Data Recovery Tips

Seagate Translator Recovery Discussion

Within our data recovery lab, our data recovery engineers have met some Seagate F3 hdd repair cases with the following symptoms: After you perform translator regeneration, you can read only the first part of surface and then get errors to continue...

 

Set up one in-house computer forensic data recovery lab

There are many data storage devices/media that may be encountered whilst searches are being conducted during criminal investigations. These are often valuable sources of evidence which, if dealt with in an evidentially acceptable manner, may...

 

2.5 inch Seagate drives’ shorting points

For data recovery engineers who are in the process of hdd repair, to find out the shorting points correctly is very important for you to short the ROM or PCB to make the hard drives to accept the HDD ATA commands. The following are shorting...

 

Motor Spindle Issues

Motor spindle issues are very common recently with high capacity drives, specifically any drive over 250 GB is prone to suffer such a situation. These problems usually occur after a sudden or sharp shock inflicted to a drive while it is in motion,...

 

How to unlock Fujitsu hard drive

How to unlock Fujitsu hard drive

This article tells how to use HD Doctor for Toshiba/Fujitsu to unlock Fujitsu hard drives. When you connect the locked Fujitsu hard drives to HD Doctor for Fujitsu, you will find that the field of LBA displays the drive as locked status by showing...

 

What’s Special For Double-ROM WD Drives

Recently our data recovery lab reports some ROM repair issue on Western Digital hard drives: WD 1TB SATAII 32M-WD1000EADS. We seldom meet such kind of ROM distribution: one internal ROM and one external ROM on the PCB. If you are one data recovery...

 

WD HDD Hot Swap Limitations

Hotswap is the capability to replace a failed part with a spare without having to shut down the system. Hot-Swap is universal for testing and attempts of data recovery from various drives. It is used when service data is damaged and there is...

 

Samsung HDD Translator modules And Peculiarities

Although Samsung hdd is acquired by Seagate but we will still have some time many samsung drives in the market which can be patient and brought to your data recovery labs.  SpinPoint series of Samsung drives use a dynamic translator, i.e. the...

 

Initialization Of Fujitsu drives

Fujitsu Limited has transferred its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba Corporation on October 1st, 2009. Fujitsu drive initializes itself at power-up as follows: 1. Power-up. 2. Self-diagnostics 1: – data bus and MPU address test –...

 

Seagate HDD error codes part 2

47: Missed data sync byte 48: Missed data sync after a split 49: Thermal asperity code 4A: Error didn’t repeat during dynamic sparing mini cert (usually refers to cases of log overflow) 4B: Error log full 4C: Controller stopped without...