Data Recovery

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from failed, damaged, corrupted, or inaccessible storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as hard disk drives, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID, and other electronics. Recovery may be required due to physical damage to the storage device or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from being mounted by the host operating system.

Hardware Repair

Media that has suffered a  electronic failure will require data recovery in order to salvage its contents.Examples of physical recovery procedures are: 1) removing a damaged PCB (printed circuit board) and replacing it with a matching PCB from a healthy drive, performing a live PCB swap (in which the System Area of the HDD is damaged on the target drive which is then instead read from the donor drive, the PCB then disconnected while still under power and transferred to the target drive), 2) read/write head assembly with matching parts from a healthy drive, 3) removing the hard disk platters from the original damaged drive and installing them into a healthy drive, and often a combination of all of these procedures. Some data recovery companies have procedures that are highly technical in nature and are not recommended for an untrained individual. See companies such as Ontrack and DriveSavers. Neither of them will void the manufacturer's warranty.

Spindle Motor Replacing Machine

Myung Information Technologies Co., Ltd has developed a spindle motor replacement machine. It can replace most of 3.5inch and 2.5inch spindle motor of hard disk drive. It is marketed at USD3,000. For more information, please contact with jhyeo@myung.co.kr