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  1. Jared

    OST to PST Converter

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

    USB Flash Drive Stopped Showing Up

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

    Platter with scratches. Can the manufacturer fix it?

    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...
  4. Jared

    Cleaning HDD Heads & Platters

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

    WDC WD10SPZX-22Z10T1 HDD Constantly dies after swapping Heads

    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...
  6. Jared

    Future of SEO

    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...
  7. Jared

    Seagate Preamp Pulled From ROM (Requests)

    Not supported by any tools at this point I'm afraid (at least as far as my somewhat out-of-date-knowledge).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...
  8. Jared

    UFS Explorer - general questions

    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...
  9. Jared

    Sandisk 32gb 48mb/s Can somebody share the Pinout

    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.
  10. Jared

    PC3000 Portable 3 SAS Adapter DIY?

    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.
  11. Jared

    Donor Hard Drive cataloging App

    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?
  12. Jared

    Future of SEO

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

    Sandisk 32gb 48mb/s Can somebody share the Pinout

    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.
  14. Jared

    Determine Specs With Missing Label

    No, I don't think I ever found a reliable way to get the specs. I think someone pointed me to a tool where you could check the serial number and at least get model number, but it asked what country, and I never figured out which country it was manufactured in either. In any event, I think the...
  15. Jared

    Cleaning HDD Heads & Platters

    I've ordered from these guys a lot: https://www.soscleanroom.com/categories/swabs/
  16. Jared

    Data Recovery Forum Moved to New VPS

    Hey guys, I just finished migrating the forum to a new virtual server. Trying to cut some hosting costs, so combining up several of my sites into a single VPS. Please let me know here if you are experiencing any sort of new issues with the forum. I've got some new things running, like...
  17. Jared

    New RAID 50 Tool to Separate The Two RAID 5 Sets.

    So I've just finished developing a tool that allows to input a hex value from the same location on each disk of a RAID 50 set, and it'll figure out the two RAID 5 sets by analyzing the XOR. It can work for any size, no matter how many drives. Here's a screenshot: Shown with 80 input boxes...
  18. Jared

    Help With The Seagate Noise

    Sounds like it's struggling to initialize and read all of the firmware. Depending on the model, maybe stuck in a pending bad sector reallocation cycle that's failing repeatedly. As PCLab said, need TTL from the com port to see better what's happening.
  19. Jared

    Last pass data wiping security

    DoD standards exist because data containing government secrets must be protected against hypothetical future threats of being breached (even if said hypothesis are defunkt). Gutmann's standard exists because Peter Gutmann didn't understand HDD technology and based his theory on a massively...
  20. Jared

    Last pass data wiping security

    Only by people who don't know what they are talking about. No, it doesn't. That's just a story some paranoid people keep throwing around on the internet.
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