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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: WD TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) function in PC3000 |
Amarbir[CDR-Labs] |
Posted: May 22nd, 2022, 8:13
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... PCBs. Hello everyone , 200ms was the time i used in one case for a weak head and i was damm impressed . |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: WD20NPVX slow dump |
maximus |
Posted: March 4th, 2022, 19:36
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I agree that is a weak or dead head. I could tell more from having the actual log file, but from the information available in the images it ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: WD20NPVX slow dump |
Lardman |
Posted: March 4th, 2022, 15:58
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Looks like a dead or weak head. You can try to dig at it now you have the rest of the data but if nothing is reading you're going to need a new HSA. |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Problem with a HDD PCB |
fzabkar |
Posted: January 22nd, 2022, 20:06
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... o A B C The MCU in your model (88i6745) is sometimes affected by "head mimic faults". This means that the MCU produces symptoms that are similar to those produced by weak heads. Anyway, there is a way to read the embedded ROM code in your MCU. Spildit ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Problem with a HDD PCB |
Lardman |
Posted: January 21st, 2022, 6:53
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... data from. It will only accelerate the failure of any drive that has a weak head. Instead you should clone such a drive with HDDSuperClone or ddrescue. I'd be doing this ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Problem with a HDD PCB |
fzabkar |
Posted: January 20th, 2022, 21:44
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... data from. It will only accelerate the failure of any drive that has a weak head. Instead you should clone such a drive with HDDSuperClone or ddrescue. These tools understand ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: HGST HTS721010A9E630 Does not read user data from head 0 |
pepe |
Posted: January 5th, 2022, 12:00
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most probably a weak head... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 - reports 0 sectors |
WebClaw |
Posted: November 25th, 2021, 16:36
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... move data from one place to another if the sector is getting weak (eg: bad sector). By running those tools you would have caused the HDD's ... disk and reading / writing another physical location. I would guess a head has failed or is very weak; most likely caused by the excessive amount ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: MQ04UBD200 head swap from MQ01ABD050 donor - Only HEAD 0 |
michael chiklis |
Posted: November 23rd, 2021, 11:05
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Hi everyone, i have a MQ04UBD200 AZA AB01/JT000U drive (4 heads, 2 platters). I've already cloned on head 1,2,3. Head 0 was very weak and it died before finishing to clone (remaining about 263.000.000 LBAs not cloned yet). At ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Skip Rate Error with HDDSuperClone |
Squirrel |
Posted: October 23rd, 2021, 20:17
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... all reads are GOOD. This may not help any if the reads are bad due to a weak or bad head. WARNING: THIS IS DANGEROUS AND COULD KILL THE DRIVE!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! WD ROYL ... |
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Forum: MRT Lab support forum Topic: Seagate ST9750420AS can not read after a while |
Core.iStores |
Posted: October 21st, 2021, 15:12
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pepe wrote: have you checked if the unreadable area starts at a head boundary? i suspect h1 is weak (at least)
pepe
the problem is that from that point till the end it gives red sectors even if i go to the end sector it gives all red |
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Forum: MRT Lab support forum Topic: Seagate ST9750420AS can not read after a while |
pepe |
Posted: October 20th, 2021, 15:35
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have you checked if the unreadable area starts at a head boundary? i suspect h1 is weak (at least)
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Forum: MRT Lab support forum Topic: WD 2T heads issue |
Core.iStores |
Posted: October 18th, 2021, 5:58
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pclab wrote: Probably other heads are bad. You might need to replace them.
it gives HEAD 0 on all sectors does it mean the heads are weak ? |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: HGST He10 - read errors that fixed spontaneously |
fzabkar |
Posted: October 12th, 2021, 16:35
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It appears that one head in the outermost zone has a few weak sectors. If a sector is marked for reallocation, the drive retests it and returns it to service if it passes. |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Skip Rate Error with HDDSuperClone |
Squirrel |
Posted: October 2nd, 2021, 21:08
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... could cause an issue with lack of skipping if there is a bad spot or weak head. I tried running the WD Slow Fix with HDDSuperTool it wouldn't run as I got this error; ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: Skip Rate Error with HDDSuperClone |
maximus |
Posted: October 2nd, 2021, 19:23
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Replies: 29 Views: 22912
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... could cause an issue with lack of skipping if there is a bad spot or weak head. |
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Forum: Forensics Topic: ST2000LM007-1R8174 FW:EB01 |
savcu |
Posted: September 28th, 2021, 9:29
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Replies: 7 Views: 16715
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... posting original terminal log we can't help much... My cents are for weak head or torn bands. pepe I got defect lists by listing from terminal before I apply m0,6,3,,,,,22 ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: how to map 7K3000 heads to sector numbers? |
maximus |
Posted: September 26th, 2021, 9:53
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... skip threshold time low enough to skip when it is reading from the bad head. You would then examine the log to find the areas. I won't get into ... files within the bad areas or not? What if the MFT is partly inside the weak head, or any other structural metadata files? It is just a very bad ... |
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Forum: Conventional hard drives Topic: how to map 7K3000 heads to sector numbers? |
rasz_pl |
Posted: September 25th, 2021, 20:07
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... I do have is a private HGST Ultrastar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with a weak head/preamp. Symptoms are Drive will read fine for couple gigabytes/minutes and then when it ... |
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Forum: Forensics Topic: ST2000LM007-1R8174 FW:EB01 |
pepe |
Posted: September 14th, 2021, 5:37
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recalculating translator was perfectly unneccessary and indeed a bad move, now you have a MC cleared, probably lost some valuable data there. Without posting original terminal log we can't help much... My cents are for weak head or torn bands.
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