hard drive does not spin - how to Platter Swap

What's the worst that could happen when you handle the platters with bare hands? Like not touching the surface but the sides.

Ok for a fact i know this is NOT how you recover data. Well not that it's not how but it's not proper. You should never open hard drive in improper (contaminated) environment. The air sealed inside the hdd is more clean than the air inside an operation room, specifically because of dust particles. While they are super tiny they are unimaginably bigger than the read/write head. Not to mention that the space between the platter and the heads is measured in ATOMS. A dist particle is way bigger than that and when such particles get inside the hdd they can cause a head crash. That's why hdd data recovery is done in special facilities where you wear a suit and the air flow is constant to keep particles away from entering the room and containing the HDDs.

Cool. I can do this too. All I need is a state of the art clean room.

Hi, great video. I'm curious, on WD drives, when swapping platters, the donor drive with the good platter has to have both the same model/firmware AND the same two first digits of the DCM, correct? The first two digits are motor and case. I'm assuming that when swapping motors, both the case and the motor have to match, since the motor doesn't appear to be able to removed on it's own.

What are you using to lift the platters out? Thanks.

Can Seagate platter fit in WD hdd? I have problem with motor, same as your case1

Hi I have two hard drives 80 GB and 1tb but the heads on my 1tb hard drive are broken my question is can I get the platter of the 1tb and put it in my 80gb hard drive after removing its platter and be able to access the data/files in the 1tb?

Hi mate, I hope you’ll be able to read my comment..
I have a wd 4tb, the issue here is that the head is on the landing position and not moving or ticking at all, while the disk is spinning

Can I swap 1tb platter with 128 gb reader. Wìll it work?

Hi, could you get me some help
I have a mobile huawei y7 prime 2019 and I filled the hole of its memory and it was out of power so it shut down and never reboot just showing the logo "Huawei" and shut down again, and I need to get back my data in any way ,what would I do?

You make it look so easy. The screws holding the platter STRIPPED MY SCREWDRIVER and botched the whole operation. Why on earth are those teeth made so frail, and the screws tightened down so hard?

I accidentally bumped my machine off my desk and now My scci drive stopped spinning 😵‍💫!!! Ya hat can I do

Have a 2008 vintage Samsung that spins but not to full speed - not detected by PC BIOS. NO clicking, etc. "Sounds like a good drive except does not spin up to proper speed." QUESTION: any chance it is the motor or the PCB controller OR is the firmware doing error checks because a head has crashed? NOTE: from memory I believe the Sam drive is a 1tb HD103UJ/D - the OE drive from a Dell XPS 430.

omfg if this actually works. I have a Hard drive i have kept since I was like 14, im 37 now. But there is some serous personal memories tied to this drive. The platters are fine, but it just has mechanical failure. So if i swapped the platters to a new drive that mechanically worked, that would be amazing but I althought this was a very challenging task because you have the exact PCB board and firmware configuration that is programmed to activate the heads of that paticular drive.

I have plate can you swap for me

Can you help me

Quick question, accidently dropped by drive today, it was not plugged in, but when I plugged it in to see it if still worked, it would spin up, for about 8 secs and then slow down and stop, no noises or clicking, Device Manager will discover it, but it will not show up in file explorer or Disk Management. What do you think is the issue?

Can I change the laptop hard drive platter to another same hard drive, I have a 500 gigabyte laptop hard drive. His head makes a noise. So, should i change it or not

Nothing but the best most expensive precision tools:

Uses scotch tape.

Can we do platter swap with same hardisk model but different firmware and recover data with data recover software?

what can you use to clean a smudge of (fingerprint)?

My hard disk wont read the data

Hey i have about 30 drives that have the ribbon that comes out the bottom to the controller cut. Can they be repaired if i take it apart and solder new connections? They are 16tb seagate exos. Seems like they were intentionally disabled.

to swap platter WD 3.5" at center of platter there is circle with 6 screws and 2 of that 6 not able to unscrew

I have a Toshiba 2 GB drive that has the connectors broken in the back but the drive worked fine...am I able to swap or get data off the drive any other way? or should I throw my drive away?

Please help./ Recently I accidently knocked portable HD over to its side. Took it to data recovery. Was informed the spindle and bearings broken. Platter cannot rotate. Was told there is no use fixing it. I even suggest getting a donor HD and have platter swap. Was told it will not work.... and that I need to ask for second opinion. Please help if this is still a possible. All the stuff from the broken HD is MOST valuable. I cannot accept all is lost. Please someone......any information please?

Got a question for you..I have a WD Cavier Green 1 TB dedktop Drive. I got a Raw Read Error and couldn't access the drive. I ran Stellar Data Recovery software and was able to see my whole drive in the preview window... So,my question is,if the software can access my drive, why can't I? How much do you think they'll charge me to recover my whole drive? Please get back to me..Thanks 😊

I have a WD Cavier Green 1 TB and getting a Raw Read Error, I'm thinking that I need to rebuild this drive, can you offer some advice?

The platter swap only work with the same hdd driver identically or i can swap with any hdd driver ?

I wonder how much he charges to do this?

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Thank you for video, very nice information shared.
Whis is best tool to recover data from RAW format drive. Mechanically drive is ok and spinning.

do you have to align the platter's....?

cheers

Any option to extract .bin file

wait does the donor drive have to be exactly the same as the corrupt one or can I just use my 80GB platters on my 250GB HDD that`s actuator lock doesn't release when it spins? Wait can I just put the platter along with the arm and PCB on the 80GB hdd?

Wut kind of tape did you use,? Would I be able to use double sided tape?

Where we get all tools? And what the price sir

when you do a platter swap do you have to remove the BIOS chip into the donor?

I have a hard drive of 500 GB AND it's head is broken by my experiments, can you advice me please how to get the data back photos videos are there of my family etc please note I have opened this hard drive once and broke the head you can say I was trying to be oversmart. Please help me bro please

muzik makes me want to chew on 100 grit sand paper. and grind left and right while holding semi tight with my teeth....lol

Bad repairers will say you have to buy a new one it's completely spoilt ,good one :let's replace the platter with different hard disk it will spin

Great segment ! Makes you really appreciate why the cost of data recovery from a guy like this can be so expensive when your drive fails to that kind of major extent. It's a great argument for not forgetting to always back up your media.

Nothing of value here to aid recovery; too much talking & who cares about your coffee?

That's awesome, got a hard drive with 3 years of my life in it that failed, guess that's why you keep backups right? Anyway I am glad to see platter swapping is a route I can explore, nice video, I understand why a lot of info was left out, you'd be bankrupt if you told us the whole process :P

My flatter is fine, whats not working is the read/write head. Is there any way I can just swap that part out?

Excellent knowledge. Thank you. A bit slower might have helped lol! I have a clicking drive from a netgear which had all my compositions on it, plus passwords for software I bought. Talking to the companies I bought the soft from was and is pointless! Very annoyed, I might carefully open it and see if the arm is just stuck.
Thank you again.

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I've a Samsung hd103. Do you need to swap the bios chip with this platter swap. Cheers

Does the donor need to have the same storage GB as the broken one? Like, if I have 750 GB HDD and I want to buy a cheap donor with less GB, does it work switching the platter or at least the board?