Helium Hard Drive Recovery?

My customer ran his entire photography business on this hard drive, and while he was transferring wedding photos out of the drive, his computer froze and the drive disconnected. He lost all of his clients' pictures and videos, and now he's in quite the pickle. So let's see if we can work some magic and bring this hard drive back to life. When we go to the hard drive's log, we can see that the motor is spinning, but the heads are not initializing. What this means is that the part that reads the pictures has failed and we'll need to replace it. This is a

helium filled hard drive, so here's the plan. We'll cut open both hard drives, transfer the good reading heads from the donor drive to my customer's drive, and then fill it back up with helium gas. So let's clamp this hard drive to a table and then use this special tool to puncture the casing. Then slowly, inch by inch, we'll cut this open like a can of Campbell's soup. Then we can use this spinning technique to remove the bulk of the casing.

Now that the hard drive is cut open, we can access the bolts to take it apart. So let's pop open my customer's hard drive in a clean hood and see this little metal tool. This tool sits between each of the 14 read heads and keeps them in perfect position to move them to a new drive. So let's remove the bad read heads from the patient and then replace it with some good

read heads from a donor. Before we close this drive, we need to prep the hard drive's top casing to intake the helium gas. Let's insert this barbed nozzle and use a nut to secure it in place. Then let's seal the hard drive to hold the helium gas. We'll use a little piece of rubber to seal this hole.

Then we'll seal the edges with some aluminum foil tape. Then we'll use a little butyl rubber to seal these gaps. If this tank falls over and snaps, it would literally explode and decapitate me. So let's be nice. But here's the setup. I have this regulator which lowers the pressure from 1800 down to 100 psi.

Then another step down regulator which holds it at about 1.5 psi. Then we have a hose that connects it to the drive. So let's open the tank and power on the drive and see what happens. When we go back to the hard drive's log, now we can see that the heads are functioning properly. First, let's back up the service area modules, because if those become damaged while reading,

we're toast. Then let's go to an unimportant module and test if the heads can write. Now let's clear the growth list, which is essentially the hard drive's memory of bad sections in the drive. Clearing this gives it a speed boost. Ok let's open a new task in Data Extractor, and the first thing we need to do is build

a heads map. This will allow us to disable specific heads while reading. Now when we open the partition, we can see all of his files. Now when we open the partition, we can see all of his files. Let's image the drive and his data is saved.