I know exactly what you mean!! I often recieve HDD's with massive platter damage, but heads seem intact and filter is clean! Also, the previous DR company it went to were able to get a full recovery and even provided a file list. Customer did not approve their overpriced quote! The worst thing is I have got many disks with the same story, all from the same DR company!

There is professionalism, and then theres just plain old vandalism!!

Lets Name and Shame them!

Hi,

I also have met platters upside down and also I recovered the full data area after an MHA replacement but it was overwritten with garbage from LBA 63 till the end of the drive. And some other tricks... Just let me say one word: Kurt
So it is the best to be the first...

pepe

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hmm still working on this weird problem
the hard drive went to pc world where someone has tried to swap the logic board
and possible they used the wrong type logic board on it
so the firmware rewritten over the disk (this is possible we are thinking now)

i suppose if the main rom is damaged does this mean the information is lost.
not to sure but we thinking it wroking fine

as you run aff and it says that the drive does not need recovering at all

we tried other programs diskpatch see the drive but zero data

get data back see the drive in windows but comes up with zero data error 55
does not move at all does not find tree files nothing.


O&O DiskRecovery see the drive then we pick the files wanted jpegs
its recovers folders but with zero bytes in them.

could this possible be a head problem not the right headstack
possible we got to match the year up
or possible they changed the design of the head

both drives are made in china so same source

tried hdd regenerator as a test comes up drive pickup in the bios
and the program see the drive
starts to read then comes up bad sector found repaired one and so on
the with in about 10 mins its found over 1,000 bad sectors


any other ideas guys about this problem

when we got the drive it was still sealed only thing someone did
was remove the logic board.

unit has had a full donor exchange headstack changed and platter swap

1. Does the serial number shown in MHDD pertain to the one printed on the label?

2. Kill the G-list, like odiferous and others said. You WILL need proper (not freebie) tools to do this.

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well here the problem killing the g-list

aff says that the drive is in working order and does not need any recovery at all ??????

how about the serial?

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update on this weird problem

run mhdd drive picks up and serial matches perfect so its the right board


when select the scan and repair drive

it starts up and scans


im getting a lot of warning errors

orange
brown
green
red

all comimg up with xxxx

any other ideas guys

any ideas on this guy as we total ?????????? out of ideas

possible the client changed the logic board for not the right model
and possible the service track data has been overwritten our got corrupted.

very weird problem we come across

so update on this problem again

aff emailed us to ask if we got the data of the hard drive

but here to twist there the program comes up drive is 100% working


but we told them the main problem and they are going to look into this weird problem for us.

hmmm still working on this drive

any ideas what to try next guys

like i say aff said that the board is working order and does not need recovery

what other problems could i be looking at to do with the head itself

how to match up the right donor

any help guys

cheers

so update on this weird problem

aff been in touch and said the drive is working fine firmware etc
g-list is good.

so it looks like the client when they had it to pcworld the muppets
have damaged his files.