Hard Drive Disc Readers

Hi All,
About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The stepper
motor was the problem. The disc inside the hard drive was OK. My IT,
at that time, told me that in about two years there would be a prouct
on the market that anyone could buy that could read the disc from the
hard drive. That disc could be removed and placed in the prouct and
the infomation extracted. I haven't see anything like this being
offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone else? Does anyine know of this
product being offered in the future?

Thanks for the help
BillyV

Billy V <Alphacetus@comcast.net> wrote

> About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me.
> The stepper motor was the problem.

Unlikely. More likely to be what drives it.

> The disc inside the hard drive was OK. My IT, at that time,
> told me that in about two years there would be a prouct
> on the market that anyone could buy that could read the
> disc from the hard drive. That disc could be removed and
> placed in the prouct and the infomation extracted.

He was into the wacky weed.

> I haven't see anything like this being offered for sale as of yet.

Because there is no such animal.

> Has anyone else?

Nope.

> Does anyine know of this product being offered in the future?

Taint gunna happen.

Pro recovery will likely be possible and doesnt necessarily
cause a heart attack when you see the bill. www.retrodata.co.uk

Billy V wrote:
>
> About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The stepper
> motor was the problem. The disc inside the hard drive was OK. My IT,
> at that time, told me that in about two years there would be a prouct
> on the market that anyone could buy that could read the disc from the
> hard drive. That disc could be removed and placed in the prouct and
> the infomation extracted. I haven't see anything like this being
> offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone else? Does anyine know of this
> product being offered in the future?

Stepper motor? I don't think they have been used in hard drives
for about 15 years now, when a large drive was 64 Megabytes. I
doubt anyone is worrying about data recovery from anything that
old. There simply is no money in it.

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Billy V wrote:

> About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The stepper
> motor was the problem. The disc

disk

> inside the hard drive was OK. My IT, at that time, told me that
> in about two years there would be a prouct on the market that
> anyone could buy that could read the disc

disk

> from the hard drive. That disc

disk

> could be removed and placed in the prouct and the
> infomation extracted. I haven't see anything like this being
> offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone else? Does anyine
> know of this product

prouct

> being offered in the future?

Do you mean a device that would clean off the drive exterior, remove
the lid, move the head assembly clear of the platters unbolt the
platter stack, remove the platters, and read them with its own set of
heads? Sounds simple, and I've seen them in some vending machines.
They cost more than the Snickers bars but not as much as the sports
drinks.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:44:03 -0400, Billy V
<Alphacetus@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>Hi All,
>About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me.

What make/model?

>The stepper
>motor was the problem.

Probably the controller, fixed by PCB swap if not direct
discrete component replacement... if it's worth the bother
at all which it might not be else there'd have been backups
made.

>The disc inside the hard drive was OK.

How do you know unless you had the device you are seeking?

>My IT,
>at that time, told me that in about two years there would be a prouct
>on the market that anyone could buy that could read the disc from the
>hard drive.

Was he smoking crack at the time?

No, unless he means an extremely expensive product bought by
forensics labs. You're free to go looking for one if you
like, I'd imagine it will cost a few tens of thousand$ and
may require a clean room, supplimentary equipment, and
training.


>That disc could be removed and placed in the prouct and
>the infomation extracted. I haven't see anything like this being
>offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone else? Does anyine know of this
>product being offered in the future?

Extremely unlikely, there are far too many details involved
even in the basic extraction and mounting of the platters in
such a device for it to be feasible.

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote
> Billy V wrote

>> About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The
>> stepper motor was the problem. The disc inside the hard drive was
>> OK. My IT, at that time, told me that in about two years there
>> would be a prouct on the market that anyone could buy that could
>> read the disc from the hard drive. That disc could be removed and
>> placed in the prouct and the infomation extracted. I haven't see
>> anything like this being offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone
>> else? Does anyine know of this product being offered in the future?

> Stepper motor? I don't think they have been used in hard drives
> for about 15 years now, when a large drive was 64 Megabytes.

They are still used for the main rotation motor if you arent
obsessively anal about the description of the rotation motor.

He's unlikely to be talking about what is used for head movement.

> I doubt anyone is worrying about data recovery from
> anything that old. There simply is no money in it.

Much more likely he was just a bit loose with the terminology.

> > About two years ago I had a hard drive go belly up on me. The stepper
> > motor was the problem. The disc inside the hard drive was OK. My IT,
> > at that time, told me that in about two years there would be a prouct
> > on the market that anyone could buy that could read the disc from the
> > hard drive. That disc could be removed and placed in the prouct and
> > the infomation extracted. I haven't see anything like this being
> > offered for sale as of yet. Has anyone else? Does anyine know of this
> > product being offered in the future?
>
> Stepper motor? I don't think they have been used in hard drives
> for about 15 years now, when a large drive was 64 Megabytes. I
> doubt anyone is worrying about data recovery from anything that
> old. There simply is no money in it.

Be not so sure. The data can be worth far more than the medium it's
stored on.

Thank you for your information. I thought that it was too fanciful to
be true.

So where do I go from here?

Is there any hope that I can get the info from the hard drive.

Billy V

Billy V <Alphacetus@comcast.net> wrote

> Thank you for your information. I thought
> that it was too fanciful to be true.

> So where do I go from here?

> Is there any hope that I can get the info from the hard drive.

Yep, pro recovery can likely get it back.

Rod ,
Is that a program or did you mean using professionals to recover the
info?

Thanks

Billy V

Billy V <Alphacetus@comcast.net> wrote

> Is that a program

Nope.

> or did you mean using professionals to recover the info?

Yep.

Billy V wrote:
>
> Thank you for your information. I thought that it was too fanciful
> to be true.
>
> So where do I go from here?
>
> Is there any hope that I can get the info from the hard drive.

Without proper quotes this article is totally meaningless.

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