BF2S Forums Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 Firmware Recovery

Beduin wrote:

u can build it yourself.. it is a simple schematic no?

It is - but I'd have to order parts and stuff....


It's so much hassle (and it's been a long time since I've put anything like that together - I'm terribly out of practice).

Last edited by Bertster7 (2011-06-11 06:06:28)

13urnzz wrote:

would it be cheaper than a data recovery center? i think our company paid $1200 to recover a 250gb laptop HDD . . .

A lot cheaper - but not such a high success rate. Data recovery centres have clean rooms and very fancy expensive machines that can interact directly with the drive servos - if that's the level of service you require you have to pay them.

However - more than half of all hard drive failures are firmware related and nothing to do with the drive itself. These can be fixed at home, but it's really awkward most of the time.

A friend of mine used to use one of these kits: http://www.salvationdata.com/data-recov … doctor.htm

That worked really well - but he's gone to Australia and so I can't use it now.

I'm just trying to avoid spending the $50 on a pre-made cable when I might be able to obtain one on the cheap somewhere else or make one - if I can be bothered.

I suppose it all comes down to how much I want to score brownie points with the drives owner...

13urnzz wrote:

yeah, points and the value of the data. to the company, the data was worth more than the laptop it came from.

i remember buying similar HDD's from ebay, and swapping the board. would that work, or am i missing the point?

It can work - but they need to be very similar and it doesn't work at all for many modern drives - like the one I'm using

we made one just like that at work to recover data from seagate drives. it's actually useful for a lot of other stuff - a colleague re-flashed his dvd-player with it. it's basically a 12v-5v converter, it adjusts the signal from your COM port for reception by devices which use 5v interface.
you can build it yourself, it's very easy. or, if you really need it done, like, right now, i'm sure there are people around your parts who'd do that for you, you'd have to pay for their services of course.