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banjotech
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: maxtor drive with bad servo motor attempting platter swap |
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I'm going to attempt to swap platters on two identical drives.
1.) how critical is dust? will my drive work at least once for a few hours so I can recover my data?
2.) do I need to build a clean environment?
3.) will it be cheaper to build my own box or send away for data recovery?
my ideas were to by a cheap sandblasting box and hook up my vacuum to it with a hepa filter. |
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LarryB
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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If there is more than one platter they have to be aligned up exactly with each other in the rotational direction. Your drive reads data from all of the heads at the same time. If any one of the heads are not aligned up with your original data track, you have no data. This means that you should also move the headstack. Dust is more of a problem with the newer drives than the older drives. Dust will keep the head off the disk surface and in some cases will cause your head to flip up-side-down.
See: http://hddguru.com/content/en/articles/2006.02.17-Changing-headstack-Q-and-A/
You will also have lots of fun trying to get the heads back on the platter without damage.
Good luck and may the Force be with you. |
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wingatesl
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Depending on the type of drive (not WD!) I have had some limited sucess with pressing the spindle out of the case. leaving the platters in place. older maxtors mostly |
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