Data Recovery Head Swap - Hard Drive Crash -

I know it isnt possible with that particular drive, but swapping the platters has worked well for me in the past. I tape the edges in a few places to keep the platters relative and swap the stack. it is much faster and you are not prone to impact the heads. especially on a drive like this that remove them from the platter when they park.

Aaah. I see the mask now.

Actually, he IS wearing a mask. However, you are quite correct about the hairnet, PLUS he's got his arms uncovered! He even is reaching over the open drive with those arms. I shudder to think of the hair and skin cells sloughing off and landing on the platters.

acsdata, this video amazes me, and I wanted to congratulate for the excellent instructional video and I have subscribed to your video feeds.

A question, I'm going on the path for home business, so I would be much appreciated to know what program you used to identify and images the hard drive from repaired hard drive to the backup drive.

Thanks again!

Chances are your data is recoverable. If you swapped out the electronics, it may be an issue where the adaptive information that is stored on the electronics is not compatible. Or, if the drive is indeed detected in BIOS, but still inaccessible, you could have a corrupt translator module. That is a very common problem in WD drives.

Thank goodness for servo tracking drives - you would never get away so easily with an old stepper motor head actuator.

If things have to be so clean, then why isn't the guy wearing a mask over nose and mouth? why no hairnet either?

I think I'll try your trick.

thx for answer acsdata now my wd is in service and i think they change it to new model 100% bad head because i swaped electonics to same wd it works good bios detecting it but i lost data
now i have seagate barracuda 7200.11 500gb and its amazing a read speed acess time now my chose is only seagete

dude i know how to fix computers and my friends ask me to fix there computers and i do but my friend derek had a head crash and i was like: your screwed!

no just games music pictures and i left it open for a whole night and finished the next day and its a crapy maxtor 40$ 80g disk i bought from a friend for 20$ and it worked like a charm.