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Hello. I'm working on this station now. Did a head change because I thought that was the problem .. But I get the same result afterwards. Anyone know what I can do next? (Photos attached)

Hello. I have a western digital HDD that I am working on now. I have physically cut head 2 due to a large circular scraper. But when I try to upload the loader, I get this error (see photos) Does that mean other heads can be dead too? or something else? I tried and inspected the heads under a...

Hello. I work on a poor surface ocean (Bacall) The surface of head 1 is in poor condition ... I was able to make an SA backup and then my head died .. I inspected the head under the microscope and saw that it was full of crap .. So I cut the head, but after that I found out that both Bacall...

Hello. I tried unscrewing the screw that stabilizes the plate / center screw, but some of them will not loosen it seems to be glued. I use T8 from ifixit toolbox .. Any tips? (the screw may be rounded now: /) :?: :?:

Hello. I have a recovery job with about 10GB of photos and movies that are corrupt / damage. Is there a program that can fix this without reduce the image size? or does i have to do it in HEX?

Hi I was working on this hard drive, it had stuck head. after loosening my head i connected it to pc3000 hard drive spins fine .. but it did not give id and give me this error in terminal: Rst 0x40M The servo processor is reset. could this mean bad head? drive dont spin down just keep spinning..

Hello I work with a Maxtor Diamond plus 9 which I found to have a bad PCB shorted. What I assume is that the CR200 (TVS?) Is dead. What happens if I remove it? do I need to replace it? can i run the hard drive without it?

Hello I have two pcs of seagate with damage to surface, I need to remove both head. what is the best tools to use for cut head off Any other advice for head removing?

Probably a stupid question, but I try anyway. What type of screwdriver is needed too open the screws that are on the "plate lock". I tested with torx6-8 some screws getting good while some getting damage / round. It looks like torx in my eyes. This is a WD30EZRX-00MMMB0

Hello. im working on a WD wd5000lmvw and when im trying to upload dir into ram i got error on modul 2 Pictures attatch. Any advice for moving on..

Is it not possible to edit the head map on this ST31000528AS drive? if I set ROM physical head maps from 00 01 02 03 to 00 00 00 00 and same on ROM logical head map and edit SAP control flags max head to 0, then the hard drive will not start spinning (it behaves as if the circuit board is...

Hello. I have a mirror glass to get well .. Do you think I can use encoder 1 or encoder 2 is a good match for the patient hard drive? (Pictures attached)

Is this a candidate for a head killer? Any suggestions on how to recover what is possible? I inspect the head and the filter and it doesn't look too bad.

Hello. I have a WD WD1003FZEX that customer missing a lot of DWG files on. This is the customer's description of what happened: How did the error occur? Data seems to have disappeared after repeated transfers from Pc to Pc. Physical disconnection / connection in 2 different machines. Which...

Hello. I got a case where the customer accidentally did a quick formatting on the hard drive .. unfortunately the drive is encrypted with bitlocker. Is there any hope of getting some of the data back or all is lost

I'm not sure how to read the head map, but I'm right that both of drives have the same pre amp and head map (01 02 03 04 05)

Have done a head swap.. after stuck head and missing slider...

ST2000LM007 Sn: WCC21PCK FW:SBK2 SITE:WU DOM: 31 jul 2016 PCB:10078149 PBC STICK: 6151A

What is this telling ? Spin Up FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003 0100 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ResponseFrame 1A40 004F 04B7 3F40 0008 0000 0000 0000 0E2E 0000 0000...

Is this sound just telling me that its not compatible ? https://vimeo.com/user65316063/review/3 ... 4c5d45a16b Or could It be firmware issues ? I put it back in the donor driver and the donor driver spin up just fine.