If you don’t care about the data in your hard disk, according to the articles I wrote earlier (How to Open a Desktop Hard Drive, How to Open a Laptop Hard Drive), we can easily open the laptop and desktop hard drive step by step, but if the data is very important to us, we want to open the hard disk without losing the data. This is a bit complicated, because we may need a few professional tools, such as: clean room, hard drive repair worktable, platter exchanger, actuator remover, screwdriver and so on. I will show you the steps of opening the hard drive in a clean room without causing data loss.
Steps to open the hard drive without data loss:
Step 1: Open the cover of the hard drive.
Step 2: Use the Actuator Remover to remove the actuator.
Step 3: Unscrew the head stack flat cable connector.
Step 4: Unscrew the head stack.
Step 5: Remove the Platters by using the Platter Exchanger.
Step 6: All done.
Unlike the two articles linked above, with the help of such environment and tools, we can guarantee that the data will not be lost when the hard disk is opened, that is why sometimes we need to find a professional company in order to recover the data. When we need a clean room for data recovery, you can also read this post: Clean Room Data Recovery Truth