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Not to discourage you from posting here, but you may find that a forum like Forensic Focus is better geared toward this sort of thing. Most of us are in pro data recovery, not really forensics. We can certainly help explain what's going on with the RAID (if you actually post those pictures for...

If the drive is spinning up, you can usually assume the ROM is fine and has passed checksum. As PCLab said, now it's time to address what else is wrong with the drive. Could be a firmware issue, could be one failed head, could be something else. The drive getting ID but not spinning isn't...

Well, if you've been holding off getting the portable system to handle NVMe SSDs, looks like it'll be time to buy one in 2 years. Seagate is planning to start shipping this junk in 2024: Fun stuff. The connection looks pretty SAS to me, and it sounds like maybe it'll support SATA/SAS & NVMe...

I would just assume on the PCB of the drive being fine in your case. I've seen very few Toshiba native USB drives with bad PCBs. Maybe one or two in my entire career, not counting obviously damaged ones with something like a ripped-off USB header. Most likely the issue is bad sectors...

Translation: Hello, nice to meet you, could you give me the reference or the purchase link of those adapters on Amazon? This is what I use: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-M-2-2-5in-SATA-Adapter/dp/B00ITJ7U20/

I don't know if this is a planned spam dump spot, but at least it's on topic so I'll allow it for now.

The problem has nothing to do with the PCB, and almost never does on USB drives. It's probably a firmware malfunction which is very common on all WD drives. As to it not spinning with the donor PCB, that's probably due an incomplete or mis-flashed eePROM chip (the U12). No reason to even...

Okay, all old accounts with zero posts are now moved back into the New Users group and should require moderation of their first posts again. Hopefully, no more spam links to porno sites will slip through now.

I see. It seems that some users who'd registered on the old platform and never posted anything, got moved out of the "new users" group and into the regular 'users' group. I'll see what I can do to dump all the zero post accounts back into the new users category.

Yeah, I don't know how these are getting through the new platform. Right now, it's set to require moderation of their first 5 posts, but they keep just slipping though. I've made you a moderator Larry, so feel free to just permanently delete them and ban the user if you see any more pop up...

I've removed your spam link. Talking about and even linking to your software site isn't prohibited, but pretending to be an end-user and recommending your software is prohibited. If you want to promote your software here, start a new thread in the appropriate sub, identify yourself as...

Okay, been a few bugs to sort out, but I think we're now done with the migration from phpBB to the new and improved Xenforo. Please let me know if any resources seem to be missing. A few old URLs may not resolve, but we've done our best to get as much as possible ported from one platform to...

This had me scratching my head today. Plugged in a brand new 4Tb Toshiba Canvio HDD that I bought on Amazon as a destination for a case. I happened to open up WD Discovery software, to reset encryption on another drive that I had sold on eBay & previous owner hadn't sanitized. Was quite...

No need to panic, there hasn't been any data breach here just yet. In the coming weeks, I'll be migrating this forum away from phpBB to a new platform entirely. Switching it to Xenforo if you are curious. Due to the switch, I'll be employing the help of a third party that'll be migrating all...

So here's a case that had me baffled for a good hour or so before I finally figured out what was going on. Hope you'll get a good laugh out of it too. Case is a WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0 drive described as clicking. Drive has head map of 0 2 3 (physically missing head 1). When I open it up in the...

In case you didn't notice. PC-3000 has now automated this when you press this button: And you can see your preamp here: That's not your ROM, just an example from some random Grenada. Just reverse the two pairs, so you know this one is a CC 06 preamp.

Failed read/write heads. That's always the issue after a fall. Pretty much 100% of the time. Could be damaged platters causing the new heads issues too.

So, I wrote a blog post here that is one of the biggest head-scratchers I've ever seen: https://www.data-medics.com/data-recove ... very-case/ The case is solved and all data recovered, but I still have no real clue what could have led to this situation.

Here are the settings found for my recent Adaptec AIC-9410W RAID 6, for future reference: Turns out it was Q before P but gave me quite a runaround having 8 drives and needing to figure out which three were the current ones.

Running a HDD with the top cover removed is a sure-fire way to make it permanently unrecoverable. Especially since that is a Seagate Rosewood family drive which depends on the actuator pivot point screw to maintain parallel alignment with the platters. (This screw right here) It's not...