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 Post subject: Reduce HDD capacity
PostPosted: October 5th, 2018, 20:01 
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I´m new in this HDD recorevy, and i´ve learned that I can "cut" the HDD capacity increasing the HBA, and i´ve used too reuse and recycle
old HDD, couse some off the have those bad blocks in the last LBA sectors. What i want to know is if there´s an way to do that cuting the beggining of the HDD to, or even better , if I could "cut" the disk in other places like in the middle and still use a single partition.


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 Post subject: Re: Reduce HDD capacity
PostPosted: October 5th, 2018, 20:43 
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If you have firmware tools then you can cut any zone on surface.
Without fw tools you'll only able to hide end part of surface by using ata commands (example like it does MHDD or HDAT2 by inserting HPA or DCO).

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 Post subject: Re: Reduce HDD capacity
PostPosted: October 26th, 2018, 20:13 
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michael chiklis wrote:
If you have firmware tools then you can cut any zone on surface.
Without fw tools you'll only able to hide end part of surface by using ata commands (example like it does MHDD or HDAT2 by inserting HPA or DCO).



I have access to a PC3000, but i'm dont realy know anything about how to use it.


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 Post subject: Re: Reduce HDD capacity
PostPosted: October 29th, 2018, 18:29 
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Spildit wrote:
madeinpavao wrote:
michael chiklis wrote:
If you have firmware tools then you can cut any zone on surface.
Without fw tools you'll only able to hide end part of surface by using ata commands (example like it does MHDD or HDAT2 by inserting HPA or DCO).



I have access to a PC3000, but i'm dont realy know anything about how to use it.


Maybe you should start by reading the manuals ?

Do you have a legal version or a very old PCI chinese card ?

If you have a legal updated version it should be easy to learn by reading the manuals and experimenting with drives that you don't care about.

Examples :

Testing hard disks with some confidence :

Executing a "Cosmetic Fix" on drives with Bad Sectors :

Assigning slow sectors to the P-List :



unfortunately i have access to an old PCI chinese version of the PC3000.
For that i don´t realy have access to the manual. But i will read those post you sent me. Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: Reduce HDD capacity
PostPosted: October 31st, 2018, 5:17 
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Here are some precise solutions of reducing capacity or head cut for HDD refurbishment

http://us.mrtlab.com/tech/seagate/197.html
http://us.mrtlab.com/tech/seagate/175.html
http://us.mrtlab.com/tech/seagate/234.html
http://us.mrtlab.com/tech/seagate/226.html
http://us.mrtlab.com/tech/wdc/118.html

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