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So, I'm thinking about starting a co-op project to develop best practice standards for "ethical data recovery" procedures. Obviously no one could develop an exhaustive how to manual for how to do the work, but what I'm picturing is more of a standard of what should and shouldn't be done in the...

Take a look at this advertisement I pulled from Tom's Hardware: Drobo BeyondRAID (near impossible to recover) + Seagate (imminent drive failures) = NIGHTMARE!!!

I'm only posting this so I can send a link of it to someone. I know it's not anything new you don't all already know. Here's how to figure out WD preamp version in pictures:

Yep, just confirmed it's one of the odd ones where you can only read the ROM. I'm not sure what the point of reading a ROM is when you can't even write a different ROM back. Maybe Hitachi ROM really is "Read Only Memory". Anyway, I've got a functional drive with that same FW version: $125...

Here's the ROM code for that one: Try just writing it to another same number PCB. Or is that one where the utility only has the option to read ROM, but no option to write it?

They also claim this:

I'm having a programmer work on a project to help determine parity rotation and stripe size on reed solomon RAID 6 arrays, however I'll need a few samples to send the programmer for testing purposes. All I need is a small sample pulled from the same LBA region of each member disk, perhaps of...

I know this is nothing new, but I just discovered a really simple way to remove the hidden attribute from any folder. Just navigate to where the folder is contained (E.G. D:\ or D:\folder1\) in CMD prompt. Then type in attrib -H -S "folder name" /S /D And the hidden attribute is instantly...

Is it just me or is getting meaningful backlinks nearly impossible in this industry? The only real way I can see to get backlinks is to resort to spammy techniques like companies such as Tenorshare use, or to just buy links on the blogs that sell them. I'd much prefer to do things all "white...

I have a client hit with a ransomware virus that encrypted all his data and converted it all to the following format: (filename)[email protected] I know this is a Russian virus, and I know that the BAA14811 part is the unique infection ID. However I've been unable to find the...

OK, I've never done anything like this because I'm not a childish tit-for-tat type of person. However this idiot has pushed me to my limit. I've never even done any business with him, short of one phone call he made to us. Then he starts spewing nonsense about how data recovery guys are all...

Anyone here ever work on one of these: https://www.amazon.com/LaCie-All-Terrai ... hard+drive ??? It's a Lacie Rugged SAFE fingerprint reading external hard drive. I may have one coming in, and I'm curious how the fingerprint/encryption combination is handled. I'm told it's a Seagate internal...

If you've got a half hour to burn, read through this entire thread and tell me what you think. Am I crazy, or do I just attract insane potential clients? https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/c ... ike_heads/ Feel free to respond to this clown too. Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

Today I suddenly got this error when I tried to open a task: The "TTask.Create - CreateDrive - Invalid source device type!" error. Both trying to open Task.prm and Task.bak files gave this error, yet I could open other tasks just fine (I know others had this issue after a drive letter...

So I'm considering looking into setting up a hardware brute force decryption machine for the purpose of breaking WD's encryption. Perhaps something like this: https://sagitta.pw/hardware/gpu-compute-nodes/invictus/ only homemade. According to this article it seems that it's totally doable to...

Just had a case I started on this week. DriveSavers gave up on it and declared it "unrecoverable due to too much media damage". On arrival I see that the drive ID's and shows capacity, able to read both copies of SA just fine. However drive is unable to access sectors. I regenerate ROM from...

Anyone have a good recommendation for MDB file repair software? Specifically one that's good for database files with bad sectors. I know there's a million options for this, I'm just curious what other guys have found to be effective. Got a case right now with a few MDB's and I know there's a...

I'm looking for a donor for the following drive WD2500JB-00KFA0 Date: May 2005 DCM: ****CTJ** Country: Malaysia Headmap: 0 1 3 4 5 However I know that a WD3200JB-00KFA0 will work too, and is likely to have all the right heads even if I don't need them all. Anyone have either of these disks...

Has anyone ever successfully used heads from a Caviar 32 drive to replace heads in a Marvell family drive? I'm having a fun time trying to find a second donor for this one Buccaneer family drive. However I've got a pile of drives here built the same week, with the same SPT (areal density)...

Me: "Are you sure it's the original PCB, it doesn't seem like it?" Customer: "Yes, we didn't try anything" What I find: I highly doubt that Western Digital put two foam pads under the PCB. :lol: