Funny, just literally Last Week, I was recently presented a laptop hard disk by a coworkers where the platters did not spin up at all. I could hear some faint clicks from the drive, but no spindle motor.
He was in the same boat as you. Just some photos. Not a deal breaker, but he REALLY wanted them. I disassembled the drive, figuring amongst the both of us, it cant hurt - it's a writeoff at this point. The spindle was nearly frozen. It wasn't the spindle motor though. Once I gently nudged the heads off from the center of the platter onto their parking pegs, while spinning the platter as little as it could spin, applied power, and it spun up fine. It was a good ole fashioned head crash. Left quite a few bad sectors on the disk in its wake. Hooked up to a USB to 2.5" adapter, Windows had a really hard time getting much of the data off. It had *NO* resiliency in putting up with massive amount of errors. So, we had a copy of Ontrack EasyRecovery, and while it took that software overnight, it managed to recover almost everything. It appears to bypass Windows entirely and read the disk with its own routines. Second time we've had to use that code, and it has been somewhat a lifesaver both times. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cheap recovery for dead HD? A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has the only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure apart and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor does not spin at all (you can hear the heads move some at power up). She took it to a local shop where they said it would cost $300 to recover the data, but then changed that to $1000 when they found out it was a "large" drive (1TB). Does anyone know of a good affordable place that will do this? Their pictures are not worth $1000 at this point. Tom _____ If this email is spam, report it here: <http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6MTAzNzI4OTQ2O DpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t> http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
