Seagate read channel checkpoints
WD7500AAKS ROM recovery
A brief experience story about restoring internal ROM content. What should be considered when choosing a donor electronic board?
What HDD is inside external drives?
Not all external drive manufacturers produce hard drives themselves. It is not possible to find out exactly which disc is in the drive before purchasing. Below is the list of external drives and their contents.
Kingston 8GB mSD 98D799B27A
Kingston 64GB mSD 983A98A376
WD3200AAKX-083CA1 burned PCB and ROM chip
Coolpad E560 data recovery from eMMC
I offer a small insight into data recovery from a damaged phone Coolpad E560. The phone could not be turned on. Due to the damage of the board, the ISP connection did not work. The eMMC chip was desoldered. I verified the ISP connection pinout and provide it below.
Failed hard drive of the DVR
Received the hard drive WD10EALS from the Video Surveillance System Rifatron SH-1648. Issue - drive can't detect in a DVR nor on a computer. Information was that a weaker power supply was connected to a DVR device, which has an external power supply.