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The good days of HDD data recovery are coming to an end, ssd took the place of hard drive not to mention the built in storage. I rarely receive hard drive for data recovery. I started to see MacBook's for data recovery, not an easy job to repair the new mac

I'm still using the old version 1.9 never needed more. thank you

If I knew I would install and letting you know, It's just the user folder that cannot be open. It's not a big deal anyway but it's nice to have, and Lubuntu is much more user friendly Thx

Hi Larry, Small world, I had a customer that came to me to recover WD passport 2TB and I saw your sticker on the back of the drive. I was very impressed from the way you work. I'll pm you a photo of the sticker Have a safe week

I did use there services, They can be trusted

Didn't work on 64 bit version 2.13_20190518 Live Thanks

Hi Scott Just wondering why it's not possible to access user folder on Mac hfs+ file system. I have full access with parted magic and I can copy the files. I there is any addon to access user folder please post here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lunCutUD4X8&feature=youtu.be

What a great imager you built, I compered it with another imager that costs 3k and its doing the same if not better Thank you for the life saver tool for small DR company's

Thank you for the advice. Have a great year

Marry Christmases Larry. Ordered all kind of adapters, the dork cloning with Hddsuperclone. I haven't test the usb for the NVME yet, All others worked ez with adapters

I saw this one didn't look as sata. The only way left to clone it is from usb 3. Received 3 NVME and M2 with bad sectors like regular drives, the m2 is not a problem but m2 nvme I couldn't Regards

Thank you for the info.

Hi all, Anyone know by any chance where can I find M2 NVME to sata adapter? Dies it exist? I started to receive the M2 NVME to recover data from really need this adapter. Regards

https://www.hddheadtools.com/product/wd ... ackage-02/ DESCRIPTION This is one special customized WD 2060-8000XX Data Recovery Unlock PCBs Promotion Package. WD 2060-8000XX Data Recovery Unlock PCBs Promotion Package 02 contains the following four PCBs: 800022-SATA PCB: This PCB is customized...

Thanks all, The operating system can only recognize up to 2 gb drive. I just install all on different old hardware

Nice weekend all, I have a windows 95 drive, 1.6gb that is getting bad (I know, It's about time). The drive is slow but readable. Now I need to recover the operating system so I cloned the drive to 20 gig (the smallest I had). I used Hddsuperclone, I cloned the drive 100% but when I put it...

Thank you, for sure I'll have one of this. Wonder what type of encryption it had, I never had problem unlock mac with another mac. Many thx

Wow you were right. I repaired the Macbook put the drive in and it booted. When I connected the drive to another mac it showed the the drive cannot be recognized by the OS. Wired, I had another drive that I couldn't read (unulocated) when but to another mac it asked for the password, once I...

Ok thank you, he should have the password I'll try to repair it and put the hdd in. I'll et you know once finished.

Oh, I got it, new boss in town. It's an open forum and we are allowed to answer, as long as it's not spam. I didn't see it's an old topic but still....

Thank you Luc. Couldn't get anything with R-studio but when I cloned the drive with HDDSuperclone seems to have lots of data. I think @pclab is right about the encryption, The drive is probably encrypted. So in this case I must repair his macbook first. Proper long. Any way to decrypt mac?

Don't abort sometimes it pass the bad area and become faster (or slower) give it a day or two. hddsuperclone is a better option but the time will be the same. I had 3 tb that took me 3 months to clone so its not that bad. good luck

No not encrypted , corrupted. He took it to apple and they tried to repair it. I tried with R-studio but couldn't find anything on the drive. some system files. Any thoughts?

Hi friends I have a corrupted macbook partition to recover. The drive is good no bad sectors but I did clone it just in case. Any tips on how to repair mac partition? Or Which program are you using to recover RAW? Cheers

Wow, congratulation man and good luck selling

Confirmed working with E2B. Thx

Thank you Luke

https://www.ufsexplorer.com/ufs-explore ... covery.php This one?

Thank you for the trust Jared. Is there anything else that you are using for deleted files? I'm asking because I asked local DR company that I'm working with and he told that R-studio is one click solution and he has other advanced tools. Thx

Thank you worth checking DMDE.

Hi all. What do you expert recommend for deleted files? I recently had a deleted user account to recover, but couldn't find anything above 2014, customer insist that there are more files on the drive. Not much info on the drive only 60 gig from 750g I usually user power data recovery if I...

Thank you

Hi all. I have a Blackberry which was restored to factory setting. If this is possible to do please text or call me, phone can found in my signature Preferred Canadian based company. The files are important for the customer, I don't have tools and asked local DR company that I work with and...

Agree, but sometimes soft reset won't work.

Wow! Tested the 64 Bit ISO, when opening hddsuperclone there are lots of errors. Something about proxy. I'll test it today more.

For me it's good! ranking better in my area.

I'm happy for you and me, I couldn't afford paying 10$ for a click. But there are many people that built their business on that and even google rep built the ads for them, to receive an email like this on something they built..... On the other hand I had many customers that were scammed from...

I just received an email from google that Data Recovery keywords were added to restrictions to ads for third-party technical support providers. This will have big impact on small data recovery shop Here is the email Hello Google Advertiser, We wanted to alert you that one or more of your ads...

Hi @maximus. Long time quite in this area so I thought....... I have 4tb Seagate that seams to have at least 1 bad head. It is reading 11 times, slowdown with 3 reading. and continue. I wanted to test skip fast option to see if it's working. I did change the skip time to 500 ms but didn't...

Thx Jared, They started to come to recovery. It is a lot of work and risky, but it's hard to find matching board. By the way I managed to patch module 02 with maximus tool. I still have the drive working with 5 pending sectors. In this video he said its not possible...

Not in English but the best I could find. Also please share your experience if you've done it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XosJWkLz2dY

Maybe this will help you, first page identify-wd-marvel-families-by-code-after-the-dash-t636.html or https://www.dolphindatalab.com/category ... es-models/

Big market, The small company's will not disappear, They only going to push the prices down. Either way electronic failure will be very hard to fix.

Well, PC3000 is not always the best after all. Good to have one of each if you have enough work.

New info received from DD3000 on facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HDDTOOLS/ Important: I don't know the seller nor the tool, just sharing new info. Here is the documentation; According to the seller on facebook there will be 2 version available, online priced at about 1000$, offline...

Hit or miss mean it's the end of the drive. How do you connect the drive? To a pc? If the data is important stop playing with it. The more you do the more you damaged the drive.

What's this? How to have access? Thank you for sharing.

Recover unstable USB drives with any Windows software. View this email in your browser We are happy to announce the release of the DeepSpar USB Stabilizer, which allows any Windows software to quickly and reliably work with unstable/degraded USB storage devices. It is a combination of software...

The only thing he did right is to open the drive. :mrgreen:

That was funny video I wanted to share, I don't think he know what he's doing. Good idea to make money on youtube :mrgreen:

No clean room, no air spry, gloves...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJbfdvq0GwI

Thank you, it'll help me a lot. Tested, working.

You sound like my wife! she is saying "if you buy, buy the best tool or don't buy at all"

Hi Amarbir Can you please share a link to the video? You right but only have few drive a month. 1 tool is what I need.

Thank you, good to know, I will check if they have english version. Regars

1000 USD more, That's a lot of money for what I'm doing. 8600 CDN for what I'm charging not worth it. How is DFL? It helped solve common problems? I was quoted 1300$ for Seagate and WD plus 450$ for each other the total was 2600$ as far as I remember. It's not pc3000 but does it help solving...

If investing 3k rather pay 5 and get a good tool You don't have to pay annual no one forcing you but no support.

Larry, You live 2 kilometers away from deepspar you can ask them for the prices. They are selling pc3000. The prices are slimier few $ different Yes it was about 8 month ago price might of changed.

Look like fraud to me. some photos https://www.newbecca.com/product/529459279885

Larry it's included. Item Solution Unit Price, USD Quantity Discount Total price for units, USD 1 PC-3000 UDMA with Data Extractor UDMA 5600 1 3% 5432 2 Delivery from Prague to Canada 70 TOTAL 5502

Yeh for sure I agree but still it's not the same as it use to. Whatever you do good luck man

Down payment 418.00 23X180% 4590$ Total 5008% PC3000 5600$ Not worth even considering it! https://www.ebay.com/itm/173083418887

Maximus, can you please add to the ISO support for exFAT file sys? Regards

It sure is a RapidSpar copy for different country's. Nice. Like someone said before they see the end of the HDD DR and trying to make extra money. DeepSpar is a good imager but still only imager. I doubt anyone is buying it now days. DFL is selling the repair tool for 2600$

Or maybe not https://www.aliexpress.com/item/DD3000- ... 66467.html

That's why I don't want to invest in pc3k 6k, Some SSD started to popup it'll increase with time, the prices are going down, 250 gig is now under 50$, now not many will buy hdd for the OS Web design and web marketing is the future and it's getting more and more demanded however even webdesign...

It's not about phones, it's all the data recovery industry will change. A faulty part on ssd like msata will be very hard to repair for experienced technicians, parts are getting smaller and smaller. 10 years from now many data recovery company's will start to close or re adapt to the market.

Thank you for the input. I will need some time to read and learn how to use it. I skipped phase 4 and passed to the trimming. It is reading. Thank you again

@maximus, This seems to work like charm for wd that one of the head isn't reading. I have a drive that if it connected to windows it mount and disconnect repeatedly. I cloned the drive, 75% went smooth but 25% aint moving. Now it's scrapping. still only 75%. This seems to get job like head...

Interesting Thanks for sharing

Jared that's the future of DR. No more mechanical issue or swapping boards, You need to fix the device electronic level to get the data out. The problem is; to replace the part that is shorted\bad without messing out other part when soldering. Finding the faulty part is one thing (not easy)...

Yeh this thing is almost like a 4k tool. I had a drive that had a freezing issue and needed power cycle so I used external power supply. But it did get the job done. You are really not far from building a hardware data recovery tool that can be ez sold for 1k I used it in many computers...

Hi, Thanks for your reply, The case was solved by bypassing a resistor that goes to the motor. Regards

Ok Jared thank you. I manged to repair the board, one bad resistor. I think someone opened before 1 screw missing. I loaded the drive once with Raw partition and smart reported no errors. still no data :(

Hi all I'll try to make it short I have this new WD. There is power to the pcb but the motor not spinning. I have 1.8v on the bios chip. It should be 3.3 volts. Anyone has schematic? please let me know. No, I don't have similar board EDIT: it is the correct voltage Thanks in advanced...

I aborted the recovery, The partition mounted, after check disk all files accessible, overall good recovery. The new version worked with no errors for 5 minutes so it seems to be fixed. The older version. https://imgur.com/a/zCUuGqx If you want me to test something let me know

I uploaded 2 files with error. You can try it in your tool. I have more if you want http://www.filedropper.com/maxtor https://ufile.io/fvkw8

@maximus If I reboot the system I can no longer use the log file. I tried it many times always received same error. If I use the log file without rebooting it works Am I doing something wrong or it's a bug? I'm saving the file in usb and use live iso https://imgur.com/a/0dXuER8

It would of done better. I've used it many times. Never used it to clone from usb. Thats the first time I used cloning from usb.

Any review is welcome for new comers. I saw that your problem was an anti virus that caused MRT to fail, My opinion a data recovery computer shouldn't have anti virus at all. I even disabled windows defender in all windows 10 computers.

Well it is what it is. When u don't have pro tools it's a problem. I can abort the scan the partition should be mounted but I want to give the customer as much data as possible. Since I started to use your ISO never needed to use ddrescue. The best data recovery cloner. I really needed and...

Worked with another 2tb https://imgur.com/a/umsqtIu I'll do that once I'll finish the clone Forgot to mention, the drive was dropped and was clicking before, manged to fix the clicking and it was detected and working. Just not possible to copy

That's for you https://imgur.com/a/fbx4s7j Worked on two patched 4tb, source usb So the problem is the drive Test 2. 2tb patched usb drive worked https://imgur.com/a/umsqtIu we can call this done

You have pro tools why using cheap stuff? Do not underestimate the GUI version it never let down, always did great job. Great for dummies like me 8-) https://imgur.com/a/JdoeuLy

Of course it has. https://imgur.com/a/JdoeuLy I will check with other that I have to see if the problem is with the drive or with hddsuperclone. The problem is that all of them are bad so it'll be hard to determine the cause.

Well we will have to wait and. It'll few more days to finish. Once it'll finish Ill post here the result and try again to clone it. Happy new year man

Thanks for your answer Here it is didn't try to clone it https://imgur.com/a/3Pu3A7C

That's not new. 2 years ago I received one with integrated drive on the board For sure in 10 years we will not be able to much :( Electronic repair died long time ago its only the leftover. Well we must keep swimming in the pool, I'm to old to make changes.

Thanks for your answer Here it is didn't try to clone it https://imgur.com/a/3Pu3A7C

Yeh sure I will do it now and let you know

Jared happy new year Well I said that when I was your age but I found my self back in electronic it’s some how addicted If you have some knowledge in electronic I think you’ll be doing well even with SSD When I say good knowledge I mean at least 1 year school which is low level like mine. It’s...

Maximus thanks for your reply Well I think you already gave a lot in the free version so it’s kind of up to you As I told in the message I didn’t have a real chance to test the free version duo to health issues at the time I did install it but but was not in a condition to test it From the...

Life is going to be harder if you don't have electronic background. In SSD you cannot replace the PCB board you'll need to fix it, it's not easy even for people with good electronic knowledge. I guess in few you years I'll have some kind of advantage over the data recovery doctors that using...

OMG 78? Man I thought you are around 60, 65 max. You are in ottawa not far from me, You can call me if you want, looking for a pal in my field. Here in Montreal it's like grave no one talk, everyone closed in doors. wired place. Boring.

Thank you for your answer. It's the second one :(. I tried different computers and the same issue. I read somewhere on the net that someone has success cloning via USB with ddrescue so I gave it a try. So far 1.7 tb pass with zero skips and errors It should be finished soon I'll let you know if...

Master it? I'm 52 :( in this age no way to master anything. I'm electronic technician but not a master. I'm nearly 30 years in the electronic field and believe me I know how things change fast. You must love what you're doing to succeed. I'm enjoying every minute making people happy.

So much to learn, it never ends :( everyday new thing comes. I feel like my brain fried.

Hi So it's not cloning? I sure hope it is. The drive is working with windows and detected as 2tb, It is detected as 2tb with test disk and Lubuntu. but not possible to copy big folder, I have to copy one at the time. So cloning it is better option.

Merry Christmas everyone @maximus I tried to clone WD passport 2TB usb drive using hddsuperclone after patching it. I received an error that the source drive is reporting wrong size. I tried ddrescue GUI and now its cloning. So far cloned 600gig with no skips or error. Since I came across...

Thank you for the valuable info my friend. So far I'm very happy with @maximus tool, It increased significantly my success. Thx

might be interesting https://www.recoveryforce.com/mrt-review-part-1/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaFYBL ... e=youtu.be https://sparkdata.in/ Interesting.

Hi maximus Is there an ISO for the newer version? Or just to install it on lubuntu 14.04? Nevermind I found it. Thx

I know, I've checked your website already. Nice website simple and clean. To install windows 10 on SSD takes 10 minutes max. On HDD max 30 min. Drivers are not an issue in most cases. To charge 125 for this easy job you are risking losing an easy 100$!. Many will not come if its over 80$. Think...

Yep Canadian How much can you ask for reinstall the OS and backup? Believe it or not even that is to hard to get, There people doing it for 30$ Canadian! A customer came to me yesterday with a 700$ laptop I5 CPU I asked 180$ to replace the drive and install windows but the drive was not...

sure there are ways to get around this but the problem is that this is a 100$ (CDN) job, people coming to reinstall or recover windows will not pay more. Would you decrypt it for this price? Simple job, boot from any live and copy past the files become a DR job

Hi all, I have WD10JMVM the board is 2060-771961-001 rev a my question; is the u12 enough to swap or I must swap the u14 as well? The U14 is encryption only? Thanks in advanced Edit: Yes it worked, Like Larry said U12 is enough. Thanks all for the info

Thank you

Hi Jol, Thx for answering It is Bitlocker encryption but it asked for 18 digit. Thats what I remember. Any thoughts about the Mac? The only way I found if the customer know the passwords is to reinstall the operating system without deleting the files. Not as safe as backing it up first.

Yes it spacify 18 digits. Customer doesn't know anything about it. It says to login to ms account to find it. You can't even do system restore. DR is going to be very challenging now, not something we got use to

Jared, Thx for the info! I had this same issue before wasn't sure. Do you know where I can find schematic for these type of SSD? I found that they have 2 voltages, 3.3 is the main and 1.8. Could not find any on google. Thanks

Now I had same story with Microsoft surface, Whatever you want to do it will ask for 18 digit to decrypt it first even system restore. https://www.top-password.com/blog/disab ... rface-pro/

Jared thanks for your help again. It's not APFS, Its HFS+. I've tested this on working Macs, All the Macs from mid 2014 and up seems to be encrypted, You can't use parted magic to see/mount the main partition. I think the only way is to use another mac to load the drive in it, must have the...

Thx for replay AFPS is started in 2017, I'm talking about Mac's from 2014 that use HFS+. I have working Mac's that I've tested, but booting live Linux CD will show as unallocated partition Anyone have an idea how to backup the files from live CD?

Hi all New iMacs, Macbooks SSD's seems to be encrypted, when I boot from bootable linux drive I can see the drive but the drive show empty. It used to be a simple recovery job to recover files from crashed mac's but now it become impossible. Anyone have any work around for this? I already...

Hi Maximus, Yes one of my post is missing but I don't remember what I wrote it was probably an answer to your post. No worry I will finalize what I started with now 3 days after the post I aborted the scan at around 99.75% and the result were surprising. I took the copied drive and loaded...

Now I know who you are. You are the nice guy that answered my questions on youtube regarding PC3000 Course cost 5500$. Thx for the advice! Now to the topic. I agree with half of what you are saying. @maximus you are wasting time on this, who cares if it's Lubuntu 14.4 or 17 or whatever OS...

Real world job, I received this hard disk from a computer store. SMART report failure predicted ddrescue GUI did not load it, it freezes https://imgur.com/a/rcUN6GR So far so good but it keeps slowing down every day. Now it shows 99.61 percent copied, is this result accurate? if it is...

I make all my living from "simple cases" and others, It will effect all market if it will go to stores. Thats only my opinion Regards

Maximus, Another success with WD 3.5 1TB the drive couldn't even pass the bios. After the patch worked like new. No errors when patched both 02 and 32. The drive has 2500 bad sectors and many more pending Regards

Thats bad, one fail all data gone

Good luck

Hi Maximus I had another WD passport same model, I applied the fix, on the 32 module I received an eror that it couldn't be verify but still the fix worked finished in 2 hours 1 tb hfs Thanks

I agree with you, most of the people coming to me are aware that it's a basic DR only and I'm always explaining the risks.

Jol, I'm not a data recovery expert, not even near, but you are wrong, I did recover five RAID 0 cases, I did recover 1 SSD (Bad mosfet), I recovered data from Dead Tablets and one dead Iphone that even DR company have hard time. did a lot of logical recovery with photorec, The things I did not...

That's a lot of money, I was not aware of this amount of investment needed. I am working with data recovery company and I've asked him how much he invested over the years (over 20 years) I assumed 100 k CDN, He told me less than 50 K CDN. As for the 30% to 40%. I've been doing DR for 3.5 years...

As I said before it's already worth the money. It was just an idea maybe for the future to add more repair tools. Thanks again for great tool

Good to know, I'll keep you in mind once I'll buy pro tools.

Hi Maximus It will be hard to sell only for WD because you have the wdmarvel very solid and well known tool AND windows based program. Adding free ddrescue and you are looking at almost the same tool. Thats only my opinion anyway I wish you good luck.

Hi Jared, I'm aware of the costs of DR, prices are high but not that high, Every series business must invest money, simple restaurant or grocery shop needs at least 100 grand to start working, DR on the other hand need about 20 grand to start a nice DR (not that expensive considering it's a one...

Its not that bad, easy to use. Most of people doing data recovery have some knowledge in linux it will not make a different. But yes it will nice to but won't make people pay

Maximus, Price range of 150 to 200 for software only should be fine but for people to pay 200$ you should consider adding seagate repair tool and some more stuff. something like in between wdmarvel with some other repair tools for other drive. once you'll do that many will buy it. you can sell...

I love you man I had 2 drives that I already recovered, WD20NMVW with slow respond took me 40 days to copy 120 gig now both are ruining like new I managed to copy in a speed of 60 mb. That's a great tool it worth paying for I used the iso from usb worked like charm Many thanks for this great...

Hi Maximus. I have new job Toshiba 2.5 500 gig to clone. I will post the result later. Any chance to a simple user guide please? Regards

Hi pcLab, thanks for the input Yes I am aware of it, in some cases I do miss having it, Rapidspar has this option maybe it worth buying it just for the hard cases. 2000$ is not that bad +350 a year. Very affordable. Thx

Hi maximus I did not do speed comparison, I aborted the scan and resume it many times after the 24 hours. I played with the setting so no speed comparison done. Important to note the ddrescue did not finish the clone it aborted it at around 99%. I will download the tar.gz and learn the manuel...

Hi Maximus, I use ddrescue GUI live not ddrescue command line. So as for the result: The first 24 hours it managed to clone 99% of the drive, I had to abort the recovery but I resumed it after few hours. After that I did play with the setting tried many different option, After that I continue...

Rapidspar will give the ability to any pc tech with 0 knowledge in Data recovery to recover dead or dying hard drive. It will for sure give hard time for all data recovery industry even for the basic small businesses that are using ddrescue. our luck that it did not entered the market as...

Did anyone test Deepspar? I want to buy one but I'm not sure it can do much more than ddescue. Any thoughts please share.

Good morning, After 10 hours it shows 20 hours to finish, but 99.9966 finished. Very slimier result to ddrescue. Please note that ddrescue was set to attempt to read bad sectors only once. This one on default setting regards

You are right for sure the fail after a month of use which is about 60 hours on. I received 3 this month only.

Hi Maximus i will be testing this tool on a done job, made by ddrescue the drive is Seagate ST31000528AS, the drive is detected by the bios but the partition couldn't be mounted with Linux now Windows. It took ddrescue about 30 hours to clone 99% of the drive. The user folder was missing I used...

Hi Maximus, thank you for building this tool I will be testing it on a done job 1tb Seagate. It took about a day to clone it with ddrescue GUI. The drive is in bad condition, detected by the bios but thats about it. Linux couldnt mount the partition nor windows. ddrescue cloned 99% and manged...