I locked myself out when working on clicking Seagate hard drive

[@tristankordek]

Oh man, you have to buy beautiful flowers for your wife for bringing the key

[@wizteezy]

Another great installment! Really great content, as always. Keep em coming!

[@pifflebunk]

That artwork on the wall is awesome.

[@iainstingemore4048]

Only you could lock your self out then sit and eat oysters lmfao. Top man.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

🤣 I had to acknowledge what I have done and brain storm on how to resolve the issue. Oysters seemed like good fuel to accelerate that

[@iainstingemore4048]

@hddrecoveryservices brilliant, hope it made you work better when you finally got let back on. 🤣😂

[@awilliams1701]

It's been a while since I've seen an HDD on this channel. lol

[@hddrecoveryservices]

all my camera equipment was set up for flash and SSD, but I got a nice compact camera now that I can take anywhere

[@gurhanbayr5080]

Erkin Nice work my friend

[@cognetic]

Ha! Love this story within the story format. So entertaining!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks Brian! How you been?

[@NapierNimbus]

Fascinating 👍

[@paultomlinson528]

Nice work mate, didn't like rosewoods when they first came out but they pretty good drives now.... hate the foil though

[@numbr6]

Call wife vs work colleagues for key; interesting choice. Good drive recovery. Hope I never need your services, but you have my business if I do!

[@rosariodagosto6484]

you. Have. Very. Steady. Hands. Great. Job. On. Swaps. Take. A. Aspirin. For. Back. Pain. Know. Feeling.

[@awilliams1701]

I've actually seen some retro MFM hard drive repairs. They didn't care about the data. They just wanted a working drive. I have no idea why since they are super loud and noisy, but anyway.... So they have to open it up and pry the heads off the platters. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. And you can bet it's not a laminar flow setup or anything, but these are like 20-40mb hard drives. So the odds of additional damage isn't that great. And another interesting thing is even a factory fresh drive has errors. That's just how they were made back in the 70's and 80's.

[@awilliams1701]

lol I switched offices recently. I left my ID badges in my new office. I was making tons of trips between the two. So I had to turn around before leaving the base, go to the building nextdoor to mine, sign in with my driver's license, and then walk all the way back to my building and then the new office (which is on the furthest side of the building from the security building), get my badges, and then ALL the way back to the secuity office and I was good to go, but what a pain and this was friday after I was supposed to have left for the day (I didn't want to get stuck with this on monday). Last thing I want is to come to work all zombified out barely awake and half to walk half a mile for the round trip.

[@awilliams1701]

ok it's a quarter mile, but it also involves stairs.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I knew that this is gonna happen to me some day. I am surprised it didn't happen sooner. Now I am hardly ever alone at the shop so it's less likely to happen.

[@awilliams1701]

@@hddrecoveryservices It's funny I've been here for 14 years. Before the last 2 years, I've never forgotten it. Now I've lost count. lol

[@sulcusulnaris]

In terms of data security, the old hard drives are probably still the best choice, aren't they?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Indeed

[@touchclarity]

Weak heads = $mold sectors....... (you know them - all do).... ;) ...... Been a while since I changed a set of heads on a Rosewood 'that way'..... BTW - that head tool didn't look like one of Nikola's ...where was it from?..

[@hddrecoveryservices]

this set is from Apex, I have Nikola's first batch of rosewood tools, which were bad (maybe just my set). The pin was too big for the bore, so the comb gets stuck in there hard.

[@chandigarhdatarecovery]

Erkin, I am working on SMR drives in WD for some interesting fun stuff , I would make a video and share the research to you personally its very interesting stuff . Keep up the good work

[@awilliams1701]

I wonder how you'd deal with a newer helium filled drive. I can't imagine that would be easy to work on since once you open it the helium is gone.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

with Helium drives the biggest issue is not the helium. It is the unsupported locked firmware that needs to be modified before data access. We don't do them yet

[@awilliams1701]

@@hddrecoveryservices interesting

[@stephencole9289]

I thought you were going to get locked out of the drive (via the serial terminal connection) ...

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

Really? With a q-tip? That gave me a heart attack.

[@ooltimu]

How do you manage dust when working on HDDs?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

laminar flow bench

[@Trailtraveller]

Nice !

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks!

[@krzbrew]

This is so simpler with the SSDs now... Less mechanical points prone to failure.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

But so much more instability due weakness of NAND

[@awilliams1701]

@@hddrecoveryservices In my personal experience (which admittedly is a small sample size), as long as it's not a USB, SD, or microSD card, SSDs are far more reliable. To be fair I have more SATA experience than NVME. I've been using SATA SSDs for 13 years.

[@lvivdatarecovery]

Hello from Ukraine. What are your statistics on successful restoration between Rosewood and Palmer?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

we do well with them, Rosewood is great since their stripes are large enough to leave good chances even for partial recovery on drives with platter damage. Palmers are not wildly popular here, but we get a lot of SpyGlass since Costco sells them a lot (similar to Auchan). Palmers after format are obviously a massive hit :). Can't say that I love them, but they are huge contributors to our cashflow

[@19watcher86]

👍

[@carlosausejo5809]

Hi ERICK I am a follower of yours, could you give me a piece of advice it is that when I change the toshiba 2.5 heads I can never get data, I am using MRT and unfortunately I can never get data the model is an MQ04... you will have some solution please, and I would also like you to show me please thank you I am from PERU

[@carlosausejo5809]

ESTO QUERÍA ASESORIA

[@carlosausejo5809]

De todos responde menos el muo

[@hddrecoveryservices]

¿por qué? ¿Qué querías preguntar?

[@carlosausejo5809]

Hi ERICK I am a follower of yours, could you give me a piece of advice it is that when I change the toshiba 2.5 heads I can never get data, I am using MRT and unfortunately I can never get data the model is an MQ04... you will have some solution please, and I would also like you to show me please thank you I am from PERU

[@KimoKimochii]

first

[@MrDeadrage]

happy your Okay hahah

[@carlosausejo5809]

Hi ERICK I am a follower of yours, could you give me a piece of advice it is that when I change the toshiba 2.5 heads I can never get data, I am using MRT and unfortunately I can never get data the model is an MQ04... you will have some solution please, and I would also like you to show me please thank you I am from PERU