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Head and Platter Swap Tutorials

• Head and Platter Swap Section 1: General Principles & Facts
• Head and Platter Swap Section 2: Is Clean Room A Must For Physical Data Recovery
• Head and Platter Swap Section 3: How To Fix Dead Hard Drives
• Head and Platter Swap Section 4: Key Physical Components
• Head and Platter Swap Section 5: What Head And Platter Swap Tools Engineers Are Using
• Head and Platter Swap Section 6: One Interesting SCSI Hard Drive Inside

Physical head and platter swap is one of the most common data recovery cases and so far in the data recovery field, this kind of case is not for all data recovery engineers due to its complexity and requirement.

The key to get high success rate of head replacement and platter swap is continuing practice and learning from others’ experience;

To work on head and platter swap cases, users need firstly one clean room environment;

When users are swapping heads, users need to understand the hard drives with bad heads requiring data recovery from are usually called source drives or patient drives, the hard drives with matching good heads are usually called donor hard drives; Read more