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Hard Drive Recovery Part 5

Hard Drive Recovery presented at Toorcon by Scott Moulton of Forensic Strategy Services, LLC. Very detailed info on rebuilding hard drives and recovery of your own data.

Duration : 0:9:1


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14 Responses to “Hard Drive Recovery Part 5”

  1. Hey. These are a …
    Hey. These are a great series of videos. I’d figured out the majority of “simple” principles myself, but it’s good to hear it from someone else.
    Now all I have to do is find a duplicate Seagate ST19101W – my old existing one doesn’t spin-up & I think it’s the board electronics.
    Much respect for these videos!

  2. With all respect …
    With all respect vrghiks, but your sense of humor is wrecked. And no cooling tray or angle change will fix it

  3. You keep mentioning …
    You keep mentioning .Are you speaking to a room full of perverts?

  4. Thumbs Up! I am …
    Thumbs Up! I am very glad you put video this up! I was replacing PCB/ logic boards on hard drives that failed at work or for friends as far back as 1998, however I agree with you 100 percent that going into the drive and replacing the read and write heads or trying to recover damaged platters requires experienced staff to safely recover data.

    Jose F. Medeiros
    Former IT staff IBM Global Services
    Storage Division
    San Jose, California

  5. Hi …
    Hi SuperflyflippingA, wasn’t trying to be mean or something back there :P :) Something else I wanted to mention, I had a stuck file once, I tried to delete it using all means, nothing worked. I did notice it did not have an ending to the file name like example: .exe .dsc etc. and it was showing up as 0kbs. I decided to do a fresh reinstall of windows XP home. I’m from South Georgia :)

  6. SuperFlyFlippingA on August 18th, 2009 at 5:30 am

    I agree. Static is …
    I agree. Static is the problem cause by the person, not the drive. There is no replacement for using good static control processes.

  7. I’m on a …
    I’m on a WesternDigital hard drive, and there reliable hard drives, just becuase this guy said that comment about WD hard drives failing the most for static, thats not the hard drives fault, thats your fault for touching it and not grouding yourself first. My WD hard drive is about 4 yrs old now and still going strong, I even have my old WD hard that still works.

  8. Good one – I had a …
    Good one – I had a system that was running hot – video editing – killed 3 WD drives – heat kills magnetism – try it on a bar magnet.
    Great series – very sounnd advice.

  9. If you like it do …
    If you like it do it. The only time you need to worry about if a job pays enough or not is if you hate it. – if work was fun they would charge admission.

  10. SuperFlyFlippingA on August 18th, 2009 at 5:30 am

    If anyone is …
    If anyone is interested I will have a whole new speech at Defcon 15 this August 2007. If you want to learn more and all new stuff about data recovery then you should attend.

  11. Try KMPlayer. The …
    Try KMPlayer. The url is: kmp . ma . cx
    (remove the spaces)

  12. Try turning on your …
    Try turning on your PC first… / VLC Media Player / But Mgeg doesn’t work at all /

  13. Whats WMP got to do …
    Whats WMP got to do with this presentation?

  14. how much do u get …
    how much do u get paid? (be honest)
    was it worth doing IT in university?
    im only 15 years old and im interested in ICT, and am thinking of doing a college course (advise please).
    when i download videos they wont play!
    ive tryed downloading a different windows media player and i tried quicktime. i made sure the video was ‘mgeg’ format and made sure my media player plays that file type, but it still doesnt work.
    can you solve my problem?

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