Hard Drive Recovery Service?

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Tom Metro wrote:

> 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,

I believe what you are looking for is called a "spin stand" and there is 
some information about such equipment at:

    http://www.actionfront.com/ts_whitepaper.aspx

however I suspect the cost of such a recovery is multiples of the usual 
data recovery charge.

Daniel Feenberg



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