Testing for Review - What do you want to see?

Discuss data recovery tools made by MRT Lab (http://en.mrtlab.com)
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Testing for Review - What do you want to see?

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It turns out that MRT tries to write a file when listing destination drive in DE, which triggers Trend Micro's behavior monitoring to block MRT and the subsequent list of destination drives does not populate. So, now that I have a working system, I plan to put it through its paces to see how it stacks up in the real world.

If you have any questions about the functionality of this system that I can test, list them in this forum thread. I cannot guarantee that I will get to them all, but will do my best.

My main objective with the review is to answer the questions that most data recovery professionals have:
  • Can MRT do enough to compete with other professional data recovery tools?
  • Is MRT destined to be another disappointment with great sales, little support and virtually no updates as we have seen in the past from other Chinese vendors?
  • Basically, is it worth the money?
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A couple of things MRT has boasted about that might be worth testing.

1) Seagate F3: edit ROM and disable head 0 and boot hard disk from head 1, then edit RAM and enable head 0 dynamically.

2) Seagate DM001, DM003, as well as triangle-board HDDs: Unlock firmware

Even if you don't get to these items it will be interesting to hear what you think about MRT.
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What is MRT - I missed the spell-out :)
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RolandJS wrote: Thu Mar 23, 2017 6:06 pm What is MRT - I missed the spell-out :)
That is a good question!
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I guess one of us should ask them?
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lcoughey wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:07 pm I guess one of us should ask them?
I emailed them earlier. Will let you know if I get a response.
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According to MRT the company started out for Maxtor repair. So it stands for "Maxtor Repair Tool".
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