Changed heads, still getting the odd random sectors showing as green healthy blocks, but still reading garbage. So, I'll have to do a grep search for the corrupt sector header and change the map of those sectors to damaged after I complete imaging by bitmap. Most sectors are reading as they should.

Thus far, the best I've been able to confirm is that the only known solution is to change the heads.

Patient Drive - ST2000LM007, 1R8174-568, WDZ..., SBK2, 4 heads The heads were found to be knocked onto the platter surfaces. After removing and inspecting the heads, put back into parking position and detected without issue on PC3000. When mirroring, all 4 heads read without any issues at the start,...

ddrecovery wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:47 pm I think our replies crossed their Luke

Its all good.

Here are a couple that we have.

• WD15EADS-002SB0 with ROM F/W version 6001J
• WD20EADS-002SB0 with ROM F/W version 6001J

It seems now that the next challenge is to figure out how we can safely identify the head count in a drive when some models can vary between 2, 3 & 4 heads.

As the technical support for TimeClock Plus feels that they cannot tell you the default storage location of the database on a Windows system without being provided a license key, I thought I'd be helpful to show it here: \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\ The file ext...

Model: ST2000DM001 P/N: 1CH164-302 FW: CC26 Site: SU SN: S1E # of heads: 4 (0,1,2,3) Symptom: Corrupt file system Cause: Head 0 only reads the first few percent, accompanied by client doing some sort of file system repair Solution: Change heads, imported head adaptives from donor Result: Nearly 100%...

The MFT is just a single file, usually in a few fragments. Read the fragments as separate chains and be done with it. It is when you get into FAT and EXT file systems that it becomes super messy pretty much better to just get a full clone of the drive before any file system recovery attempts.

The way it should work is to image the MFT first, then read the file tree from the already imaged MFT. Then select and create a map of sectors associated with the files you want to target. Then image just the mapped sectors without thrashing. When complete, generate a file tree showing the files tha...