Recent content by kiriup

So just to give an update on my situation, based on USAFRet recommendations i decided to ask a few local data recovery companies for a quote on headstack replacement and i should know their price by tomorrow. I don't even know what price range is considered reasonable for this kind of work. I...

You honestly made me laugh again (i am not being sarcastic)! :) I do know i will most probably fail if i attempt it and i do understand that there are jobs that can be diy and then there are jobs that just need a professional. I would only do it if i decide not to take it to a professional lab...

I was afraid you were going to say that. On a side-note the links you posted are very helpful and full of good information. You even issued a warning about modular psu cables. Unfortunately even if i had seen that earlier it wouldn't have help because at the time i didnt even realize i was...

Yes i know with bitlocker i may never manage to unlock it if its corrupt enough even with the recovery key but as long as i have the time i will try! As far as the backup goes well i kind of did back it up. I mean the most important data i also had on an external disk but the rest i just kept...

Thank you i appreciate any help i can get. I do beleave that fzabkar may have indentified my problem though i am not sure yet.

Yes CrystalDiskInfo cant even detect the disk. It is a WD20EZRX 2TB hdd. Unfortunately i cant find (yet) the original pcb but i will keep looking. This happened over 2 months ago and i just found time to deal with it! I do have the PCB of another 2TB disk (WD20EARS) that i burned that day which...

Thanks for the fast reply! I did try all 3 of the programs that you recommended with the same result. They don't even list that disk. As you can see in the screenshots both programs list Disk 0,1,3,4. screenshots (Sorry i tried inserting it as image but i keep getting an error.) So there is a...

Hi I have a 2TB hard disk with a burned pcb. Specifically the motor control chip was completely fried. I ordered a replacement pcb for it and successfully replaced its bios chip with my original bios from the burned pcb. Now the drive appears in the device manager normally but in windows disk...

Wow that was a fast reply! Thank you! Well to answer your question i have an old 10 port usb hub which i accidentally destroyed by plugging it to the wrong power supply. So now i just want to use it as a base/holder for all my usb sticks. And as you can guess by now i measured the usb pins on...

Hi So i have a bit of a weird question. What i need to know is if take a piece of metal and short all of the usb pins of a usb flash drive (memory stick) together for a prolonged time will that damage or degrade the stick in any way? I know it doesn't do anything if i do it for a minute because...