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
January 20th, 2019, 12:28
I had a perfect working Toshiba MQ01 ABD050 drive rev AAA AA00/AX001A
I tried to convert Sata to USB with compatible PCB. So I would put customers data on it. Kinda unnecessary stupid try I know.
My second fault I haven't back up anything from good hdd.
After hot swap rom chip. Chip died. Not working. Sure about over heat when soldering. but other chip working. I never changed heat degrees. I did so much hot swap before. This is second rom died .
Now Is there any chance to rebuild Rom for this hdd. It's not recovery job. I want to fix this hdd .
I have more pcb same pcb number.
January 20th, 2019, 12:37
Toshiba ROM's unique for each drive, so your drive is dead now.
Use it as head donor for instance.
January 20th, 2019, 13:26
There must be a way. I would work on it.
January 20th, 2019, 13:34
HddDonorMarket wrote:There must be a way. I would work on it.
You will earn A LOT of money.
January 20th, 2019, 14:08
Spildit wrote:HddDonorMarket wrote:There must be a way. I would work on it.
No way, sorry ...
No-one have sollution so far to rebuild ROM on Toshiba unless you can try to read the chip on a programmer and somehow it does work ...
I tried with MRT chip reader. Doesn't read it. Also doesn't read another chips.tried 1 dead 2 working chip. I tried only 1.8 V. Never used that equipment before. Maybe I miss something.
I don't know which language using in eprom. I will research it.
January 20th, 2019, 17:34
I hope you are up front with your customer and have insurance to help compensate them for your mistake.
January 20th, 2019, 18:05
Been meaning to pick myself up a new decent programmer! Revelprog has been purchased.
February 1st, 2019, 20:10
HddDonorMarket wrote: Sure about over heat when soldering.
and why don't you stop killing customer drivers?
I think it would be the best option
February 1st, 2019, 23:08
Actually there are some thoughts how to rebuild rom on toshiba.
February 2nd, 2019, 16:13
MRT programmer never worked for me. When is able to read, rom file results no good (in the best case, some bits are not read correctly).
I use revelprog as suggested by spildit, it's fine!
February 3rd, 2019, 17:03
Why don't you try it?
The best way is to test it for yourself and see if it provides good results for you.
February 3rd, 2019, 17:07
Well,
You Can Buy Used Programmers From USA At Great Pricing .
February 4th, 2019, 18:24
Sorry Spildit, but my answer was to a previous post of another guy that went missing.
Maybe he was banned!!!
February 10th, 2019, 16:07
Try ROM's dumped off the identical drives (same manufacture date is HIGHLY desirable). The head maps must match. I am not sure about Toshiba but this trick has worked many times for me on WD drives (including new models).
February 11th, 2019, 14:52
Spildit wrote:manager_lg wrote:Try ROM's dumped off the identical drives (same manufacture date is HIGHLY desirable). The head maps must match. I am not sure about Toshiba but this trick has worked many times for me on WD drives (including new models).
I don't think this will work on Toshiba ....
No, it won’t.
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