I have been collecting hard drives for a short time now both working, not working and not seen by W7. I would like to set up an inventory system and have no idea where to start. I find that some drives only have 1 bar code and some have at least 4. Could someone explain what some of these barcodes refer to. I see S/N must be serial number on most all of them. On some I see model:model number, P/N part number, HDA P/N, Date Code and other information. I am working on setting up a linux system to see the not seen by W7. What I would like to know is one what all these codes refer to and is there a structured format people use with a hand scanner and some sort of software to keep this information on these hard drives organized so that I can try matching the hard drives that need a logic board with known working hard drives. Is there some place that describes what the different bar codes refer to. For instance Site Code or Config: and what is the most important information that is needed for making a match. I suspect that some of this information will have to be manually entered into the database. I am wanting to keep these drives from ending up in the local landfill. Thanks

Hi ,
You Mention W7 Multiple Times in your post .What is W7 ?

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Hi ,
even i though he is referring to this ,But if he is not into DR why would he like to do all of this as he writes

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Maybe so if he sees someone need a drive he can easily check if he ha it. I try not to guess the motives of people - it will give you headaches, thats about all !

He said "so that I can try matching the hard drives that need a logic board with known working hard drives" and " I am wanting to keep these drives from ending up in the local landfill." So maybe he is into DR at a basic level or possibly drive refurbishing.

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Well,
If its only for PCB then its better to take out the pcb and then store sort them ,Why stock extra garbage pile leading to extra storage space .Also many people here have created microsoft access databases to do this kinda stuff i have not might be they can shed some light .But i am in a country where software development labour is cheap and i can surely get some commercial software developed for this and sell it .Might be next financial year maybe

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
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