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Help with broken HHD

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I posted here because its so hard to find forums, if anyone knows a good computer forum room please let me know.

OK so my bro keeps all his data, pictures and important info on 1 HHD in his laptop, he dropped his laptop and now the HHD doesn't work, i tried plugging the HHD into another PC but it cause the PC to freeze, i then tried to plug it in after the PC boots up but the disk drive is not being detected.

I opened up the HHD and the reading arm is broken but the disk is completely fine, what i wanted to ask is can i buy another one of the exact same HHD, and stick the disks from the broken HHD in the new HHD?

Edit: NVM after looking closer there are loads of small scratch marks so its dead, and can someone please please please! add a delete thread function.
 
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That should work but I would advise against it. Even touching the actual platter will cause damage. Try to find a data recovery service in your area and they will be able to take the info off the platters and put it on something else for you. Also, you mean Hard Disk Drive yeah? HDD? Not a Hairy Hard Disk? :yh:
 
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The data on the HDD went poof as soon as you opened it, sorry.

The reason professional data recovery companies charge thousands of dollars on a HDD recovery is because they use they use clean rooms where no dust or debris can settle onto the platters, as they are very sensitive to particles.

Sorry about the data loss. :(
 

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Oh wow.. I didn't actually see that you had opened it! I must have skipped over that!

Also ryansoh3, that's not entirely true about the price. There is a data recovery place near me that charges AUD$120 for data recovery from broken Hdd's...
 
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Oh wow.. I didn't actually see that you had opened it! I must have skipped over that!

Also ryansoh3, that's not entirely true about the price. There is a data recovery place near me that charges AUD$120 for data recovery from broken Hdd's...

I'll definitely let you know when I have a HDD that needs recovery. :wave:
 
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Many data recovery places have different tiers of recovery service. The lower tiers, the ones that often only cost a few hundred dollars, are usually just them attaching it to another machine and using something like unstoppable copy (meow!) to try to copy data from harder to read sectors. When they actually have to crack it open, price can jump up past $1,000 pretty quickly.

You may find hairline scratches like swirl marks on a car on the platters near the spindle, but the part of the disks with data should be very clean. From what I've read, the read heads often don't even physically touch the disks in the data area, they move so fast and are designed to trap a very thin layer of air between the head and the disk.

In the future, consider a few forms of backup. It's always good to have your own data on your own backup drive, but there is also something to be said for storing it on "the cloud," where companies drop your data into what is likely some sort of redundant, backed up, accessible anywhere storage. A drive failure won't cause them to lose data, while a personal USB external drive is still just one drive, and may fail when you least expect it.
 




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