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Configuration: Maxtor 60Gb DiamondMax Plus 9 hard drive model: 6Y060L0421411 code:YAR41VW0, Intel Pentium 4 , 1 Gig RAM
OS / File System: Windows 2000 Advanced Server, NTFS
Failure: Computer locked up, hard drive failure, dead head, sudden disk electronic failure, might have been power surge.
Hard Drive Recovery Procedure
Parts required: Identical 60Gb DiamondMax Plus 9 hard drive model: 6Y060L0421411 code:YAR41VW0, K,M,G,D.
Additional requirements: Class 100 certified Clean Room and a complete set of quality Wiha tools, torx 3-12, micro tweezers, X Acto knife and single sided razor blades, plastic from dead floppy disk.
Hard Drive Supplier Resources:
- step 1: Blow off any excess dirt, dust or roaches that may be on any drive brought into the Class 100 Clean room (you want the least contamination as possible).
- step 2: Remove all seals and screws on the cover and pry it open with a flathead screwdriver (carefully!).
- step 3: Above all, never ever touch the surface of the platters
- step 4: The magnet on the voice coil of the head assembly is quite strong and difficult to handle. There is a special hole for removing the top half of the magnet, simply insert a torx screwdriver in the hole and use the leverage to lift one side of the magnet. Then lift the top half off.
- step 5: Remove the stopper for the head travel limit.
- step 6: Unscrew the head connector and carefully pry loose the head connector with a screw driver.
- step 7: Rotate the the platters slightly as you manually slide the heads off the platters.
- step 8: Unscrew the head assembly and remove it.
- step 9: Repeat all steps and carefully remove the Parts hard drive heads, you don't want to damage or bend them.
- step 10: Now for the small plastic fron the floppy disk, the plastic is used to apply a light tension to the cleaning cloth in the floppy. This has the perfect thicness and strength to use for seperating the new head assembly during re-installation. Cut 3 strips about 3/8 in long and fold them in half creating a V-shape shim.
- step 11: Insert 1 shim between each pair of heads and place them so the heads are seperated just wider than the thickness of the platters, leave the open end facing towards the platters.
- step 12: Replace everything in reverse order and close the cover (required for proper high speed air flow management of the heads).
- step 13: Using COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery Labs, select an appropriate destination and clone as much of the failed hard drive as possible skipping all bad sector areas.
- step 14: Once the cloning is completed duplicate the clone for backup.
- step 15: Run Data Recovery Software and copy all available recovered files to an external usb hard drive.
Data Recovery was completed by Data Recovery Labs, inc.
