SSD EXT - Physically Damaged - Repair Attempt

Hello,

While waiting for responses from the hardware specialists, here are a few preliminary thoughts:

1) I don't know what an almost sterile room is. Clean rooms are clean rooms whose construction is beyond the reach of individuals and certainly inaccessible to individuals like the CCM participants.

2) The mere act of disassembling a hard drive exposes it to the pollution of invisible particles suspended in the air and was therefore not part of the skills of the volunteers we are.

3) The prices charged by the few companies operating in France are certainly as high, if not more, than in the United States, and to my knowledge are limited to data recovery, without guarantee of success and excluding the restoration of the device.

4) You mention replacing the read arm while the title and the referenced passage concern an SSD, which lacks such components as they are static components.

I understand your concern about recovering irreplaceable documents, which is why we regularly recommend a double or even triple backup as we write, including separate dated files on external hard drives.

Without wanting to dismiss your request, it seems to me akin to a request for distance training in microelectronics, which is not the purpose of this forum.

But I will take note with interest of opposing opinions.

Hello,

Your drive is not an SSD (solid-state drive), but an HDD (hard disk drive), a mechanical disk.

Data recovery companies indeed extract the platters and place them in a new casing to try and read the data.

However, we can consider that in this operation, the expertise of the technician matters. He has disassembled dozens, even hundreds of drives. You will discover how the components of the mechanism are installed.

For the recovery drive, it needs to be the same brand, the same series, the same type of electronic board, ... Often for different capacities, 1 or 2 TB, the chassis of the drive is interchangeable. But it's an external casing, the model of the drive is not always referenced, and a casing of the same brand in 1 or 2TB could contain a drive of another brand.

Good evening

I'm sorry for you, but it's over if you opened the disk casing; watching a video on YouTube won't make you a data recovery expert working in a real clean room. You won't be able to recover your data, and even a recovery company won't be able to do it since you opened the casing. Lastly, when you have highly important documents like a thesis, you should back them up on multiple supports.

Hello,

So, according to your description of the noise, the read heads have lost their bearings and are looking for the starting addresses and allocation table but can't find them...

I strongly suspect that the fall caused a scratch on the platter... moreover, you opened it, which is not good at all... just your breath above it causes damage.

A HDD platter cannot be mounted on an SSD, nor on anything else...

One is made of fine mechanics and the other of electronic components. The chances of success are equal to absolute zero.

There you go, that's my opinion; maybe you’ll have other, more optimistic ones..??

Hello

I attempted to repair the drive by opening the case in an almost sterile room. Not really understanding how it works, I closed the case afterward. Being in the United States, data recovery labs are asking me for huge sums

Oh yeah... definitely, now that you've opened it, we understand why they charge so much... it's several hundred € in this case, even much more.

That said, afdl is right, the drive is definitely dead now. Only a specialized lab will be able to do anything. If needed, I have some addresses in France.

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