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Configuration: Standard Desktop computer with 1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023AS P/N 9W2814-133.
OS / File System: Windows XP Professionnal. NTFS.
Failure: Un-expected and sudden head crash, complete hard drive failure.
Hard Drive Recovery Procedure
- step 1: You must locate the identical hard drive for parts: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023AS P/N: 9W2814-13 Firmware: 8.12 HDA P/N: 100334816
- step 2: Swap the heads in a Class 100 clean room or equivalent.
- step 3: Choose a destination hard drive of the same or greater capacity.
- step 4: Connect source and destination hard drives.
- step 5: Using COPYHD.exe from Data Recovery, inc. start cloning the source hard drive.
- step 6: If you should hit a bad spot (too many bad sector(s)) just jump 10,000 sector(s) or so to clear the bad sector area. Note that the MFT (Master File Table) is located around sector 6,300,000 and effort should be made to clone as much of that area as possible.
- step 7: Once you have cloned the entire hard drive, make a duplicate of the cloned hard drive for safe keeping. If you have little or no bad sector(s), you might be able to boot the clone.
- step 8: Run any data recovery software for NTFS and recover as many files as possible.
- step 9: Copy all files to an external hard drive and you're done.
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