Toshiba MQ01ABD100

[Jan]

Is there any chance to turn off Head 0 in this drive? H0 layer is scratched like at attached photo.

Attachments

[Jan]

Sorry wrong model MQ01UBD100

[pepe]

yes.
pepe

[Jan]

yes.
pepe

can You share Your knowledge?

[HddDonorMarket]

I have same 3 case
MQ01ABF050 ( 1 platter , bottom scratched and )
Samsung HM321HI (top scratched others haven't checked ) also lol a
WD WD10JPVX (top scratched , others haven't checked )

Would try Samsung and maybe WD . Have tried Toshiba with not full functional donor. I have accessed to CP but not UA. looking for a good donor to try .

[pepe]

@Jan: Sorry for not responding earlier. This is a complex process but doable in most of the cases. Physical access to the drive is needed, so you need to send it.

pepe

[BGman]

You just have to include in module DD the subzones corresponding to the scratch and to decrease MAXLBA in module 56 (recalculate the checksum).

[pepe]

i guess they need the data, so editing the translator is not quite an option...

[BGman]

i guess they need the data, so editing the translator is not quite an option...

Do you think they could read the data from the scratch? And DD module is not exactly a translator.

[pepe]

no, of course not. DD is a very simple translator imo, at least on these.