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Maybe, maybe not. I've seen cases where a second or even third donor got significantly more data after killing the first/second set of replacements. But, often yes, it's just killing more heads without results. I usually left it up to my clients to decide if they wanted to keep paying for...

771692 is the correct board. If memory serves me correctly, I think the -002 Rev A is the revision with the greatest compatibility. If the patient ROM size is smaller, you can just pad it with zeros at the end to match the donor board's larger ROM size. Also, have to be careful of embedded vs...

Has nothing to do with the hardware level encryption. Long after they implemented encryption into most of their drives IIRC. Getting way ahead of yourself here. First off, how do the two drives sound when just powered on with nothing but a power cable? Do they sound like they spin up...

WD externals very often encrypt/decrypt the data via that SATA-USB bridge adapter board. So it's not surprising that a generic USB/SATA adapter won't recognize the drive. There's a number on the board that you need to match, and you can usually get one on eBay for a reasonable price. Can you...

So how does that work if you buy a plugin, and then the year expires? If you renew, do you keep the plugin, or do you have to renew that annually as well? Seems a complex billing structure.

If you have PC-3000 you can try reading the RAP + CAP + SAP parameters, and then infusing those into a same FW version ROM. Might result in a working ROM code for your drive. I've never seen this either. Not sure if it's sabotage, or just some random code.

So basically it's a SAN version that is limited to a single-year license? (obviously, other features, but those SAN units are the big ones that stand out to me).

And there's the idiot spamming their junk software. Banned, and spam blocked.

The hardware of the device has failed. Probably will require a chip-off recovery solution. Nothing that you can do in software my friend.

There's one company out there advertising their use of a glide burnish machine to improve odds of data recovery. But, it's generally believed by most data recovery professionals that it's nothing more than some hyped up marketing that's unlikely to make any real world difference. If you can...

For what? Cleaning platters? I'd be pretty scared to try that.

Probably is just damage, such as a scratch in the service area, that keeps killing the heads. Unfortunately, some cases are just head killers. I've had plenty that killed 4 or 5 sets of heads while each time getting me just far enough to keep providing false hope. It's hard to get customers...

This is totally true. I have a couple sites I've been putting quite a bit of SEO effort into the last six months to try to boost them (while neglecting this site almost entirely, just keeping it running basically). Those sites have tanked while this one has climbed 50% in search rankings...

Not supported by any tools at this point I'm afraid (at least as far as my somewhat out-of-date-knowledge). I never managed to find a readable preamp version in the ROM. Maybe it's not stored there, or at least not in plain text that can be seen. The best bet is usually just to match the...

It's the bitlocker recovery key. If it was saved to your Microsoft account when you created the key, you should be able to get it from Microsoft on this page: https://account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey Otherwise you are at the mercy of hoping the key was saved somewhere else at the time...

I took it down for you. I suspect it won't let you edit a post days later. Don't want you getting in trouble with Ace.

Right. It's not just about needing the connection. SAS requires the software to be speaking SCSI not ATA, so it's a moot point if you didn't pay for the SCSI/SAS version.

Interesting. I'll have to play around with it later and see if it's any good. What commission do you keep for selling/buying through the app?

It's funny you talk about quality links while simultaneously spamming a link in a chat forum.

Looks like you found it. FYI, I'd be careful about publically posting screenshots of pinouts from inside your pc3000 flash account. I don't think Ace wants those public and you probably don't want to burn your bridge with them.