Blog about data recovery, hard disk drive repair and computer forensic.
Blog about data recovery, hard disk drive repair and computer forensic.
Google Chrome doesn’t seem to respect my DPI setting in Windows. I run at 150 DPI, but Chrome ignores that, meaning that images and text are teeeeeeny tiny. I hit: Ctrl + + Ctrl + + to zoom in. Unfortunately every new tab, or new window, defaults to the 100% teeny tiny zoom level. Update: […]
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I’m running rsync to sync a directory onto my external USB HDD. It’s about 150 gigs of data. 50000+ files I would guess. It’s running it’s first sync at the moment, but its copying files at a rate of only 1-5 MB/s. That seems incredibly slow for a USB 2.0 enclosure. There are no other
I set all of my family members up with Linux Mint so that their computers would stop punching themselves in the face, but I’d like to be able to control those computers when my mom calls up and wants to know how to “put her favorites in the drop box.” I’ve got Parallels with WinXP,
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Seagate currently has firmware updates for certain drive families. Check here to see if an update is available. Seagate products are run by firmware. Having the latest firmware can improve performance and or reliability of your product. Seagate recommends applying new firmware to enhance the performance and or reliability of your drive. Like any software,
To identify your drive, retrieve the model number, serial number and firmware revision without removing your drive. There are multiple methods: 1.Seagate DriveDetect.exe method (recommended) When running Drive Detect you will see a screen like this. Look for the drives that are attached: In the example above the Drive Name is the same as the
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We know that Hard Disk Drive’s BIOS includes the unique firmware. If we don’t use the original PCB’s BIOS, the HDD will not spin/ not be recognized/show the wrong info/has clicking noise. 1. We should know which chip is the BIOS chip. Most BIOS is 8pins chip (4 pins on each sides) with 25P05VP、25P10VP、25F512、25F1024、25F1024AN、SST25VF512、SST25VF010, etc.
HDD Head Comb Suite is one perfect match of another popular clean room data recovery tool for high success rate head replacement and platter swap. HDD Head Comb Suite contains two parts: 16 different types of head combs supporting different brands of hard drives’ multiple heads replacement and 48 locking pins with customized sprung gaps.
Finnix is a Debian-based Live CD operating system, developed by Ryan Finnie and intended for system administrators for tasks such as filesystem recovery, network monitoring and OS installation. Finnix is a relatively small distribution, with an ISO download size of approximately 100 MiB, and is available for the x86 and PowerPC architectures, and paravirtualized (User
A typical HDD has two electric motors; a spindle motor that spins the disks and an actuator (motor) that positions the read/write head assembly across the spinning disks. The disk motor has an external rotor attached to the disks; the stator windings are fixed in place. Opposite the actuator at the end of the head
PE Builder (also known as Bart PE Builder) is the software used to create the BartPE system images. PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (“Windows PE”). It is similar to a Windows PE (WinPE) bootable CD-Rom (from Microsoft), that in time PE-based solutions will be every