Hard Drive Recovery Service?

[Tom Metro]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> I called DriveSavers.  There is ...
> "NO WAY TO REALIGN MULTIPLE PLATTERS AFTER DISASSEMBLY"
> So not even they can do it!

Yeah, but realigning the platters is not necessarily the objective. Data 
recovery is.

Did they say they couldn't recover the data? If so, I'm sure there is 
another firm that can. Try calling a few more places.

It sure seems theoretically possible to spin up the platters 
individually, read off the raw data, and process it to retrieve the file 
fragments. That would have to be repeated for each platter. It would be 
very time consuming, unless they've developed some software that 
automatically pieces together the fragments based on meta data found on 
the disk, which is just the thing I'd expect a recovery company to have 
developed.


> However, they say it **MAY** be possible that small dust
> specs will not cause total drive failure.  However, each spec results
> in exponential possibility to destruction...

The whole dust issue seems besides the point here. Before they'd mount 
the platter in their test rig, I'd assume they'd clean it. And so what 
if dust has damaged a few spots. They should still be able to recover 
most of the drive.

  -Tom

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