hard drive data recovery

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Jul 11 13:34:44 1998

< of doing home drive repair
< >without the luxury of a clean room. Is it possible to use some sort of
< >cheaply available or easily made vacuum chamber with positive airflow
< and
< >filtering, or is it absolutely required? Can a drive be opened in room
< >air and be worked on without introducing dangerou
<
< Well, I've opened drives in room air and had them run after, but it does
< make it less reliable. It's a thing like ESD: if you want to risk it.

Not entirely true. ESD does permanent damage to the device even if it
doesn't die. ALL (that I know of) drives have an internal air filter to
pick up any dust that may appear so if the media is not damaged the air will
be cleaned and reliability should be nominal (excludes the reason for first
opening it). I have several drives I've had to open all running and all
apparently living longer than average!


Allison
Received on Sat Jul 11 1998 - 13:34:44 BST