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OK, I know this is a topic that I've discussed before but I'm visiting it again because it actually needs to get done this time. I've got a case here using a typical TSOP-48 8Gb NAND that can't leave my office for legal reasons. It's got to be done here, but I'm really not looking to invest...

I don't know why R-TT doesn't document this anywhere (AND I MEAN ANYWHERE!!!) but if you're trying to launch R-Studio in Linux the terminal command is: sudo rstudio-tech Took me a half hour to figure that out. I think companies like R-TT often forget that Linux doesn't always create a nice...

So I've got this Seagate ST9750423AS that came it. it's been to two other data recovery places already who gave up on it. On arrival the heads are stuck to the platters (I'm assuming they put it back this way). After freeing it up the drive IDs but shows zero capacity. System file 28 seems...

Call me crazy, but these two labels look oddly similar coming from HGST and Seagate. I hope they are just buying labels from the same company and not starting to intermeddle their manufacturing too.

Anyone care to recommend a good tool used for field acquisition of a HDD in the field that is forensically sound? I have a customer who wants to pay me to drive two hours away to image a drive and attempt recovery. I already know lawyers are involved, and I keep telling them I'm not a...

I'm posting this thread in the hopes of having a list of compatible SATA replacement PCBs for USB native drives. Here's what I've got so far (based on PCB numbers): USB -------------> SATA 100725482 ---> 100720903 100740633 ---> 100739392 100760718 --->100720903 100765396 ---> 100767980...

Here's a quick trick I just learned to quickly check if T.R.I.M. is enabled on any SSD or eMMC computer / tablet running Windows. Just open up a CMD prompt as admin and type in: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify If it returns: DisableDeleteNotify = 0 Then TRIM is enabled and your...

I haven't spent very much time working on Fujitsu drives as they are pretty scarce these days, so please excuse me if this is a noob question. I see that PC-3000 has the feature to read/write ROM on many of these models, but it doesn't work even on perfectly healthy drives. Just out of sheer...

So yesterday I got in a Surface 3 which uses eMMC instead of an SSD for its memory. The device was functional, but data had been accidentally deleted. I tried a number of Linux live builds but most would hang on boot. Finally, I was able to image it using a bootable copy of Clonezilla...

I'm getting an error I've never seen before. When I try to do DIR upload after doing LRD upload, I'm getting this error: "RGN list state 0 cannot be set" Even if I block SA access, I still get the same issue. Any ideas what this means? I'm just trying to fix up the SA of a drive that...

Just FYI, you really can't trust the WD preamp vendor and revision numbers to be accurate. At least not in older families such as Mammoth. I've got a case here where I tried two different drives which should have been a match according to PC-3000 however, both sets click when in the patient...

I just decided to make a quick video to show how to do this. Seems a lot of guys haven't figured it out yet, and it comes up from time to time on other forums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25KTJHkr4A

I don't do much for phone recoveries, because I don't find it all that profitable. However I do occasionally have an insistent customer who really wants me to try recovering something from an Android phone, often from phones that are stuck in a boot loop or otherwise not fully loading to the OS...

Sorry about the spotty service yesterday. I've never had any reliability issues since switching hosts, but yesterday seems that somehow the server was hit with traffic that was way beyond my limits (never even came close before). Seems like someone may have been running a denial of service...

I'm looking for a donor for the following drive: Model: ST1000LM024 P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV2 Rev. A F/W: 2BA30001 DOM: 01/2014 Site: DGT Existing heads are all mangled, so I can't check what the preamp number is. Here's a picture of the label:

So I'm strongly considering the future idea of franchising out the Data Medics company name into a franchise opportunity for those looking to get into the business and not wanting to struggle so long to build up a customer base in their local area. Obviously some initial training (maybe two or...

This is one ugly looking MFT: Looks like it has smallpox. Should make for an interesting mess of finding all his files.

Looks like Seagate is desperate to rebrand their image with some different names. They just posted this about their new series of NAS drives that go up to 10TB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaYpYk0kVpQ And this one for their re-launched Barracuda series...

So this morning I'm seeing again one of HP's Star TreK commercials about this "The Machine" computer they are hyping as the future. So out of curiosity I started looking into what it is and found this interesting article: http://www.labs.hpe.com/research/themachine/ Among other things it says...

Looks like Toshiba and WD are opening a new co-op factory in Japan to make flash memory. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... ning-Fab-2 I wonder if the number of companies making drives is going to get even smaller soon.