MVI Data Recovery

If the base casting is badly damaged, or the spindle motor is burned out, or the spindle bearings have seized, it is necessary to remove the disks from the failed drive. These disks must be re-mounted on the spindle motor of a good drive.

This procedure requires all the skill of head replacement with the additional skill of remounting disks without further damaging them.

It is very important to preserve the spacing between the disks and their rotational alignment to each other. This makes the possibility of serving on the remounted disks much more likely. Furthermore, if two highly polished surfaces, such as those on disks or heads, touch they can become bonded together.

This is usually called station. If two disk surfaces become bonded in this manner, it is usually impossible to separate them without causing excessive, but microscopic, damage.

Once the good heads are loaded onto the remounted disks, the power-on procedure can begin.