I don't have to do them often, but I'm doing a hot swap on a ROYL drive. Just using Salvation WD Dr. Donor is a perfect match. The drive had a blown PCB, and nothing else wrong with it. I've done these before, but it's been a while, so maybe I'm a little rusty. I think I'm missing a step...

1. I backup the donor modules.
2. I stop donor motor
3. Connect to patient drive
4. Spin up the patient drive and backup GList and PList modules. Both copies. (I even create a special folder just for these)
5. Power off patient drive.
6. Connect PCB back to donor
7. Write patient modules to donor (making sure to write modules from the folder I created)
8. Regenerate translator and power down
9. Connect to patient.

Those are the steps I'm doing. However, the patient does not respond. Just stays BSY, or shows connected as generic family model. I know something isn't taking, because when I connect the board back to the donor it works fine, even with the patient GList and PList modules supposedly written to it. So I'm thinking, somewhere I'm missing a step and it's not actually saving those GList and PList modules. But it says that they were successfully written each time, and I make sure that I select the modules that I backed up to that folder I specifically created. I also make sure to write both copies of each one.

Any ideas what step I'm missing?

you are missing adaptives, plus you might have blown heads

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HddSurgery - Professional Data Recovery Tools

Yes, you are missing steps for ROYL hot swap process.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

Do you mind giving me a hint as to what it is I'm missing? I've done these in the past, but it was probably 3 years ago, so I'm working from memory...which isn't very good.

I think the missing in this step, after finish step 8, you should connect to the donor HDD and then do hot swap again, and then you will access to LBA

Regards,

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Expect, the Unexpected

Have you tried just transferring the ROM to a new PCB?

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Data Medics - Hard Drive, SSD, and RAID Data Recovery Service Company

There is a difference between "hot swap" and "smart hot swap." What you are trying to describe is the latter. The steps you list have a number of problems, e.g. a smart hot swap requires that you go into standby mode when swapping the PCB from donor to patient after adaptives have been written to the donor.

If the FW versions between patient and donor match, there are about 1/2 dozen modules that need to be transferred. If they aren't a specific match, then the process is more involved and complicated.

Frankly, there are important gaps in your knowledge. I hope you are not working on a client's drive.

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Nope. Not a client's job, but I figured out what I was missing and got the data off.

Well,
You Mind Sharing This

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

Probably missing the 4x modules from the procedure.

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