Is this fixable?

[TPhill110]

I have a old drive from like almost 20 years ago and I was wondering if I could recover anything from it?

[Levent]

You lost your chances of recovery when you decided to remove the lid off the thing.

 

That thing is destined for a landfil now.

[Hachi_Roku256563]

What Levent said

Hard drives are dead the second the lid comes of and you get microparticals on the disks

Next time dont remove the lid if you wannar ecover anything

[bmx6454]

if you send it to a data recovery professional, maybe, but it will be very expensive. as levent said, you made the situation far worse by cracking it open, definite no-no.

[An0maly_76]

Clarification here. What exactly does de-lidding the thing do that wasn't a problem prior?

[Hachi_Roku256563]

1 hour ago, An0maly_76 said:

Clarification here. What exactly does de-lidding the thing do that wasn't a problem prior?

gets dust and stuff on the disk

those drivers are sealed for a reason

some even have helium in them

 

[An0maly_76]

1 minute ago, Hachi_Roku256563 said:

gets dust and stuff on the disk

those drivers are sealed for a reason

some even have helium in them

 

I can see dust being a problem, but that might take a bit. Perhaps OP could relid it and hope for some luck.

[Hachi_Roku256563]

29 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

I can see dust being a problem, but that might take a bit. Perhaps OP could relid it and hope for some luck.

no there is no chance

its microdusts dusts you cant see

its why they pull apart the disks in like a class 5 or somthing clear zone

to get rid of micro things in the air

[Needfuldoer]

That drive was already toast before they opened it up.

 

 

Removing the lid from a drive that old doesn't insta-kill it. I tinker with old computers, and I've opened up a bunch of old drives to get them going again. I've got a Quantum drive where the rubber bump stops for the read arm de-vulcanized into sticky goop and kept the arm from moving. I pulled the top magnet off the coil, covered the goop with tape, reassembled, and it worked fine again. Just don't touch the platters and blow them off with a duster can (or properly dried compressed air) and it should be fine at least one last time to get the data off it.

 

12 hours ago, Hachi_Roku256563 said:

some even have helium in them

 

Not 20 years ago.

[Hachi_Roku256563]

5 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Not 20 years ago.

my appolgise i missed the 20 year old part