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ACE Lab Online Technology Conference on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2020

I've never seen an issue with a single platter swap. As for swapping a single platter instead of the heads seems like a good idea on the surface, but considering you need to remove the heads in most models in order to remove the platter, it is not practical...except for the single head Maxtor N40P, ...

I believe that is the intention, to get power through the USB. Personally, I would have just ordered in a SATA drive for the PCB as I know that I will likely need it again later.

fzabkar wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:33 am I had a bit of fun with Bitwar:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads ... g.3570251/

Too bad that it would appear that the bitwar spammer comments are no longer showing on that thread.

Patient Model: WD10JMVW-11AJGS0 Family: FBLite SA SPT: 1480 SN: WXV1... DATE: 04 AUG 2013 DCM: EBK TJ BKB Headmap: 0,1,2,3 Country of Manufacture: Thailand Symptoms: Head 0 dead, heads 1,2,3 read at full speed. Donor Model: WD10JMVW-11AJGS1 Family: FBLite SA SPT: 1480 SN: WXT1... DATE: 05 SEP 2014 D...

If your goal is to just get the NAND dumps to play with, buying the Flash Extractor NAND Reader is pretty cheap and doesn't require a full license to get the dumps. But, in order to run the app to piece them together and recover the data, you'll need the license.

No idea. It is not uncommon when I talk to software vendors for general details about their applications and proprietary files in order for me to provide their client with data recovery support, I get similar responses. Certainly doesn't make me want to recommend them in the future.

After watching this video of how one can use DMDE to create a map of sectors for targeted files to be imported into HDDSuperClone for linear imaging, I admit that while I like the idea of the ability to be added, it is quite a complicated process and not one that I'd want to do every day. It should ...

We were able to complete mirroring by bitmap with only 5 bad sectors, none of which were in any client data files. So, we got a 100% clean recovery here.

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.