How to Repair Hard Drive Platters

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Tip 1 - How to Swap Hard Disk Drive Platters

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ulrike Walsdorf | permalink

This is an article regarding swapping hard drive platters. This is not a procedure for the technically inept or faint hearted. The following carries no guarantees, and definitely voids and nullifies any existing warranty. It may be best to...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Swap-Hard-Disk-Drive-Platters ^[1]

Tip 2 - DIY HDD repair by transplanting platter into new drive of same model?

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Hackerton | permalink

I have a 1 TB Seagate SATA drive fail on me recently and Seagate support is saying it looks like a hardware failure and their data recovery fee is just out of my range. They are saying it will cost $2

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261014-32-repair-transplanting-platter-drive-model ^[2]

Tip 3 - Raising the dead: Can a regular person repair a damaged hard drive? | ExtremeTech

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Walter Hans | permalink

Having a hard drive die without warning will ruin anyone's day. It certainly ruined mine -- but here's what I learned about data recovery in the process of trying to fix my own hardware.

For further reading: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/133294-raising-the-dead-can-a-regular-person-repair-a-damaged-hard-drive ^[3]