www.acsdata.com ~~~WARNING~~~ ****THIS IS NOT AN INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO**** There are key steps and some proprietary information that has been edited out. This is also only a 10 minute video, where just the head swap alone can take well over an hour depending on the drive. We also don’t show our method for aligning the heads on this particular model. This video was originally produced because many of our customers were simply curious, or ill informed about what is done to physically repair a hard drive for recovery. This video is not intended to make you think swapping heads is easy. This video is not intended to make you think you can do it yourself. In 99% of this cases, if you attempt this on your own, even within a clean room environment, you will probably lose your data for good. Also, just because your drive is clicking, does not necessarily mean the heads are bad. Proper diagnosis is key with doing data recovery correctly. Most lower level companies will just try to swap the heads, when it may be a PCB or firmware issue. When the head swap doesn’t work, they will say your data is unrecoverable. We get drives like that in every week, where a customer has been told the heads are bad, when they weren’t. So just because your drive is clicking, there maybe something more to it, but you won’t have the proper equipment needed to verify this or not and neither will a lower end data recovery firm. The simple message here is, if your data is critical, make absolutely sure you …
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So is this guy a hack?
i’m computer tech my self, long story short, you people are paying sooo much money is simply because of the Convenience we bring to you! remember this people
Excuse, might i ask a question? Why are you wearing a protective mask while doing the hard disk head swap?
Excuse, might i ask a question? Why are you wearing a protective mask while doing the hard disk head swap?
@mattbrad2 The video is edited down to fit within YouTube’s 10 minute limit. Most recoveries take a few hours to complete if things go perfectly. Some take days, some take weeks, and a few take months.
So… you fixed this drive in 10 minutes (roughly)? And you will charge the customer how much exactly??
Or run raid 1. its much easier.
I never understood why you had to have the same numbers. I got screwed because nobody was ever able to find my exact model. You would think a 80GB drive is the same as any other. Taught me a valuable lesson though. BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP!
lol i have a pentium 1 hard drive 2.5 GB with 16 heads 4960 cylinders and 63 sectors, made in 1997…. lol
I have an acer aspire with a Hitachi Travelstar and it clicks and beeps ALL THE TIME…
This is absolutely false in regards to the platters. A single platter you may get away with. A Toshiba drive, is a bit more forgiving on both horizontal and vertical axis alignments.
You can use head stacks that contain more heads than the original source, given that other parameters are also properly matched. Yo don’t have to cut them off, and risk damaging the good usable heads. The drive controller won’t try to read them so they will just be null anyway.
my hitachi travelstar has exactly the same problem …
…wrong account sorry.
ok thank you very much, but I found a good working hdd donor same model with same date printed… I think the numbers of heads must be the same.
@RythmTR In Hitachi disks all you need to have same is number of the heads. I you have more in the one you are using for donor drive you can allso cut the extra ones off with plyers and it will work. There is no software needed after the platter/head swap is done. Drive will just work. So it is easy, just do it by your self and save the money. Platters come off by just removing one screw;)
Damn… and that’s a hitachi travelstar too…
while waiting for my folder thumbnails to load, my hard disk suddenly hanged and started making a clicking sound like the arm tapping on that smaller metal round thing in the center of the gold disk…
I immediately panicked realizing, “FUCK NO, CLICK OF DEATH” and held my power button till my lap shut down… is there still a way to recover my data?
Cam too far.
The video isn’t meant to be a tutorial as the description says…
But we had this procedure demonstrated in University today, and it seems if you work in a relatively dust free environment and only keep the hard drive open for a max of around 30 mins, the drive should still work when it’s put back together.
Although obviously it’s still very risky
Ok you mean that if I have two hdd same model same date production and I try to change the platter to use the hdd that is fonctional it will not work
I dont have 500$ for a data recovery and I need to recover 7 years of data.
The model is ic25n040atmr04, and do I need a specific program like that if I change pcb or platter?
Thanx!
Thank you for the`lesson.
An apple for the Teacher.
How do we /I setup a class 100 Clean Area…otherwise this video would be useles to an average person;)
data is recovarable if u wipe the HD out with one pass =]. You just have to want it bad enought to recover. hehehe
And what advice has he given us. NOTHING !
How much does it cost for shipping, work, etc.
I have an external that just crashed on me. I don’t have VITAL data, but I do have a lot of information and media files that I don’t want to lose.
Also, if I don’t send it in, I’d like to completely wipe the disk so that other people cannot get the information.
that makes perfect sense, thanx!