Recovery data from dead hard drives which do note that disassembling a hard drive is not recommended and can result to permanent data loss and further damage to your drive. If your data is business critical, please seek professional help.
The green board on the bottom of the hard drive is known as Hard Drive Printed Circuit Board (HDD PCB). The main function of the PCB is to supply power to the hard drive, maintain speed and rotation of the spindle, and control all internal operations through its firmware. Essentially, PCB is the brains of the hard drive that…
The restoration function of the Samsung Auto Backup is useful when original data is
damaged/lost due to system malfunction or reinstallation of OS or when copying the
same data to a new system.
Perform the restoration in the following order.
1. Running the AutoBackup Restore Setting Wizard (Download Now)
Click Task▶Restore or the ‘Restore’ button or select folders or files to restore.
Right click the mouse as seen in the figure then select ‘Restore’ in the pop up menu displayed.
(After selecting folders or files to restore in the Backed-up List, the ‘Restore’…
When NOT to use Alternate Jumper Settings:
* If you are running Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
* If the system can boot with just one jumper on the drive without locking up.
* If the drive is installed on an IDE controller card that is providing support to access the full drive capacity.
When to use Alternate Jumper Settings
The most common scenario when a drive should be configured with the Alternate Jumper Settings is when the system hangs up or freezes upon boot up after auto-detecting all IDE devices. The reason for this…
Western Digital manufactures desktop edition hard drives and RAID Edition hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically as a stand-alone drive, or in a multi-drive RAID environment.
If you install and use a desktop edition hard drive connected to a RAID controller, the drive may not work correctly. This is caused by the normal error recovery procedure that a desktop edition hard drive uses.
Note: There are a few cases where the manufacturer of the RAID controller have designed their drives to work with specific model Desktop drives. If this is the case you…
DOS and DOS based programs like Windows 3.x and Windows 95 cannot access drives over 1024 cylinders on their own, but require third party assistance to use large hard drives. SCSI drives handle this with drivers built in to the SCSI controller, so we will limit this discussion to ATA hard drives. There are several methods used to overcome the cylinder limitation, and all of them involve translation.
A translation scheme converts information from one form to another and back again. Think of it like this: If you go to a foreign country to conduct business and you don’t…
Yes, with the following recommendations:
Never unplug any eSATA, 1394, or USB device that is being actively accessed by the operating system (such as during a file copy).
- Unplugging a device while it is being used may result in a system crash and the loss of the ability to recover the data already written to the drive.
- For Macintosh – If you want to unplug an External Drive you must first drag the mounted drive icon to the trash to dismount it. After the drive is dismounted then it can be unplugged.
For Windows – If
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FireWire Cables
FireWire cable link homes in three (3) different variations:
- FireWire 9-pin-to-9-pin Cables – also known as a Beta Cable. This cable is he used to connect a FireWire 800 device to a FireWire 800 interface port found on either a FireWire 800 onboard/PCI controller or a FireWire 800 CardBus (PCMCIA) adapter. You would find this type of cable included with your Maxtor OneTouch II FireWire 800 external storage hard drive.
- FireWire 6-pin-to-6-pin Cables – This cable is he used to connect a FireWire 400 device to a FireWire 400 interface port found on either a FireWire
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The most commonly asked questions about the system BIOS and its relationship to hard drives. The following will provide you with basic information beginning with the definition of a BIOS, to identifying key features found in various BIOS’s. The purpose of this document is to aid you in solving minor difficulties you may be currently experiencing.
1. What is Logical Block Addressing (LBA)?
LBA is a mathematical scheme for addressing sectors, beginning at cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1, which is equal to LBA 1. This scheme linearly maps the drive until the final physical sector is reached.…
5. Why use software for translation?
Software translation is an effective, although non-conventional, means of translating large capacity hard drives so they can be utilized on older systems with older motherboards and BIOS’s. We use Maxtor hard drives almost exclusively, and they (Maxtor) furnish a driver made by StorageSoft, which is called MaxBlast. Instead of loading a driver in the start-up files, MaxBlast loads drivers before the operating system is loaded.
6. Can a hard drive be transferred to another computer without losing data?
Generally speaking no, but there are exceptions to everything. Usually there are no guarantees…
Different operating systems have different Partition Type bytes. The most common DOS partition type is 6h, which is used for Primary DOS partitions greater than 32 Mbytes.
Here is a list of known (and suspected) partition type bytes:
- 00 Not Occupied
- 01 DOS, Primary Partition (12-bit FAT, <16MB)
- 02 XENIX root
- 03 XENIX usr
- 04 DOS, Primary Partition (16-bit FAT, >=16MB and <32MB)
- 05 DOS, Extended Partition
- 06 DOS, Primary Partition (16-bit FAT, >32MB)
- 07 OS/2 HPFS, Win NTFS, QNX ver 2, or Adv UNIX
- 08 AIX – boot
- 09
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Recovery data from dead hard drives which do note that disassembling a hard drive is not recommended and can result to permanent data loss and further damage to your drive. If your data is business critical, please seek professional help.
