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Has anyone had much success disabling heads in ROM on these drives and perhaps reading just one or two heads at a time? Takes forever adjusting head map and writing it to ROM each time, so I'd rather not waste the time experimenting if someone else has already tried that angle.

Just to let you all know, I'm trying to switch over my site to the new version so expect some downtime while I'm changing things. I'm really hoping to keep it to a minimum.

Here's another picture I had posted on Deepspar forum a while ago: Using Samsung adapter as mentioned.

Today I finally added the data recovery secrets section we've been talking about. The current members list is as follows: lcoughy jono larrysabo HaQue IRS pclab w.simon michael chiklis arvika jerovsec Elicia and myself Other forum members won't even be able to even see the data recovery...

So this was a big build up to a huge let down. Spend two weeks working to piece together enough SA code from different drives to get a working SA for smart hot swap, and it finally worked. :D Unfortunately there's a steady repeating pattern of bad sectors across the entire data area...

Does anyone know approximately where Bitlocker stores it's encryption key? The password is known, but the drive is impossibly slow to image. Would take years to complete, so I'm hoping to target just the couple files needed by mounting the DE task. When I do mount it, it sees that it's using...

So today, I get this popping up on my desktop: It's from their partition software which I've used for years and used to be pretty good. Pretty sad that this company now is not only spamming this forum, but is even even using their own software to created popups advertising their other...

Hmmm.... I guess there was a lot of people on the forum around 10AM, I wasn't one of them. Strange how you get sudden random spikes like that.

Anyone had a chance to work on one of these dual drive passports yet? I think the concept of RAID 1 in there is sort of cool, but I assume that if you drop it good, it'll just have a synchronized head crash. But, the cool part will be that if some heads work in each drive, you might be able...

I found this interesting, so I thought I'd share. As some of you know I've been working to transition my website over to Wordpress (finally) and wanted to complete it before letting Google know the new site existed. You can see it here: www.data-medics.com/recovery/ I hadn't posted a single...

This chart looks a bit better.

I know Google announced that they will be giving a boost to sites using SSL, but so far I'm not seeing positive benefits: Maybe it just needs time to stabilize, but for now it seems to be killing my number of impressions in organic search.

As we all seem to be having difficulties head swapping these, I though it'd be nice to have a thread to share our DM head swap experiences. Here's mine from today: Patient ST30000DM001 PN: 9YN166-570 FW CC9F Date: 13044 Site: TK Serial: Z1F0Y... Donor ST30000DM001 PN: 9YN166-570 FW: CC9E...

Hello, I need resources for the following model: Maxtor 6Y080L0 FW: YAR41BW0 Family: Calypso If anyone has it, please help! Thanks.

Not sure if anyone is interested in this, but since it only took a minute to install I've added a chat room page to the forum. Might be fun for those of us who miss the good old days of IRC. :D

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Given that you are located in Nigeria, I tend to doubt that you'll ever face a court case related to data confidentiality. Even here in the USA they don't hold up in court often. Here's the form I give all my customers when they drop off their drives. And if they request, I give them a...

So I'm working on the following drive: Model : Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 Serial : 100325PBL2003SHBJR9V Firmware : PB2AC60W Capacity : 232.89 GB (488 397 168) Drive IDs perfectly, shows correct capacity, etc. But I have no sector access. I ran a check of the modules in the modules table and a...

I am so tired right now... been here pretty much since 2AM, not counting a breakfast outing. I'm about to fall asleep. I don't know how I got talked into rebuilding this RAID overnight. But I guess it is nice to have a profit that's well over $2K for one days work. Counting down the minutes...

So the other day a customer brings in a older 250Gb Maxtor external hard drive which practically took a crowbar to open. Finally I get around to testing the internal IDE drive inside and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Just a bad USB bridge. I'd be willing to bet that more that 50%...