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Forum: Software and hardware tools Topic: Samsung and HDDSuperClone concern |
| Lardman |
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Posted: February 11th, 2021, 15:52
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Replies: 61
Views: 71565
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| ... making a diagnosis. If it isn't too much to ask to wonder, why/how do weak heads damage a hard drive? There's a world of difference between a weak head and a damage one. ... |
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Forum: Software and hardware tools Topic: Samsung and HDDSuperClone concern |
| DracoJ |
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Posted: February 11th, 2021, 12:30
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Replies: 61
Views: 71565
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| ... it was possible. I guess I've come to a conclusion that my drive has a weak head than a firmware problem since I hear clicks but they all disappear and comes back again. ... |
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Forum: Software and hardware tools Topic: Samsung and HDDSuperClone concern |
| maximus |
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Posted: February 10th, 2021, 19:26
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Replies: 61
Views: 71565
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| ... for a "slow responding issue", this could very well be a bad/weak head issue. I don't always have the time to assist with cases like this, so your input is very ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Some questions on WD My Passport recovery / imaging |
| pepe |
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Posted: February 10th, 2021, 13:55
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Replies: 3
Views: 6790
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| one (or more) of the surfaces is damaged or one or more head is weak. H0 is ok and its surface as well, at least at the beginning, that's why you get the first ... |
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Forum: Software and hardware tools Topic: Samsung and HDDSuperClone concern |
| maximus |
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Posted: February 9th, 2021, 19:04
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Replies: 61
Views: 71565
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| ... problem was only the firmware or pcb that is causing the slowing? not a weak head? The analysis in the free version is limited to 2 minutes, and 30 seconds for the variance ... |
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Forum: Software and hardware tools Topic: Samsung and HDDSuperClone concern |
| DracoJ |
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Posted: February 9th, 2021, 7:01
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Replies: 61
Views: 71565
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| ... problem was only the firmware or pcb that is causing the slowing? not a weak head? It would help more if you included a screenshot of the actual recovery, or better yet ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: HDD SOS : Restore data transfer rate of a SMART failed HDD |
| maximus |
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Posted: February 4th, 2021, 20:07
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Replies: 1
Views: 7717
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| ... it says the problem may be, at least so you have an idea. I suspect a weak/failing head. And to be clear, the drive could die at any time, as that is the nature of failing drives. ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 IO |
| pcimage |
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Posted: January 11th, 2021, 4:24
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Replies: 4
Views: 9086
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| Unless the HDD is clicking and spinning down, replacing the head stack assembly is the wrong first step. In almost 100% of cases with this ... functions or the media cache. It's not impossible that you have a weak/failed read/write head, but even if that is the case the firmeware issue ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 IO |
| data-medics |
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Posted: January 10th, 2021, 17:34
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Replies: 4
Views: 9086
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| Unless the HDD is clicking and spinning down, replacing the head stack assembly is the wrong first step. In almost 100% of cases with this ... functions or the media cache. It's not impossible that you have a weak/failed read/write head, but even if that is the case the firmeware issue ... |
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Forum: MRT Lab support forum Topic: TOSHIBA DT01ACA050 - Reading is TOO TOO SLOW. |
| reliableservice |
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Posted: January 4th, 2021, 13:17
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Replies: 8
Views: 17097
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| This one is Hitachi arch, not native tosh. i suspect 2 causes: - weak / contaminated head(s) (or if these are donor heads, they do not work good with patient adaptives) - media ... |
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Forum: MRT Lab support forum Topic: TOSHIBA DT01ACA050 - Reading is TOO TOO SLOW. |
| pepe |
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Posted: January 1st, 2021, 6:23
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Replies: 8
Views: 17097
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This one is Hitachi arch, not native tosh.
i suspect 2 causes:
- weak / contaminated head(s) (or if these are donor heads, they do not work good with patient adaptives)
- media defects
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: WD Palmer data recovery |
| pepe |
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Posted: December 30th, 2020, 18:21
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Replies: 4
Views: 6248
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i guess most of what you can read is only 00's, is it?
I suspect a weak head over there...
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Recover "Current Pending Sector Count" S.M.A.R.T. error |
| abolibibelot |
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Posted: December 14th, 2020, 4:16
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Replies: 29
Views: 46673
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| ... (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head. Wouldn't that point toward media damage, first and foremost ? And no reallocation as ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Grenada Head 0 can't read user area |
| pepe |
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Posted: December 8th, 2020, 21:02
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Replies: 7
Views: 8541
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| ... i said that statement. Anyway, this time they are right about the weak head. Playing with AFH can give you some results however, it can kill head for good as well ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Grenada Head 0 can't read user area |
| -BR- |
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Posted: December 8th, 2020, 18:15
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Replies: 7
Views: 8541
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| ... system :D I recovered data from many situations were ACE said it was weak or bad heads, and head exchange was the only solution, but data was recovered using a completelly ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Grenada Head 0 can't read user area |
| pepe |
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Posted: December 8th, 2020, 15:48
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Replies: 7
Views: 8541
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| ACE TS told H0 is weak and can't read data in the user area because it have a much higher recording density ... area. This is your problem. H0 is weak or contaminated. You can't avoid checking the head visually in any case, more precisely you can but with risking drawing nice rings ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Seagate Grenada Head 0 can't read user area |
| -BR- |
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Posted: December 8th, 2020, 13:45
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Replies: 7
Views: 8541
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| Hello to all ST1000DM003-1ER162, 2 heads. H0 = can read and write all sa sysfiles but return unc errors on all user area ... seems ok, tried AFH/DAC ajustments, always the same result. ACE TS told H0 is weak and can't read data in the user area because it have a much higher recording ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Recover "Current Pending Sector Count" S.M.A.R.T. error |
| glhd |
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Posted: December 4th, 2020, 17:32
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Replies: 29
Views: 46673
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| If there are a lot of bad sectors also Victoria might kill heads, but chance that Victoria will do the same are higher! Maybe I can stop ... error (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head. What can I do to better diagnose the problem ? I have a TTL ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Recover "Current Pending Sector Count" S.M.A.R.T. error |
| michael chiklis |
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Posted: December 4th, 2020, 13:21
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Replies: 29
Views: 46673
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| ... it will insist on repairing those physically bad sectors until kills heads. Often it will give the illusion of being able to regenerate the sectors, ... (without any reallocated), this could mean that there is already a weak/dead head. |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Weak heads on newer Seagate drives - Grenada, Rosewood etc |
| -BR- |
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Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 3:03
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Replies: 22
Views: 37791
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| ... the original question back: I get a lot of Seagate drives with a bad head. Grenada and Rosewoods are the most common. Can someone explain the ... I've replicated the process but had no luck. I've inspected these weak heads and cannot see any contamination, so that leads me to believe ... |
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