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OK, so today I got to try out a set of these new ones and I'm quite impressed. I actually used the WS one on a Dolphin & Mercury drive (same heads in both) so you can add those families to the supported list. They fit right in with very little force, held in place nicely, and the heads...

So here's something really annoying about Microsoft I just discovered. I've long used a personal Microsoft account with Onedrive where I could take part of an excel sheet and embed it into a website. Recently I upgraded my personal to a business Office 365 account, which is a nightmare because...

Just for anyone else who's tasked with wiping EMC drives that are 520byte sector size and can't have the sector size adjusted via the normal means you can still erase the drive completely and zero fill it just using the following command in the SG3_Utils linux package: If the drive will allow...

Just for anyone out there who doesn't feel like fighting with the manual way of installing this package into Debian Linux or its variants such as Sparky Linux which I use. Here's the easy way to do it: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install software-properties-common...

I've created a sub-Reddit on reddit.com to just have a place where we can all push out new blog posts on our site and get the link back. I find it's helpful to just get them indexed faster in Google. Anyway, feel free to post your blog links here: http://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoveryblog Luke...

I'm looking for a LDR for this drive, I'm actually not 100% sure what the family is. Model: WD30NPRZ-82YRMT0 Consolidated ROM: 0002000U I'll take anything close that you have. Even if it's a different ROM version, as long as it's the same family. I'd just need both ROM and LDR if the ROM...

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So I've spent the last several hours learning how to script Windows Explorer shortcuts to prompt searches and actually met with some success. For example here's a shortcut which when run will search all drives (except C:) for quickbooks *.qbw and *.qbb files. I'm probably going to create a...

So I'm starting this sticky to keep track of families which can be used as cross-compatible heads donors if matched correctly. Here's what I've confirmed so far: Dolphin & Mercury Mariner & Marn5 4K Tahoe 2D & Vulcan RE Sabre 53 and Sabre 58 Jamaica & Jamaica 4K Tornado 2D and Tornado 2PMR...

I've been looking for two weeks and can't seem to find a good donor for this one: Model: WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Date: 11 Jun 2012 DCM: HHRNNTJCH Country: Malaysia I can find ones that are from Thailand, or ones that are about a year off on the date, but no good matches. Anybody have one they are...

OK, so I'm going nuts trying to find a donor for under $300 which has S24 as the first three of serial. The drive is a ST1500DM003 P/N: 9YN16G-021, but I'm even looking at ST2000DM001's which I know also use the S24 heads. The only affordable one I can find is over a year off on the date (need...

OK, so I'm having a good laugh looking at a youtube video of a company who popped up across town advertising their "professional" data recovery services. I'm watching their video and I see this: I don't even know what that machine is, but I'm pretty sure it's something medical and has...

So I've been trying to pay attention to Seagate serial numbers to see if I can make any additional sense of it. So far this is what I think I've figured out about the first few digits. First Digit - Some sort of site location code. This one tends to often follow the site code SU = S, WU = W...

So my next project is to start keeping track of Seagate part numbers and how they relate to head compatibility. Obviously the first three of serial is most important to matching, but sometimes you might want to look for a drive with more heads from a higher capacity drive. So I figure it'll be...

I've got a DVR unit here that malfunctioned slightly and isn't showing the last recorded clip of video which the customer needs. He was smart and shut it down right after the incident, he had even viewed the video once before shutting it down. However, on power up the last segment of video was...

Sure, here's some pictures: Top Side Bottom Side Main IC Motor Controller USB Bridge Chip

I've added a reel where my recent blog posts get posted automatically in a feed at the bottom of each of the forum pages. It's really just there for the sake of SEO and channeling my internal link structure to keep the blog relevant in the eyes of Google. The forum is growing so fast it's...

Does anyone know if there is a SATA family which is heads compatible with the USB only Dolphin family drives? I'm thinking Mercury might be, as they use a compatible SATA PCB for the family. Anyone tried this? There just isn't much available for this odd family. Or can anyone at least verify...

It's not making any headlines yet, but I'm pretty certain that Skype has been hacked. I've been getting SPAM messages from several contacts today with links to some baidu.com redirect link to sell some brain boost formula junk. At first I just figured it was probably the result of a spammy app...