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The latest R-Studio build for Debian Linux is completely broken!!!! Do not update to it to version 3.9.1878 under any circumstances. Whenever it refreshes the device list (such as when you try to build a virtual RAID) all the devices just disappear and you can't do anything. It's completely...

Here's sampling of the project I'm working on to be able to definitively determine the two drive sets for RAID 50 arrays. All you have to do is find a sector that every drive in the array has data, and pull a sample byte from the same location on each drive (probably good to pull several sets...

Here's a little excel tool I built to convert Seagate date codes into actual dates: Hope it helps someone who's having difficulty understanding how the code works. The basic formula is: First Two Digits = Year (E.G. 08 = 2008 However it's the fiscal year starting the first Saturday in July...

I'm just curious, this isn't a case I'm dealing with or anything like that. Has anyone ever made any progress toward being able to rebuild NVRAM for ARM series drives if the original PCB is lost? It's never come up here yet, but just in case I'd like to know if it's even possible.

I just noticed this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/18 ... o_seagate/ Hard to believe that any senior manager at WD would be jumping over to Seagate of all companies. Especially given the issues they are having and the great stock growth that WD is having. Maybe he knows...

Does anyone else ever seem to find Seagates (especiall DM's) that after a headswap will ID once, work very slowly, and then never will power on again until you replace heads again. I've had quite a number of cases like this, a few I even replaced the heads multiple times and it just kept...

Anyone have any suggestions about the layout of the forum, it's categories, etc.? I want it to be as user friendly as possible while still keeping things organized in a way that makes sense. Please tell me if anything is annoying you and would be better if changed around.

I'm currently in the process of building a rather complex Excel sheet that can brute force XOR groups of numbers using every possible combination of drives to separate lists of HEX values. The concept is that you can take a random sample of a HEX value from the same location of each drive in a...

Here's a funny classic old video about the earliest of hard drives. USJGui9yIuA

Samsung has slated the release of a 2.5" form factor 16Tb SSD. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/21 ... ew-3d-nand This looks like it's intended to the the new HDD killer. I'm sure the cost will be prohibitive at first as it's intended for enterprise usage, but as others follow it'll become...

I'm currently working on a RAID 50 that used this controller which failed. I'm ordering one just so I can play with it's settings to see, but until it arrives I'm wondering if anyone can help point me in the right direction about its default stripe size, parity delay (if any), etc. It's a big...

I just spend several hours trying to figure out how to install R-Studio in a build of Debian Linux and having a heck of a time getting it to work. I kept getting the error: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I...

I'm just curious what other labs do when customers ask for HIPPA compliance when handling data recovery projects. We've always just handled it by keeping the station off network, cloning everything onto a single drive so nothing gets stored on the local machine at all, and not going back on...

I've tried twice now to write a ROM code to this PCB 100687658 REV C and it's just not taking. It goes through the whole process which takes about 10 minutes, but at the end it's still the donor ROM code on there, not the patient ROM I'm trying to write to it. I've tried it at two different...

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting really sick of these crypt-o-wall and similar viruses showing up. They are just a huge waste of time, you commit a system to scanning a drive for hours, just to get back a few useless old files. The customer is never happy with the result, so you...

Please excuse what might be a noob question here, I'm still new to DDI 4. It seems to work fine if I start imaging from the beginning, pause it, resume it, etc. But, if I attempt to image by Bitmap and it turns out there isn't one available to image from, when I go to resume the card just...

Looks like Seagate's budget cuts have struck again. This time it's a security bug that allows root access to the storage via WiFi and can even allow the attackers to download files. If you've got one of these, make sure you upgrade the firmware. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903500 To quote...

Wow, I just saw this article: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/asu ... in-brazil/ Seems that Asus has a phone coming out with 256Gb of memory. That will be quite the data recovery project someday.

So this is an interesting one. Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 drive has SMART errors which caused the system to shut down. Drive seems to be reading sectors fine, but in universal utility it shows this: That's quite a negative number of re-allocated sectors, it's almost the entire capacity of the...

Grrr!!!! This drive is driving me crazy. I know the heads are good, already changed them once. I've managed to get 70% of the data already, but the stupid SA just keeps degrading. I've moved around as many modules as I can into areas it can read to keep it running, but now module 04 (which is...

Looks like there's finally some USB 3.1 Cards available from Startech.com. http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/ ... L-NPL-0815 At double the speed of 3.0 should be good for those destination drives. Might actually be able to keep up with SATA speeds.

I just want to give a shout of praise out to Michael Cotgrove at http://www.cnwrecovery.com/ Had a flash card come in that clearly had Mp4 video files on it but they were fragmented by the way the camera writes the data to the card. His software was able to put back together the fragments and...

Luke just shared this video with me. What a pain to open, yikes! ANMtvYnI1gQ

Has anyone else here ever tried watching the videos from DFL? Such as this one: 1IpGw1ghsno I know their tools show some promise, but I can't help but get that Salvation Data feeling when I watch this. :lol:

I'm not exactly sure where I eventually found this download link (took a while to navigate the endless loop of their forum). But since I've been asked about where to get this plugin, here it is. Just extract the folder and put it in the "ext" folder within your forum root. Then you can...

Here's an interesting case. The drive came in to be wiped, so data doesn't matter. It ID's as the following: Model : WDC WD20EARS-02MVWB0 " " " " " Serial : " "WD-WMAZC0182178 Firmware : 50.0AB70 Capacity : 1 050 439.02 GB (2 202 930 285 232) My, that's a big drive. :lol...

This is something I just recently was forced to figure out. It's how to move a module to a totally new location in the SA when the area it's stored in has bad sectors and won't take a module being re-written back to the same location. The first thing to do is check for available SA locations...

Does anyone know how to move the location of a module within the SA to a new location? I've got this drive which I can force ready, but it's module 31 (translator) seems to be in a bad area and rarely ever reads fully causing the drive to keep crashing out when I try to read sectors. Even...

I've got a really strange case here. It's a WD Diablo3d drive which has some firmware issues. Using a donor ROM & LDR I'm able to get SA access, read tracks / modules. Even after loading the utility using the profile folder containing the patient module 01 (dir) it doesn't see a module 11...

I know this isn't new, but I just wanted to have a sticky with these pictures for easy access. Passport Solution Using Samsung Adapter: Sata Connection Using Calypso Board:

It's mine! :D Post number 2000! Haha.

So I've got this 2.5" ST500LM000 Kahuna-5400 drive that spins up pretty normally. Makes one slight click (very slight) then goes ready. It correctly ID's but errors out if you try to read a sector or access SA. I notice that in terminal when I press Ctl + Z I get the following response: Rst...

A few have pointed out to me that on certain pages the images are scrambled. It seems to me that the only correlation with this is that it's only happening on pages that have mixed SSL and non-ssl content. So if one user links an image that's not SSL and then another post attaches an image...

Just to let everyone know I've pruned all the inactive accounts, so now we can tell how many actual active members there are. Looks like 109 at the moments. Some must be just lurkers, because they don't post but they still visit regularly. If your account was pruned and you want to reactivate...

I'm looking for complete resources for this drive: Family: Diablo3D Model: WD30EZRX-00DC0B0 Consolidated ROM: 0004005M Firmware Version: 00040050 Need to replace a number of damaged modules. I can probably get by if the ROM version is different as long as the model and FW version are the same...

This is something I just discovered. Microsoft actually has a codec pack to be able to see thumbnails for RAW digital camera formats such as CR2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=26829 It always annoyed me that Mac OS could preview them and Windows couldn't.

Some of you probably noticed that the forum was down for much of the day today. Sorry for the inconvenience. This was due to the utter incompetence of the tech support folks at my hosting company justhost.com. I had bought a new domain but the cpanel wasn't allowing me to assign it to a...

I've now made it possible to embed youtube videos in posts, hopefully no one abuses it or I'll have to disable it. Just put the very end code after the = sign (E.G. rSZDvD7-cEs) then highlight it and click the "youtube" button. Or if you want to do it in code manually it should look like this...

I think my customers have tried this too: 3owqvmMf6No

It looks like Ace Labs figured out how to do a smart hotswap without writing all the tracks to the donor Looks like you just need the following resources to be able to get a drive ready to read data: Copy of ROM; Copy of adaptive settings from ROM module ID=47h; Copy of 1xh overlay...

This is an odd case. Had this Seagate 7200.11 model ST3750630AS drive come in. The drive is a bit twitchy, and does have some bad sectors. Overall though it was able to image just fine. Looking at the data though I find an anomaly. The beginning of the drive is all filled with random data...

I just noticed these on WD's website: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1600 Anyone had a chance to open one up yet and see what's inside? I would guess it's just a regular My Passport, as nothing special is required to stream 4K video over USB 3.0. Maybe it just has a larger...

So today I had a customer ask me to recover the preview files from a Lightroom database. The originals camera pictures were lost when an external failed, but the preview images within Lightroom are actually pretty good quality (some over 2000px resolution). After a bit of research I found this...

I need the following ldr: Model: WD10EADS-00M2B0 ROM Version: 0090001G Family: Dragonfly2 Thanks!

I've added the ability to this forum for you to embed google docs into a post. This might be nice if you have any excel sheets you regularly update and want to make available for others to see. You can see an example of this in this post which I updated...

I'm looking for an LDR for this drive: WD10SPCS-24HWST1 ROM Version: 00020048 I don't know the family, it's one of the new ones and doesn't auto detect on my one version out of date PC-3000. It's close to Rembrandt as that can do most things on this drive from what I can tell. Thanks!

Well, looks like it'll be a busy couple of weeks here. Had 70Mph winds here along with the most lightning I've ever seen in my life. Took out thousands of trees and power lines. About half the state of RI still doesn't have any power. Just came back at my house, but still out at the office...

Looks like all our efforts to tell people about what an inferior product Seagate is compared to HGST are paying off. http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdail ... -says-rbc/ WD is seeing a surge in stock price. Up 10% compared to only a 4% increase in Seagate. I sure hope this trend continues...

This is something I find a bit odd. Had a RAID 0 come in (no Idea what controller) for recovery. Was a simple case, but oddly the MBR wasn't located at sector 0, it was moved over to sector 2. All I had to do was copy the sector and paste it into sector 0 (which was all zeros) on my clone and...

Has anyone here ever tried the RAID edition of Data Extractor? I'd kind of forgotten that it even existed. Just curious how it compares with software like R-Studio for raid rebuilds, which is what I generally do now.

I've added a plugin to the forum that allows users to log in using social accounts such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, etc. Hopefully this will simplify the sign up process for new users, and not just attract spammers. We'll see I guess. Let me know if you experience any issues with it...

I haven't been in this business terribly long, so I haven't been able to notice the effect that a new version Windows release has on data recovery workload. Have those of you who've been around longer ever noticed a surge in data recovery work after a new version is released? I'm just thinking...

I've had two of these drives show up today, one with damaged P-List and another with just a lot of bad sectors. Both, are imaging now at good speed in DE. Funny how the same drives seem to fail all at the same time. :D

I've got a new 3.5" Toshiba MD04ACA400 that came in for data recovery. Drive clicks like it either has bad heads or possibly G-List damage. So my question about this model for anyone who knows is: 1. Has anyone managed to build virtual translator for these in PC-3000? (I haven't updated to...

When you create new threads now, you'll notice a box labeled "URL:" just under where you enter the subject. If you leave it blank, it'll autofill it with the post title, or you can create a more SEO friendly version by typing in a search phrase related to the post. E.G. you can type in...

Please just ignore the message after you post, it's just a glitch in the code I'm trying to work out. Your threads/messages are still getting posted, it's just an annoying message. Hopefully will have it cleared up soon.

I'm currently trying to set up a mod to rewrite the urls to something more SEO friendly. So instead of seeing a link like: /forum/viewtopic.php?=postXX It'll be more like: /forum/wd-data-recovery/(post title)/ However it's currently having some SSL issues. So if the site is down at any...

Has anyone tried these? They look decent to me, and for the price might be worth it. http://www.hddheadtools.com/product/lev ... omb-suite/

Here's a consolidated version of all the Seagate terminal commands collected so far. It's not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather a collection of commands useful in data recovery. If you have more info to share please post it and I'll add it to the list: The Very Basics: TTL...

So my wife saw this picture and wants one: Anyone out there in Australia who can box one up and ship it here?

Here's an interesting patent document awarded to WD: Apparently WD writes some spiral servo tracks onto their drives (or at least is planning to). Must be a technique to speed up the seek times when jumping long distances across the platter. Pretty cool concept.

I know some people like to use exFAT when they need Mac/Windows cross compatibility. But, just take a look at the capacity difference just moving a folder from a FAT32 formatted drive over to a exFAT. I realize that this is due to the default cluster size being too large, but most people will...

Anyone notice that Bing now has a rewards program where you can get gift cards and stuff for just using their search engine. Don't get me wrong, I wish more people used Bing as my site kicks butt on there. But, if you have to pay people to use it, just give up and move on M$.

Hi all, just wanted to warn about a new type of email virus being spread around. It claims that you have a negative account on your E-Zpass from going through a toll and your debt card was declined. Attached to it is an "invoice" which appears as a doc file but is actually a javascript file...

Wow, not a single post today. I guess I need to start posting some interesting stuff on here again to get the conversation started.

Here's a new social media site which might have promise for business owners: minds.com It's got a system where the more you participate, post, and comment you get points which you can use to push your posts out to other people to see. I'm curious to see if the links built are of any value.

Looks like Apple is getting the shaft for having bought 3Tb Seagates to put in their iMacs. They are now offering free replacement even for machines that are out of warranty. Which is nice of Apple, and I'm sure is costing them a fortune. http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/19/88157 ... hard-drive

Look at this crispy critter that showed up:

I'm just using this thread as a quick place to paste images I want to link to on another forum. So please just ignore it. Or use it to post your own images for that purpose. :D

Here's another interesting stat from Backblaze regarding the correlation between the number of times a drive is power cycled and it's failure rate: Obviously there will be some correlation between age and number of power cycles. However the chart here is far more pronounced than the hours of...

Wow, if I could afford to I'd love to load my NAS up with 8 of these: http://betanews.com/2015/06/09/hgst-ann ... ard-drive/ Thought the SMR part still scares me. Anyone here actually worked on any of the helium filled ones? I have yet to seen one show up, but I suppose that's because they're...

Wow, today has been a stellar day for data recovery. Had two unexpected jobs show up, both were head stuck WD drives. Freed them both up, and both immediately ID'd. First one was a 500Gb WD Blue drive which imaged 100% in about 5hrs, not a single bad sector. Second one is a 2Tb My Passport...

Has anyone had much success going from native USB to SATA boards with Toshiba yet? And if so, what do you try and match between the boards? I've got one here that's a board number: G003296A which I neither have, nor can find easily available. Since this is a bit of a rush job, I'm hoping to...

Original Message Removed Note from Admin: If you represent the company who makes that software you are required to identify yourself. Otherwise, you'll be banned for pushing it here. We allow data recovery software reps to promote here, but it has to be done in a transparent way. Not by...

Here's a good reason. I just want to update the out of date address they have listed for my business. To do that you have to "verify your business". However when I try to do that it takes me to some pay updating service (which is annoying). So I decide to just cave and pay to update it...

Scam Alert!!! The company Tenorshare makes their business out of constantly spamming forums like this with links to their software. They never present themselves as software representatives but always pretend to be users of the software and recommend it to everyone. DO NOT BUY THEIR SOFTWARE...

It seems that this forum must be particularly appealing to Russians. Look at these stats from Google Analytics: More visits from Russia in the last month than from the USA (which includes all my activitiy) If only more of these guys would join and not just lurk. We'd love to know who you all...

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I've added a ranking system to the forum. The more you post, the higher your rank goes. 0 - 24 posts = data recovery noob 25 - 74 = data recovery novice 75+ = data recovery pro 150+ = data recovery master and, so on. I'll adjust the post requirements as...

Is it just me, or does it look like these guys totally ripped off the design of my homepage: http://www.dokterharddisk.com/ The similarity is uncanny. Or perhaps I ripped off their design without realizing it...... though I've never been there before five minutes ago...

I think my local competitor keeps flagging all my legitimate reviews on my Google place page (very annoying). Meanwhile his are all fake, not one even has a real name attached to it. Anyway, I'm not going to take the low-road and start flagging his reviews (just in case it isn't him). However...

Anyone here ever heard of this project? http://digitalfire.ucd.ie/?page_id=1011 It seems to be a custom BIOS flashed linux build which makes the computer strictly a write blocking forensic imaging tool. Perhaps it could be tweaked to make a homebrew hardware imager similar to DDI :?: Might...

Anyone know of a good SATA to SATA write blocker? I've got USB ones, and those seem pretty common but I'm hoping to find just an inline one that keeps it a SATA connection. I'd like to be able to use it for a ddrescue station I use for drives with just a few bad sectors, and I'm always nervous...

I find it funny how people here are all up in arms about the government "spying" on their phone calls, when we willingly let Google have far more information. Just follow this link and adjust the time frame to 30 days: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 Though I guess it could make a...

So I'm currently working on a Netgear X-RAID2 that was re-configured and lost the data in the process. Anyone have any idea what stripe size these typically use? Will take forever having to scan each time for the lost filesystem. Thanks!

Does anyone know if Huawei Android phones encrypt the memory? I've got one here that's totally smashed and will definitely need chip-off. Just don't want to waste time if it's encrypted anyway.

Looks like we'll soon be recovering data from 3Tb My Passports: http://store.wdc.com/store/wdus/en_US/p ... al_Storage Hopefully they'll be easier than the other 3Tb+ sized externals we've been seeing. :D Might help to cut down the number of people being duped into buying Seagate externals...

I've got this DM drive here that I'm now on my second head swap. First time it worked for a whole five minutes then shut down. This time it again ID'd when first powered on, was busy re-allocating sectors so I went in and disabled that in RAM which seemed to stabilize it. Then I stupidly went...

What do you guys use to recover data from iPods? This is the first time I'm met someone willing to pay for recovery from one.

Just want to mention that I've added my google custom donor hard drive search engine to a sticky in the Market forum. Donor Drive Search Engine

Simply type in the Model, P/N, DCM, etc. to search various sources for the drive you need. Current list of sites searched: http://www.donordrives.com http://www.data-medics.com http://www.hddzone.com http://www.harddrivepcb.com http://www.hdd-parts.com http://www.accesscomputerparts.net...

Wow, I want to know who this company is using for data recovery: https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTView ... =000003594 $10,000 just to get a pack of CSV's from a database backup file.... I'm in the wrong line of data recovery work.

Here's a perfect example that illustrates why we need to charge a small fortune to make professional data recovery worthwhile to do. I get a job in that has bad heads, given it's history I tell them it has low odds of recovery but I'm I'm willing to try changing the heads if they approve my...

Has anyone had much success disabling heads in ROM on these drives and perhaps reading just one or two heads at a time? Takes forever adjusting head map and writing it to ROM each time, so I'd rather not waste the time experimenting if someone else has already tried that angle.

Just to let you all know, I'm trying to switch over my site to the new version so expect some downtime while I'm changing things. I'm really hoping to keep it to a minimum.

Today I finally added the data recovery secrets section we've been talking about. The current members list is as follows: lcoughy jono larrysabo HaQue IRS pclab w.simon michael chiklis arvika jerovsec Elicia and myself Other forum members won't even be able to even see the data recovery...

So this was a big build up to a huge let down. Spend two weeks working to piece together enough SA code from different drives to get a working SA for smart hot swap, and it finally worked. :D Unfortunately there's a steady repeating pattern of bad sectors across the entire data area...

Does anyone know approximately where Bitlocker stores it's encryption key? The password is known, but the drive is impossibly slow to image. Would take years to complete, so I'm hoping to target just the couple files needed by mounting the DE task. When I do mount it, it sees that it's using...

So today, I get this popping up on my desktop: It's from their partition software which I've used for years and used to be pretty good. Pretty sad that this company now is not only spamming this forum, but is even even using their own software to created popups advertising their other...

Hmmm.... I guess there was a lot of people on the forum around 10AM, I wasn't one of them. Strange how you get sudden random spikes like that.

Anyone had a chance to work on one of these dual drive passports yet? I think the concept of RAID 1 in there is sort of cool, but I assume that if you drop it good, it'll just have a synchronized head crash. But, the cool part will be that if some heads work in each drive, you might be able...

I found this interesting, so I thought I'd share. As some of you know I've been working to transition my website over to Wordpress (finally) and wanted to complete it before letting Google know the new site existed. You can see it here: www.data-medics.com/recovery/ I hadn't posted a single...

I know Google announced that they will be giving a boost to sites using SSL, but so far I'm not seeing positive benefits: Maybe it just needs time to stabilize, but for now it seems to be killing my number of impressions in organic search.

As we all seem to be having difficulties head swapping these, I though it'd be nice to have a thread to share our DM head swap experiences. Here's mine from today: Patient ST30000DM001 PN: 9YN166-570 FW CC9F Date: 13044 Site: TK Serial: Z1F0Y... Donor ST30000DM001 PN: 9YN166-570 FW: CC9E...

Hello, I need resources for the following model: Maxtor 6Y080L0 FW: YAR41BW0 Family: Calypso If anyone has it, please help! Thanks.

Not sure if anyone is interested in this, but since it only took a minute to install I've added a chat room page to the forum. Might be fun for those of us who miss the good old days of IRC. :D

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So I'm working on the following drive: Model : Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 Serial : 100325PBL2003SHBJR9V Firmware : PB2AC60W Capacity : 232.89 GB (488 397 168) Drive IDs perfectly, shows correct capacity, etc. But I have no sector access. I ran a check of the modules in the modules table and a...

I am so tired right now... been here pretty much since 2AM, not counting a breakfast outing. I'm about to fall asleep. I don't know how I got talked into rebuilding this RAID overnight. But I guess it is nice to have a profit that's well over $2K for one days work. Counting down the minutes...

So the other day a customer brings in a older 250Gb Maxtor external hard drive which practically took a crowbar to open. Finally I get around to testing the internal IDE drive inside and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Just a bad USB bridge. I'd be willing to bet that more that 50%...

I just wanted to be the person to make the 1000th post. :D

I want to get your thoughts on this idea. I'm thinking it might be worth creating a locked section of the forum accessible only to certain select members where we can share "secrets" that we don't want to post publicly but are willing to share with other contributing forum members. Of course...

If anyone had issues connecting to the forum recently I just want to apologize. I had to make some edits to the .htaccess file to force SSL redirecting and for a little bit the site wasn't working. Should be all set now. Is it forcing SSL for you?

I've got a job that I'm working on that's a 61GSY family drive. The original drive I believe needs new heads, but I wanted to rule out PCB first just to be safe. Was able to read CP fine from it, however now I get in two perfectly functional donors and can't seem to get any terminal access to...

So I realize that often with WD My Passport and Elements drives you can't always read the ROM code through the USB connection. Some models simply don't allow it even if the drive is fully functional. On many models you can gain access to read the ROM code through a terminal connection. Below...

So I've got a Toshiba drive here which I'm quite certain needs new heads and it seems to be a rather rare model. I don't even have a PCB for it. Normally I'd try to match the model and the code underneath E.G. HDD2E82 D UL02 T (at least the part I underlined). But given the scarcity of this...

Just want to say welcome and thank you to everyone who has joined up and made this new forum such a success. :D

So recently this video (http://gillwaredatarecovery.wistia.com/ ... qfz8xr96jf) appeared on Gillware's website showing a burnishing system being used to clean / test a HDD platter. I'm sure some of you are wondering where you can get such a machine. So after a little research, I found the...

So yesterday I get in a Lacie 6Tb Network RAID (sorry it has no model number that I can tell). The IT guy who brought it in has no idea of the original configuration, and it's already been looked at by Lacie's "data recovery service" who said it couldn't be recovered. So here's what I find...

I've added a new section for RAID data recovery to the forum. Didn't seems like it quite fit into any other category.

So I'm finally making the switch over to Wordpress (something I've been threatening forever). And I'm going full SSL since that's now becoming a ranking factor. Just working out the details of my template. Let me know what you think of it so far: www.data-medics.com/recovery I'm open to...

I happened to be looking at BVG Group's website and I noticed this tool (http://www.bvg-group.ru/eng/diagnostic/HIE_200.php) which advertises being able to clone drives with bad sectors. And given the current exchange rate from RUB to USD, it's pretty cheap now. Anyone ever used it and know if...

Anyone else been on Google maps today? They added a new view in addition to map and satellite view. Now you have Pac-Man view where you can play Pac-Man on your own streets. :D

I'm working on a nightmare of an Everest V family drive. The customer tried to free the heads themselves and ended up damaging the SA (amazingly the heads survived). I did composite read of the tracks and modules and was able to grab all the really critical modules and the CS checks out on all...

So this one I find interesting. I've got a Hitachi HTS547550A9E384 here that when it's first powered on clicks away like crazy. My first thought was to just quote for a head swap and move on to the next job. But I noticed that after about 30 clicks it finally does come ready. So I backed up...

I don't know about you guys, but I'm finding that trying to get Windows 8 to boot after a crash is a nightmare. Customer had a drive which had some slow reading sectors. Imaged 100% without one single unread sector (including the recovery partitions). But despite this I can't get it to boot...

I've noticed that lately Google seems to be loving my website. Just look at the chart in webmaster tools: I hope this isn't just a fluke.

For once I'm having a day where things are going my way. Head swapped a rampless 4 platter WD drive and it actually imaged quickly. Then got a native USB one in, replaced with a SATA board. It didn't ID at first but a quick upload of module 13 as overlay in RAM an it became completely...

Explanation. The WD family code is found in the part of the model after the dash, usually in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th characters. So for example in a model such as WD5000AAKS-40V6A0 the family code is V6A, and as you can see below belongs to Tahoe family. This can be helpful for finding other...

I need LDR (and other FW resources too) for the following model: Family: Everest V Model: WD3200BEKT-75PVMT1 ROM Version: 00040027 If anyone has this I'd really appreciate it.

I just got in yet another WD Passport drive that isn't encrypted. WD10TMVW-11ZSMS0 PC-3000 found an encryption key (which scrambled the data when I tried to use it to decrypt). Turns out it wasn't encrypted. This is about the third one like this that I've seen one that never got encrypted...

I'm looking to hire someone to do guest blogging for me on my site. The person would have to be knowledgeable of data recovery and able to create unique articles on a variety of subjects related to the business. No re-spun existing articles or Google translated articles will be accepted. I'd...

Here's a list that I've compiled of every PCB number from Western Digital that I've heard of. Thought it might be handy for anyone who's trying to collect them all. 2060-001003 2060-001047 2060-001062 2060-001076 2060-001092 2060-001100 2060-001102 2060-001113 2060-001127 2060-001128...

I've got a Samsung 2.5" ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB drive that comes ready (most of the time) and correctly ID's shows capacity, can even read modules. However whenever I try to access a sector it goes into an endless loop with the following readout with the AP Cnt steadily rising: S_0SR:0 AP:1...

Looks like Seagate is releasing an ST...AS series 8Tb SMR drive. http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_ar ... review_8tb This time the SMR is fully drive managed so it can be used in any OS. They are selling it as an archive drive, so obviously the performance will suck. I'm betting these are...

Three questions: 1. Does anyone know of any good software to do this? 2. If I hire a database guy to build an app, would anyone be interested in paying a few bucks for a copy? 3. If you answered yes to question #2, what specifics specifics would you want to see in the database? My stock has...

I've got a Toshiba drive here that's clicking. Normally I'd assume bad heads, but I decided to first try backing up the CP so I can later program a new PCB (don't have this one apparently). I used the normal trick of pressing enter in terminal after powering on, but this one never goes ready...

Just noticed this article: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 37378.html Looks like they are about to start shipping 3Tb SSD drives to North America from Japan. Looks like the end of traditional hard drives may be coming quickly. Fortunately their 1Tb version is $990 so the 3Tb will...

I'm curious to hear how other people first got into doing data recovery work as a profession. So let me start with my story, and then perhaps you'd like to share yours. About 7 or 8 years ago I was working as an electrician for a company that also did quite a bit of networking and IT work for...

Anyone had any of these new M.2 SSD drives come in for recovery yet? I'd imagine that even PC-3000 SSD can't interface with them given the PCI-Express format used.

Anyone else been reading about this concept: http://m.channel3000.com/technology/why ... e/31469414 My thought is that even if they figure out how to write DNA data, retrieving it will be nearly impossible. Perhaps we should start saving up for some gene sequencing equipment now. :roll:

I must be retarded today or something. I'm going out of my mind trying to figure out why this 1.8" Apple LIF drive is coming ready, but I can't hear it spinning up at all. So finally I get the bright idea to remove the metal cover that's concealing the PCB board (or so I thought). And what do...

So here's a strange Seagate case I've never seen. Seems this drive gets stuck busy whenever it tries to access it's S.M.A.R.T. data. I can't even access or clear it because the drive just gets stuck busy. And every time it hits a bad sector it becomes busy and completely stops responding...

Here's a good laugh for you guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flom4k7lPUo#t=313 :lol:

Thought this was interesting so I figure I'd share. Recently for the first time I had a customer bring in an HP Simplesave external hard drive. The USB bridge was cooked, the drive had some bad sectors and was encrypted. The bridge had a 4061 number on it but a lot of the numbers were just...

Does anyone know good software to recover data from a Verizon Galaxy Note III that is running Android 4.4.4? I normally use Wondershare Dr. Fone but it just isn't working for this model. You guys know any other good options?

I've added a section for phones, tablets, cameras, digital photo frames, and other similar devices. I don't personally do much of this work, so don't expect much help from me, but some others who use this forum might be more experienced with that stuff.

Here's an interesting glitch: "Most users ever online was 25 on Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:48 am" It's still Monday the 24th, apparently the forum is now clairvoyant and knows how many users will be online tomorrow. :lol:

Just stumbled across this: http://storj.io It's another peer to peer cloud backup service similar to www.symform.com, however this one promises to allow you to rent out your extra storage space for monthly payments. I actually really liked Symform and had hoped to eventually be able to use it...

Has anyone ever found an adapter for these 1.8" Macbook Air LIF hard drives? Or at least knows the pinout to build a SATA connection? I know this has come up in other threads, but I never paid that much attention before.

Given how competitive data recovery is I know a lot of us have been forced to become SEO guru's as well as data recovery pros. I know I'm constantly on the prowl for places to drop the occasional link to a page for SEO. So I just thought I'd share some of the places I've been able to get good...

OK, this is the stuff that drives me crazy about a lot of forums. Anandtech is supposed to be a tech forum, which I constantly get flagged for "spamming" when all I'm doing is trying to help people who are hopelessly lost with their data recovery issues. Now I get a 3 day ban for this post...

Some of you may have read this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/ ... ce=twitter In which Kaspersky claims to have identified hidden SA code in common hard drives used to gain remote access to computers. So here's my thought, let's make this into a business opportunity. I know a...

So this forum is now incorporated with Tapatalk (as mentioned already in another thread). The name of the forum in the Tapatalk directory if you already have the app installed is "Data Recovery Forum". This will allow you to get push notifications of topics you are following.

I'm considering releasing a mobile app version of the forum, perhaps using Tapatalk plugin. That way you can get push notifications of threads you follow, etc. Is this something anyone would be interested in? Opposed to for any reason?

I'm happy to announce that Elena has made available a full unlimited trial of the software that will work until June for all of our forum members. You can download it here: http://www.reclaime-pro.com/data-medics.aspx And please do post your feedback and suggestions regarding the software here...

Anyone ever seen this before. It seems that a virus went and adjusted all the file sizes in the file table to be the same exact size: And do you know of an easy way to fix it without manually setting the values or having to resort to RAW recovery?

Saw a new error message that I hadn't seen before today. Had a Seagate ST9750420AS come in that properly shows model, serial, FW, but no capacity. All system resources backed up without any major issues (couple read errors on head 1 - no biggie). But I noticed the error: Media Cache...

When requesting firmware or Ldr's please first check the firmware server. If it isn't there, then post a request and be sure to provide the following information: 1. Full model of drive (Including after the dash) 2. Consolidated ROM version 3. Drive Family 4. System you are using (PC-3000...

Is anyone else here sick of the snow? We've had about a foot a week show up for the last month. My back hurts from shoveling, and I'm flat out of places to put the stuff. Looks like we're in for another storm this upcoming weekend too. :evil:

Looks like Seagate is finally getting serious about getting into the SSD market. http://www.maximumpc.com/micron_and_sea ... space_2015 I wonder what new and creative ways to fail they'll come up with. My guess, exploding SSDs. :lol:

User Name: firmware Password: Contact Admin Both username and pass are case sensitive. https://www.file-medics.com If you have problems viewing it, you can use the direct link: https://www.file-medics.com

So I've got a nice old classic 40GB Maxtor drive that ID's and reads fairly well in DE but is getting quite a few ECC error sectors. I know DDI (which I don't have currently) has a feature to read such sectors multiple times and build a composite sector. Have you guys ever found this feature...

Took about 3 hours of struggling with it but I finally got the last thumb drive on my bench to read. Hopefully the coming weeks bring more hard drives instead. I'm getting sick of breathing in solder smoke. :o

ARRRRGGGGGG!!!! I just hate when I get bad sectors in one of my target drives after a difficult clone. This 2TB was wiped and passed right before being used, and now after cloning in Data Extractor, R-Studio gets stuck at the 14GB mark every time I try to scan the clone. I'm gonna have to...

What do you guys think... I've got a 500GB WD SPider family drive model WD5000AACS-00ZUB0. It clicks, somewhat randomly (not a real steady click) and eventually spins down. Inside the platters look good from what I can see, the heads all look fine (even took them out and inspected). However I...

This is a subject that comes up often on the various forums, so I figure I'll just create a tutorial about it and when the subject arises we can just point people here. Introduction: When a hard drive is known, or assumed, to have bad sectors the first thing that you should ever do before...

In an effort to streamline the forum and make it less cluttered, I've made several of the forums into sub-forums of other main categories. For example the PC-3000, Deepspar, & Atola sections are now sub categories of the Data Recovery Tools forum. I've also added some sections such as new sub...

Did you guys notice that Seagate now has a new logo? I'm guessing the old one reminded too many people of the rings in their platters. :lol:

Anyone ever get to open one of these and see what's inside? I'm just happy they are being sold in Britain and not here: http://www.istorage-uk.com/diskashurdt.php

Stumbled upon this article claiming that Ace Data Group in Texas, USA has partnered with Sandforce to be able to recover data from their encrypted SSDs. http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2015/02 ... based-ssds I wonder if it's true or just some preemptive SPAM advertising hoping it'll come true...

I just wanted to point out that I've added google +1 buttons to all the posts. So if you like a certain thread or post, be sure to +1 somewhere on the page. This will help others find the thread, and supports the overall growth of this forum. Thanks Guys!

I know this has nothing to do with data recovery, but since I seem to be the first person to have figured this out I though I'd share. Might be good to generate some traffic to the forum. :D So as you see all the posts now have a Google +1 button. Here's how I did it: 1. In the folder...

I'm just testing some adjustments to the forum layout here, so just ignore all the useless posts.

It's been less than one month since this forum launched and we just hit the 100 member mark. I realize half of these accounts are likely just spammers but it's still a great start. Many thanks to all of you for joining, and to our moderators for diligently keeping out the spam. If you know...

Does anyone know how to figure out what ABA ranges are in which tracks on a drive? Here's my situation. I've got a WD Europa drive that I know for a fact that I managed to read the tracks and modules. The modules are in the profile folder, but the tracks are strangely missing. I'm guessing...

You gotta see this article: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/12 ... -their-way Pay special attention to the first picture. I think it gives a more accurate description of where their technology is going than the article does.

So I see the HGST has finally caught back up to the others with a 6Tb model. http://www.storagereview.com/hgst_desks ... hdd_review I notice they mentioned a new technology called RVS (Rotational Vibration Safeguard). I wonder if they opted to do this instead of taking the helium route for now...

Found this article interesting as well: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... it-matter/ Yet further statistical proof that HDD coolers are a complete waste of money.

So recently I was contacted by Elena at ReclaiMe data recovery software to try out their new Pro version. So here's what I found: Right off I liked the feature that you can tell it what drives and drive types to scan before it goes and checks all the volumes on the system. This can be handy...

Edit: I've consolidated the list of Seagate Terminal Commands collected and put it into this sticky thread: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=901 <<<<<<--------------------- Click Here! So Please Visit There Instead

I found this article: http://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-leas ... 1505797966 Which had an interesting statistic of hard drive failure rates according to BackBlaze I'd say this is a pretty accurate portrayal of Seagate's quality these days.

So I've got a DVD-RW disk here that I was initially told wasn't working due to a 'region' issue and they just wanted it re-burned so they can play it in their DVD player. However on further investigation it seems that nothing will recognize the DVD, not Windows/Linux, not any data recovery...

Not that it's data recovery related or anything, but can anyone recommend a good program to do this? Free would be nice, but even if it costs a few bucks is OK too. Just a little favor for a friend I'm trying to do.

Not that I'm even considering buying one, but just out of curiosity. Has anyone actually tried these new tablet integrated looking data recovery tools from Salvation Data?

I just had the most amazing thing happen today. Had a WD Passport drive come in with heads stuck to the platters. I freed it up which went very smoothly. Plugged it in via USB (just to see what it would do) and the the thing just outright works! I'm about 20% cloned now just through the USB...

So I've been reading up and it seems that getting a good number of +1's on Google Plus is really good for SEO. Why don't we all post our G+ page links here and whenever we are board we can spend a minute giving each other some SEO props. I'll start it off. Here's my G+ page...

Thought this benchmark on Tom's Hardware was interesting: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb ... 037-2.html Looks like the 3.1 revision will give quite a nice speed boost. Might actually make it as fast as direct SATA connection for target drives when imaging.

What have you guys found to be the best software for handling Ext 4 file systems with a ton (and I mean a ton) of bad sectors in the file table? My gut is to just go with R-Studio, but I've never had one this filesystem with so many bad sectors at the beginning. Strangely the latter 99% of the...

Anyone else hear about this? http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ha ... ne-n295196 Apparently they've created a holiday in honor of data privacy. Guess there's a holiday for just about everything these days. Which day is "Data Recovery" day?

I've never owned any Atola products and I'm curious. Already owning PC-3000 is there any useful purpose to buy Atola? As in, does it offer any features Ace doesn't already have? I just can't see how they justify the cost otherwise.

Went to er-tools.com the other day and was greeted by this message on their homepage I hope they get more soon. I actually liked these tools, and the price was fair.

I've added a section which only global moderators will have access to. If you notice a user who isn't an outright spammer, but might need to be banned/restricted please post a discussion of their behavior there. Thanks Guys!

So I decided to add a specific section for this instead of just including it in the off topic section. Given how competitive this business can be (especially online) it's a topic I expect to come up often.

Something strange has been going on with Tom's hardware. Over the last 4 days dozens of posts of mine answering questions were all marked as "best answer". One night within an hour about 8 of my posts were selected. I think I have a secret admirer or something. That or someone is trying to...

Hey Guys. I've just added a new logo for my re-sellers/partners to put on their homepage. What do you think? You can see it on one of my partner's site here: http://www.tech911inc.com (I adjusted the color to match his site better which I'll do for all my partners)

Due to some spammers slipping through, I've had to adjust to have the first three posts of new users approved by a moderator. Hopefully this will prevent anymore from slipping through. Moderators please be careful what new posts you approve and thank you for keeping any eye when I'm offline...

Just a though. Some of us, myself included, haven't had the time/resources ($$$) to invest heavily into flash recovery yet. However, when the occasion arises would like to be able to handle it "in-house" rather than mailing out. So my concept is, were I to purchase a USB NAND reader such as...

Alright, who approved this post?

Has anyone successfully used this feature? I'm assuming it's similar to the Seagate ROM boot code utility for writing the ROM and possibly could be used to fix bricked PCB's with bad ROM codes. But I can't seem to get it to work ever. Has anyone figured this feature out yet?

Ran into a strange event today that doesn't make sense to me. Had a HTS547575A9E384 come in that had a burnt out PCB. I wasn't able to read the NV-RAM through the utility as it wouldn't come ready, so I physically moved the chip. The recovery went perfectly, read every last sector. Now I...

I've decided to make a sticky of this topic. Whenever a file type arises that R-Studio can't find in RAW scan and I build a custom search I'll post it here. If you'd like to contribute yours just post the xml file below and I'll add them into the archive. And if you need a custom search built...

Thanks to the steady supply of abhorrent pornography posted by the HDDGURU user DataPlanet, I've had to implement the new user feature. From now on everyone's first post will need to be approved by a moderator. Moderators, please be careful who's posts you approve. Check their user name and...

The firmware server is down for now, as I just sold all my lab equipment, including the NAS that was hosting all my firmware resources. I'll put it back up somewhere else in the near future. I'm just busy with other things right now.

I just banned a couple more user accounts created by this idiot. At least this time I saw the account before he had time to post anything.

I'm wondering if someone (maybe Brian) who actually owns MRT along with other tools like PC-3000 could give a basic breakdown of the good and bad of MRT compared with other tools. I know it's not as good as PC-3000, but at the price I've considered getting one as just a fallback when both...

Hello, I guess I should introduce myself as well: My name is Jared and I'm an alcho.... oh wait, wrong forum. :D But seriously, my name is Jared Palmer, 32 years old and I live in Providence, Rhode Island USA (no it's not really an Island). I've been doing data recovery work for about 7...

Some of you may have come across a few recent pornographic posts. Which were disgusting to say the least. For anyone who's eyes were subjected to this, I just want to say sorry! The user's IP has been banned. He tried coming on again and was subsequently banned again. Eventually he'll get...

So I'm considering posting all my collected HDD resources to an FTP so others can have access and even upload theirs. Does anyone know if there's any possible legal reprocussions for doing this? I would assume they have copyrights on the code, but I'm just wondering if they've ever made an...

Hi guys, I know this information isn't new as it was already posted by Acelabs, but I'd like to have a sticky thread about this for quick reference. Here's a list of SATA compatible boards for WD My Passports, My Elements, etc. that have a native USB port: USB -> SATA 701605 - 701499...

So I get a customer who brings in a drive for recovery and is willing to pay anything to get the data back. Turns out the drive had scratches on the platters and couldn't be saved. So then after we tell them the bad news, they tell us they had everything backed up to Carbonite anyway and want...

Is anyone else getting a sudden mass number of thumbdrives? I've had about 5 a day showing up this week which is more than I usually see in two weeks.

In the area where I live WD Europa family drives don't seem to be too common. Then all of the sudden I get in two, nearly identical models, manufactured the same month, both from HP laptops, that come in on the exact same day. Plus they have the same symptoms, a bit of clicking then they shut...

I just noticed on Dophin's website that they are now selling a kit of SATA PCB's compatable with the USB My Passport varients: http://www.dolphindatalab.com/product/w ... b-package/ I'd love to see some other kits, such as an entire WD Marvel or F3 family set. Perhaps they'll get to that...

I'm sure you already knew this, because here you are. Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy it. :D