Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
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  • @pathwanderer1183
    @pathwanderer1183 Před 4 lety +3236

    "dont waste $1000 on data recovery!" *proceeds to show the most common drive malfunction type in the first two minutes and tells us to go to an $1000 professional*

    • @S_Roach
      @S_Roach Před 4 lety +192

      Followed by telling us to BACK UP REGULARLY so we never need ANY type of data recovery. Regularly backing up to a $100 external HDD beats relying upon $1000 HDD recovery.
      Personally, I use three.
      Two I alternate, doing an old-school system image backup, weekly, while a third I use nightly to run File History.
      Even if I have the computer brick itself while doing a system image, I still have data that is only seven days old, plus whatever I have on my File History.
      And, against MS's recommendations, I only plug my File History drive in for as long as it takes to back up the day, thus providing some air-gap protection from virii or trojans, including ransomware.

    • @OMA2k
      @OMA2k Před 4 lety +174

      Yeah, that's a click-baity title, because it's written so you think he's going to talk about an alternative to $1000 data recovery services when you have a dead hard drive, but he just means "don't waste $1000 on data recovery" BY DOING BACKUPS beforehand. Well, duh!

    • @stevethea5250
      @stevethea5250 Před 4 lety +5

      @@S_Roach have completed the Price Verification section of the claim form (if the item is reduced by more than $200 and you do not have the original catalogue, advertisement or promotional flyer (with a printed visible date) from the store of purchase showing the new reduced price);

    • @damirdze
      @damirdze Před 4 lety +3

      Excellent presentation, thank you.

    • @charleshines6155
      @charleshines6155 Před 4 lety +1

      The thing is that if you are going to open the metal cover on the hard drive you might still never get it working when you put it back together. All those little screws are sensitive to torque and must be just right. I am not saying that it is impossible, just something that would be difficult for most people.

  • @md201right6
    @md201right6 Před 3 lety +1091

    Linus - Because of this video. I was able to recover my data removing the configuration chip from my old HDD and placing it onto a new main board. I got back pictures from when my daughter was first born. I cant tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Cheers!

  • @0Raik
    @0Raik Před 4 lety +808

    "How to save money in data recovery..."
    Buying two drives instead of one in the first place.

    • @adorenu1338
      @adorenu1338 Před 4 lety +22

      yet, you still managed to lose all of your HDD Data of the both Hard disks

    • @junoguten
      @junoguten Před 4 lety +8

      If you were to get say 3 or 10 or however many you want, you could use one as a checksum drive, and if any one of the other drives fail, it'll look at the bits on itself and the other drives, do the arithmetic, and tell you what all the bits on the lost drive was / save it to a fresh drive.

    • @jwhiteheadcc
      @jwhiteheadcc Před 4 lety +5

      @@junoguten In fact, let's make the drive controller do it for us, so it's automatic, and even the OS doesn't know it's happening. We could even add battery backup of cache which then gets written to a Flash drive! ;)
      All joking aside, I've used QuickPAR or the like for largish file transfers. Where large is defined relative to transfer rate. It has the added bonus of telling me which PARts are good. I assume the people still making optical disc archives really regret not using it when a disc gets scratched! XD

    • @banjirjir7519
      @banjirjir7519 Před 3 lety +1

      and raid 0 both of dat....

    • @TanPham-sn3fc
      @TanPham-sn3fc Před 3 lety +3

      Back up critical data regularly.

  • @TheCrazyStudent
    @TheCrazyStudent Před 3 lety +344

    Video title: "Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery"
    In the video: "This is the Rapidspar. It costs around $2000."

    • @DaniPaunov
      @DaniPaunov Před 3 lety +16

      Also in this video: "End users aren't expected to buy one."
      It's almost like you were listening.

    • @krozareq
      @krozareq Před 3 lety +2

      $10 says that thing's running Linux. Convenient having an open source Kernel along with FUSE support for mounting any custom or natively unsupported filesystem in userspace.

    • @TheCrazyStudent
      @TheCrazyStudent Před 3 lety +7

      @@DaniPaunov
      Oh yeah, it’s almost like I’m expecting some cheap data recovery alternative when the video title says what it does, and I’m not then expecting them to start talking about $2000 recovery techniques... But hey, stupid me for expecting that kind of thing when the video title says what it does, right?

    • @DaniPaunov
      @DaniPaunov Před 3 lety +4

      @@TheCrazyStudent Still in the video: "If you, the end-user, can find a shop that has one, you should expect to pay about 300$ for a recovery it can handle".
      _It's almost like you were listening_

    • @oddity4650
      @oddity4650 Před 2 lety

      I wonder why it costs 2k

  • @tucker8676
    @tucker8676 Před 5 lety +3013

    Ironically they lost some of the footage of them learning to recover data

    • @angrynerd2103
      @angrynerd2103 Před 5 lety +121

      Curb your enthusiasm music starts playing.

    • @MrBerto2828
      @MrBerto2828 Před 5 lety +2

      @@angrynerd2103 curb your faith in man heathen...

    • @MrBerto2828
      @MrBerto2828 Před 5 lety +37

      The real tutorial starts @ 14:00

    • @ProphetPX
      @ProphetPX Před 5 lety +7

      they were probably recording it on a failing surveillance HDD lol

    • @rflxna3227
      @rflxna3227 Před 4 lety +1

      Bruh

  • @ZachHixsonTutorials
    @ZachHixsonTutorials Před 5 lety +294

    0:44 one guy got the message to pretend to be working, and one didn't XD

    • @MrRedstoneNerd
      @MrRedstoneNerd Před 5 lety +18

      He shows up again 3:35

    • @gordslater
      @gordslater Před 5 lety +1

      this is a direct effect of not having porn in the workplace - how is anyone motivated to look at the screens?

  • @cferracini
    @cferracini Před 3 lety +89

    This just made me want to have a backup for my backup and maybe a backup for that backup

    • @juancamaney3562
      @juancamaney3562 Před 3 lety +1

      HA HA HA HA !

    • @oddity4650
      @oddity4650 Před 2 lety +1

      I think you need to have another backup for that last backup

    • @jemiebridges3197
      @jemiebridges3197 Před 2 lety

      Hey, now youre a pro

    • @maheshmokal
      @maheshmokal Před 2 lety +1

      i accidently formatted my backup drive after taking backup of my system , so backup of backup and backup of backed data is important

  • @dcabral00
    @dcabral00 Před 4 lety +15

    I love videos like this! Basically, the best Hard drive or SSD you can get is anything x2, and keep copies of the same data on another drive.

  • @protestantist
    @protestantist Před 5 lety +157

    2017: *Linus' drops his hard drive at DriveSavers' office*
    2018: *Linus' drops his hard drive at DeepSpar's office*

  • @IRMacGuyver
    @IRMacGuyver Před 4 lety +858

    This dude looks like he's tired of waiting for Linus to do four or five takes for every shot.

    • @jackavent9576
      @jackavent9576 Před 3 lety +19

      I feel linus is reading from a display cue board, watch his eyes.

    • @KTHKUHNKK
      @KTHKUHNKK Před 3 lety +1

      For sure

    • @dreamingrightnow1174
      @dreamingrightnow1174 Před 3 lety +4

      Because Linus has to get all his hand waving right.

    • @IRMacGuyver
      @IRMacGuyver Před 3 lety +7

      @@jackavent9576 They have a teleprompter that's rigged on their camera. They use those backpack harnesses so as not to kill their camera guy holding all that weight all day long but can still take it out for location shooting.

    • @cnash5647
      @cnash5647 Před 2 lety

      Can't blame the guy, it's quite lengthy.

  • @discoveringcraft
    @discoveringcraft Před 4 lety +13

    I would like to thank you for shearing info about HDD recovery, especially for this trick with automount function and RStudio.
    It helped me a lot while trying to recover old 1TB HDD from my parents with literately all the photos from 2004 till now.
    U rock!

    • @Nusrat934
      @Nusrat934 Před 2 lety

      may you please send me the link to download RStudio

  • @davidg7136
    @davidg7136 Před 4 lety +4

    Dude! I love this channel. I love tech. Another great video! I cant get enough of Linus Tech Tips!

  • @thobiex
    @thobiex Před 5 lety +270

    Linus: So yarek, where did you learn to do all this?
    Yarek: I waz KGB.

    • @shrimp_on_internet
      @shrimp_on_internet Před 4 lety +4

      Epic

    • @Kitulous
      @Kitulous Před 3 lety +3

      xaxa fuппy sovieт uпion joкe so fuппy i shoшed iт тo my KGB ageпт нe laugнed

    • @ryhanzfx1641
      @ryhanzfx1641 Před 2 lety +5

      @@Kitulous you dont show it to KGB agent, KGB agent show the joke to YOU

    • @veerlaff5528
      @veerlaff5528 Před 2 lety

      @@ryhanzfx1641 he already knows

  • @mariuswallentinsen2814
    @mariuswallentinsen2814 Před 5 lety +584

    Linus: *Tells to be careful because of physical problem*
    Also Linus: *Instantly lifts the drive before it has time to stop spinning*

    • @mscheese000
      @mscheese000 Před 5 lety +36

      That's not really an issue though, the r/w heads park almost instantly when the drive loses power. The head hitting the plattersis what causes damage. When the head is parked it can't hit them.

    • @hyxalide
      @hyxalide Před 4 lety +2

      @@mscheese000 *disabled

    • @mscheese000
      @mscheese000 Před 4 lety

      @@hyxalide What?

    • @hyxalide
      @hyxalide Před 4 lety +1

      @@mscheese000 21:18 (intended to be a joke)

    • @stevethea5250
      @stevethea5250 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mscheese000 have completed the Price Verification section of the claim form (if the item is reduced by more than $200 and you do not have the original catalogue, advertisement or promotional flyer (with a printed visible date) from the store of purchase showing the new reduced price);

  • @DaveAndrus
    @DaveAndrus Před 18 dny

    Excellent video and fun to watch! I found this vid because my son's SATA HD died today, and I stayed for the whole show. Very entertaining and super informative--beats most of the Discovery Channel shows.
    Turns out his drive's TVS diode on the 5 volt line did its job spectacularly, and then died in a shorted-out config. Got out the soldering iron and lifted one side of it, then replaced the zero ohm resistor that acted as a cheap fuse. Voila--it lives to fight another day! (and yes, we're going to copy the data over to a new SSD)

  • @ExclusiveLM
    @ExclusiveLM Před 3 lety +11

    If you have really important files to keep safe, I recommend buying 2 external hard drives from two different companies so they won’t eventually die around the same time and save the exact new things you create daily on both drives at the end of each day. If any of the external drive dies, buy a new drive, copy over everything from the other external drive and continue saving onto both drives. Eventually both drives will become full. Then buy more external drives. It goes without saying to always plug all your electronics into surge protected outlet strips.

    • @jed2055
      @jed2055 Před 3 lety +1

      Yep, lot less cost, lot less stress.
      Of some interest; I remember back in the day when an Electronics franchise HQ and a Maccas outlet down the road swapped hard drives every Friday night. That's another way of protecting your data.

    • @komatsusakura
      @komatsusakura Před 2 lety

      i did that for my thumdrives not one of the HDD and i no idea where to get a donor hdd ? sigh too old HdD

    • @chidude
      @chidude Před 2 lety +1

      Also make extra drive copies to store offsite in case of a physical disaster such as tornado, fire, etc. or even theft.

    • @sc0u7
      @sc0u7 Před rokem +1

      I've heard exactly different approach. Namely buy the same drives, as the likelyhood of them failing at the same moment is near zero anyways, but if that happens, you have a identical HDD at hand for spares. After years, it'll might not be easy to find the same model second hand.

    • @ExclusiveLM
      @ExclusiveLM Před rokem +3

      @@sc0u7 Nope. that's wrong. Same drives with same mechanisms react to usage in the same exact way which increases the chances of same machines breaking down around the same time. Nice try though.

  • @milesharrison
    @milesharrison Před 4 lety +23

    5:15 - That panic as Linus just scratches the metal of one drive across the PCB of the other... "Yeah, they look(ed) perfect."

  • @__init__3493
    @__init__3493 Před 5 lety +55

    TestDisk is a pretty amazing program for if you have a few bad sectors or if you accidentally formatted a drive

    • @DanielColson
      @DanielColson Před 5 lety +9

      PhotoRec is a good associated software from the same company that does file carving to recover files by signature in a partition if TestDisk doesn't get the whole partition back.

    • @JaydenLawson
      @JaydenLawson Před rokem

      Looks like it doesn't work for APFS?

  • @cam_machi
    @cam_machi Před 4 lety +10

    13:44 whoever at that office bought that HHKB to just be there. Props to you dude.

  • @rambo162
    @rambo162 Před rokem

    very informative, I had a corrupted hd and was unsure of the many problems I could be facing but it was good to know I had a problem that could be solved with recovery software and not a total hd repair.

  • @newton21989
    @newton21989 Před 5 lety +26

    One of my favorite data recovery utilities is ddrescue for Linux. Assuming you just have bad sectors, you can make a bit for bit copy of your drive and when bad sectors are encountered, they are added to a log and skipped for the time being. After the program has reached the end of the drive, it goes back and tries the failed sectors again, pruning the log as it gets good reads. You can have it repeat this process ad infinitum, of quit after a number of passes.

    • @sudo008
      @sudo008 Před rokem +1

      The really cool thing about ddrescue is that you can mostly maintain good recovery speed by skipping over slow blocks. If a drive is physically failing and getting worse, better to get 99% of your data by skipping the slow parts than 0.1% of the data because you spent the last 5 hours of the drive's life recovering at 1kBps :-|

  • @fsfaith
    @fsfaith Před 5 lety +56

    That guy in the background during in the intro is waiting for Linus to shut up so he can get back to work.

  • @sirmegallot3276
    @sirmegallot3276 Před 3 lety +3

    It's amazing how long such seemingly complicated and complex technology has been around... A disk spinning 7200 revolutions per minute with a reader hoovering microns over the plate pulling information... I feel like solid state drives should have come first or something, but clearly what do I know? I know that part of the problem was creating non-volatile sticks of memory vs memory that would wipe when it wasn't powered... It's really interesting and fun to learn about. Thanks for the video!

  • @bobbymak6964
    @bobbymak6964 Před 3 lety +2

    Best teaching episode ever. I have some bad hard drives and now I know what is their problem. Please keep it up.

  • @aryanzijlstra6649
    @aryanzijlstra6649 Před 4 lety +12

    Awesome. I've done probably close to a hundred HDD data recoveries myself over the years. I also did PCB swaps, head swaps and even platter swaps for which I could find head replacements to get off the data of the platter for which the head(s) where non functioning.
    One should always keep in mind that once you open up a HDD, you should recover as much data as possible, because afterwards the drive is going bad.
    I have one tip: If you have a Hitachi drive in your PC or laptop (no matter which model), replace it asap. I've not encountered a drive of that brand that doesn't have problems, even brand new ones.

    • @HyperVectra
      @HyperVectra Před rokem +3

      Amen, I've been watching the 2Tb Hitachi Drive I took from a 21" iMac increase bad reads, seek errors etc in CrystalDiskView slowly over the 2 months I've been using it... Then again old IT guys like me with NAS Disk Striping with Parity servers and hourly remote incremental syncs don't worry about data loss, we already leant the backup lesson long ago : )

  • @adm3991
    @adm3991 Před 5 lety +203

    My favorite hard disk failure was on a pentium 4 1.4ghz computer with rdram. The drive was a Seagate drive. I had just gotten home from high school went to turn on the computer probably for a Diablo 2 gaming session and on boot up the drive just spun faster than I've ever heard a hard drive spin ever in my life. Smoke started pouring out of the case and the drive platters sounded like they broke all this in under maybe 5 seconds. Bet they couldn't recover that hahahs

    • @MrPatagonicus
      @MrPatagonicus Před 5 lety +134

      For a short time, you may have had a limited edition 20,000 RPM HDD. :)

    • @VladToronto
      @VladToronto Před 5 lety +30

      Sounds like you were hearing a power supply failure, not hard drive failure.
      Of course, power supply could've taken the drive with it, but smoke and sound would definitely have been the power suply

    • @frosty9392
      @frosty9392 Před 5 lety +32

      at first i read that as 41.4ghz and was about to go on a googling spree

    • @Smoke1
      @Smoke1 Před 5 lety +14

      Back in the day there used to be a type of malware that someone would send you and it would speed up your hard drive, essentially burning it out. Maybe you made some enemies you shouldn't have and they fucked up your system.

    • @crownofall
      @crownofall Před 5 lety +8

      Smoke
      I was remembering the same thing.
      the bad one was the one that acted on cdroms in some cases you could get shrapnel from an exploded disc coming out the front of the dang thing

  • @AbrarShaikh2741
    @AbrarShaikh2741 Před 4 lety +13

    Linus: Yarek, you ready?
    Yarek: I am waiting here since a decade and you are not ready to come in.

  • @jeremiahlyleseditor437

    This was useful.
    Not much has changed except for the software, some tools and the prices.
    Great Video.
    You are the go to man for builds and now this.
    Great!!

  • @coweatsman
    @coweatsman Před 5 lety +50

    The 3 "B"s of computing. Backup, backup and backup.

    • @Von_D
      @Von_D Před 4 lety +1

      Squidward: BACK it up.
      SpongeBob: Right! “BACK it up..."

  • @HomerSlated
    @HomerSlated Před 5 lety +320

    Bad sectors just need more discipline. I give them a sound thrashing then send them to bed with no supper. Works every time.

    • @15digitlongname
      @15digitlongname Před 5 lety +7

      this is true statement.
      it is known.

    • @beanstalker3292
      @beanstalker3292 Před 5 lety +2

      I would give them a good spanking before they go to bed.

    • @Begleitkubus
      @Begleitkubus Před 5 lety +8

      I usually just scream at my drive that the sectors are a team and if one sector fucks up, they are all in for it and if they can´t figure it out overnight I´ll FUCKING OPEN THAT CASE UP AND THROW SAND ALL OVER THE PLATTERS WHILE SPINNING.
      Usually it´s fixed the next day, with one or two sectors less in total.

    • @AshenTechDotCom
      @AshenTechDotCom Před 5 lety +3

      hdd regenerator can help with that... takes for-fucking-ever to run, but... we have a first gen 4tb that over heated thanks to my buddies wife putting a thick beach towel over it on the table as it was running... got so hot the table warped a bit and the towel browned... decided to test hdd regenerator since the company had given me a free copy... took over a week to run fully, then i used a tool to restore the partitions......and well its been inside his cosmos for years now, and been used as his temp drive for torrents(active torrents kept on it auto copied/mirrored into his archive drive, then he clears the temp drive data after hes done seeding each torrent).... we keep wondering how long its gonna keep going...

    • @giyantomam494
      @giyantomam494 Před 5 lety +1

      Bugil

  • @headjames
    @headjames Před 2 lety

    Liked your comment about backing up your data at the end. One of my comptuer lecturers at University told us that there are two types of computer user: those that have lost data, and those that will.
    In addition, another lesson I learnt that it isn't enough to back up your data, but to verify your back up and check it regulary.
    I learnt about an interesting case from a Californian University, the Geography department I think, where they made two back ups of their data, each copy on magnetic tape (yes, this case was from that era!). When they had an incident and had to restore data from their backup they found that the first set of back up tapes were corrupt. Fortuneately the second set was okay. They replaced the corrupt copy with a new back up.
    A few months later and they then again had an issue and had to restore from the back up tapes, and once again, found the first backup set corrupt but the second set okay.
    This circumstance was obviously concerning so they conducted an investigation to find out what was happening. They found quickly that it was always the first set of backup tapes that quickly became corrupt, and that this was the set of tapes that was stored on the bottom shelf of the cupboard. The second set, stored on a higher shelf in the same cupboard would be okay.
    Once this was discovered, the cause of the corruption was quickly found to be caused by the magnetic field produced by an electric floor polisher that the cleaner used on the corridor every night.

  • @sonikyo6858
    @sonikyo6858 Před 2 lety

    15:50 Thanks I think you have saved me years of lost video from backing it up to a recently purchased faulty drive

  • @walkingzeak6682
    @walkingzeak6682 Před 5 lety +52

    My xbox one has made that sound from the hard drive at the beginning, for the past week. I thought it was just some overheating, but now I know. This would explain why it was extremely slow all the sudden. Getting it serviced now, thanks Linus.

    • @dj_paultuk7052
      @dj_paultuk7052 Před 5 lety +3

      If its making a clicking sound, thats the head repeatedly trying to calibrate itself. And hitting the endpoints. Very bad news and it will destroy itself shortly after. Copy any data off, and get a new HDD.

    • @loganpennington9104
      @loganpennington9104 Před 5 lety +2

      Are you sure it’s the hard drive? Sometimes Xbox CPU Fans makes clicking noises because of a manufacturing problem. If you haven’t opened the Xbox’s case and you have a warranty they’ll fix it for free or even give you a new xbox.

    • @walkingzeak6682
      @walkingzeak6682 Před 5 lety

      Logan Pennington honestly I don’t know, but it sounded exactly how it did in the video. I am just getting it serviced and letting them do what ever they need to do. Good thing I still had my warranty for it.

    • @TiagoTiagoT
      @TiagoTiagoT Před 5 lety

      It's not calibrating, it is detecting a bad sector and kicking the head out of the way in panic to try to avoid the head crashing into any physical damage that may be present on that sector, which would produce more debris that could damage more sectors in a chain reaction.

    • @uss_04
      @uss_04 Před 5 lety +2

      Glad to see an LTT video help a user identify potential hardware failure and help someone out ;)

  • @benitollan
    @benitollan Před 5 lety +825

    DeepSpar sounds like a very profound Dutch supermarket

    • @originalkhawk
      @originalkhawk Před 5 lety +7

      like that, but deep, probably somewhere in the basement

    • @MisterMotel
      @MisterMotel Před 5 lety +37

      That Spar supermarket that is only open deep in the night, and has an ID check at the door.

    • @jeffther1pper457
      @jeffther1pper457 Před 5 lety +2

      i hate the spar

    • @user-qw7hb4du6z
      @user-qw7hb4du6z Před 5 lety +8

      Hahahhaaaa ik dacht dat linus canadees is.

    • @ScibbieGames
      @ScibbieGames Před 5 lety +2

      he is

  • @tarunarya39
    @tarunarya39 Před 3 lety +2

    Liked the harware bits of the video. You can use software such as dd for sector issues from memory to copy backup the disk. Testdisk/recuva/ddrescue can be considered for file recovery of files from corrupted disks. macrium reflect is rubbish with sector issues when trying to back it up.

  • @ffatheranderson
    @ffatheranderson Před 4 lety +7

    Wow Linus. Thank you and your team for it's creation. :) It reveals interesting things bout data recovery.

  • @Aspra
    @Aspra Před 5 lety +5

    I love videos like this. Not many other channels delve into companies that do this niche kind of stuff. At least none I know of.

  • @PowahSlapEntertainmint
    @PowahSlapEntertainmint Před 5 lety +2213

    Bruh, I don't even have $1000 to waste period.

    • @Chris-hw4mq
      @Chris-hw4mq Před 5 lety +23

      So fucking boring video

    • @marcus_w0
      @marcus_w0 Před 5 lety +59

      See it from the sunny side: Then you're also not buying a 2080 ;)

    • @UnluckyBro-
      @UnluckyBro- Před 5 lety +15

      That explains how your all over Yt

    • @priskyplays
      @priskyplays Před 5 lety +8

      PowahSlap Entertainmint I don’t have20 dollars for hard drive let alone a grand to get data recoverd

    • @ntrain90
      @ntrain90 Před 5 lety +6

      GET OFF OF ALL OF MY TECH VIDEOS

  • @WyvernApalis
    @WyvernApalis Před 4 lety +81

    Bold dude at the start looking at Linus like he's looking some strange being

  • @phildavis8732
    @phildavis8732 Před 3 lety +1

    Seagate seems to be offering their data recovery services included in many of their drives. All NAS, Surviellance and even their SSD FireCudas. Pretty sweet.

  • @rei_2645
    @rei_2645 Před 5 lety +739

    If you’re telling me not to waste $1000 on data recovery, I can waste $999.99 right?

  • @---GOD---
    @---GOD--- Před 5 lety +10

    I've learned so much from Linus Tech Tips over the years. Another great, informative video.

  • @quietusplus1221
    @quietusplus1221 Před 4 lety +9

    This is some REALLY impressive engineering. Automating all this stuff in a package for that amount of money.

    • @rishazap8970
      @rishazap8970 Před rokem +1

      very nice video it gives idea to people who doesnt know anything about data recovering..

  • @nurchiguseynov4672
    @nurchiguseynov4672 Před 3 lety +1

    3:01, the TVS chip actually handles overvoltage protection, hence the name, Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS)

  • @StokmanWouter
    @StokmanWouter Před 5 lety +388

    10:13 Didn't know Elon Musk does data recovery as a part time job

    • @alexandermendez9013
      @alexandermendez9013 Před 5 lety +27

      hes gotta pay for those buyback somehow

    • @sneg__
      @sneg__ Před 5 lety +3

      when he's not busy throwing out random accusations of pedophilia, he gets bored.

    • @lootplx
      @lootplx Před 5 lety +2

      I see he has now mastered the art of time traveling, as this is obviously before the hairplugs.

    • @stephenconnell
      @stephenconnell Před 5 lety

      I thought he was thinking,"Why wasn't I sick today?"

    • @Kris-jk9mq
      @Kris-jk9mq Před 5 lety +1

      Hey, he was a Dish Washer on the Big Bang Theory after all..

  • @biblical_figure
    @biblical_figure Před 5 lety +126

    So basically "Friendship ended with Drive Savers, now DeepSpar is my best friend"

    • @tehf00n
      @tehf00n Před 5 lety +6

      I was thinking just that.

    • @johannlopez4524
      @johannlopez4524 Před 5 lety +23

      Both were sponsored. Friendships come with a price or sponsorship lol.

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth Před 5 lety +15

      I'm getting a "Tunnelbear -> Private Internet Access" vibe here.

    • @chikato7106
      @chikato7106 Před 5 lety

      TestDisk!!

    • @manishjha2315
      @manishjha2315 Před 5 lety +14

      DeepSpar only provides tools my guy, Drive savers are actually do the recovery.. did you not watch the video?

  • @PartyQuest
    @PartyQuest Před 3 lety +1

    lol! that small stuck bug before the intro, got me!

  • @user-xp9mz4kn7d
    @user-xp9mz4kn7d Před rokem

    It's amazing. I've done about a hundred HDD data retrieval on my own over the years. I also did PCB rotations, head switches and even a wooden switch that I could get a head switch to remove the panel data where the head (s) were not working.

  • @StanleyTinyhat
    @StanleyTinyhat Před 5 lety +146

    If someone that you're talking to in the video says more than 2 sentences maybe consider putting a microphone on them

    • @hurty
      @hurty Před 5 lety +13

      If someone has encountered that issue and realized it was too late to refilm, yet they added subtitles; you should probably read them if you're having difficulty listening.

    • @Sceptile29
      @Sceptile29 Před 5 lety +8

      @@toast1672 wow. That came out of nowhere. He wasn't even being rude or anything.

    • @toast1672
      @toast1672 Před 5 lety +3

      being a passive aggressive little bitch is being rude.

    • @EddieGooch
      @EddieGooch Před 5 lety +8

      Fight! Fight! Fight!

    • @HilbertXVI
      @HilbertXVI Před 5 lety +5

      @@toast1672 Same goes for you, asshat

  • @LokiTheCat
    @LokiTheCat Před 5 lety +231

    just use flex tape smh

    • @gamer_gawd5520
      @gamer_gawd5520 Před 5 lety +26

      TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE, I SAWED THIS HARD DRIVE IN HALF, AND REPAIRED IT USING ONLY FLEX TAPE. AFTER A DAY IN THE COMPUTER, IT STORES COMPLETELY FINE.

    • @silentantagonist2333
      @silentantagonist2333 Před 5 lety +7

      I boated a saw in half

    • @aestheticdegen
      @aestheticdegen Před 5 lety

      Just dip it in flex seal

    • @rei_2645
      @rei_2645 Před 5 lety +3

      But how do I download flex tape?

    • @cringeworthyhumans160
      @cringeworthyhumans160 Před 5 lety +4

      *THAT'S A LOT OF D Y A A M A G E*

  • @zaidagonzalez384
    @zaidagonzalez384 Před rokem

    It really is interesting and entertaining for me to see everything related to this topic, thank you very much for sharing it!

  • @Beateau
    @Beateau Před 3 lety +5

    I love how DriveSavers was all careful will the disassembly, using a fancy comb and whatnot, and this guy is just ripping stuff out.

  • @WhateverTechComestoMind
    @WhateverTechComestoMind Před 5 lety +65

    “It was taking infinently long, but now it’s taking even longer”

  • @DanielRenardAnimation
    @DanielRenardAnimation Před 5 lety +24

    If the RapidSpar is also able to go in and adjust/correct for platter misalignment, I'd be friggin golden.

    • @briangadbois2302
      @briangadbois2302 Před 5 lety

      Love your animations man!

    • @DanielRenardAnimation
      @DanielRenardAnimation Před 5 lety +1

      @@briangadbois2302
      Thank you kindly!
      A small handful of _'them'_ are stuck in limbo on a _'platter misalignment'_ HDD, which is why I came here. •́⩊•̀💦 Thankfully nothing important, but indeed an indicator, as to one of the reasons, why my updates have been lacking...

    • @briangadbois2302
      @briangadbois2302 Před 5 lety +1

      @@DanielRenardAnimation Hope it all gets sorted my friend!

    • @ssokic
      @ssokic Před 5 lety

      5678

  • @guillaume8437
    @guillaume8437 Před 3 lety

    Your video is just so massive! Worth more than wiki, forums, articles put altogether. I always hang around with Macrium or GetDataBack which do some of a good job actually as far as they can. Unfortunately, these heads are very sensitive but I have had way more damage by powering down manually the computer and lately due to some of last W10 updates that make the computer freeze at 40% or so than from dropping the HDD...
    Regarding the burnt components, potentially, with a delicate hand and the right reference if these are not programmable components (passives, diodes, transistors, DCDC converters...) a nice operation should do the trick but the layers (internal or external) of the PCB must not be damaged.
    Here's a few questions
    1) For the ROM, is it possible to read the one of the healthy HDD and transfer its content to a new identical chip (over I2C/SPI bus)?
    2) How to find healthy heads and change the bad ones by myself?
    Thanks again. Now I am curious to see your CZcams channel.

  • @mylovesongs2429
    @mylovesongs2429 Před 3 měsíci

    I have a 1TB WD drive that i have had for 15 years. It is SATA, and so i used one of those SATA to USB cables to hook up to my laptop. A Power Supply cable was bad, and it caused the drive to smoke a bit AND a message came up asking if i want to format it. I knew there was a HUGE problem on my hands. I figure it's a PCB issue. I am wondering if any of these methods you used could fix the drive, or would i have to pay a company $1000(USD). I love your video! Great stuff here! I saw a video here on YT of someone swapping the PCB of an identical drive, and may buy one on Ebay and try that. I really wanna buy a hard drive bay, as i have IDE and SATA drives to copy over to flash drives. I don't wanna mess with plugging a power supply cable into a drive, and cause a smoking issue again. Anyway, thanks so much for this fascinating video of hard drive data recovery!!!

  • @Waberner
    @Waberner Před 5 lety +52

    9:51 Password on the screen bezel? Kinda like everyone in my office =)

  • @leopichler
    @leopichler Před 5 lety +81

    That glitch at the start was just a cover up for a failed data recovery.

    • @ronvanwegen
      @ronvanwegen Před 5 lety +2

      I've been having problems with my graphics card for the last few days and thought I'd finally fixed it. That glitch gave me the same feeling as when you reach for your wallet and it's not there - minor heart-attack. Thanks Linus!

  • @isabelcasi7412
    @isabelcasi7412 Před rokem +1

    Last week, my precious external HDD disk fell down on the floor. When I connected it to my PC, the laptop didn't recognize it. Definetedly, my hard disk was broken down. I was told that only an especialized lab could recover it paying for that around 1000€. I'm devastated because several years of keeping away information have disappeared in a bloody second. In your video I can hear the soft little noise the hard disk makes when it's working. Undoubtedly, a physical element inside the device is damaged.

  • @sarcasm-83
    @sarcasm-83 Před 3 lety +4

    1:46 I swear I see at least 6 specs of regular household dust on that plate, so either that one has been opened at home beforehand, or their 2 million dollar professional dustless area isn't very dustless :D

    • @tlingitsoldier
      @tlingitsoldier Před 2 lety

      The shot where you can see dust is not from the $2 million clean room video. It is a shot of the guy using the laminar flow box they're talking about. Probably less surprising to see some specs of dust there.

  • @zosimostwo
    @zosimostwo Před 5 lety +162

    that autoscrub and stoping the PC from automounting the drive was the best tip i've had in the last 20videos. thanks so much. i've had several drives that just hanged my pc, portable drives and such and i could never fix them because they would forever hang up my PC. and every search on the internet told me nothing at all. why doesn't google know about this tip?!?! thanks
    and in case google is listening, run command as administrator, type automount disable followed by automount scrub to stop a harddrive from hanging up your PC

    • @SEAhawkstwelfthman
      @SEAhawkstwelfthman Před 5 lety +6

      Google owns CZcams, so they might be listening to their own sites a bit.

    • @r3dhorse
      @r3dhorse Před 5 lety +9

      Recover it with gparted instead.

    • @1bryanmv
      @1bryanmv Před 4 lety +4

      Literally dealing with this right now, external hdd just keeps hanging my system. Googled like crazy and pretty much got nowhere. Looked up Linus to see if he had any nuggets and yup.

    • @alandetor5297
      @alandetor5297 Před 4 lety +3

      How do you undo those commands? automount disable and automount scrub? Does a reboot return to normal? Thanks

    • @TheLazyGrizzly
      @TheLazyGrizzly Před 4 lety +5

      @@alandetor5297 run CMD as administrator, type diskpart followed by automount enable and reboot

  • @marglar1982
    @marglar1982 Před 5 lety +19

    Linus, love watching your quirky videos, this has been a great look into fixing my broken HDDs R-studio is amazing for a HDD that isn't physically broken. Keep doing what you do

  • @IwanJunifanto
    @IwanJunifanto Před 8 měsíci +3

    Smart way to promote the service while at the same time share great content for DIY lovers. Awesome

  • @Erbazak47
    @Erbazak47 Před 3 lety

    OMG thank you linus for this video it helped me a lot and recovered data that was very hard to replace...

  • @homer46303
    @homer46303 Před 5 lety +26

    I just started this video. I wanted to mention a trick I learned as a desperate but working last ditch effort. Throw the hard drive in the freezer. EDIT: I forgot to mention it's only for HDD's that click. Clicking can sometimes occur because of an out of alignment issue with the read/write heads and the platter. Freezing the drive causes the metal to contract and can sometimes bring the head back into alignment. Bear in mind when this method does work you need to grab the most important data first because after the drive returns to normal temperature the issue will most likely return. This last ditch method has worked for me about 60% of the time. That's why it's a last ditch effort.

    • @FairlawnARC
      @FairlawnARC Před 3 lety +5

      I have seen this done. Make sure you are in a cool/cold DRY (Num) room, as the drive hit humidity you get condensation/water and we all knoow water and electronics never play well together.
      *Grab the DATA, drop the cannoli!*

    • @SciFiMangaGamesAnime
      @SciFiMangaGamesAnime Před 2 lety

      So you saying that puting dockstation with it, outside on my isba in Siberia is a good idea? Golly!

    • @technologynewsreviews200
      @technologynewsreviews200 Před 2 lety

      Dry ice or in a plastic bag in a deep freezer

  • @laurensjvg
    @laurensjvg Před 5 lety +83

    0:14 the camera person just spawned inside :o

    • @Rodrigo-rq1dx
      @Rodrigo-rq1dx Před 5 lety +7

      /tp cammen1 inside

    • @Balazs_
      @Balazs_ Před 5 lety +5

      /tp cameraman1 ~6 ~ ~

    • @dirtybongwater5751
      @dirtybongwater5751 Před 5 lety

      Haha ohhhhhh you have much to learn my friend. It may look like black magic but such is the magic of video editing
      /woosh

    • @kadrix732
      @kadrix732 Před 5 lety +1

      @@0aaaniel Minecraft is not the only game that uses the /tp command my friend.

    • @Balazs_
      @Balazs_ Před 5 lety

      @@kadrix732
      but MC is still gaining active players

  • @vtyt9685
    @vtyt9685 Před 3 lety +9

    3:30 the man behind linus is staring into his soul ever since he enter the shop

    • @blackspirit1129
      @blackspirit1129 Před 3 lety +1

      shouldve given him a script or something to improv on lmao

  • @doozeschanyt9554
    @doozeschanyt9554 Před 3 lety +5

    3:20 this man yerrick behind linus staring at him the whole time lmfao

  • @MarcosMendezJ
    @MarcosMendezJ Před 5 lety +254

    Did anybody notice the employee on CZcams at the beginning?

    • @tehf00n
      @tehf00n Před 5 lety +29

      I use youtube as part of my job, Im pretty sure others do too.

    • @CompleteDiscreteWolf
      @CompleteDiscreteWolf Před 5 lety +23

      He was watching Linus Tech Tips. Likely set up that way.

    • @lostbusproductions8459
      @lostbusproductions8459 Před 5 lety +3

      lol yeah he was on linustechtips

    • @WayStedYou
      @WayStedYou Před 5 lety

      @@user-kg6jp2vn4h lol

    • @michaelhearn7302
      @michaelhearn7302 Před 5 lety

      What do you do while you wait up to 10 minutes for software to diagnose things?

  • @antoninjirasek1487
    @antoninjirasek1487 Před 5 lety +197

    0:23 - how to spot a professional IT guy xd

    • @Matty__Matt
      @Matty__Matt Před 5 lety +6

      Watching Linus Tips in CZcams (if you look at his screen)

    • @ThunderDraws
      @ThunderDraws Před 5 lety +44

      probably just checking who the hell this linus guy is and why he has a RED

    • @NETBotic
      @NETBotic Před 5 lety +1

      elbow problems in 10 years

    • @texasdeeslinglead2401
      @texasdeeslinglead2401 Před 5 lety +1

      A pro don't use no 1970's public school pull down projector screen and a pointer stick. 😂

    • @dirtybongwater5751
      @dirtybongwater5751 Před 5 lety +4

      Can't unsee the tab titled "FURRYFANFICT..."

  • @MichaelStephenLordReserei1987

    I had a dying 1TB drive with around 600GB of data, that I was able to recover around 80% of before it just stopped transferring. Linux, more specifically Parted Magic was the answer, when Windows just wouldn't load/read it. Although the read speeds were painful...anywhere between 200KB/s and 2MB/s. I had to leave my rig running for a couple of days.

  • @MelsRNRETRO
    @MelsRNRETRO Před 10 měsíci

    That is wonderful that it was even possible to recover anything with larger drives these days. Will Bookmark this for future reference.

  • @DjJuvan
    @DjJuvan Před 5 lety +210

    Linus, why doesn't your camera have a shotgun microphone on it, when someone else speaks that we can hear it too? It would save a lot of time instead of making subtitles from very bad audio from lavalier microphone.

    • @juli12345istRecorsi
      @juli12345istRecorsi Před 5 lety +2

      JuvanNet because it will sound worse

    • @DjJuvan
      @DjJuvan Před 5 lety +54

      nonsense... it can be turned on on the timeline when needed, with some audition effects nobody would even notice the difference. Simple solution. Unless RED camera doesn't support two mics... oh wait.

    • @Kelthor85
      @Kelthor85 Před 5 lety +4

      @@juli12345istRecorsi Because no audio is better, amirite

    • @nextlifeonearth
      @nextlifeonearth Před 5 lety +14

      You'd use an external recorder anyways with RED, so not an excuse.

    • @theomc1488
      @theomc1488 Před 5 lety +11

      I like the subtitles. It's almost comedic.

  • @sh4dy832
    @sh4dy832 Před 5 lety +30

    RECOVERING ALL YOUR LOST DATA WITHIN MINUTES
    *DEEPSPAR HATES THIS TRICK:*
    -------------------------------------------------
    do proper backups and there's no need for any of this stuff.

    • @dumplaktungtung
      @dumplaktungtung Před 5 lety +3

      thats what linus said at the end of this video tho

  • @gerardoperez6928
    @gerardoperez6928 Před rokem

    interesting content that you have on your channel, it is very instructive and impressive. I hope to see more of your material soon. Thanks for sharing.

  • @binarytraits2970
    @binarytraits2970 Před 3 lety

    Very Informative, makes our lives easier with troubleshooting drives. Thanks

  • @30LayersOfKevlar
    @30LayersOfKevlar Před 5 lety +223

    Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery. You just need $5000 laminar flow cabinet.

    • @TruthNerds
      @TruthNerds Před 4 lety +6

      Yes, but then you can start your own data recovery company, become a hard drive whisperer, and make many millions of dollars! That's the spirit!
      ;-)

    • @matthiashavrez
      @matthiashavrez Před 4 lety +3

      more like $50,000 laminar flow cabinet

    • @stathyena
      @stathyena Před 4 lety +2

      You can make your own pretty easily actually

    • @wibble1999
      @wibble1999 Před 4 lety +2

      @@matthiashavrez more like £50.... its a positive airflow. perspex with sealant for edges old hair dryer on full ...filrer material and willingness to get of ones arris and build your own. lol simples

    • @ailfawka6278
      @ailfawka6278 Před 4 lety

      Too much salt, not enough cookies

  • @TracksideViews
    @TracksideViews Před 5 lety +413

    Just contact your nearest Russian for recovery

    • @MC2738
      @MC2738 Před 5 lety

      DrivingBackward lol

    • @owlie1855
      @owlie1855 Před 5 lety +5

      Yep I can back up your computer on my server and a lot of my friends are hackers so no one can hack me! And I'll keep your data safe

    • @owlie1855
      @owlie1855 Před 5 lety +9

      Just order our service called *RUSSIAN BACKUP AND ANTIVIRUS*

    • @jensharbers5620
      @jensharbers5620 Před 5 lety +16

      I think NSA or CIA has a copy of my data. But these federal services won't service me to get my data

    • @zankeikizannanji9545
      @zankeikizannanji9545 Před 5 lety +2

      There is actually little bit truth. Russians are peasants where I live, so they are accepting less cash than people. Which also means, that they are not doing quality work, but eh..

  • @sola_fidei
    @sola_fidei Před 2 lety

    Been struggling with a hard drive then this video popped up in my suggestions. Thank you big brother.

  • @researchcapt
    @researchcapt Před 4 lety

    Fantastic video about data recovery.....Thanks Linus

  • @khoonsleggy5974
    @khoonsleggy5974 Před 5 lety +194

    This is the first Linus video I saw that doesn't contain an ad..
    Oh wait..

  • @GRBtutorials
    @GRBtutorials Před 5 lety +8

    6:08 Hakko and Weller? Good choice! That way nobody will say "my brand is better than yours"!

  • @Ququestion
    @Ququestion Před 4 lety +14

    11:19 "Dude! Could you just stop touching my tools?!"

    • @goadken
      @goadken Před 3 lety

      You made it all the way to 11:19? lol I made it to 7:14.

  • @SmartK8
    @SmartK8 Před 4 lety +2

    Long ago I tried disk recovery for $500, I gave them two disks. They recovered only one disk and one folder C:\Windows. Data was lost. Still expected for me to pay. Sad day.

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 Před 5 lety +324

    Data Recovery < Duplication.
    No drive is 100% reliable, so minimize your chances.

    • @gerardoa9179
      @gerardoa9179 Před 5 lety +21

      He said that at the end of the video

    • @Exito.618
      @Exito.618 Před 5 lety

      home server 👍

    • @mastersergant1287
      @mastersergant1287 Před 5 lety +5

      ^^^ yes home servers are the best, i am attempting to build one on a linux machine just because i can lol

    • @jmonsted
      @jmonsted Před 5 lety +12

      Also: RAID is not a backup!

    • @Fergesslich
      @Fergesslich Před 5 lety +7

      For example by uploading encrypted petabytes to Google Drive Business.

  • @chadfang2267
    @chadfang2267 Před 5 lety +201

    0:57 that scared the shit out of me i thought my pc crashed

    • @smartzfilms
      @smartzfilms Před 4 lety +3

      noob gamer me too

    • @melon1971
      @melon1971 Před 3 lety +3

      lol I don't watch in full screen

    • @melon1971
      @melon1971 Před 3 lety +4

      I also watch at 240p so I know it is just the video effect

    • @melon1971
      @melon1971 Před 3 lety +3

      @@JoyfulBell I have a limited amount of internet so I cant watch at higher quality,sad life

  • @laplantamichay
    @laplantamichay Před 3 lety +11

    "Send it to a pro"
    DIY Perks: No, i don't think I will

  • @ElderTechDragon
    @ElderTechDragon Před rokem

    This was very good. I'd always assumed you could just swap controller boards if you had an exact match.

  • @animebrain132
    @animebrain132 Před 5 lety +5

    8:10 I have that same exact can of compressed air. Neat.

  • @Simon-oy7kf
    @Simon-oy7kf Před 5 lety +13

    4:58 wow, I can really see those 13 stops of dynamic range from your RED camera there

    • @JonathanGutierrez22
      @JonathanGutierrez22 Před 5 lety

      Great Catch

    • @AdityaRaut1712
      @AdityaRaut1712 Před 5 lety

      I am confused...does he even use the RED Weapon for his videos as even 4K DSLR's look similar to these videos..!

    • @JonathanGutierrez22
      @JonathanGutierrez22 Před 5 lety

      IDK But The Highlight Rolloff (Reflections On Hard Drive) Look So GOOD!!!

    • @compaqdisc6362
      @compaqdisc6362 Před 5 lety

      It's to mask the shame of the HDD branding.

  • @walldoo99
    @walldoo99 Před rokem +1

    A stunt I've done with rare success, but sometimes.... Throw sata or IDE drives in the freezer for 30 min. If the drive is spinning, it might not be getting to speed. Freezing can shrink the metals and reduce friction so it can spin up.

  • @Yatukih_001
    @Yatukih_001 Před 3 lety

    My favorite method has been to buy new SSD´s and expansion drives in advance - preferably 8 TB to 12 TB ones. All information from older drives is put into the newer ones...and then copied, pasted and recopied and repasted. The old information is deleted from the ancient drives so if something happens to them the new ones are ok.

  • @zsradioham
    @zsradioham Před 5 lety +3

    Great presentation. Makes me excited to pursue the data recovery trade for many customers in dire straits.

  • @ShawnBuckingham
    @ShawnBuckingham Před 5 lety +10

    You know what. This was actually a great video.
    My friend has an external usb harddrive, and it's not being recognised in Disk Management as a disk. Every so often an 'unknown device' would flash and disappear.
    Apparently it was clicking, but my work colleague opened it up and moved the head. Now it isn't making any noise.
    In Device Manager it's coming up a seagate backup plus harddrive.
    I'm thinking about opening the enclosure again and sticking the 2.5" drive into a PC using power and sata as opposed to USB.
    Even if I can't bring life to this drive, this video was still cool.
    I'm wondering if this automount disable and automount scrub will fix it.

    • @KngKurd
      @KngKurd Před 5 lety +1

      Open it and connect the drive directly to the pc through sata/ide(if it’s old lol) in my 15 years experience a lot of the time the enclosure fails but it also has been drive it self a couple times, try to connect it directly and good luck 👍

    • @tin2001
      @tin2001 Před 5 lety +3

      @@KngKurd
      The 3.5" ones fail all the time. The 2.5" ones were usually the drive. In my experience, anyway.
      Regardless, if someone has opened the disk itself and pushed things around, it's probably stuffed beyond repair now.

    • @ShawnBuckingham
      @ShawnBuckingham Před 5 lety

      Wow, I wasn't expecting anyone to reply. Thanks.
      I'm probably going to plug it into an old PC and see if firstly the bios sees the drive. If so boot, if not then welp. Harddrive has family photos etc.

  • @matc3888
    @matc3888 Před 2 lety +2

    I managed to replace a defective PCB with a good one, after buying an used HDD from ebay. It worked and still works !
    It's a 1.5 TB Samsung Eco Green.

  • @ZetaReticulian
    @ZetaReticulian Před rokem +1

    wow....... using your tips, in particular the section on 'windows hacks' i was able to recover data and files from a dead SSD using a cheap USB SATA cable off amazon and the free DiskDrill software! I was experiencing random blue screens and crashes for months before the drive finally failed. Eventually i purchased a new 2TB M.2 nvme drive to reinstall windows to. Lessons learned. Thanks for the help!

  • @DarkLimpan
    @DarkLimpan Před 4 lety +6

    I want to chip in and say thank you for uploading this video. Without the automount disable hack, I would've probably never otherwise been able to access a 15 year old drive which was dying. It had two partitions, one being mostly fine, and its windows-partition which are currently in a RAW-state.
    I never figured out how to use Rstudio to do whatever it was you did in this video, but I found Recuva which helped me save 190+ pictures from the RAW-partition (after two scans of 16 hours each).
    And now, I will do the same with other old drives which seems to be dying on me.
    So, thank you Linus and thank you DeepSpar for allowing a video like this to be made.
    PS. Any chance you guys can tell us how we can make Rstudio (or any other free program?) do that thing @14:30? I still don't know if the first drive has logical errors or if it's physically broken.

  • @joaoarcanjo9819
    @joaoarcanjo9819 Před 5 lety +58

    Hello Linus! Thanks, great tour on the HDD recovery process!
    I'm afraid you didn't cover up a very common disk types in laptops now days: SDD and M.2. As far i know this has a completely different recovery process. At least on Desktops the usually setup is a small SSD (for OS) and a big HDD (for your files). But in a laptop that is not the common setup, usually you only have a SSD disk.
    Can you do a similar video on this subject?

    • @jkaynea
      @jkaynea Před 2 lety

      I 2nd this!
      PLEASE

    • @Turco949
      @Turco949 Před rokem

      With M.2s and SSDs, you are pretty much SOL. Much more complicated with a lot less chance of recovery. Make sure to have redundancy for your backups, always.

    • @Killbayne
      @Killbayne Před rokem

      yup, accidentally formatted my drive and my whole folder of photos is gone.

    • @Killbayne
      @Killbayne Před rokem

      @Allan Cameron that's what I wanted to do but i had to get them off the ssd first 🥲🥲

  • @GreakFTW
    @GreakFTW Před 4 lety +1

    My drive has been making a weird noise which can be compared to a bad fan for years. I thought it was just a fan so I didnt care for it. Found out it was actually coming from a drive and I just continue to neglect the problem as it has been running fine for long and has no important data on it. It starts making this noise comparable to a fan hitting something and I just hit the side of the computer gently and it stops for hours to days. That is an good IT tips for you right there!

  • @eyeborg3148
    @eyeborg3148 Před 4 lety +1

    It would be interesting if you guys made a video about SSD data recovery