Comments on: Data Recovery 101: Platters

By: Hard Drive in Freezer Data Recovery Is a Myth. Don't Do It

Hard Drive in Freezer Data Recovery Is a Myth. Don't Do It — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:01:33 +0000

[…] second idea is that the cold will cause the hard disk platters to ever-so-slightly contract, and this will somehow unstick read/write heads that have crashed onto […]

By: Seagate Drive Repair Case Study: Hard Drive Beeping | Gillware Inc.

Seagate Drive Repair Case Study: Hard Drive Beeping | Gillware Inc. — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:42:48 +0000

[…] is telling you exactly what is wrong with it. Inside your hard drive, a spindle motor spins the hard disk platters inside at several thousand revolutions per minute. To read and write data to these disks, delicate […]

By: Case Study: Toshiba MK2555GSXF not booting | Gillware Data Recovery

Case Study: Toshiba MK2555GSXF not booting | Gillware Data Recovery — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:14:53 +0000

[…] discs coated in a fine magnetic substrate. This magnetic storage media, commonly referred to as the platters, is subdivided into tracks, cylinders and blocks. For simplicity, blocks are typically referred to […]

By: Data Recovery Myths Busted | Four DIY Data Recovery Myths

Data Recovery Myths Busted | Four DIY Data Recovery Myths — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:41:52 +0000

[…] a hard drive are thin, circular discs made of glass or aluminum called platters, along with tiny metal arms called the read/write head assembly. Platters are covered in a thin […]

By: Using Bitmap to Make Data Recovery More Efficient | Gillware

Using Bitmap to Make Data Recovery More Efficient | Gillware — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:12:46 +0000

[…] film that are either magnetized or not. They are arranged in concentric circles on all sides of the multiple spinning discs inside a hard drive. Eight of these 1s or 0s is called a byte, and a byte has 256 possibilities, […]

By: RAID-5 Server Recovery: Corrosive Fluid Damage | Gillware

RAID-5 Server Recovery: Corrosive Fluid Damage | Gillware — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:41:36 +0000

[…] of the three hard drives revealed that the corrosive substance hadn’t caused much damage to the data storage platters. This was a relief for all of us here at Gillware. However, the drives’ read/write heads hadn’t […]

By: Data Recovery 101: Burnishing Platters | Gillware Inc.

Data Recovery 101: Burnishing Platters | Gillware Inc. — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:16:44 +0000

[…] a century, the data is still stored in a magnetic format on circular disks commonly referred to as platters. From a recovery standpoint, as long as the platters are healthy, the data can likely be […]

By: Hard Drive Spindle Recovery: Seagate Barracuda | Gillware

Hard Drive Spindle Recovery: Seagate Barracuda | Gillware — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:14:23 +0000

[…] the read/write heads can collide with it. This would kill the heads and scrape off some of the magnetic coating that contained the hard drive’s data. Cleaning off the platters to prevent any further damage and […]

By: The Monolith Changed the USB Flash Drive Data Recovery Game

The Monolith Changed the USB Flash Drive Data Recovery Game — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:01:53 +0000

[…] USB thumb drive or camera card is an industry-standard NAND flash memory chip. Whereas hard disk platters can realistically only be read by the drive that recorded to them, that memory chip can be removed […]

By: Data Recovery 101: Firmware | Gillware Data Recovery

Data Recovery 101: Firmware | Gillware Data Recovery — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:53:54 +0000

[…] system for your phone, a complicated device needing to store and organize billions of bits onto platters or NAND needs an operating system. I personally prefer the term hard drive operating system or HDD […]