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Hitachi data recovery tips you must know

If you are going to provide hitachi data recovery services, the following data recovery tips are useful to you! Two…

USB Flash Drive or Thumb Drive problems Troubleshooting

If you have a CD burner, a digital camera or a digital camera card reader, and if your USB thumb-sized…

Impossible cases for data recovery

Impossible cases for data recovery All data recovery cases are not possible, the following data recovery cases will tell you…

What is firmware

Hard disk drives have a microprocessor, with internal “software” that runs them and make the drive work. The firmware instructions…

Servo information

Modern hard disks use actuators for head positioning, some special codes are written on each track during factory production (using…

Magnetic recording

To record informations on surfaces a magnetic field is inducted by heads to the surface (changing the poles we change…

CHS & LBA addressing and their conversion algorithms

In order to find a single sector we need to know the cylinder, the head the and the sector number…

Hard disk drive Logical Structure

Hard disk drive Logical Structure Each surface of each platter on the disk can hold tens of billions of individual…

How to identify Maxtor Model Number and maxtor donor matching

The Maxtor model number is composed by “Series +  Capacity + Interface + Number of Platter and HEAD”. For example,…

How to fix UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR

In Microsoft Windows, the registry is a hierarchal database, which stores the configuration options and settings. It holds settings for…