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If you still have those drives can you check and see if "Recertified" is written on the plastic case and the drive label? I think that model number is used for recertified 1TB hard drives.

We use Hakko CHP 7A-SA (curved) and Hakko CHP 3-SA (straight) stainless steel non-magnetic precision tweezers for hard drive and flash recovery work. For pliers look for smooth-jaw jewelry making needle nose.

The Dolphin DVR/CCTV data recovery program works great and it's priced right. They update the software often. For the last major update a DFL engineer logged in and updated the dongle so the license would work with the newest version. There was no charge.

Unfortunately if the card is not inserted correctly, failed, or there is no card at all, the shutter will still release making you think your are saving pictures. You can disable that setting in the menu. Look for "Release shutter without Card" in the menu and disable it to prevent mistakes.

There is always the chance with Seagate that the labels match and preamp is still different. You can't get a better match than this and look at preamps in green :)

Sorry I didn't see this sooner, here you go just in case.

I don't know if it actually works any more but the option was still there in Windows 7.

Here is the pricing I got from Crest Ultrasonics.

Anyone heard of Crest Ultrasonics or this chemical they are advertising for "precision cleaning of your hard disk drive"?

I have this strange Seagate 160GB PATA (ST3160023A). I can read almost every sector without error but it gets stuck busy if it reads large chunks of data without error (3000+ sectors). At first I was thinking bad cache chip but a different PCB shows the same issue. To work around it I have set...

This Rosewood topic in one picture :)

I have a Rusolut VNR System for sale. It was purchased this year. I believe you can transfer support but it is up to the purchaser to verify this. The sale includes: 1) Visual NAND Reconstructor Starter Kit (NAND Reader- Adapters (8 pcs) - Software) 2) Standard Kit (BGA152 - BGA100 - BGA132) 3)...

In case you missed it, there is a warning on the Ace Lab blog about the Seagate Rosewoods. They are saying that special features in the firmware require handling these drives in a different manner than you might some other families. Reset SMART could lose data! Here are things you should not do...

When you recover a portable device that was formatted HFS+ do you typically copy the ".HFS+ Private Directory Data_" folder and the "Baclkups.backupDB" folder to the customer's recovery device? There is a lot of disk space used by ".HFS+ Private Directory Data_" and plenty of user data in there...