Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
No, the platters aren't like a CD or DVD. Once they're out of a hard drive they're impossible to read.



A tech would need to be working in a level 3 clean room and know the brand, model #, and exact firmware version of the hard drive that the platter came from to have any hope of recovering data from it.

Imagine that somebody hands you a box of 100 platters from 20 different drives. Some of the drives had one platter. Other drives had five platters. How would you ever figure out where they came from and in what order in the platter stack they belong ?

Can you imagine the problems involved ?
as an it tech reading all these replies pisses me off to hell
you dont need the brand model number e.t.c to read it, people make and sell recovery devices for drive platters, the government recovers drives to get data all the time
this is the 3rd time ive explianed so im not explaining everything read my other comments