Data Recovery Myths Part 3

The Logic Board replacement myth

The people can replace the logic board of hard drive with equal one in order to retrieve dead drives for their working. It sounds very sensible myth. If there is external damage and firmware is concentrated in the controller then replacement of the logic board will work. There are chances of data saving if you do it carefully. You should avoid all other myths if hard drive is recognized but read is not successful and send hard drives to the specialized services.

The software myth

You can use data recovery software if there is logical problem in your hard drive. The only problem is the right use of these software when there is some physical problem. The drive will be swept automatically by the software and there are possibilities that worse can happen. The circuits will stop working during the process of automatic recovery and all chances of data recovery would go. Therefore it is important for the users to know about these software before using them.

The Repair myth

There are many professionals and companies who claim of hard drive repair but most of them are unable to do. They just change the logic board of hard drive and run a program which will hide the bad sectors which is known as “bad blocks”. Then they format the hard drive telling that you that the problem has been fixed.

You can also take it to the refurbishing industry or recycling but the problem is that the hard drives come ithout any brand or mark of “refurbished” or remanufactured. These hard drives might work for some years. The parts of different hard drives are used to make these hard drives. But users must be aware of the fact that the refurbished and fixed hard drives are not reliable. These will be used only for internet surfing and not for storing data.

The Platter Swapping myth

Some people might have heard that data can be recovered from damage disks by finding and hard drives exactly the same and then transferring the platters from one hard drive to another. If you take consideration about the firmware, hard drive series and other factors then it can work even better. But there is possibility of the complete data loss due to some bad environment, inadequate tools and techniques and many other factors.

Conclusion

Data recovery is very important especially for the business as there will be left nothing if they have lost data due to accident without backup. There is great investment required both in study and in equipment like class 100 clean rooms and due to these factors cost of data recovery is not low. So it is better for you to stay away from professional which don’t have proper equipment.

If you are not feeling comfortable about data recovery by yourself then you should contact the specialized companies and professionals for the protection of your data. There can be data loss problems by rebuilding the RAID. So it is better for the users to keep updated backup of their data and avoid any other thing.