Don't Let Me Save Your Data #Helpful Post

hey guys Austin and today I'm in an

incredibly stylish suit for one reason

I'm about to go into this cleanroom to

take a look to see how Dr savers is able

to save everything from a hard drive to

an SSD to importantly 4 we're going to

be doing today how to save the data on

your smartphone so probably savers

sponsor this out to take a look at their

entire facility including this two

million dollar cleanroom so I'm all

suited up I'm afraid of about to destroy

everything but that's so inside the

cleanroom what we're going to be able to

do is look at a wide variety of

different ways of saving the data on a

hard drive so you can see they have

these systems set up all along the wall

with the power supplies and have various

different connectors but essentially the

main goal is to figure out once you get

the hard drive what's the problem and

how to fix it so the ideal goal is to be

able to just copy all the data over and

clone it to another drive so sometimes

that actually is going to be possible

drive savers has a variety of different

tools and different pieces of software

to do that kind of stuff but as you'd

imagine it's not always going to be that

simple sometimes though you actually

have to get a little bit more creative

so we actually have tools that will be

able to not only be able to reflash the

firmware on a drive so sometimes that'll

be enough to save it and sometimes you

actually have to do surgeries you're

actually going to have to open up the

drive swap out different pieces in fact

actually I think you're opening a drive

right now yes what's the deal with this

one it's a clicking hard drive that's

never a good sign so this is something

that you're going to have to do some

surgery on the drive to be able to save

it you're gonna need a donor drive gacha

gacha it's funny I deal with a lot of PC

stuff but I never actually see open up

hard drives because you really do need

something like a cleanroom like this to

be able to actually access them couple

specks of dust will absolutely kill

something like that so once you get the

drive up and running and you have all

the hardware sorted the firmware sorted

the next step is to actually clone it

all off as you can imagine with some

drives it can take quite a while

anything from 30 minutes up to a couple

weeks depending on how badly the drive

is damaged and how much data you

actually have to copy this is so cool

there's so much interesting tech here to

be able to say drives from all kinds of

sizes all different kinds of types but

that's only part of what drive savers do

they also work on phones SSDs memory

cards USB is they've been bitten by dogs

so step out of the cleanroom and we have

the drive inventory so you've got some

cool stuff here

this is a 10 megabyte hard drive it is

it is we purchased this for a recovery

for it and they have to equate a

proprietary system that was running a

robotic arm look at that so what year do

you think this is from

I'm guessing very late 80s late 80s I

look at that you can see the old-school

Seagate logo 10 megabytes it's insane

that this is 10 megabytes so what you're

looking at here are 20,000 hard drives

that are valued at about 2 million

dollars you're gonna find all kinds of

crazy stuff so one of the things that

they really have to keep in mind is that

you never know what kind of drive is

going to come in so sometimes you might

have to have a multitude of the exact

same model number because maybe there's

gonna be slight differences in the

firmware or the slight differences in

the hardware so once they're done with

the drive before it's recycled they want

to make sure that there's absolutely no

chance that there's going to be any data

left on it there's a couple fun tools to

do that first of all is the data

Eliminator or the degausser which it

just sounds really cool this essentially

will just basically EMP it right say

goodbye to this drive it's about to be

degauss alright so just push it in I'm

sure when these is not cheap I think I

feel I can say that about literally

anything in here like everything looks

expensive yeah what's that it what that

array success will remove media I wasn't

paying attention it sounded like a bomb

went off so now that's bendy gallows the

next step is to physically destroy the

drive which we don't have to do but I

kind of want to do so we put the drive

in here close the door and now I'm gonna

hit destroy oh you can see it's just a

little you're gonna bend the drive in

half oh no no wait

oh man this drive has had a rough day

has it been a impede but now I'm pretty

sure it's safe to say you're gonna get

any data off of this these guys I don't

think we'll be able to save this one so

assuming that you don't crush your drive

the next step in the process once you

leave the clean room is to come

downstairs so each workstation is going

to have a whole series of pcs as well as

drive bays so for example if I want to

just drop a drive in here ah I I knew

that I know how to hard drive so at this

point they've gotten all the days that

they can tan off and it's been cloned

into a drive so normally you might think

oh yes I just want everything but do you

think about it what's on a hard drive is

going to be your Windows install but

your programs that you're not

necessarily going to want so when you

first contact drive savers they're gonna

ask hey what's on this Drive do you care

about photos documents pictures whatever

the case is photos and pictures are the

same thing I'm gonna keep going

so essentially they'll start looking

through and say oh look we found all of

your wedding photos or whatever the case

is make sure that can be prioritized so

that you get the stuff that you actually

want all right so this is what I've been

waiting all day for now of course it's

great to be able to recover stuff on

hard drives but one of the main things

that drive savers also does is recover

data off of smartphones so this is my

victim a samsung galaxy s6 all right all

right all right so I'll see here just

with my fingernail okay so get the

battery so I don't electrocute myself

okay all right so this is getting to be

a little bit more manageable so we've

got Hernan

so this is our NAND right here right so

I do see the individual pads here so it

doesn't really it's like I can kind of

see it so hopefully it's not gonna be

too hard to give it like a silicon layer

in between so I have well I just realize

how many people have gathered around to

watch this disaster okay so at this

point I've got the phone disconnected or

and disassembled and all ready to go

it's all lined up I can see in the

microscope exactly what I'm doing

so next step is to take a heat gun sort

of melt the solder and basically just

need to get the NAND flash off okay well

I got like the first corner up I

surprise to just work my way down now

right

go through oh there we go okay

still we're not gonna put it back in the

phone right we actually have a special

reader for it but we're gonna take off

all the silicone there clean that off

reball it so that if it's gonna be

perfect okay so as it should be a

surprise to knowing I am a failure so

that's why you send your phone to dry

favors not Austen savers so the thing

was I got it like what maybe forty

percent ready something like that yeah

forty percent fixed however forty

percent will not get your phone up and

running I brought you the hopefully

fixed reball NAND flash nice okay this

is from an Essex in my crew a galaxy s6

yes I'm legitimately nervous if I ruin

this chip or not I think I did but we'll

see

oh hey alright so you notice that's

right off the bat we've got we've got

some good signs here is this partition

here is going to be our user data

partitioning okay coming in at about 30

gigabytes of data the good thing is at

this point once everything's dumped the

sort of the danger zone is over we're

like the chip can go and then light on

fire who cares whatever all the data say

no matter we can step on it by accident

we've got a copy of it so for right now

I think it's safe to say that this has

been a successful recovery of a phone

that I did not break even though I came

really close so that is our totally

better than Linus's tour of the drive

savers facility of course huge chodes

drive savers for sponsoring this video

if you guys ever have any problems with

your data you definitely know who to

contact just make sure that you don't

ask for Austin