Help with hard drive

[muffinman]

I have a 500 gig western digital hard drive that took a fall while I was in Afgahnistan does anyone on the site have the whatever it takes to get the data off of the platters I can tell you this that the motor locked solid and the platters both have a white square mark that showes where the heads were are supposed to park

Thanks

Jeff

[kbran]

Mine went out a few weeks ago and I need to get it read as well. I did see a dock for laptop hard drives for about $54 somewhere but can't remember where. If it can be read computer repair sercices can do it for you.

[BigBoyinMS]

I hope you find someone that can do it 'cause I could use their talents too. Because of a cheap HDD cooler plug I was able to flip the power plug 180 degrees on a HDD about 5 years ago. 5 volts went to the 12v pin and 12v went to the 5v pin. I've kept it hoping to find a way to get the photos and songs off of it.

I did get a quote once from a company that said $350 and hour and no guarantees. It wasn't THAT important.

[kbran]

Here are some docks http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=2785&srkey=hard%20drive%20dock

[Guest human4m]

It requires an extensive process for data recovery like that, involving specialized equipment, and a clean room to say the least. $350 is a pretty cheap quote. The company we use charges an average of $800 if there is a hardware failure.

[BuddyRich]

Its not cheap to get data off a dead drive. As far as I know you'll have to send it in to a service that specializes in that. The tolerances are way to close for the average user to just swap out motors and such. Beside that, they are put to together in a clean room and dust on the platter does a lot of damage at 7200 rpm.

I won't buy WD's they have the highest failure rate of any of the drives we use.

[friesman]

Its not cheap to get data off a dead drive. As far as I know you'll have to send it in to a service that specializes in that. The tolerances are way to close for the average user to just swap out motors and such. Beside that, they are put to together in a clean room and dust on the platter does a lot of damage at 7200 rpm.

I won't buy WD's they have the highest failure rate of any of the drives we use.

 

 

yeah, thats how I see it. Although i have gotten lucky and taken the cover off a drive and gave it a spin by hand to start and then the motor was powerful enough then to keep it running until i got my info off. I wouldnt try this with anything valuable though, it was just a try-it and see-if-it-can be done thing with non critical info. Check around,i seem to remember a place here in Canada that will wont charge you unless they get your info off the drive, BUT they aint cheap when they get it.

 

Brian

 

Brian

Edited September 16, 2010 by friesman

[ADC]

Jeff, Falling hard drives not good, like others have said a specialized service does that and it ain't cheap.