hdd recovery
Cool123 Can I recover data from just a hard disk platter? (Provided that I dont have the case or anything expect the platter)
If any hard disk platter is opened even in a normal environment it's already exposed to numerous mechanical damages.
- Hard drive components are delicate to be exposed outside.
- It is prone to smoke and dust particles.
- Due to the delicacy of the platter, scratches could occur.
- Bad sectors or bad heads could occur that leads to permanent data loss.
- Data stored in the platter could go irrecoverable for life.
Hard disk platters are treated in professional cleanrooms by technicians that practice retrieving damaged hard disk under specific pressure, temperature, and smoke-free and dust-free conditions.
Never in your perform this mistake if you want to save your critical data or else you will lose it forever.
Exposing the Hard-disk platter to the environment is critically dangerous.
Your Platter that stores the data gets contaminated with moisture and dust which triples the cost of data recovery because the HEAD that read and writes data on platter floats on the platter and the floating height is less than 1/2 of the human hair.
A spec of dust or moisture on platter will destroy the HEAD assembly, which will make the harddisk unusable and faulty.
You must use identical PCB and Harddisk housing to recover data. The Bios of the OLD harddisk is required with the platter.
Data recovery is done in 100% clean room (room with filtered air with no dust or moisture).
Most data recovery company wont accept opened unsealed harddisk because its enclosure was opened previously, so they might ask you to fill a form that shows that harddisk has been exposed to environment and risk of already damaged platter.
