This patient drive was received with clicking noises. This patient drive was one WD 2TB MyPassport USB3.0 hard drive.
The engineer confirmed the hdd had physical head damage and therefore found one donor drive with same model and head number...
January 31, 2019 3:02 AM / no comments
When users connected the patient drive to pc, it’s lucky that the drive was spinning smoothly and had no clicking noises, this one was very important to confirm because users couldn’t treat the physically damaged drives to firmware damaged...
January 31, 2019 2:56 AM / no comments
This is one typical undetected hard drive recovery case study.
When this patient hard drive was received, the drive was very unstable, no ID information, no capacity was detected and the program displayed capacity 0.
Patient HDD ID:
WD30PURX-64P6ZY0Capacity:...
January 21, 2019 4:02 AM / no comments
This article introduces one case study on how to recover lost data from one patient HDD of ST1000LM035-1RK172 with LED error within the COM terminal.
HDD ID
Patient drive: ST1000LM035-1RK172
SN:WDEB845P Firmware: SBM3
Capacity: 1TB
Reported...
December 19, 2018 8:26 AM / no comments
When users get the Seagate LM hdds with partial sector access, users can access to only 1%, 4%, 10% , 30% or 60% of the drives and the remained unaccessed sectors are not possible to see and recover.
The case we are going to discuss today is...
December 17, 2018 7:46 AM / no comments
Toshiba 3.5″ DT01ACA100 Patient Drives are actually using Hitachi hard drives, to recover lost data from Toshiba DT01ACA100 Drives, users need to Hitachi firmware repair tools and data recovery tools.
This Toshiba DT01ACA100 patient HDD...
October 17, 2018 10:04 AM / no comments
To recover lost data from Seagate ST1000LM035 patient hard drive with capacity 0 firmware corruption, it is not possible by common data recovery tools or data recovery software.
It’s not possible to access the data area while the capacity...
October 16, 2018 4:13 AM / no comments
“I have a 500gb Western Digital, My passport hard drive. I was using it today looking at files when I dropped it. When i plug it back in to my Mac it says cannot read hard drive. So it detects it but cannot open it.
I want to pay a...
September 22, 2018 3:10 AM / no comments
WD20EARX-32PASB0 hard drive in this case study is actually one SATA hard drive used with the WD USB3.0 My BOOK portable hard drive enclosure.
When connecting this portable drive to pc, the PC has no response at all.
The user removed the external...
May 31, 2018 6:49 AM / no comments
Q:Why does VCR scanning show only a few bad sectors while online scanning show a lot?
A: Because softwares like VCR/MHDD do not scan a single LBA at a time, by default it scans 256 LBAs at a time. If there is a bad block in 256 LBAs, one error...
June 19, 2017 6:33 AM / no comments