Hi Erkin, The expertise you displayed in this video is exactly why I searched for you when I needed drive recovery. You have an incredible level of talent and dexterity that is the envy of many shops that send their problem drives they cannot fix to you for recovery. I am so glad you were available to help me. Thank you.
Im a machinist engineer and love your channel because i see the same in you as i see in myself, a passion for it and knowledge of it. I make parts for obsolete vehicles/ machinery etc and similar to you i get a constant stream of second opinions and work as other shops either fail or just simply dont have the confidence or experience to achieve result. Whilst i dont understand the software side of what you do, i can see what you are trying to achieve. engineering either electronics machining or otherwise shares so much in common and those that are passionate about it are the exception not the rule. Im so glad you are posting more videos these days. Ps ..i first followed your channel when you were doing a lot of mechanical hard drive repairs, those i found especially interesting to me at the time :)
Thanks! I really appreciate your input. Mechanical drives are still a massive part of my work. I really want to start posting those again, now that so much has changed since I was regularly posting them up
It's not worth it unless you charge a high rate, because then people expect miracles for nothing. Unless you upload videos to youtube to offset money loss for experience, that is.
Had a thumb drive fail (sandisk, what a surprise!), and you did two amazing things: 1) you recovered my data, and 2) you charged a reasonable and fair price (under $500 if I remember). Lucky for me, I had a donor drive I sent with it (bought as a 2-pack). Every video I watch of you at work only makes me more certain I made the right choice. May you enjoy many more years making these windows into your work and skill. More importantly, I hope you are training the next generation of data recovery specialists and introduce us to them one day. They are learning from a master at the top of his craft. Kudos, Erkin. And thank you for sharing what you do.
You’re such an inspiration. I’m a plc programmer with an electrical engineering degree, I’m very good with my hands. I’d love to get into data recovery but haven’t a clue how you’d start!
I was just thinking about it yesterday. I watched someone's video about how they would start in photography and went over all the essentials. I think I will try to make something similar for DR business. Stay tooned
The people/company that wanted $3800 for this will never make a video on how to recover the data, as it would expose them right away. That this channel shows how recoveries are done, it just shows how much experience and knowhow is needed to accomplish it. Showing how it's done builds up trust for potential customers. If we ever have a recovery to be done in our Canadian Office I know who I'm going to recommend.
but on the other hand, do we know the kind of insurance they (recovery company) have, maybe the customer is govt. and thus "extra extra secure, nobody is allowed to see anything on it" any intel on this type @hddrecoveryservices ?
@@majstealth Govt and high security companies don't need data recovery services. Many years ago I worked in a high security environment and every PC in the building was backed up _every two minutes_. The backups were backed up every ten minutes and moved offsite every thirty minutes. That's why they don't need data recovery services.
@@daigriffiths399 sounds not very likely to me. i have worked as outside support for government, they did not a thing remotely as you described. it would have been a bliss if they did that...
I'm surprised you were able to keep the solder balls intact at 9:03, what would be your procedure if you didn't have a stencil for this and you needed to reball this BGA?
You can reball it manually . Place a thin layer of flux on the chip, add the right sized solderballs on the chip, apply heat with low air until the solderballs melt, and then solder it back on the pcb.
@parranoic , I never tried it. But in my opinion it won't. Solderballs are the same dimensions, no matter what size you're using. So once placed in the correct place and heated up, the solder joints will be the same size. If you use the solder paste and heate it up, I don't think all solder blobs will be the same size. I might be wrong, tho. 🤷♂️
9 times out of 10 when working on tiny chips like this if pulled correctly they split balls pretty evenly. In such case, landing it back is the key. You can see that I held it with a tweezer just to the balls grab just enough, then free flow it on its own and let flux and solder do it's work. As @evellabssolutions mentioned, chips could be reballed by hand with solder balls and liquid flux, or using a generic stencil with solder paste if needed. If the chip came off and left over balls looked all different sized or merged, I would definitely reball with fresh using a stencil and solder past
That was a lucky fix! I still think these capacitor-based SSDs are mostly unrelaible and un-recoverable. To what media would I stick? Certainly not a memory stick!
I disagree about the luck. Issue located, failed component replaced, device would come to life after that, there is no luck here. Simply analysis and solution. Luck would be that this unit was just working when I plugged it in :) That controller is supported, so even if this was a NAND wear level failure , it would most likely be manageable still.
in my 25 years of beeing PC user I never had a failed drive so far but I still backup frequently. I guess I had just luck. Currently using a WD black mechanical and one of the first m2 ssds from samsung. both approx 5-7 years old not sure if it was 5 or 7, maybe 6. great video.
Logic does not fail if applied & used correctly. Only user error gets in the way. An so, it was demonstrated in todays video (how to use it correctly).
so what is your method? how much did you charge for fixing that drive, and do you reccommend the customer to buy a new drive, or do you give the existing drive back for the customer to keep using?
Hello sir , hope u doing great 👍🏻 I have a hdd which contains some bad sectors and it’s not working properly Could u plz suggest for us a software tool that can fix or isolate these bad sectors Thank you in advance 😊
Thank you for explaining the problem and your solution so carefully. It makes this area so much more approachable. Your insights into the data recovery industry are also interesting and helpful. Thanks
Like the video. But the camera work here and there needs to be improved 🙂 from 8:40 to 9:07 When you mount the replacement chip, how can you feel/know it is in place properly ? PS : I have 7 Western Digital green 2tb SATA drives that need saving. Guess it's not gonna be cheap 🙂
I record via ATEM mini pro ISO to 4 outputs, side, top view, scope, and screen but for some reason top view was off and I didn't catch it. I can't relive that moment haha
would you ever just send them back the fixed drive without copying it? I assume no, but it might be a lower cost option if you made it available and more might take it.
thats kool to see ..how do you know you have the chip or IC seated straight on the pads ..and what is that a heated blow gun or a vacum?..im happy i found this channel :)
Years ago some place I watched a video about hard drive recovery. The company explained they worked with the mfgs. to get all the details of the drive including schematics and also that they had access to parts. The person on the video then explained the would rather replace the bad part if possible. But, if they needed to they could do a platter transfer. Another nifty machine they had was a unit that emulated certain parts of the board and do things like load firmware. I noticed a few years back most of the Ssd seemed to be a failed part. Not a bad memory chip.
I can assure you that there is nobody in this industry that gets something (design related) from manufacturers. Maybe only Seagate ( but even then I doubt it) cuz most of the stuff they do for their clients is simple stuff, although they have very skilled techs who work there who are capable of a lot. Surely big companies have lots of staff, and massive and impressive facilities, but it's the client that ends up paying the bill for it all at the end of the day.
Old SSDs were mostly made with MLC so NANDs lasted longer. Now even Samsung pro models use TLC. And we see QLC more and more often. Guess where that is headed for reliability. Not UP 😵
i have this weekly with my company that repairs apple devices, the most common occurrence is the customer liquid damages the device and apple wont even open it anymore and just quote the cost of a new macbook to repair it and in many cases lately it's a 20 minutes job checking and 5 minutes work replacing a trackpad that has bit of corrosion on it and they didn't even check it properly in the apple shop. So sad they care so little for their customers.
charge 3k, customer is happy, and you're very happy lol i gotta get in on this hustle i sent my ssd to 3 companies, they unsolder NAND and couldn't read it with the spider board, sometimes it's just dead :(
At 06:10 you did, but of course you are referring to the main Phison-controller, now that i re-watch that part :D - Good job on the repair. absolutely insane price by drivesavers ...@@hddrecoveryservices
Dude, You might be THE GUY. I have a HDD with a shot partition table. Win10 didn´t boot and after fixboot and fixmbr didn´t do it I took out a floppy with Partition Magic and I killed the partition table. There is my old Windows on it with years of stuff I collected. Sadly I am broke as fuck so no recovery firm for me. A Buddy of mine once paid 700€ for a recovery but he had a job. Is there hope for a one button click fix?
You guys do HDDs? I have a WD 4TB Gold that does not power on due to wrong PSU SATA cable killing the PCB. I have a donor WD Gold 4TB that can be used for parts :)
Very skilled work. But also a good dose of luck, as the memory chips were all good, and you had available a donor card with the exact memory controller chip. Great job...
This case would be most likely recovered if the NAND was not perfect as loaders already exist for PS5012 and we use them if needed. As I later found out this PMIC that burnt is used on all PS5012 controller driven SSDs so I have at least 2 dozen of these donors kicking around :)
It's good to see a Canadian company doing great work. I am wondering if you can help my case. After long awaited vacation, I accidentally quick reformatted my SSD data drive in the laptop during a backup session. I didn't know that TRIM is enabled in windows so I am screwed with recovery. I removed the drive from my laptop and put it in an enclosure. Would you be able to help to recover videos that are important to me? Looking forward to your reply. I'm from Nova Scotia. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
Hello, great job as always. One question, could you indicate what type of support you use for the electronic boards, for soldering and desoldering? Thank you
Re: easy recovery - I would assume that the majority of cases are simply corrupted file systems. Which is about the level of data recovery I did in the past as well. Or restoring RAID groups. It doesn't take much more than a piece of software and as you said, a click of a button.
Bad sectors, drives that are degrading but can still image with applied patch, burnt PCB, head swaps without platter damage, stuck heads. All those issues are relatively simple and done without extra parts or with 1 donor and platters don't need to come out
@@hddrecoveryservices Was talking about the super-simple stuff, where you said that large shops would concentrate on, because it's good money for nearly zero work. With a hosed filesystem, you don't need to open up anything.
Very useful video, i have ssd that is working normally kingdian 2tb, after while, it become so slow and nand burning hot, for ex it took 5 hours to boot windows, how to fix that drive
Clone it if possible or and first selectively copy important files first before copying and a lot of air blowing over it to keep it cooler while cloning/booting it (if it's hiting 65-75c it might be thermal throttling so drive goes slower or just pauses a lot if it's at the second thermal limiter (usually have 2 but a lot of them go a lot slower on the first one) If not send it to a data recovery (shouldn't be trying to fix it, needs copying and replacing)
@@leexgx thanks for the replay, this is ssd mounted on raid so i have copy of the same files, but i just wondred how to fix ssd to back normal state (not in mean of data recovery but in mean to save expensive 2tb ssd drive)
When putting this chip on the board, how can you tell if its properly aligned to the connection points underneath it? Ty for sharing this awesome video! :)
I'm sorry, how is this fairly priced at $3800? How is this fairly priced when there are linux data recovery tools for free? How can this cost $3800? Are you sure you're not a senator, preparing to buy a large batch of those for the police or the FBI and get your cut maybe? We're on to you.
Why not check the inductors or capacitors for dead shorts first, if it’s that hot? Few Pennie’s for a fix instead of wasting a whole new drive. I mean luckily it was the chip, but it could have been one of those and then you’d have still had that problem and 2 bad drives lol
@@hddrecoveryservices that’s what I said. I’m asking why you didn’t test those before pulling the chip? Easier to check with 2 leads then balling a chip
Ok. You did it. BUT why don't you check shorts before power up? Why you don't use lab psu with appropriate current limit set to prevent doing more damage to device?
Was wondering the same thing. Great job overall, but giving it high current is unnecessary risk. I'd either check for a short or start with a low current limit.
It's quite common to call a high price for a job not convenient, for any reason. Done in every trade. It's just a no without saying no. Surely a pity when it comes to data recovery.
This blew my mind
Hi Erkin, The expertise you displayed in this video is exactly why I searched for you when I needed drive recovery. You have an incredible level of talent and dexterity that is the envy of many shops that send their problem drives they cannot fix to you for recovery. I am so glad you were available to help me. Thank you.
Thank you, Paul!!
Im a machinist engineer and love your channel because i see the same in you as i see in myself, a passion for it and knowledge of it. I make parts for obsolete vehicles/ machinery etc and similar to you i get a constant stream of second opinions and work as other shops either fail or just simply dont have the confidence or experience to achieve result. Whilst i dont understand the software side of what you do, i can see what you are trying to achieve. engineering either electronics machining or otherwise shares so much in common and those that are passionate about it are the exception not the rule. Im so glad you are posting more videos these days. Ps ..i first followed your channel when you were doing a lot of mechanical hard drive repairs, those i found especially interesting to me at the time :)
Thanks! I really appreciate your input. Mechanical drives are still a massive part of my work. I really want to start posting those again, now that so much has changed since I was regularly posting them up
Your videos make me want to go further with micro soldering and more into data recovery. Your work is so good. Keep up the great work 👍
Go for it!
It's not worth it unless you charge a high rate, because then people expect miracles for nothing. Unless you upload videos to youtube to offset money loss for experience, that is.
Had a thumb drive fail (sandisk, what a surprise!), and you did two amazing things: 1) you recovered my data, and 2) you charged a reasonable and fair price (under $500 if I remember). Lucky for me, I had a donor drive I sent with it (bought as a 2-pack).
Every video I watch of you at work only makes me more certain I made the right choice. May you enjoy many more years making these windows into your work and skill. More importantly, I hope you are training the next generation of data recovery specialists and introduce us to them one day. They are learning from a master at the top of his craft.
Kudos, Erkin. And thank you for sharing what you do.
Thanks Mike! It means a lot for me to hear that
You’re such an inspiration. I’m a plc programmer with an electrical engineering degree, I’m very good with my hands. I’d love to get into data recovery but haven’t a clue how you’d start!
I was just thinking about it yesterday. I watched someone's video about how they would start in photography and went over all the essentials. I think I will try to make something similar for DR business. Stay tooned
@@hddrecoveryservices you’re a legend sir.
Definitely interested in getting started. Already have surface mount rework skills and all the tools for it. Need some education on software.
@@hddrecoveryservices Random, but can you link that photography video? I teach beginner's photography so I'm curious what others cover for essentials.
The people/company that wanted $3800 for this will never make a video on how to recover the data, as it would expose them right away. That this channel shows how recoveries are done, it just shows how much experience and knowhow is needed to accomplish it. Showing how it's done builds up trust for potential customers. If we ever have a recovery to be done in our Canadian Office I know who I'm going to recommend.
there you go! ;) thanks for your support
but on the other hand, do we know the kind of insurance they (recovery company) have, maybe the customer is govt. and thus "extra extra secure, nobody is allowed to see anything on it" any intel on this type @hddrecoveryservices ?
@@majstealth Govt and high security companies don't need data recovery services. Many years ago I worked in a high security environment and every PC in the building was backed up _every two minutes_. The backups were backed up every ten minutes and moved offsite every thirty minutes. That's why they don't need data recovery services.
@@daigriffiths399 sounds not very likely to me. i have worked as outside support for government, they did not a thing remotely as you described. it would have been a bliss if they did that...
I'm surprised you were able to keep the solder balls intact at 9:03, what would be your procedure if you didn't have a stencil for this and you needed to reball this BGA?
You can reball it manually . Place a thin layer of flux on the chip, add the right sized solderballs on the chip, apply heat with low air until the solderballs melt, and then solder it back on the pcb.
@@EvilLabsSolutionswould smd paste (liquid solder) work ?
@parranoic , I never tried it. But in my opinion it won't.
Solderballs are the same dimensions, no matter what size you're using.
So once placed in the correct place and heated up, the solder joints will be the same size.
If you use the solder paste and heate it up, I don't think all solder blobs will be the same size.
I might be wrong, tho. 🤷♂️
9 times out of 10 when working on tiny chips like this if pulled correctly they split balls pretty evenly. In such case, landing it back is the key. You can see that I held it with a tweezer just to the balls grab just enough, then free flow it on its own and let flux and solder do it's work. As @evellabssolutions mentioned, chips could be reballed by hand with solder balls and liquid flux, or using a generic stencil with solder paste if needed. If the chip came off and left over balls looked all different sized or merged, I would definitely reball with fresh using a stencil and solder past
Hey Erkin, It doesn't matter what you send to Drive Savers! It is always $3800.00 to start. :( Glad I found you years ago! Your the BEST. Jerry L
so true, Jerry. Have a great weekend dude
Man, I am glad I found this channel. Enjoyed watching.
Great! It shows that you have a lot of experience and can quickly and smoothly complete tasks that are very difficult and insurmountable for others.
Well said!
That was a lucky fix! I still think these capacitor-based SSDs are mostly unrelaible and un-recoverable. To what media would I stick? Certainly not a memory stick!
I disagree about the luck. Issue located, failed component replaced, device would come to life after that, there is no luck here. Simply analysis and solution. Luck would be that this unit was just working when I plugged it in :) That controller is supported, so even if this was a NAND wear level failure , it would most likely be manageable still.
@@hddrecoveryservices I didn't say you fixed it by luck. I mean the owner is very lucky Vcc didn't burn his memory chip down.
the controller chip was chipped to start with (at 3:40) great job though, at least you didn't try safe mode too after burning your hand.
I know right. I wonder how long it sat powered on with 1.7a in the safemode while loader was being forced in with translator regeneration
Really nicely done! I've been doing microsoldering for a while now, and your really steady hand is impressive. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Marc!
in my 25 years of beeing PC user I never had a failed drive so far but I still backup frequently. I guess I had just luck. Currently using a WD black mechanical and one of the first m2 ssds from samsung. both approx 5-7 years old not sure if it was 5 or 7, maybe 6. great video.
You are lucky indeed. I had 3 Samsung Pro SSDs fail 3 Seagate HDDs fail in last 6 years
Logic does not fail if applied & used correctly. Only user error gets in the way.
An so, it was demonstrated in todays video (how to use it correctly).
well said
Great job, can I ask what you charged to repair this PCiE SSD?
My jaw literally dropped at the end results with all sectors clean. Like nothing was wrong with the ssd. Amazing work and recovery
Glad you enjoyed it!
so what is your method? how much did you charge for fixing that drive, and do you reccommend the customer to buy a new drive, or do you give the existing drive back for the customer to keep using?
My method of what? We send data on a new device.
I know nothing about SSD. Is the stand you put the SSD in just for troubleshooting?
You need to rename your channel to “recovery blinders”.
Really awesome work mate, super professional and enjoyable!
hahahahaaa! awesome
What would you have charged for this recovery? good job btw :)
700
@@hddrecoveryservices king 👑🙏
Nice price... from 3.800 to 700... and it's all worth it...❤❤❤😂😂😂... love your work
Your reputation is well earned. Thanks for sharing...
I appreciate that!
Hello sir , hope u doing great 👍🏻
I have a hdd which contains some bad sectors and it’s not working properly
Could u plz suggest for us a software tool that can fix or isolate these bad sectors
Thank you in advance 😊
Nice seeing the Peaky Blinders doing legal data recovery business now
We had to call Tommy Shelby in for this :) but honestly I get that a lot 😂
😂😂😂
Thank you for explaining the problem and your solution so carefully. It makes this area so much more approachable. Your insights into the data recovery industry are also interesting and helpful. Thanks
You're very welcome!
I keep trying to find a device that needs your help. Unfortunately, no important ones have failed yet. I'll keep hoping. 🙂
Haha, thanks Dan!
Watching those components settle into their pads never gets old.
I love that solder dance too :)
Great video to see, interesting to see that PMIC failing
thanks man!
Like the video. But the camera work here and there needs to be improved 🙂 from 8:40 to 9:07
When you mount the replacement chip, how can you feel/know it is in place properly ?
PS : I have 7 Western Digital green 2tb SATA drives that need saving.
Guess it's not gonna be cheap 🙂
I record via ATEM mini pro ISO to 4 outputs,
side, top view, scope, and screen but for some reason top view was off and I didn't catch it. I can't relive that moment haha
7 drives? RAID? power surged and fried? or all random independent standalones?
would you ever just send them back the fixed drive without copying it? I assume no, but it might be a lower cost option if you made it available and more might take it.
ALSO, how much was your quote for that drive?
No. The package could come back and for some reason not work again, or worse it could get lost in shipping. Always make a clone. This job was $700
thats kool to see ..how do you know you have the chip or IC seated straight on the pads ..and what is that a heated blow gun or a vacum?..im happy i found this channel :)
Flux, pulls the chip into correct spot once the solder is molten with hot air station from the top
Years ago some place I watched a video about hard drive recovery. The company explained they worked with the mfgs. to get all the details of the drive including schematics and also that they had access to parts. The person on the video then explained the would rather replace the bad part if possible. But, if they needed to they could do a platter transfer. Another nifty machine they had was a unit that emulated certain parts of the board and do things like load firmware. I noticed a few years back most of the Ssd seemed to be a failed part. Not a bad memory chip.
I can assure you that there is nobody in this industry that gets something (design related) from manufacturers. Maybe only Seagate ( but even then I doubt it) cuz most of the stuff they do for their clients is simple stuff, although they have very skilled techs who work there who are capable of a lot. Surely big companies have lots of staff, and massive and impressive facilities, but it's the client that ends up paying the bill for it all at the end of the day.
Old SSDs were mostly made with MLC so NANDs lasted longer. Now even Samsung pro models use TLC. And we see QLC more and more often. Guess where that is headed for reliability. Not UP 😵
i have this weekly with my company that repairs apple devices, the most common occurrence is the customer liquid damages the device and apple wont even open it anymore and just quote the cost of a new macbook to repair it and in many cases lately it's a 20 minutes job checking and 5 minutes work replacing a trackpad that has bit of corrosion on it and they didn't even check it properly in the apple shop. So sad they care so little for their customers.
So sad that the same customers continoue to buy Apple.
its like crack :) they keep coming back
@@hddrecoveryservices and you cant reason with them at all that they dont need another rotten apple for the price of a high end pc which can do more.
hahahahaha@@hddrecoveryservices
But how do you line up the pins (balls?) on the underside of the chip with the pads on the board when you can’t even see them?
Surface tension pulls it to center
Going down rabbit hole is fun, but it's also nice to get easy stuff like this one too. Nice and easy and found the problem right away.
Oh the good ol' rabbit hole 😂
I absolutely love your content
Thanks 👍
charge 3k, customer is happy, and you're very happy lol
i gotta get in on this hustle
i sent my ssd to 3 companies, they unsolder NAND and couldn't read it with the spider board, sometimes it's just dead :(
sent it to a wrong place then. Whoever tries to read NANDs with a spider should not come close to NAND storage :)
The replaced chip is not a controller as such. It's a multi-rail DC-DC buck converter (PMIC) - All the inductors around it is a dead giveaway.
Did I say it was?
At 06:10 you did, but of course you are referring to the main Phison-controller, now that i re-watch that part :D - Good job on the repair. absolutely insane price by drivesavers ...@@hddrecoveryservices
Well done mate
Dude, You might be THE GUY. I have a HDD with a shot partition table. Win10 didn´t boot and after fixboot and fixmbr didn´t do it I took out a floppy with Partition Magic and I killed the partition table. There is my old Windows on it with years of stuff I collected.
Sadly I am broke as fuck so no recovery firm for me. A Buddy of mine once paid 700€ for a recovery but he had a job.
Is there hope for a one button click fix?
You guys do HDDs? I have a WD 4TB Gold that does not power on due to wrong PSU SATA cable killing the PCB. I have a donor WD Gold 4TB that can be used for parts :)
yes, we do! www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us
Very skilled work. But also a good dose of luck, as the memory chips were all good, and you had available a donor card with the exact memory controller chip.
Great job...
This case would be most likely recovered if the NAND was not perfect as loaders already exist for PS5012 and we use them if needed. As I later found out this PMIC that burnt is used on all PS5012 controller driven SSDs so I have at least 2 dozen of these donors kicking around :)
Love to see it!!! The best of the best!!
thanks my man!
It's good to see a Canadian company doing great work. I am wondering if you can help my case. After long awaited vacation, I accidentally quick reformatted my SSD data drive in the laptop during a backup session. I didn't know that TRIM is enabled in windows so I am screwed with recovery. I removed the drive from my laptop and put it in an enclosure. Would you be able to help to recover videos that are important to me? Looking forward to your reply. I'm from Nova Scotia. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
sadly, as you mentioned, due to TRIM the data is gone now :(
@@hddrecoveryservices thank you for the reply. Does connecting it to PC3000 ace lab don't help at all?
Precise hand skill with strong magnet knowledge 👍
I appreciate it
Did you swap the Phison chip? How to make sure the dsta is not destroyed?
send it to professional
Hello, great job as always. One question, could you indicate what type of support you use for the electronic boards, for soldering and desoldering? Thank you
What do you mean by support?
can this service work, if the SDD was secure erased and then formatted again?
Lovely work, that little power controller put up a little fight... nice work
it did, but glad to know that every PS5012 has one, so if you get an SSD after power surge you know what to get ;)
@@hddrecoveryservices ha nice thank you, I've a 5016 in at the moment but think it's more FW problems amd my pc3k portable needs updating....
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Always learning from your videos 😇😇😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad to hear that
Re: easy recovery - I would assume that the majority of cases are simply corrupted file systems. Which is about the level of data recovery I did in the past as well. Or restoring RAID groups. It doesn't take much more than a piece of software and as you said, a click of a button.
Bad sectors, drives that are degrading but can still image with applied patch, burnt PCB, head swaps without platter damage, stuck heads. All those issues are relatively simple and done without extra parts or with 1 donor and platters don't need to come out
@@hddrecoveryservices Was talking about the super-simple stuff, where you said that large shops would concentrate on, because it's good money for nearly zero work. With a hosed filesystem, you don't need to open up anything.
Very useful video, i have ssd that is working normally kingdian 2tb, after while, it become so slow and nand burning hot, for ex it took 5 hours to boot windows, how to fix that drive
Clone it if possible or and first selectively copy important files first before copying and a lot of air blowing over it to keep it cooler while cloning/booting it (if it's hiting 65-75c it might be thermal throttling so drive goes slower or just pauses a lot if it's at the second thermal limiter (usually have 2 but a lot of them go a lot slower on the first one)
If not send it to a data recovery (shouldn't be trying to fix it, needs copying and replacing)
@@leexgx thanks for the replay, this is ssd mounted on raid so i have copy of the same files, but i just wondred how to fix ssd to back normal state (not in mean of data recovery but in mean to save expensive 2tb ssd drive)
When putting this chip on the board, how can you tell if its properly aligned to the connection points underneath it? Ty for sharing this awesome video! :)
Solder creates surface tension that centers it. I flow it twice. Once with tweezer, then once it grabs i flow it free
Hi, for a case like this, do you recover the data first or do you give the customer a quote first?
Thanks, your videos are the best in UA-cam
😎👍
we have range of prices for devices that we give out to clients prior to then shipping it in
@@hddrecoveryservices Ok, thanks. Canada is a great country. I lived in Guelph, Ontario for a couple of years. Cheers 😊✌️
Data recovery pays good if you have the skill. I'd love to learn and do this.
its a good industry to be a part off
I believe that ssd is from lenovo laptop, I've seen some lenovo laptop use UMIS ssd
Could be
Love watching you work - honorable & fairly priced..
thanks!
I'm sorry, how is this fairly priced at $3800? How is this fairly priced when there are linux data recovery tools for free? How can this cost $3800? Are you sure you're not a senator, preparing to buy a large batch of those for the police or the FBI and get your cut maybe? We're on to you.
so it not inslutor for sound but good for tempeture and moister ! i shouldnt use on my jon boat
Excellent work.
Many thanks!
you did not say what it cost them for y to fix it
man, nice job straight forward. - how much money did you save the customer?
Over 3000$
Why are there Aixiz lenses on your desk?
I don't even know where you see it :)
Nice work!
Thank you. I appreciate it
Hi , what is your blow heater gun brand and model sir?
JBC JTSE
2023 and people still not backing up there data
It will never change :)
The big question is how much do your charge?
too many answers to that in the comments dude.
Why not check the inductors or capacitors for dead shorts first, if it’s that hot? Few Pennie’s for a fix instead of wasting a whole new drive.
I mean luckily it was the chip, but it could have been one of those and then you’d have still had that problem and 2 bad drives lol
no, it couldn't have been one of those. If it was it would show when the PMIC was pulled
@@hddrecoveryservices that’s what I said. I’m asking why you didn’t test those before pulling the chip? Easier to check with 2 leads then balling a chip
they charged 3800 , how much did YOU charge?
A lot less :)
I think bad chip or shorted capacitor
Pmic
data recovery company told me the firmware was bad and would be unable to retrieve date. Any hope?
I need more details about it, Bruce. Contact via website www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us
Your expertise flows like water off a Ducks back.
Thanks 👍
How do you confirm with client that all data was recovered?
File system tells us
Ok. You did it. BUT why don't you check shorts before power up? Why you don't use lab psu with appropriate current limit set to prevent doing more damage to device?
Was wondering the same thing. Great job overall, but giving it high current is unnecessary risk. I'd either check for a short or start with a low current limit.
Maybe I should have checked for it, but I didn't see it necessary. It already took 1.7A prior so nothing new would have happened there.
Brilliant as usual
Thanks Derek
how much did you charge for repair ? I guess less then $ 3800
$700 for this
And how much did you charge for this data recovery? $3800??
Confidential information
three thousand and eight hundred WHAT?? bloody hell
awesome work, thx for the vid.
No problem!
Great job!
Thanks!
Awesome job.
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice :)
How much did you charge them? I hope you don't work for free…
Not free for sure, but saved them over 3 grand
@@hddrecoveryservicesVere nice :)
i want to learn these recovery methods
you can do it
@@hddrecoveryservices how can I start.. I need to learn basics
how much would such s repair job cost??hopefully NOT 3800 bucks
700
I know it's not always the case but sometimes it seems like you have the best job in the world.
find what you love to do and you won't have to work ever again as they say :)
@@hddrecoveryservicesWho doesn't love a work that gives him $3000 in five minutes?😂
But how much did you charge tho?
It's in the comments
So how much did you charge?
Not 3800
This guy has a tool for every job...
Great video! Long live the peaky blinders
peaky blinders ;)
It's quite common to call a high price for a job not convenient, for any reason. Done in every trade. It's just a no without saying no. Surely a pity when it comes to data recovery.
That's true
How much did it cost at the end ?
Not 3800$ :)
@@hddrecoveryservices hmmm
Maybe it's 7200Bucks 🤷🏼
Great job.
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Amazing job! Well done amigo!!
are you the only one doing this work at the company? how come no one else is featured in these videos? regaurdless i love the content :)
I am not. Eventually, I will start demonstrating their tasks too :)
I know you didn't mean PCB pads. Anyone with at least half a brain, won't go trolling in comments. Great video.
Great Video Thank you
Thanks for checking it out
Great stuff
Thanks 👍
I still have a seagate 3tb that died - i was quoted 800 to fix it. one day when i am rich, i will get my data back
$800 isn't bad
@@hddrecoveryservices i agree - it's an awesome price - but i don't have it lying around - can we do installment payments? :)
u need to trink more water or less alcohol.
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