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    Manipulated WD Case

    Hi all :) just want to share a bizarre case I had today. Client called and said he was at a other DR store but it only was a drop-off point and he had doubts if he should leave it there. So he called us. He told me that the drive stopped working yesterday, could not be mounted but spins, leds...
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    Crazy case: WD Passport with lightning damage

    Hi all, I just had a crazy case with lightning damage that was driving me nuts. Drive looks like: First I read ROM in external reader and burned it on a compatible pcb. The drive was checked in our lab and inside it looked great except the molten filter that was replaced. With new PCB...
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    WD5000LMVW-11CKRS0 HSA swap

    Hi, I currently have one of these drives here for recovery. I have not seen them much but with this one I have a problem. Head 1 is not reading any data but drive IDs and gets RDY. I first converted to sata, unlocked SA, checked modules (all fine) and imaged head 0. Next step was a headswap...
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    Hello from Germany

    A warm hello from Germany to the forum members. I own a DR company in Germany and do physical data recovery quite some years now. In the beginning we did computer repairs and server administration just like some other guys here in the forum but we got more and more requests for data recovery...
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