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Windows chkdsk was able to fixed the "format disk" error messages.
Running checkdisk without imaging a drive first is a very bad idea.
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Owner data was intact with about 880GB.
He/She is very lucky.
I always wonder why people are playing with others' data. Homemade DR experts with perfectly no experience and knowledge on the field, not to mention the required tools are recovering customer data. It's not that i was envy or something but this is not responsible handling of client media.
my 10c he/she had no idea you would disassemble his/her disk drive...
I am also stunned by the amount of homemade DR experts, asking questions as if they were the owners desperately seeking help.
It's a nice idea to help out somebody with getting his data back back. Yes, that's kind. But when it turns out somebody else is making money on my 'FreeHelpToAPoorGuyWhoHasHisHardDiskNotResponding', well, that lacks any ethics IMO.
This is not the first case when 'it looks like another poor folk lost his data' then it turns out it's perfectly not the case, it's a homemade tech making a few bucks by hazarding somebody else's data...
Yeah, i hear what's gonna be said, you just helped out a friend....

just a link:
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11912pepe