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Sep

Seagate 5400.6 Hard Drive Head Swap Steps

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This is one detailed document explaining how to swap heads on one Seagate 5400.6 hard drive. HDD ID: Seagate 5400.6 500GB with 2 platters and 4 heads. Head Comb No.302 has been used on this drive. Steps: 1, Remove the hard drive cover; 2, Remove the top magnet over .

Jul

Level 1 Head Comb Suite User Experience And Tips

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The following tips come from the users of level head comb suite: Head Comb #302: works with Toshiba MK2035GSS – 200GB – 4Heads/2 Platters Head Comb #302: can also work on ST9160821AS – 160GB – 4 Heads/2 Platters, but you can’t insert the pin. Head Comb # 104 : .

Dec

Why Does A Hard Drive Head Swap Fail

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Hard drive head swap is one very important step to fix physical data recovery case. For many physical data recovery cases, they are usually coming with clicking noises or other kind of mechanical noises. Some drives are even dead as common clients see while they are actually not. To .

Jul

What Are The Universal Steps For Hard Drive Head Swap

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When users are going to offer physical data recovery services, users need to have good hands-on experience, qualified head and platter swap tools and clean room environment (for beginners, one qualified clean bench is good for opening hard drives for heads installation and uninstallation.) It’s suggested users need to .

Jul

Do The Head Combs Fix All My Physical Cases

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Some beginners in data recovery field would like to ask such one question-‘Do the head combs I buy from you fix all my physical recovery cases?’ I am sorry but the answer is no. There’re no universal head combs or tools which can be used for all hard drives .

Jul

When Do We Need Hard Drive Head Combs

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Hard drive head combs are mainly used to separate the hard drive heads of different hdd brands including SATA drives, IDE drives, USB hard drives, SAS/SCSI hard drives. When the hard drive heads are damaged, when the motor is damaged, when the heads are stuck to the heads, the .