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 1st, 2008, 3:21
I am in possession of a Maxtor Fireball 3 30 Gig IDE drive. It has a firmware issue. MHDD reports the firmware as VAM51JJZ not VAM51JJ0. All attampts using MHDD to read the drive or check anything fail.
I have a clean roam envirnment and have changed the PCB, same error, since this is a single head drive I have moved the platter to another identical chassis, same failure.
Is there any hope? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I will buy anything that will work but cannot send the drive off property.
January 1st, 2008, 21:17
Spildit,
Thank you for your reply, you mention 3 products. If you were to pick one for this exact issue, which one would you pick and why? please. I have no problem with reading and learning I am a quick study and have already read the ata literature suggested to other posters in other threads. I have been doing data recovery for some years. I have a clean room envirnment that "was" certified. I have never run into this type failure however. I do not consider myself a pro in the data recovery field but rather a darn good amature.
January 1st, 2008, 22:15
In your honest opinion If I purchase the Salvation Maxtor unit. What are the chances it will ultimately let me get the data off the drive? Assuming I do everything correctly..
Do you have a good url for HRT tool. Re. HDD Repair 2.0 ouch!
January 2nd, 2008, 4:51
Spildit wrote:Salvation data is cheaper (about 500$) but will only support one the vendor that you chose. If you intend to repair only your drive the best price you will be able to get in tools is the Salvation Data for Maxtor. But if you want a powerfull tool that will handle most of the drives that you can come across, then you should consider PC-3000 or HRT.
I would buy HRT because it's a lot cheaper then PC-3000. My best advice is for you to wait a little longer for the realease of Atola Insight next year.
At any rate you must pay attention to the list of drives supported by the tool that you are going to buy and check if you drive is listed there.
Also PC-3000 is known to be the best tool until now, the problem is that it's the most expensive also. You can do fancy things with PC-3000 that you will not be able to do with any other tool. So if you are real in the data recovery market you should consider PC-3000.
That mean Acelab going to lose a customer
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