Hey Guys,

currently I have a WD1001FALS (1TB WD Black drive) on my table. It's a 4 heads drive. Heads 0-2 I was able to read without any problems. Head 3 wasn't able to read anything. So I got a donor drive and with the donor heads I was able to read the data from head 3. As always I started in the center of the drive to read the data and I was able to read about 80% of the surface. Then the head was failing.

Currently I need 2-3 passes to read one sector. Even when I applied the adaptives from donor drive, the speed didn't increase. I think, there was anything on the surface, the heads hit during the reading process. Is there anything I can do to use these heads? Because I have no donor drive for in stock and there is no time to order a donor.

Either heads are failing again or relo is full..try to clear 32 and continue.

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When I do a head test from SA Tools, I got errors on this head. So I think the head is failing. But why? Did I hit something on the surface? Is there any way I can "fix" the head? Because under a microscope I don't see anything wrong with the head.

Yeah, probably hit the same that killed the original heads...so new headset is required, no shortcuts.

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Rescue IT Datarecovery service Sweden
Rescue IT Dataräddning Göteborg AB
http://www.rescue-it.se