Data Medics Succeeds Where DriveSavers Failed

Jared

Jared

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Just had a case I started on this week. DriveSavers gave up on it and declared it "unrecoverable due to too much media damage".

On arrival I see that the drive ID's and shows capacity, able to read both copies of SA just fine. However drive is unable to access sectors.

I regenerate ROM from SA (as I suspected it might not be original or might be sabotaged)
Still doesn't have sector access, however all SA modules do check out.
Work a little bit of my SA magic to fix some things up, and I'm now reading data from all heads with minimal bad sectors.

So I guess they did me the favor of doing a headswap, just didn't know how to fix the firmware so it'd work. :lol:
 
LarrySabo

LarrySabo

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Good job, Jared. You mean they left the donor heads in the patient, or they spared you the need to do that because they tried it without success?
 
lcoughey

lcoughey

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We recently did a 3TB WD drive recovery here that DriveSavers also gave up on and called unrecoverable. We recovered about 85% of the data, but it did require 3 head changes to get there.
 
Jared

Jared

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abedalkareem":wu6xt2x2 said:
Good JOB , can you clarify how much the Damaged media it was and did you take a photo for scratches can be shared ??
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I don't think there's any visible scratches. I've recovered over 99% of the sectors just fine. The issue was in the firmware, they just didn't know how to fix it so they chalked it up to media damage.
 
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