Kevin!
Exactly the same situation here.
Me too. It looks like the lab
Same here!
Huge respect for your patience! I think the customer was delighted to receive the data back! Thank you for uploading!
Thanks, yeah the client was very much please
I like when he beautifully discusses the problem and solution of the recovery procedure. Keep it up good work.
Thank you
I used to do this on a budget for folks who nearly trashed their drives. Back in the 90s it would cost around $5000 - $10000 for regular people to have their drives recovered. Today it starts at around $100 and up.. and that was my price back then... so I don't do it anymore. I used an acrylic box with gloves and vacuum pumped it. Not a professional way to do it, but I had a 90% success rate. If I didn't get the data, I didn't charge.
That's awesome. Did you reeplace the heads by used with the same models and first 3 characters of the s/n?
Did it works and did you recovered your data??
I seen expensive Hard Drive repairs on CZcams, this by far has ASMR elements. The guy is literally performing surgery on the Hard Drive
Yeah! The air-filter noise makes it feel like a quality working environment! Very impressive!
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Full rebuild harddisk
It's like surgery
Computer surgery
They done a surgery on a hard drive
Brain surgery*
That's a mild way to say what it actually is, hardcore computer pornography.
Wonderfull to see a real professional at work. I wish that you were accessible in the UK. Thanks
This is a masterclass work here. I am really thankful to get this recommendation and seeing how a pro do their job...this is just awesome to see
Glad you like it!
Hardrive dental work, amazing.
That was VERY interesting, i had no idea a HD had a few platters, you're very talented.
Thanks
Amazing Video ! one of the first video of HDD recovery and rebuild i have ever seen ! so meticulous and careful in each step ! Great Job Bro !
Thank you :)
best video of an hdd hardware recovery that i have ever seen on the web
You are awesome man, I know it is really hard to recovery data from broken hard disk.
Wow, that is cool. I have sent several drives off to get the data off of them over the years. You can def make good bank doing this.
i bet they were seagate lol
@@hippa2dahoppa2 I'm hoping M.2
Perfect Friday evening video. Thank you, Erkin :)
just stumbled upon your channel, and now subscribed!
Welcome Max
Hmmm. By recommending me this vid, Universe is trying to tell me to backup my important data... THX!
Haha totally
It's why u need to clone ur HDD regularly at least each month, so that when ur HDD fail and u could just use the clone one and sent the injured HDD to the clinic
Great video, very educational in respect to hard drive rebuilds and recovery. Good video.
Glad you liked it
Super interesting video ! I've lost count of the number of friends and colleagues who have lost precious photos etc because their hard drive failed. It's so important to take regular backups as not everyone can afford this kind of rebuild.
Absolutely, thanks for watching
Thank You for sharing with us all this very interesting stuff
Nice video I have two wd 1tb with same issues been saving them for price of recovering to come down. Definetly a wd defect
This is a wonderful quality video. Thank you.
Thank you!
I actually might have also learnt a couple of surgery skills to perform on my failed drives LOL
My silly joke set aside, thanks for the great content you delivered here. I'm quite impressed with how far you had to go for something coming up seeming not that big of a problem at the beginning of the operation.
BACK UP YOUR THINGS, PEOPLE!
Easy said than done. Back in early 2000's. Terabyte of data on hard drive is expensive. I had some in raid and heat killed the drive. After 15 years I have them lay around and some of the drive missing. Now I don't know if that could be recovered
@@BlueRiceHave you ever done it to replace the heads by used with the same models and first 3 characters of the s/n?
Did it works and did you recovered your data??
@@chris01479 i never perform head replacement but i replace the PCB which i dont know if thats incorrect one or theres something wrong with the head. i didnt want to dissect it since i dont want to mess it up even further.
there's one movie i have on the HD that i dont know the name of. i remember watching 2 min into it and want to watch later. the movie was a master piece. the most beautiful movie ever made. im willing to pay 1k just to recover that movie..bascially paying to find out the name of the movie.
Nice work and great specialized tools!!
thank you!
what a great job man! Respect!
Thanks Ramon
Amazing work and it's all magic for us lay folks. Very interesting to see that data is recoverable in some cases. So interesting and thanks for sharing your expertise and for the great video too.
Thanks Lisa
I don't really understand how i'm not subscribed , new account anyways , Thanks for helping the community , and like always , ThumbsUp!
Welcome to the channel
Nice! Not many REAL hard drive videos coming out these days.. solid state junk... lol .. thanks for posting these, I love the hd surgery videos!
Wow, this is impressive stuff. You certainly have skills sir...
Hello from Poland.
As for me - what you do is magic 👏🎆
Hello! thank you!
I see, this drive had heavy impact. Heads was rip off and probably spindle bearing was locked too. Only solution is move platters to functioning drive and pull data off.
Edit: Good work to extract data from dead disk drive.
Could watch you do this all day...
What blows my mind is the level of care that needs to be taken when handling this. I was just watching a video from how a nuclear core went critical because of a scientist's screwdriver slipped.
Nice work, I like this stuff.
Thanks
Nice work. I use 1 or 2lb fishing monofilament to pluck those sliders off. Less chance of scratching the surface
Really shows the importance of a good backup strategy.(and testing said strategy)
Yep 😁
Nice job, very professional :)
Dont forget to break out your 1 inch air impact and really torque em down.
At least 7 ugga duggas!
I learned long ago to keep at least one other backup drive for important data. My DVD/CD burned came in handy for that. But now I have well over 200 discs taking up space. When the main HD fault happens, there is no data loss, just cash loss, replacing the drive. I was wondering, if the head arm is stuck, or the platter doesn't want to spin, if there is an oil for the bearings. I have seen on larger greased joints in things, the grease gets hard like glue. Just enough lubricant to get the data if needed.
I was thinking that the drive is dusty but my screen was :D
That's funny:)
Obviously you have done this many times, you are so quick
This is what I do for living, so I do this everyday
1:50 I tilted my head to the right to see what he was doing xD
Haha, removing the head screw
@@hddrecoveryservices hi :) your video is very cool! u are cool :D i have a question, what do you use to cut heads?
Thank you for this video, good job. Do not hesitate to present pc3000....I want to learn more about it.
PC3000 is a tool that has a huge variety of features. We demonstrate a little bit at a time in almost every hard drive recovery video
@@hddrecoveryservices thank you
i have hear that hard drive cant or never been repaired but here it is repaired everything is possible in this world
Recovering data is basically fixing the drive but it's only a temporary measure. You should never use a 'repaired/recovered drive after the fact.
you can just depends on how much you wanna spend to recover the data
Some amazing skill here. I'm really curious as to what you ended up charging for this case.
Your video is very helpful 🙂
Wow simply amazing work.
Thanks
Beautifull! i though data recovey was way easier, now i understand why it is expensive
;)
Yeah it can sometimes require an extensive amount of work and special equipment...
@@r100curtaincall And the cost of the tools is very high. Most people may not realise this but the head comb, which is used to secure the heads on the servo arm during handling, is actually the single most expensive tool he is using in the process of performing the mechanical work on the drive. It is made of titanium and a set of those can cost over a thousand dollars.
@@douro20 Yeah they're super expensive. The tooling required to make them is as insane as the task that it is used to perform. Many people diss hard drives now in favor of SSDs, but they are a true mechanical engineering marvel all their own, from assembly to performance. I daresay they are probably one of if not the fastest precision micro instruments ever created by man.
quite technical thank you for sharing !
Great video as always. I enjoy watching you work. I assume the head damage, in this case, was caused by the slow (or stopped) platter meaning the heads were no longer flying properly. Is that correct? If so it's very fortunate that there was no platter damage.
Cheers, John
I think he said the drive was dropped. I imagine that is when it was off which meant that the heads were parked.
The fact that the spindle failed, actually saved this drive from platter damage. With sliders missing and suspension on the loose, it would only be a matter of a few power ups :)
@@hddrecoveryservices Exactly, we could have a nice shredding platters on new head stack assembly ... one thing to point it out is the aligment, the platters were previously marked so the cylinder remains, therefore the data is more likely to be extracted. As you do my friend, I always create a head map for detecting either weak heads or zones on the platters.
You are my hero, keep going man.
I was amazed that there is a way to read multiple platters after reassembly, since there is no chance at all that the platters were re-installed in the exact same rotational orientation relative to each other.
What makes you so sure they were not set back the same?
@@hddrecoveryservices I don't mean top/bottom/position in stack, I mean turned a little. Are the platters keyed to the spindle?
after looong time bro. nice work. wow
Great Job Bro..
This looks like a fun and rewarding job. And if all fails and it doesn't work, you can just say you tried your best and blame it on the hard drive :)
sure is, but why blame the drive? :) its like a hard drive er, patient either come in recoverable condition, or it is DOA. If the drive is partially recoverable - we recover what can be pulled
Cool vid!
I was thinking that I could do this my self if I needed to, boy was I wrong! Thanks for this great video. I'm putting your name in my address book! :-)
Looks easy...u need all the tools..&the one pc3000 without it bye bye data....
@@ucupi Its not inly software, its special hardware aswell... ive recovered data myself without fancy tools, or software but any attempt at platter or head replacing failed, as most of these drives have firmware on the platters and these platters apparently need allignment (?) maybe youtuber can confirm this.
Anyway, I recomment going to a recovery lab FIRST if data is important. ive only tried my own drives or friends harddisks after they learned the price (most offer diagnosis for low or free price, actual recovery costs money).
@@CodeAsm any side effects to doing it without specialized tools? I'd assume data loss is basically inminent if you try to do this the ghetto way, but the hdd would be reusable.
@@KotauFPS ghetto style is posible depending on the case. Dd, ddresque, testdisk and the best Rstudio might do the job for allott of software isues people might have. Hardware isues depends. Replacing flashrom, capasitors connectors, sure. If you have a cleanairroom and use gloves, maybe. But too many try and then go to a recovery company and actualy made it worse. If you wanna learn, and probably lose data, go ahead. Investigate why those paid hardware and software is so good, why are they using custom hardware? The hdd also have special controllers, maybe learn how to controll those
@@KotauFPS Dust is the main culprit. You MAY get lucky, but generally a spec of dust rotating at 7200rpm is like crashing into a boulder. That's why every shop has one of those fancy clean booths: you can spend 30mins swapping parts, but a single spec of dust or even a small hair can destroy the drive.
I am watching you work like a hungry cat watching a fish bowl... That is amazing tech people dont realise what they have in their hands....
You can do anything with the right tools. (Bows to Asia) and the right minds.
I was almost literally on the edge of my seat. Fascinating work! I could do that, but I don't have the equipment... and especially, not familiar with the software. Great Job.
It's not too late to start :) this industry still has a few years I think
@@hddrecoveryservices I have a doctorate in information systems and leadership. Unfortunately, as a former computer repair technician, the doctorate was more about leadership than tech. No matter. I truly enjoyed the video. Thanks.
I’m impressed
Cheers buddy
Thanks
Fantastic video! But a gentle reminder, its now 2020, if you haven't yet backed up your data somewhere safe, consider doing it now!
Hi. Please explain why you did not fix the platters to each other for keeping their relative position.
You used to tape the sides with scotch tape in some of your videos.
Thanks, keep it up.
I was wondering that - I thought the platters had to be perfectly vertically aligned??
I was wondering about the alignment as well...
@@gustavinus we keep the alignment by etching the drive and setting it back lined up by etches
@@hddrecoveryservices Do you have a video of this process? And what's the tolerance on alignment (in radians) ?
@@donbeckham I don't
epic video :) , thx for sharing
You are welcome
Great video, really puts into perspective on how the work is done. I've had some ideas on how repairs were performed, but no idea what tools were used! I have a question: Would this repair work if the platters were transplanted into the working hard drive instead of replacing the reader head? Thanks for your video and look forward to more of your work!
You can't take out platters without taking heads out. If the motor is not damaged and chassis are not contaminated by platter dust we don't swap platters
@@hddrecoveryservices okay understood, thank you for your reply!
You are awesome !!!
Fascinating
С такой кропотливой работой алкоголь исключён вообще наверное))
Мне кажется наоборот - тут же одно неверное движение и прощай хард. Слышал что хирурги часто выпивают после тяжелых операций.
Just a tip, it would be SO much easier to read the text on screen if it was much, much smaller, and just located in the bottom like regular subtitles.
Dude, its fine.
I will adore to do this job
Hi wow amazing stuff. I have a question how do you deal with platters alignment to each other?
Great work!! A quick question, I thought you had to keep all the platters in alignment?
Me too, i've been taught that misalignment would cause complete data loss.
Alex Cortinovis Yeah would be good to get a reply..
@@neilbedford2756 He replied some comments below, look for the comment of
worroSfOretsevraH
i enjoy the video, thanks m2n
You are welcome
Impressive!
At the end, on your left, is that the laminar flow work-table with lights on?
To get the platter unstuck from the arm reader, find a screw in the middle of your hard drive and then unscrew it and try to see if it would spin again. Never open up the hard drive or that's it.
good job
Great video I was just curious what did you do that saved this drive that the previous recovery shop could not due. And can you tell me approximately what this repair cost the customer.
In this industry success rate grows hand in hand with experience and expertise. Another shop cares about delivering data to the client as oppose to attempting to get paid even if it comes at cost of client's data getting permanently damaged. It is the right approach, and it is a core thing that will be discussed in one of the episodes in nearest future.
Superb task
Great video man
Would you please prepare a video for how to clean the platters
You are awesome
:)
I'm here to learn...
you are in the right place :)
Excellent work. I might send a old drive I have your way to see if you can recover the data on it.
Sure thing! www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us
If a drive is operated over time in a certain orientation such as label side up, and you try to run it label side down, the bearings can wear in such a way that can cause the knocking you hear.
Positioning the drive just right sometimes does improve performance during imaging
HDD Recovery Services So does smacking it with the end of a screw driver can sometimes can unstick things 🥴
Where do you get parts? I need the same arm with heads as you replacing in your video. Thanks ahead.
Wow. This video was very interesting. Didn't understand the software but maybe that will come with time.
you can clean by make to drop of alchole on the surface and after 3 minute it will be analysis so you can clean by cotoon
It leave residue this way. There are many ways to clean disks, I guess whatever works for the one doing it is the right way
Great video. I'm just wondering how all sliders detached. I'd have thought one or two might if perhaps it was dropped, but all of them?? Also, how do they stick so well to the platter? Was there contamination or did they embed due to physical shock? I'm amazed that the platters were still ok
Heavy impact damaged spindle that slowed the drive down and heads got pulled by disks
@@hddrecoveryservices Ahh, right. I see. Thanks for that.
Awesome video, may ask, i saw someone doing a procedure like this before, he mentioned that each disk should stay in the exact same position in order for it to keep the same sector aligned, care to comment on that ?
Sounded like a bearing was out and causing contact chatter. That said also sound pretty close to head crashing.
Most likely the spindle got bent and parking ramp was binding with the edge of the disk
Great stuff! I love watching you work. Just out of interest, what would you use to remove finger prints from a platter? I have the old HD from my laptop which I didn't intend using, so i took the top off for a poke around and managed to leave prints on the top platter. Now years later I was hoping to extract the contents again, but I don't want to damage it trying to clean it. I heard alcohol works.
Alcohol works if used right
Nice work man! Where did you get that jig that holds the drives in this video?
Michael Matey: It looks like it was custom made.
Hey i'm a software engineer but i love your videos + what you're doing, do you take any new employees with such backgrounds ?
Are your plastic rolling chairs grounded to your non anti static floors?
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nice project ..
First comment dude. I am always eager to watch and share your videos.
Nice video man, why did you erase parts of the firmware on the chip and then recalculate the checksum? Wouldn't filling it with 0s just empty that portion of the eeprom?
Those modules are on the disk, not in ROM. It is done do disable bunch of offline activity that the drive comes with to not accumulate defects and such.
Amazing job; where you got the training on such programs
You said that's it, but I never saw you put back the part you removed at 8:55. Is that just a plunger to keep the actuator and heads from moving?
That's a head separating comb. Prevents heads from touching each other when they are out. It also keeps them leveled with the ramp. That part is a tool, not part of the drive
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thank you!
I'd love to learn how to do this