Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
December 3rd, 2008, 20:14
Hi everyone,
I have a question. I am trying to do a sector copy of a WD SATA drive, however it can not even copy one sector. it goes really fast skipping all the sectors. the drive detects fine in the bios, even recognized by software such as get data back but it can not read any sectors even in diskedit. I can hear it seeking just fine in the beginning. what is wrong? I don't think there is any bad sectors !!
December 3rd, 2008, 21:23
Have you examined it with MHDD?
December 3rd, 2008, 22:08
No I don't have it, is it something I can download ?
December 3rd, 2008, 23:56
yep, use google.
December 4th, 2008, 0:15
Sounds like a bad translator.
December 4th, 2008, 1:03
got it. lots of SSSSS and Err then blue screen: catastrophic failure. can not write log file.
I got a quote for this PC3000 a few years ago, is it still $15k? I think that is the only thing that might recover this thing.
December 4th, 2008, 1:06
yes, does sound like translator issue.
time to send it to a pro.
December 4th, 2008, 2:22
Why buy a pc3k for recovering one drive? And do you know how pc3k work? Send the drive to a pro.
December 4th, 2008, 3:25
Have you checked to see whether the drive is security locked ?
You can check using MHDD.
good luck
Ed
December 4th, 2008, 3:29
If was locked mhdd shows 'pwd' and scan gives pink ' ! ', without 'broken drive' ... Sorry!
December 4th, 2008, 10:34
Yes " SSS" means IDNF, so that its related to translator problems, if u got the pc3k u need to know on first what its " translator" and how works ,wich modules are related to translator etc if no u could get data overlapped, or damaged another critical modules
December 4th, 2008, 15:35
Thank you for your replies. PC3K wont be just for one drive. actually this guy is not willing to pay much but I do a lot of other recoveries. I was never able to do this kind of recovery. a lot of those slim Maxtors always have this same problem too which I ended up sending to drive savers. but I've done some successful head changes and PCB changes and RAID recoveries but this one is just a mystery to me. I'm sure I need more tools for this. by the way if any of you do this kind of recovery for less than $$ PM me and next time I'll send to one of you. But you think it is recoverable right? ( if I don't open it and mess with it myself , of course )
btw I am in California
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