Hard Drive Motor: Hard Drive Repair
If you notice that your hard drive is overheating, that the BIOS does not recognize it, and you don't hear the hard drive making any noise at all when the computer is booting up there is a good chance that the motor inside the hard drive is damaged.
There is nothing that a regular user can do to have access to the data in a drive in this condition. It must be brought to a data recovery company for hard drive repair.
Hard drive motor repair requires a complete disassembly of all the hard drive components. Since a hard drive cannot be exposed to dust or other contaminants this type of data recovery procedure must always be performed in a clean room.
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If you really care about your data do not bring it to a computer repair shop for data recovery service. A hard drive with a damaged motor must first undergo the hard drive repair process. Only once it has been repaired the data recovery attempt is begun. Computer repair shops usually lack the tools, software and the trained personnel required for data recovery. The main data recovery steps are described here.
Some hard drive motors die after being accidentally knocked over, this is a common failure in external hard drives. Many laptop hard drives also get the hard drive motor damaged after accidentally falling to the floor or when they are subject to strong shocks or vibrations.
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The goal of the hard drive repair professional is to get the motor to spin again. The platters where your data is stored must spin in order for the hard drive head to read data from them. This is a very delicate procedure, which requires the right data recovery tools and training to remove the drive head mechanism and the use of a platter removal tool.
If you check on the Internet you will hear some crazy hard drive motor repair advice, such as dropping the hard drive again to loosen up a stuck motor. Whoever recommends this type of data recovery hints is not familiar at all with the sensitive components that make up a hard drive; dropping a hard drive on purpose is very likely to damage the drive head and the other delicate mechanisms inside of the hard drive even more.
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The hard drive motor is a critical component of a hard disk. Many hard drive failures are actually failure of the hard drive motor. Hard drive motors must spin at exactly the same speed for long periods of times for the life of the hard drive, which is on average three to five years. Current hard drive motor spins at 7200 RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) and some server drives can spin at 10,000 RPM and even faster. A hard drive motor spinning this fast is subject to constant stress, friction heat, wear and tear. So it is no wonder, that this hard drive “work horse” gets tired and won’t spin anymore after a few years of use. A successful hard drive repair procedure will unstuck the motor or get it replaced, ensuring that it spins at the right RPMs so that data can be retrieved.
The data recovery experts at My Data is Back recommend that no important data be trusted to older drives, just remember that the average life span for a hard drive is from three to five years.
We use a clean room to perform hard drive repair on drives with stuck motors or other mechanical issues, our data recovery professionals have access to the correct data recovery tools. They follow proven methods that increase the data recovery success rate during the hard drive repair and through the whole data recovery procedure.