Comments on: Recovery Of A Defect Unreadable HDD

By: Robert Lamparter

Robert Lamparter — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:03:03 +0000

This was an extremely useful article.

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By: Andrea Del Corso

Andrea Del Corso — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:56:59 +0000

Bravo Albert,preciso e completo nelle spiegazioni come sempre..!
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Bravo Albert, precise and complete in the explanations as always ..!

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By: Ulise Aguilar

Ulise Aguilar — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:06:19 +0000

very good Sir

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By: Amir Mukhtar AShrafi

Amir Mukhtar AShrafi — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:53:34 +0000

Thanks you Sir
Kindly Share more about your Hard Disk Data recovery device information.
if Possible.
However, Great Work .
Thank you again

Amir Mukhtar Ashrafi
Karachi. PK

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:20:42 +0000

In reply to Albert van Bemmelen.

Keep in mind: The Startech can't copy anything from Sata or IDE cd or dvd-rom drive that is connected to an usb to Sata/IDE adapter but it will show us if a dvd or cd-rom drive is working or not. So it enables us to determine if we have a death drive on our hands or not, without having to use any computer to test this! And IDE/Pata dvd-drives set as Master will also start to read all files on a inserted dvd or cd. Sata drives can't be set as master or slave so they just rotate their inserted disc once and then just quit and nothing else. The Startech USBDUP12 copier/tester will just keep waiting for a master which it obvious won't find. And we are also able to check if the eject function on our cd/dvd-rom drives is okay and if the optical laserhead works.

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:10:40 +0000

No probably not Yogesh. The bad Seagate Barracuda HDD was no longer safe to use for backing up purposes. Maybe it still partly can be recovered again but is no longer fixable. The bad drive is gone back to my friend with the made rescued copy files on the now reformatted previously temporary used as new copy SSD destination drive. Plus an extra made backup on a 25GB Bluray disc that was used for the 10th partition that no longer fitted on the SSD 465GB drive. Formatting such a bad Seagate HDD even if it works would probably only be temporary. Which I know from experience after the Startech copier/tester was used to reformat such a HDD drive before. And therefore I haven't tried reformatting the old HDD that already was second hand when my friend bought it years ago. And these Seagate Barracuda's are sadly well known for their failures!

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By: Yogesh Panchal

Yogesh Panchal — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:49:50 +0000

Albert,
Good info.......are clicking noise HDD are also able to recover on this unit?

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:30:39 +0000

In reply to Waleed Rishmawi.

Also good to know is that the Startech USBDUP12 besides copying and testing of Memory sticks, HDD/SSD drives and SD cards, with the right USB to IDE/SATA adapter also can be used to test CD-ROM/DVD-Rom/Bluray Drives! And best adapters for this purpose are USB 3.0 adapters. And for copying and reading all sort of SD/TF cards only one special Rocketek USB 3.0 adapter works best! But not this one from Rocketek that often failed, like almost all other USB adapters did when used on the startech ports!
But only this one -also Rocketek- always worked perfect!
[like I also described in a previous article about using the Startech USDdup12 copier/tester on Jestine's repair Blog].

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By: FRANCISCO JOSE MACIEL BARBA

FRANCISCO JOSE MACIEL BARBA — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:14:38 +0000

Great job !!!

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By: Albert van Bemmelen

Albert van Bemmelen — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:35:46 +0000

One thing I didn't mention yet is about the 75437.95 TB results in the last shown screencopy. Where these showed up in the long list of programs they were just wrong unusable files that also caused the total amount of found data on a particular partition or in a certain map being presented way too high. But also many files with a low file size around 100kB were just caused by the previous badly damaged 500GB Seagate Barracuda hdd. And they did not contain any important data worth to be saved!
Which also many times could be tested in the preview option on the right of Minitool power data recovery v7.0. Only a few times those tiny size files were really pictures or other real data.

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