Heat doesn't kill hard drives. Here's what does (humidity)

zdnet.com ^ | March 8, 2016 | By Robin Harris for Storage Bits

[Paladin2]

I was able to recover the data from a workmate’s (home) HD by installing the control board from another HD by the same mfg and built in the same year but had double the capacity.

[Paladin2]

There has to be (clean) air inside to float the heads just above the disks without any head crashes.

[dhs12345]

Wow. That’s cool. I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive (or the FBI does it).

Usually the firmware is different and it is tuned to the drive that it is mounted on.

However, the way they double capacity is to simply stack more more platters in the drive. So it makes sense that it would work.

I’ll have to remember that.

[AppyPappy]

I had a person do a complete format and re-install of Windows then turn to me and ask “Where are my files?”. I figured if they were smart enough to do that, they should know the answer.

The way to recover a hard drive is from the backup

[Paladin2]

"I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive"

Depends. It wouldn't even spin up no matter what I did before the board swap, so I bought a used drive at a computer store that was big on parting out older computers.

[dennisw]

That’s an old trick that often works. Transplant the correct logic board onto an alleged crashed beyond repair hard drive. You can buy the logic board on ebay attached to a hard drive...

How often is this all that that data retrieval companies do. 70% of the time???

[dhs12345]

That was smart. :)

[dhs12345]

Lol. Yup. But few people back up.

[ShadowAce]

[Conservative Gato]

Bookmark for later and thanks!

[dennisw]

Wow. That’s cool. I bet that that is what they do when you pay someone to recover a hard drive (or the FBI does it).

Not all the time but my guess is hard drive recovery companies have an inventory of logic boards that they simply swap onto the failed hard drive. Then retrieve the data from it for the customer. The usual is that the logic boards fail before the spinning platters do.

More on these swaps>>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-word-of-warning-on-hard-disk-recovery-by-swapping-logic-boards/#!

 

[AppyPappy]

I have a bat file on my desktop that I punch every now and then. I had it in Scheduled Tasks but it kept hanging up

[dhs12345]

Lol.

[dhs12345]

Good to know. Thanks!

[mbj]

Me neither: what happens when another 9/11 comes and you lose access to everything?