USB Media Blaster

[Scorpion]

Hi Everyone,

Is this product enable me to perform images from external drives with USB only to sata drives?
http://www.hdd.ji2.com/products/brochur ... laster.pdf

Sometimes I get bad external drives with degraded heads. I want to perform images from those bad drives to good drive. The problem is that those drives come with USB only.
I cann't plug those drives to Atola Imager and perform the imaging at all.
Is this product enable me to perform the imaging and also image by heads for drives with USB only to sata drives?

Best Regards,

[Russwinters]

Unfortunately going through USB directly to the HDD comes at a price; speed is certainly one of these, but also you lose the ability to issue certain commands that you would be able to issue through SATA.

So unfortunately this product will not allow you to perform selective head imaging, etc.



Regards,

[Scorpion]

Unfortunately going through USB directly to the HDD comes at a price; speed is certainly one of these, but also you lose the ability to issue certain commands that you would be able to issue through SATA.

So unfortunately this product will not allow you to perform selective head imaging, etc.



Regards,

Hi Russel, Thank you very much for the informative answer
What imaging ability this prodcut gives me (if at all)?

Regards,

[Russwinters]

This product was designed for duplicating *good* USB HDD; such as the ones that are factory sealed so that you cannot open without voiding warranty.



Regards,

[Cris]

Hi Guys

I was wondering if anyone else has any more comments about the USB Media Blaster for use with the Atola Insight?

1. Should this work fine for imaging an external USB drive that only has a few bad sectors?
2. Should it work for imaging Western Digital USB drives that have the Initio (AES versions) chip, where a password has not been set?

Alternatively, has anyone used or recommend these products:

CPR Tools: IDE to USB Adapter
SalvationData: SD Dedicated USB-IDE Adapter

Thanks in advance.

Cris

[pcimage]

The only REAL solution for USB drives with hardware issues is to convert to SATA

Easy enough if you know how!

[Alan2]

I think the best solution for USB drives is to remove the hard drive from the case.
This way you are dealing with a regular SATA or older IDE drive and you don't need to deal with the limitations of USB. If this is a data recovery job with bad sectors etc., saving the data is usually worth more than worring about the warrantee or the cost of the drive. Just my opinion.

[fzabkar]

See http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010 ... tor-suite/