cleaning heads on hard drive that clicks

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This hard drive arrived opened, and as usual, this adds more issues to the data recovery process. During the initial inspection, we noticed fairly large deposits of contamination on disk surfaces that most likely made their way into the drive during DIY attempt to recover data. In the last year or so, we actively started cleaning heads on hard drives that click, as opposed to the basic swap. Original heads if brought back to life can perform as good as new, and it avoids the need for a donor (which can be expensive if the hard drive is rare). During the detailed inspection, we discovered some permanent platter damage on 2 out of 4 surfaces that could jeopardize success of potential partial recovery. The head assembly was degreased and cleaned with 99.9% alcohol. To give this drive a standing chance at getting some data back from it, 2 out of 4 heads were decapitated to eliminate the drag and further platter dust accumulation.
To be continued with Hot-Swap procedure

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HDD Recovery Services
391 Bank St, Suite 201
Ottawa, ON
K2P 1Y3
Canada



Updated 2019 my gear for soldering:
Green inspection light
Platter extractor:
Momentary foot pedal switch
Vacuum pump
Cleanroom wipes:
Programmer
Quick pogo pin adapter for eepROM
Microscope:
Vacuum chip pickup tool:
Multimeter:
Microscope camera 21mp 60fps 1080P:
JBC precision soldering iron and tweezers:
Hot air station:
Infrared preheater:
Flux dispenser:
BEST Flux:
Wick:
Solder:
Solder paste for BGA reballing:
NAND BGA rebelling stencil
Gloves:
Fume Extractor (mine is no longer available but this is the new version of the same unit) :

Gear for filming:
small camera:
big camera:
Lens on big camera:

this video:

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