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So this is an interesting one. Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 drive has SMART errors which caused the system to shut down. Drive seems to be reading sectors fine, but in universal utility it shows this: That's quite a negative number of re-allocated sectors, it's almost the entire capacity of the...

Grrr!!!! This drive is driving me crazy. I know the heads are good, already changed them once. I've managed to get 70% of the data already, but the stupid SA just keeps degrading. I've moved around as many modules as I can into areas it can read to keep it running, but now module 04 (which is...

Looks like there's finally some USB 3.1 Cards available from Startech.com. http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/ ... L-NPL-0815 At double the speed of 3.0 should be good for those destination drives. Might actually be able to keep up with SATA speeds.

I just want to give a shout of praise out to Michael Cotgrove at http://www.cnwrecovery.com/ Had a flash card come in that clearly had Mp4 video files on it but they were fragmented by the way the camera writes the data to the card. His software was able to put back together the fragments and...

Luke just shared this video with me. What a pain to open, yikes! ANMtvYnI1gQ

Has anyone else here ever tried watching the videos from DFL? Such as this one: 1IpGw1ghsno I know their tools show some promise, but I can't help but get that Salvation Data feeling when I watch this. :lol:

I'm not exactly sure where I eventually found this download link (took a while to navigate the endless loop of their forum). But since I've been asked about where to get this plugin, here it is. Just extract the folder and put it in the "ext" folder within your forum root. Then you can...

Here's an interesting case. The drive came in to be wiped, so data doesn't matter. It ID's as the following: Model : WDC WD20EARS-02MVWB0 " " " " " Serial : " "WD-WMAZC0182178 Firmware : 50.0AB70 Capacity : 1 050 439.02 GB (2 202 930 285 232) My, that's a big drive. :lol...

This is something I just recently was forced to figure out. It's how to move a module to a totally new location in the SA when the area it's stored in has bad sectors and won't take a module being re-written back to the same location. The first thing to do is check for available SA locations...

Does anyone know how to move the location of a module within the SA to a new location? I've got this drive which I can force ready, but it's module 31 (translator) seems to be in a bad area and rarely ever reads fully causing the drive to keep crashing out when I try to read sectors. Even...

I've got a really strange case here. It's a WD Diablo3d drive which has some firmware issues. Using a donor ROM & LDR I'm able to get SA access, read tracks / modules. Even after loading the utility using the profile folder containing the patient module 01 (dir) it doesn't see a module 11...

I know this isn't new, but I just wanted to have a sticky with these pictures for easy access. Passport Solution Using Samsung Adapter: Sata Connection Using Calypso Board:

It's mine! :D Post number 2000! Haha.

So I've got this 2.5" ST500LM000 Kahuna-5400 drive that spins up pretty normally. Makes one slight click (very slight) then goes ready. It correctly ID's but errors out if you try to read a sector or access SA. I notice that in terminal when I press Ctl + Z I get the following response: Rst...

A few have pointed out to me that on certain pages the images are scrambled. It seems to me that the only correlation with this is that it's only happening on pages that have mixed SSL and non-ssl content. So if one user links an image that's not SSL and then another post attaches an image...

Just to let everyone know I've pruned all the inactive accounts, so now we can tell how many actual active members there are. Looks like 109 at the moments. Some must be just lurkers, because they don't post but they still visit regularly. If your account was pruned and you want to reactivate...

I'm looking for complete resources for this drive: Family: Diablo3D Model: WD30EZRX-00DC0B0 Consolidated ROM: 0004005M Firmware Version: 00040050 Need to replace a number of damaged modules. I can probably get by if the ROM version is different as long as the model and FW version are the same...

This is something I just discovered. Microsoft actually has a codec pack to be able to see thumbnails for RAW digital camera formats such as CR2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=26829 It always annoyed me that Mac OS could preview them and Windows couldn't.

Some of you probably noticed that the forum was down for much of the day today. Sorry for the inconvenience. This was due to the utter incompetence of the tech support folks at my hosting company justhost.com. I had bought a new domain but the cpanel wasn't allowing me to assign it to a...

I've now made it possible to embed youtube videos in posts, hopefully no one abuses it or I'll have to disable it. Just put the very end code after the = sign (E.G. rSZDvD7-cEs) then highlight it and click the "youtube" button. Or if you want to do it in code manually it should look like this...