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 $2000 or more.
However for $150 I can get the exact same model hard drive and conceivably "transplant" the platter (the magnetic disk with the actual data) from the problem drive to the new one and possibly recover my data?
Currently my computer (XP) does not recognize the hard drive (can't find a driver). I know it's the drive because it recognizes my backup of the same type and narrowed it down to the drive itself not the enclosure.
So my thought is that if I can get the drive electrically working and the device recognized by XP then maybe I could use a file recovery program to get back something.
I know modern hard drives must be very sensitive - when you are fitting 1 TB onto a little 3" disk, I would guess it would be extremely easy to misalign something or permanently damage the platter & render everything unrecoverable just by sneezing or looking at it wrong.
So is this idea at all possible, has anyone done this?
(Or are there any more affordable but trustworthy companies that do this kind of recovery?)
Thanks
However for $150 I can get the exact same model hard drive and conceivably "transplant" the platter (the magnetic disk with the actual data) from the problem drive to the new one and possibly recover my data?
Currently my computer (XP) does not recognize the hard drive (can't find a driver). I know it's the drive because it recognizes my backup of the same type and narrowed it down to the drive itself not the enclosure.
So my thought is that if I can get the drive electrically working and the device recognized by XP then maybe I could use a file recovery program to get back something.
I know modern hard drives must be very sensitive - when you are fitting 1 TB onto a little 3" disk, I would guess it would be extremely easy to misalign something or permanently damage the platter & render everything unrecoverable just by sneezing or looking at it wrong.
So is this idea at all possible, has anyone done this?
(Or are there any more affordable but trustworthy companies that do this kind of recovery?)
Thanks