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In some cases yes, in others not. Typically the performance is similar, but I've seen sever SAS and SCSI drives that read much faster using hddsuperclone than using ddrescue.

It should be Ctrl+C; Ctrl+Z suspends the process. And Yes, he indeed tries to use Ctrl+Z and that's why he couldn't stop it and had to remove the drive and plug it back in. lol. There's no need to pause because of the 'mapfile' (This guy calls it the log file.) That file remembers the state and allows it to resume.

It's not important how the destination is connected. The source being SATA connected is what's important.

Oh awesome, thank you

In some cases yes, in other cases no. I've seen mixed results.

Yes, if it was a complete drive image and not targeting just a single partition.

@@DatamedicsRecovery how do i do that and i ts not even possible to pick only 1 partition then?

@@viisteist1363 Using the GUI, no. But if you're using it command line I think you can specify a partition instead of a full disk. Also, you never said how the bin file was made. If it was using a different program, definitely is possible to be just a clone of a partition rather than the full disk. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that different LBA size drives can lead to issues sometimes.

Yes

The command is the same, however rosewood drives have many more zones than the drive in the video. I had to make a separate, much larger, excel sheet just for those.

Did it work for you?

@@yellowcard8100 nope the drive was unrecoverable

Ummm okay

RapidSpar is designed to automate some common types of repairs that a tool like PC-3000 can do, but it's nowhere near as powerful. I've handled thousands of recoveries with PC-3000 that RapidSpar wouldn't have been able to handle. Yes, it is expensive, but it's a professional tool. If you run a DR lab, it's just part of the cost of business. I've owned three of them over the years.

You can't. This process requires some very expensive data recovery tools, none of which will ever exist for MacOS

@@DatamedicsRecovery is there reason why WD does not make a firmware update patch for a know bug?

@@wmixstudios Although it's commonly referred to as a "bug", the reality is, it's more a matter of the drive hitting a limit of what it can handle. All modern drives have the amity to detect and remap bad sectors. But, the designs have finite limits to how much of this they can handle. When you try to exceed that, things go sideways.

It depends on the situation. For an encrypted WD with firmware malfunctions like in this video, I recommend a PC-3000 system with Data Extractor software. But that costs like $10K so isn't for most users.

Sometimes the task statistics can be off. Try right clicking on the map and select "recalc".

Is it a My Book that has the separate adapter to change from USB to SATA?

Audits?

@@DatamedicsRecovery More audits on the technological advances of data recovering and more specifically how it is interchangable tied to the current patent system and public domain for the use of commericalization for the general public and what is allowed to use and what isn't allowed to be used by the public until the active patent expires or more mazing technqiues to get around certain patents

@@wertiaaudit5746 I may make some more videos in the future. I'm currently semi-retiring from this work and just doing some consulting work. But, I may eventually circle around to make more videos

@@DatamedicsRecovery The world needs you. I need you. Data collection technology industry needs you . People are homeless all over the USA. Your country needs you, You could save some important data that could fix the housing crisis. Please come back to service, the United States people need you

The two pins closest to the SATA port are a TTL connection, but it won't help as the port is locked unless you have the technology to modify the contents of the ROM chip on the PCB to unlock it and then send the unlock handshake signal. You'd need a tool like MRT at the very least to anything meaningful with the drive. Not unless you want to do some serious research and development yourself.

The newer Spyglass 2 drives have an encryption key built into the main IC controller of the original PCB. For now, the only real option is to repair the original board, or transfer several components over to a replacement board. My advice, if possible, would be to just wait a little longer and see if the engineers at Ace update the PC-3000 software to be able to software decrypt the data.

Thus the blatently obvious first word of the video title "obsolete".

@@DatamedicsRecovery Well thanks for replay, you tried that's great !

Thus the word "obsolete" in the title. Microsoft pushed an update that ruined this fix.

The Pro version

Most often in a case like that you will ultimate need to replace the heads in a clean room. Sometimes it is possible with PC-3000 to disable just the failed head(s) and still read data from the good heads. It just depends on the case.

@@DatamedicsRecovery It turns out that "Dara Extractor" is optional to buy with the board? Data Extractor is very expensive. Can I only buy a board?

@@Anton_Zh You can, but if you are serious about recovering data you will need the Data Extractor software too. Without it you'd mostly be limited to refurbishing drives and you'd still need to invest in a hardware imaging tool for cloning. There are a lot of features if PC-3000 that work in tandem with DE software

I'm afraid not. Too much R&D went into it to just give that away.

No, replacing the PCB will do nothing at all to help. These drives aren't prone to PCB issues and the offending code is stored on the actual platters, not in the PCB ROM (what you are calling BIOS).

@@DatamedicsRecovery Thank you so much for the fast reply! If I understand correctly from the video, the issue can be triggered by bad sectors anywhere on the disk, not necessarily in the area where the "offending code is stored"? Because I believe that if this area had bad sectors, the data recovery could be a lot more difficult. One more thing, after applying the fix presented in this video, could the hdd be recognized by the system without using the terminal interface and PC-3000, or this procedure must be repeated every time you want to read the disk? Asking because I was hoping to find someone locally here in Romania that has the necessary tools to fix it, then take the disk home and save just the important files (100-200GB of the 3TB) and avoid bringing another disk to the shop to backup on it. I'm also consulting your forum and many other resources, and considering buying a terminal adapter cable, if it's possible to do this myself without PC-3000 :)

@@sebykos The issue is often related to the drives failed attempt to remap the bad sectors. Recovery requires manipulating firmware to disable certain functions and stabilize it ling enough to extract the good data.

I do own an MRT system, but I so rarely ever use it I barely know the menus. With PC-3000 there's just no use for it.

There are just so many reasons a drive might not show up, there is no one all solution. Usually it involves hours or days testing and repairing to resolve. Not the sort of thing that's easy to make a youtube video of.

Unfortunately there is no school for this stuff. At least not anything worthwhile. You can learn a lot on various data recovery forums but the rest must come from documentation of professional tools, connections you build with professionals and your own weeks spent in research.