IBM Travelstar Hard Drive Recovery IC25N040ATCS04-0 (Head Crash)

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System Configuraturation: IBM Thinkpad with an IBM Travelstar IC25N040ATCS04-0 P/N:08K1089 MLC: H32687 laptop hard drive

OS / File System: Windows XP Professional

Failure: Head Crash, dead head channel.

Data Recovery Procedure

• step 1: Find an identical IBM Travelstar IC25N040ATCS04-0 P/N:08K1089 MLC: H32687, you will need an identical set of heads for replacement.
• step 2: You will need to perform the head swap in a Class 100 Clean room or equivalent.
• step 3: You must be careful when changing the head assembly not to let the heads slip onto the platter surfaces. They will get stuck to the platter surface and will be very difficult to free once stuck. You might break a head.
• step 4: Once you have sucessfully swaped the heads, you are ready to start cloning the drive using COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery, inc.
• step 5: Keep in mind that the MFT (Master File Table) starts around sector 6,200,000 and sector 6,500,000. In order to have a clean recovery, you should try to clone as much of this area as possible.
• step 6: Start cloning from the begining of the hard drive until you reach a bad sector area when the hard drive cloning will get stuck, jump 10,000 sector(s) and keep track of the starting bad sector for future referance.
• step 7: If you hit a serious bad sector area, jump to the end of the drive and start reverse cloning.
• step 8: Jump as many times as necessary to clone as much of the hard drive as possible.
• step 9: Once you have completed cloning the original hard drive, make a second copy of the clone for redundentcy.
• step 10: Run data recovery software on the clone to recovery as much of your data as possible and copy the recovered files to a Westerrn Digital Passport external USB hard Drive.