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Configuration: IBM Thinkpad Hitachi Travelstar HTS548080M9AT00 P/N 13N6798 MLC DA1053
OS / File System: Windows XP Professional, 1 NTFS partition
Failure: Head Crash, dead heads, firmware malfunction
Hard Drive Recovery Procedure
- step1: Find a parts hard drive, with the identical MLC DA1053 and Model number HTS548080M9AT00.
- step 2: All work with an open drive must be done inside a Class 100 Clean Room or clean zone. Remove and replace the Head Stack Assembly.
- step 3: Start to clone the hard drive to suitable destination hard drive of equal or greater capacity using COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery, inc.
- step 4: Because there is additional damage to the surface of the platters, you should keep in mind to take extra care to avoid dead spots while mirroring the hard drive.
- step 5: The NTFS File system usually keeps the MFT (Master File Table) around sector 6,500,000. You might need to reverse direct on the cloning at sector 7,000,000 until sector 6,200,000 to ensure that you get a good copy of the MFT.
- step 6: Continue forward cloning jumping at least 10,000 sector(s) everytime you reach a bad sector area keeping a list of the bad sector areas for future use if necessary.
- step 7: Once you have a decent clone, you should make a duplicate copy of the clone for safety reasons (every hard drive will fail at some time or another, they can't be trusted).
- step 8: You can now run some Data Recovery Software and extract data files. Copy all recovered fies to a Western Digital Passport for delivery.
additional assistance can be found at Data Recovery, Inc.
