MJM Data Recovery

Seagate Data Recovery Back in 2008 Seagate introduced the 7200.11 F3 series of drives, the range was from 160 GB up to 1500 GB and later 2 GB. Soon after, these drives developed a firmware bug that totally bricked the hard disks. Seagate forums were overflowing with tales of woe. Seagate brought out a firmware update that fixed the problem, but the drive needed to be working to apply it. There was another problem, the firmware fix actually bricked working drives - but only a specific model was affected with the update. Seagate were then forced to provide free data recovery on this model, but left the rest to their own devices. At one point someone made some termminal commands available that could fix the SMART logs and translator problem that cause the 0 MB problems on some of the drives so then they could then run the firmware update. Thanks to that guy many users were able to recover their data. When Seagate bought out the 7200.12 and some later Laptop versions, there wa...

Complete disassembly of a hard disk. A transfer and minor update from an article on our old website. This article does a complete disassembly of a hard disk drive describes each component and what heir function is. Five separate interlinked sections describe An overview of the hard disk to be dismantled Gives a description of the drive and shows the difference between good and bad platters The Head Stack Assembly Shows each part of the head stack and describes their functionality within the drive. The Electronics PCB of the hard disk An brief explanation  of the functions of the PCB on a hard disk drive. The Motor How the motor is controlled and the bearing mechanics. The platters. Describes the manufacture of platters.  The article can be found here. Disassembly of a Hard Disk