The Head and Platter Swap Pro is a professional tool used for replacing heads and swapping platters in qualified clean room data recovery cases. It helps data recovery professionals practice and improve their skills in head and platter swaps to enhance physical data recovery success rates. The tool includes an operation console to securely install drives, platter exchangers, magnet and screw removers, tweezers, and gloves. Physical damage to heads or motor issues are examples of cases where the tool could be used to attempt data recovery via component replacement.

1. Head And Platter Swap Pro.Standard
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Note: There're copies of this head and platter swap tool in the market at
a lower price but their quality and support cannot be guaranteed at all
and are discounted too. Users can get full support from our official
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Head And Platter Swap Pro. Standard is one professional and high‐precision manufactured hard
drive head replacement and platter swap tool. This is one advanced head and platter swap tool
used in qualified clean room data recovery cases. If you're new to data recovery field, this tool
helps you to practice head and platter swap easily and if you are already in data recovery field and
offering physical data recovery services, this tool helps to enhance your physical data recovery
success rate. Please note: We have one upgraded version of this head and platter swap
pro.standard and it's the head and platter swap pro. advanced version which has major
improvement on the platter exchangers. In order to enhance the head and platter swap success
rate, we have released one new head replacement tool‐HDD Head Combs Pro. This tool is
professionally designed to separate the heads for a secured replacement. Users buy Head And
Platter Swap Pro.Standard usually buy HDD Head Combs Pro together and the best choice is the
Head and Platter Swap Package 2 which helps users get all the necessary head and platter swap
components and save money.
Physical Components Included in Head and Platter
Swap Pro.
Head and Platter Swap Operation Console

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This operation console of head and platter swap pro. is easy to use to install either 2.5" or 3.5"
hard drives and properly fix them so that clean room engineers are able to disassemble the hard
drives stably and safely. Do please remember a tiny mistake or accident in opening the drives may
damage the heads or scratch the sensitive platters and your data will be gone forever.
2.5" and 3.5" HDD Platter Exchangers

5. Within Head and Platter Swap Pro., there're four platter exchangers, two for 2.5" laptop HDD and
two for 3.5" hard drives' platters. We have improved the design of the exchangers and it is able to
better protect the platters from being contaminated and users are more convenient to swap the
platters with higher success rate by keeping the alignment of platters.
Magnet Remover

6. When you are using the magnet remover, please make sure you use it correctly by touching from
the side of the top magnet instead of vertical touching.
Screw Remover Toolkit

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HDD Dust Remover

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Tweezers

9. Clean Room Gloves
What kind of physical data recovery cases can the head
and platter pro. be used to fix?
Head and Platter Swap Pro is mainly used to handle hdd inside components damage:
1. The R/W heads are partially or totally damaged and no data recovery technologies
except a swap can be used to fix the damage and recover the lost data;
2. The R/W heads are physically read only(Please note here: When there's damage to the
head adaptive parameters, the heads can be read only too if this one happens, we
usually don't need to open the drive but editing the head adaptive parameters is a better
choice) and no other data recovery technologies can be used to fix it and recover the lost
data;
3. HDD motor stuck and the hdd stops spinning up or bearing seizure, breakage or short‐
circuit of motor phases;
4. Clicking HDD due to head damage, the heads may be bent down or the heads are stuck
to the platters, or the heads park out of the parking area, etc;
5. Sometimes it's also necessary to handle some drown and burnt hard drives, these drives
need to be opened, cleaned and tried to swap the heads or platters;
6. Damaged preamplifier‐commutator chip.
Clean room data recovery is not one easy data recovery job because you need to at least own one
clean bench and have good experience in head and platter swap. You should never stop practicing

10. head and platter swap if you continue your data recovery business. It helps you understand more
about the hdd structure and also help with your data recovery skills improvement.
Head Replacement Tips and Case Studies(For users only): 1, WD Head Replacement Case Study;
2,Samsung Tested Patient HDD and Donor HDD for head replacement; 3,Western Digital and
Seagate Tested Patient HDDs and Donor HDDs for head replacement; 4,Toshiba tested patient and
donor HDDs for head replacement; 5, Platter Scratch Discussion & Tips; 6, Seagate HDD Models‐
Heads‐Platters; 7, WD HDD Models‐Platters‐Heads. Besides, you can view more about our
advanced head and platter swap training courses here.
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