SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

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Amarbir[CDR-Labs]

Re: SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

June 21st, 2020, 15:36

Doomer wrote:Just recovered SMR translator for a Spyglass2 drive that was returning all zeros.
It was insanely hard thing to do but I can read data now.

Backup SA properly people! These drives are nightmare to work with.


Hello,
What Modules Would You Suggest 189 and 190 ,Or Some Others Too
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Re: SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

June 21st, 2020, 16:35

Amarbir[CDR-Labs] wrote:Hello,
What Modules Would You Suggest 189 and 190 ,Or Some Others Too

These two are very important, yes.
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Re: SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

March 5th, 2021, 13:15

Does anyone know where i could get heads swap tools for Spyglass2 ? 10x.
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Re: SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

March 5th, 2021, 15:44

MasterT wrote:Does anyone know where i could get heads swap tools for Spyglass2 ? 10x.


Try Apextools https://apextoollab.com/head-replacement-tools/pb5.html#megabox-2
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Re: SpyGlass2 (e.g. WD50NDZW-11MR8S1)

April 14th, 2021, 9:47

The 5 head tool from HDD Surgery does the job for all SpyGlass (2) disks.

https://hddsurgery.com/data-recovery-to ... -5-ramp-p5

John
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