Medianoche
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Hi, a friend had droped her External Western Digital My passport HDD for Mac and the computer could not read the HDD anymore.
I did some research and for the sound I suspected the arm was stocked. Data companies were warning that you will need a lot of expertise and more importantly a lab to prevent air pollution.
We were not prepare to pay any money for it, so I opened the HDD to see what was inside and unblocked the arm.
I sealed everything back, and to my surprise, the data was there.
Now the questions.....
1. should I expect the disk to have catastrophical damage in a mater of hours, days, or it might as well last for months? I mean, I have been through all the information already, if it is still working, does it mean I have fixed it, or is it just a short illusion?
2. I have been able to copy to my computer at least 50% of the data. My friend is telling me that I could corrupt my computer HDD because the failures from the external HDD will be transfer to my own computer HDD... Is that so???
Well, I am sure most of you have already open a HDD and experiment similar problems, I will really apreciate your help.
By the way, they are beautiful inside arent they?!!!
Thanks
I did some research and for the sound I suspected the arm was stocked. Data companies were warning that you will need a lot of expertise and more importantly a lab to prevent air pollution.
We were not prepare to pay any money for it, so I opened the HDD to see what was inside and unblocked the arm.
I sealed everything back, and to my surprise, the data was there.
Now the questions.....
1. should I expect the disk to have catastrophical damage in a mater of hours, days, or it might as well last for months? I mean, I have been through all the information already, if it is still working, does it mean I have fixed it, or is it just a short illusion?
2. I have been able to copy to my computer at least 50% of the data. My friend is telling me that I could corrupt my computer HDD because the failures from the external HDD will be transfer to my own computer HDD... Is that so???
Well, I am sure most of you have already open a HDD and experiment similar problems, I will really apreciate your help.
By the way, they are beautiful inside arent they?!!!
Thanks