Question can someone help me know if this hard drive is still recoverable? please.

[xCJ11]

this is an old hdd from 2008, im not sure if it can work but it does rotate , when i opened it though i noticed something wrong with the needle , can it be repaired and still have all the data intact? i've never seen the data on it since like 2010 so im not sure if its even there.
but i just want to know if it can operate like a normal hdd again.
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[DSzymborski]

Not cheaply. Recovering the hard drive was hard enough and would have needed a lab, but the fact you also opened the hard drive in a non-lab environment made recovery much less likely. If you're willing to drop a few thousand dollars, you may get some data recovered, but there's no guarantee.

 

[xCJ11]

Not cheaply. Recovering the hard drive was hard enough and would have needed a lab, but the fact you also opened the hard drive in a non-lab environment made recovery much less likely. If you're willing to drop a few thousand dollars, you may get some data recovered, but there's no guarantee.

why what happened? i didnt do anything to it..no magnets are near the hard drive , why would it be so expensive
i just opened it to see if something is wrong and the needle looks a little off

 

[DSzymborski]

why what happened? i didnt do anything to it..no magnets are near the hard drive , why would it be so expensive
i just opened it to see if something is wrong and the needle looks a little off

Doesn't matter. The tiniest particles in the air, invisible to the naked eye, can make data unrecoverable. You never open a hard drive, unless the environment is under laboratory conditions. This is where you open hard drives.

Data recovery is always expensive and you've now increased the difficulty of the recovery considerably and reduced the likelihood that your data can be recovered. Unfortunately, you went ahead and did something extremely careless rather than asking before you did it.

Fixing a hard drive is not like fixing a lawn mower. Hard drive innards are very delicate, the repairs very technical, and the tolerances are on the microscopic level. You need professionals with specialized knowledge and equipment.

 

[xCJ11]

Doesn't matter. The tiniest particles in the air, invisible to the naked eye, can make data unrecoverable. You never open a hard drive, unless the environment is under laboratory conditions. This is where you open hard drives.

Data recovery is always expensive and you've now increased the difficulty of the recovery considerably and reduced the likelihood that your data can be recovered. Unfortunately, you went ahead and did something extremely careless rather than asking before you did it.

Fixing a hard drive is not like fixing a lawn mower. Hard drive innards are very delicate, the repairs very technical, and the tolerances are on the microscopic level. You need professionals with specialized knowledge and equipment.

well then i guess this hard drive is rendered useless now.. i wanted to see my old computer screen thats all, it didnt have much on it, just wanted to have some nostalgia 😢.
thanks

 

[USAFRet]

well then i guess this hard drive is rendered useless now.. i wanted to see my old computer screen thats all, it didnt have much on it, just wanted to have some nostalgia 😢.
thanks

Even if the drive were in perfect condition (it isn't), your OS from 14 years ago is unlikely to just boot up in whatever new hardware you're using now.