Here in Portugal there is a company that sabotages all the devices if the clients refuse the quote. Their new modus operandi is quote the client after they see the value of the data for like 10X the normal rate. Client declines and asks for a second opinion. Other houses see no fix for the issue, and go back to them and pay. Actually there is a court case pending against them because they extracted the data out of a microsd, and when client refused the quote they zeroed and formated the device. They just forgot that System Volume Information got the date of that action... Right after the client refused the quote and while the sd was in their lab 😅
Data recovery services are not cheap for several reasons. If a client makes someone do the work and recover their data they should pay. You can't possibly know how it will cost until you managed to recover the data. Sometimes you need to buy a working device just to be able to access the data, other times you may be required to buy a working screen for a phone then you notice that the client has a strong password in effect on that phone but is not able to tell you what the password is. If you spend your money on 100 clients without charging them you're gonna be screwed so I think everybody should keep their end of the bargain. The moment you did the job, client should not ask for a second opinion. Client should ask for a second opinion before making me to do all that work. Sounds fair to you? Everybody does judge. If you don't want to pay, don't come to have your data recovered. Nobody forces you to come. I had a client saying that all the pictures he had on a phone worth gold to thim. The moment I asked for payment (25 bucks) he said that the data is not very important anyway and he only wanted his device back but I must give him his data too because it is HIS. For one client I recall I showed him his beloved pictures recovered and the moment he said he thinks he should not have to pay for HIS pictures I erased them completely right in front of him (deleted, empty recycle bin for the dramatic effect, deleted partitions, created new partitions and formatted). He called police and said I was stealing HIS pictures, HIS property. Well, nobody found those pictures ever in my possession so I really wasn't stealing anything from him. What would you do if a client tries to make you to do the work then tries to not pay for your work? About the deletion of the data... sometimes this is happening for a reason 😇.
@@Dandan-tg6tj perhaps I explained myself wrong. First of all I own a data recovery business. I quote the client for the job, he accepts and pays we do it, he does not he gets his drive back. When we quote we may expect problems, but the point of accurate diagnostics is to prevent you from "not knowing how much it will cost until you recovered the data". That's unprofessional and idiotic. What I was talking about is a company that before giving a quote, works on the device and evaluate the importance of the data. They extract the data out for a safe copy and if client refuses then they will sabotage the device and hand it back. P.s: Oh, and we work on a no data no fee basis.
@@Dandan-tg6tj Awful response, if I decline your estimate that doesn't give you the right to destroy my property. Most repair places I deal with will either do estimates at no charge, have a set fee for estimates which you pay in advance and you still get to choose to go ahead with the repair or not. If you request the work but don't pay then they don't send the kit back which seems reasonable as you've always got the option of paying if you don't like it. Your solution to destroy something is very amateurish and feels like you're looking for trouble.
Sabotage to hide a mistake is a definite possibility, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone is preparing a video where they test data recovery companies by creating some easily repaired fault and sending it to data recovery companies, in which case you passed.
It was indeed thin and nicely done. Maybe someone try to fix it and "circuit brokes at this component",so let's jump it.. :P Real mystery. Or maybe someone found so disturbing stuff but cannot send it to police for reason or another. So he did what real good guy do :D
@@jannejohansson3383 Can't be by removing the jump the board instantly functioned. This was done deliberately to induce a failure. I'd agree with they likely wiped the drive and then created the error to hide the mistake. People these days avoid accountability like it was the plague.
@ 5:48 as you zoom in the entire area beside the capacitor including the N2 has solder/Rosin residue so the piece was fairly obviously worked on by another shop. Wouldn't be surprised if the N2 was also altered since it sits crooked on the board and the solder looks to be heavier than the original factory work.
Wow, true detective :), i leave a like on every video you post! Great content. By the way i did order dslogic plus and multy-recovery boards so finally i gonna try to look at one of microsd card without pinout. But before that i will test it on working card. Excited
the donor device is yours, you didn't waste your money, who knows maybe someday you will need it but you would not find any and this will be your win, you know how electronics change everyday.
A pro wouldn't put the jumper _on top_ of the cap where it's clearly visible. Besides, there are much better (easier *and* less detectable) ways to sabotage a drive. Heat cycle the drive repeatedly, causing solder balls (or, fingers crossed, bonds within the chip) to crack. Or better yet, drag your feet on some synthetic carpet and discharge into the chips a few times. Literally undetectable and, more importantly, unrepairable. And even if the shop for some reason decapped the chips and looked at them with a SEM and figured out it was ESD, you could always plausibly play it off as an accident.
reminds me of when I did IT at a school for a living. The teacher calls me "the mouse isn't working". So I head over.....why is the light painted black? I ran some IPA on it. The black came right off. Mouse worked fine. Some student pranked the teacher. I had another one that reprogrammed the keyboard. He didn't swap the keys (that's easy to fix) he reprogrammed the keyboard. The fix is simply to reboot, but to this day I have absolutely no idea how he did that. And he did it more than once and it was always the same kid.
@@awilliams1701 Default Key Mapping in Windows. I have an older keyboard without a Windows key, but with Default Key Mapper, I can just overwrite one of the keys to be the windows key :)
I work on iphone motherboards and sometimes other shops when they cannot fix the device, they remove the eeprom or brake something that is not fixable. I don't know their idea behind this but, this happens to me like once in the month
Erkin my friend this is a superb example of what can be done by unskilled/non educated people. But in my opinion the tech guy measured it wrong and tought it to be a fuse. When he/she measured and didnt heard the beep (while they just listen sometime s and dont follow the multimeter) he/she said ok lets use a wire as jumper and fix it. :))))). This reminded me something that happened to me very very long time ago when i was in junior at the university. My girl friend at that time wanted to borrow my car and i gave her the car she finished her work and brought back the car and gave me the keys and she said you casset player (now they dont exist anymore) is not working. That was strange while it was a week i installed it and it was a brand new pioneer front loaded cassete player. The front loader mechanism was a revolution at those days, you were pushing the cassete slightly and the player took the cassete in and starts playing. So when i went home after uni i disassemled the tape unit from the car and put it on my work bench and then when i unscrewed it i felt i was hit by a hammer to the head. My genious girl friend still up today i dont know how and i think it is still impossible managed to put two cassetes inside the player. Sometimes people can do thinks you can not imagine. i just wanted to share one of the funny electronic insidents i have live there are a lot of them by the way.
its a very valid option, but someone erased everything in September. That's why I think whoever erased it, did it by mistake. Once realized that TRIM killed all of the data permanently, they were forced to come up with some way to show that the drive is bad. Just my theory
Probably sabotaged by another data company. Fortunately, you found it. Unfortunately, activities such as sabotage gives the Good guys a bad reputation. In my 45 years in electronics repair, I had seen that all too often. Enjoyed, Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work, man.
Wow! That is crazy! It's almost like the person who got the device was just running a Frankenstien experiment on this drive. Talk about an unprofessional hatchet job!
Tell you what... Here's my interpretation of Occam's razor: never attribute anything to malice if you can explain it with sheer incompetence. Incompetence is power, especially combined with arrogancy.
Surprised that the PC-3000 software is not showing a short circuit under the power info section It was showing 0.00A for the 5V supply and 0.00A for the 12V supply when it was shorted After you removed the jumper wire it was showing 120mA on the 5V supply and 0.00A on the 12V supply. So it is obviously not being given 12V
I think protection for over amperage kicks in in such cases so that PC3000 does not get damaged. If surge on unit is over a certain threshold it stops feeding and lights go dim on registers. Just my theory
Hi, I have 2TB HDD full of Data, but currently I have no access to my Data. I used to use 2 pieces of 2TB HDD in a TeraMaster NAS device. Once I have seen that the NAS device is no more accessible. Then the TerraMaster support center said my be the problem is in the HDDs. Then I sent the device to a Data Recovery company in Cologne, Germany. They said the NAS configuration was JOBD, HDD 02 is alright but empty, HDD 01 is the faulty one and with full of data. After trying one and half month, they said that the head is broken and platter has scratches. Every time they install a new head and try to run it, the new head just get damage again. So they failed to recover any Data. Now I have seen your video that you can recover data from even scratched platters. Please help me save my 20 years of study and a lot a personal data. Otherwise I will be dead. Please help me. I am eagerly waiting for your response. Thanks.
you know, maybe. I mean there are other ways to make this unit play dead that would be more effective that a simple jumper that anyone with scope can spot
@@hddrecoveryservices Yeah, we need to ask to the original customer because is an enigma, maybe for me. Thanks for reply me, by the way! I love all of your content.
i would ask the owner about that i think some one ripped him of to fix it not you and as you said to cover his work but you were able to get the data good job never worked on a nmv drive or one of those m.2 drives
How does the customer address this? If they initially took the driver somewhere else, and they sabotaged it, then your video indicates (doesn't prove) that. But what recourse does the customer have - your word against theirs - in a possible civil lawsuit....?
its not a question for me. I fixed the drive, I can see it load, I can see last created dates of files. These files were created before I had the unit in my hands. Who did it before me, why, and how is not of my concern to be honest
so that cap would turn into a resistor per say .so thats a power rail on the bottom ..are schematics hard to find? watching the surgery is kool to see ..lol..
One never stops learning, hell fire I never expected that would be the issue. Sorry you forked out that money. Reckon you spot on re a cover up job as the reason.
@@hddrecoveryservices I took the chip off and it seems the usb controller is built into it. it keeps asking to format the disk but cant read it. thanks for the reply
uhh maybe they thought it would give them more power and improve performance like a shunt mod on a gpu? That's crazy but I can see how you'd miss that tiny little detail and not something anyone would expect to be there
Files and folders that are recovered in the above way, can the files and everything be contained in a zip or .rar archive and then shared ? Suppose if we didnt wanna loose timestamp information of folders and files then can personal files be put into a archive then given back to the user?
I have the same drive which failed and no schematics or any information available online could you help me with the reading you have in the donor drive you have☺️
The jumper is not super important by itself, as it did not have any impact on data. If the unit had some other issues with components I would not even mention it maybe. But the drive was working fine. However put the jumper in had to see that it was formatted clean. So why would you put a jumper on if SSD was working ?
@@Dandan-tg6tj in my side just running a firewall and working with linux mac and windows so if some system is infected , the important data will stay as i know ransomware are focusing on windows system only and using samba 2 old version before patched, so no way that i can get the virus in, else for data recovery there is no security working with unknown devices such as usb flashdrive hdd ssd and malduino for ex that could hack the system easlly , just wonder how he is dealing with lotof incomming data recovery
I never had any trouble with any image I recovered. I rarely open the data to see what's in there. I do that only at the client's request. Mostly I recover an image of a device then I can clone it on a working SSD/HDD. I don't even know what's in that image. I recover an image of the device and the client does what he/she sees fit to do with it. For me there's no virus threat and if the client has viruses in his data, is not my problem for I'm not specialized in removing viruses and I don't do viruses removal.
no reason. there is nothing special about a generic adapter I used for this case. Maybe I needed to use NVMe adapter later after this case and I wanted to keep it free so the generic SATA m.2 was used
@@hddrecoveryservices on HDD it can, right? i heard the analogy of drawing a long line in blue marker and covering it up with a line in black marker. if you zoom in real far you'll see that they aren't perfectly overlapped and a slim edge of the first line will stick out from underneath the edge of the new one. I don't know if this is true, but i heard the FBI uses much more precise reading heads to read those edges and recover scraps of overwritten data.
@@asdfasdfadfasdf2979 Yep, that's true on hard drives. I haven't heard of a process where trimmed SSD data can be recovered after Active garbage collection has wiped it.
What surely happened is that the previous technician repaired it, but the client did not want to pay for it. So he shorted a capacitor so it won't work. It is something that is done when the client does not want to pay for the work. Nobody works for free.
indeed....25 years ago, I did computer repairs...and I would go to the customers location and explain what I would and would not charge for and my prices were almost half of what others charged for the same service. I had a fee for showing up at the customers location which would cover stupid things like the computer being unplugged and other stupid things. This fee was fair and if it took me less than 15 minutes to figure out, all good. I had some customers who had REALLY jacked up their systems and it would take hours, so sometimes I would take their equipment back to my shop to run overnight or whatever.....it was AMAZING to me to work on a computer for several hours and have someone not want to pay me because 'I DIDNT DO ANYTHING'.....ie....didnt open up the case and poke around in the internals of the computer.....and the fact that the system wasnt working properly when I arrived, but WAS working properly when I was finished mattered not in the slightest to these people.
In my shop if the customer will not pay, they don't get the goods back. They can jump up and down all they like but until they fork over the $$, they get nothing except a conversation.
@@hddrecoveryservices The data was deleted because the customer did not pay for the repair. If the previous technician was good, he may have made a backup, in case the client comes back.
at first I thought that last place that worked it quoted too high and jump shorted the SSD in hopes the client will comeback. But as you can see it was to most likely to cover up the tracks :(
@HDD Recovery Services That's too bad, I figure they did as well. Great channel, by the way. I really enjoy the content! I may be a customer soon. I've been trying to recover a raid 0 array for about a year now (drives are fine, mobo failed). Ufs raid finds the files & structure, but the data is corrupt like the stripes are misaligned.
No as actually someone that knows how to do micro soldering did it as that not a solder bridge but they put a jump wire across so no accident. That someone that did it on purpose for a reason as they also wiped the data as well?
The criminal quesses a crime was committed as they think that way. Sabotage we experienced was mainly components poped off the board. Never a pro tiny wire bridge over a cap. Setup.... This guy has a criminal mindset.
Here in Portugal there is a company that sabotages all the devices if the clients refuse the quote.
Their new modus operandi is quote the client after they see the value of the data for like 10X the normal rate. Client declines and asks for a second opinion. Other houses see no fix for the issue, and go back to them and pay.
Actually there is a court case pending against them because they extracted the data out of a microsd, and when client refused the quote they zeroed and formated the device. They just forgot that System Volume Information got the date of that action... Right after the client refused the quote and while the sd was in their lab 😅
Maybe it would be similar in this case too.
OMG
Data recovery services are not cheap for several reasons. If a client makes someone do the work and recover their data they should pay. You can't possibly know how it will cost until you managed to recover the data. Sometimes you need to buy a working device just to be able to access the data, other times you may be required to buy a working screen for a phone then you notice that the client has a strong password in effect on that phone but is not able to tell you what the password is. If you spend your money on 100 clients without charging them you're gonna be screwed so I think everybody should keep their end of the bargain.
The moment you did the job, client should not ask for a second opinion. Client should ask for a second opinion before making me to do all that work.
Sounds fair to you?
Everybody does judge. If you don't want to pay, don't come to have your data recovered. Nobody forces you to come.
I had a client saying that all the pictures he had on a phone worth gold to thim. The moment I asked for payment (25 bucks) he said that the data is not very important anyway and he only wanted his device back but I must give him his data too because it is HIS.
For one client I recall I showed him his beloved pictures recovered and the moment he said he thinks he should not have to pay for HIS pictures I erased them completely right in front of him (deleted, empty recycle bin for the dramatic effect, deleted partitions, created new partitions and formatted).
He called police and said I was stealing HIS pictures, HIS property.
Well, nobody found those pictures ever in my possession so I really wasn't stealing anything from him.
What would you do if a client tries to make you to do the work then tries to not pay for your work? About the deletion of the data... sometimes this is happening for a reason 😇.
@@Dandan-tg6tj perhaps I explained myself wrong.
First of all I own a data recovery business.
I quote the client for the job, he accepts and pays we do it, he does not he gets his drive back.
When we quote we may expect problems, but the point of accurate diagnostics is to prevent you from "not knowing how much it will cost until you recovered the data". That's unprofessional and idiotic.
What I was talking about is a company that before giving a quote, works on the device and evaluate the importance of the data. They extract the data out for a safe copy and if client refuses then they will sabotage the device and hand it back.
P.s: Oh, and we work on a no data no fee basis.
@@Dandan-tg6tj Awful response, if I decline your estimate that doesn't give you the right to destroy my property. Most repair places I deal with will either do estimates at no charge, have a set fee for estimates which you pay in advance and you still get to choose to go ahead with the repair or not. If you request the work but don't pay then they don't send the kit back which seems reasonable as you've always got the option of paying if you don't like it.
Your solution to destroy something is very amateurish and feels like you're looking for trouble.
Sabotage to hide a mistake is a definite possibility, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone is preparing a video where they test data recovery companies by creating some easily repaired fault and sending it to data recovery companies, in which case you passed.
It was indeed thin and nicely done.
Maybe someone try to fix it and "circuit brokes at this component",so let's jump it.. :P
Real mystery. Or maybe someone found so disturbing stuff but cannot send it to police for reason or another. So he did what real good guy do :D
@@jannejohansson3383 Can't be by removing the jump the board instantly functioned. This was done deliberately to induce a failure. I'd agree with they likely wiped the drive and then created the error to hide the mistake. People these days avoid accountability like it was the plague.
@ 5:48 as you zoom in the entire area beside the capacitor including the N2 has solder/Rosin residue so the piece was fairly obviously worked on by another shop. Wouldn't be surprised if the N2 was also altered since it sits crooked on the board and the solder looks to be heavier than the original factory work.
Wow, true detective :), i leave a like on every video you post! Great content. By the way i did order dslogic plus and multy-recovery boards so finally i gonna try to look at one of microsd card without pinout. But before that i will test it on working card. Excited
thats amazing! I just got DS 32 channel, sadly there is no adapter like multi for 16ch version. But I think I'll get my dad to make it for me
@@hddrecoveryservices let us know if your dad wants to sell some other adapters! I know atleast another person that would like one!
@@MordePT if we make them, I think the least order is 10, so I will have some spares to sell/give away
the donor device is yours, you didn't waste your money, who knows maybe someday you will need it but you would not find any and this will be your win, you know how electronics change everyday.
Good point ☝️
The skill just to solder that tiny jumper! I’m impressed.
:)
Actually not difficult if you have a fine tip soldering iron, a suitable pair of tweezers, and a microscope.
@@SimonBrouwer Yep 0.2mm pitch is doable like that, likely some are likely even more skilled than me.
The saboteur has some mad soldering skills to have been able to do that.
the more I think about it, maybe it was not sabotaged... but why put a jumper on a otherwise working unit... I guess we will never know
A pro wouldn't put the jumper _on top_ of the cap where it's clearly visible. Besides, there are much better (easier *and* less detectable) ways to sabotage a drive. Heat cycle the drive repeatedly, causing solder balls (or, fingers crossed, bonds within the chip) to crack. Or better yet, drag your feet on some synthetic carpet and discharge into the chips a few times. Literally undetectable and, more importantly, unrepairable. And even if the shop for some reason decapped the chips and looked at them with a SEM and figured out it was ESD, you could always plausibly play it off as an accident.
reminds me of when I did IT at a school for a living. The teacher calls me "the mouse isn't working". So I head over.....why is the light painted black? I ran some IPA on it. The black came right off. Mouse worked fine. Some student pranked the teacher. I had another one that reprogrammed the keyboard. He didn't swap the keys (that's easy to fix) he reprogrammed the keyboard. The fix is simply to reboot, but to this day I have absolutely no idea how he did that. And he did it more than once and it was always the same kid.
:) thats funny
@@hddrecoveryservices oh trust me everyone including myself was laughing about it. lol (maybe not the keyboard thing, but the mouse thing for sure).
I know how to do it by injecting an entry into the registry but that won't be fixed with a reboot!
@@awilliams1701 Default Key Mapping in Windows. I have an older keyboard without a Windows key, but with Default Key Mapper, I can just overwrite one of the keys to be the windows key :)
@@CorollaGTSSRX yeah I'm not seeing anything like that.
I work on iphone motherboards and sometimes other shops when they cannot fix the device, they remove the eeprom or brake something that is not fixable. I don't know their idea behind this but, this happens to me like once in the month
Yeah, we get sabotaged hard drives a lot. Maybe intentional, maybe from lack of experience. Tools used in DR can kill data very easily in wrong hands
The idea would be to ensure another shop can't repair the fault and make them look stupid!
That reminds me a little when I was training apprentice to do troubleshooting, it was also sneaky jumpers.
It's a good way to test someone
I always learn something new. Thanks for sharing.
you got it dude!
I'm guessing either someone was trying to test your customer's repair skills, or you customer was trying to test your repair skills.
I had this theory cross my mind
Erkin my friend this is a superb example of what can be done by unskilled/non educated people. But in my opinion the tech guy measured it wrong and tought it to be a fuse. When he/she measured and didnt heard the beep (while they just listen sometime s and dont follow the multimeter) he/she said ok lets use a wire as jumper and fix it. :))))). This reminded me something that happened to me very very long time ago when i was in junior at the university. My girl friend at that time wanted to borrow my car and i gave her the car she finished her work and brought back the car and gave me the keys and she said you casset player (now they dont exist anymore) is not working. That was strange while it was a week i installed it and it was a brand new pioneer front loaded cassete player. The front loader mechanism was a revolution at those days, you were pushing the cassete slightly and the player took the cassete in and starts playing. So when i went home after uni i disassemled the tape unit from the car and put it on my work bench and then when i unscrewed it i felt i was hit by a hammer to the head. My genious girl friend still up today i dont know how and i think it is still impossible managed to put two cassetes inside the player. Sometimes people can do thinks you can not imagine. i just wanted to share one of the funny electronic insidents i have live there are a lot of them by the way.
that is hilarious, Gurhan.
When a SanDisc was turned into a sans disc.
Good call, Congratulations Detective.
;-)
🤓thanks
I bet a repair shop claimed "bad hard drive"
He called BS.
The shop then made the hard drive bad by shorting it out.
its a very valid option, but someone erased everything in September. That's why I think whoever erased it, did it by mistake. Once realized that TRIM killed all of the data permanently, they were forced to come up with some way to show that the drive is bad. Just my theory
if they claim the hard drive is bad, and a customer doesn't want it back they can resell it
@@PeterShipley1 Yep, which is why I jumped to that conclusion first.
Probably sabotaged by another data company. Fortunately, you found it. Unfortunately, activities such as sabotage gives the Good guys a bad reputation. In my 45 years in electronics repair, I had seen that all too often. Enjoyed, Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work, man.
Wow...great case! Like in a good crime movie - You have to watch the video to the end 😄
I know ScoobieDoo likes to solve crimes bro!!! :)
Wow! That is crazy! It's almost like the person who got the device was just running a Frankenstien experiment on this drive. Talk about an unprofessional hatchet job!
;)
Why they not removed a resistor ? Leave traces of a sabotage is completely insane....
I have no idea. I agree, taking out a resistor would have been much harder to spot.
@@hddrecoveryservices seems something sent to you to .... investigate?
Tell you what... Here's my interpretation of Occam's razor: never attribute anything to malice if you can explain it with sheer incompetence. Incompetence is power, especially combined with arrogancy.
That't Hanlon, not Occam, but fair enough 🙂
Surprised that the PC-3000 software is not showing a short circuit under the power info section
It was showing 0.00A for the 5V supply and 0.00A for the 12V supply when it was shorted
After you removed the jumper wire it was showing 120mA on the 5V supply and 0.00A on the 12V supply.
So it is obviously not being given 12V
I think protection for over amperage kicks in in such cases so that PC3000 does not get damaged. If surge on unit is over a certain threshold it stops feeding and lights go dim on registers. Just my theory
Hi, I have 2TB HDD full of Data, but currently I have no access to my Data. I used to use 2 pieces of 2TB HDD in a TeraMaster NAS device. Once I have seen that the NAS device is no more accessible. Then the TerraMaster support center said my be the problem is in the HDDs. Then I sent the device to a Data Recovery company in Cologne, Germany. They said the NAS configuration was JOBD, HDD 02 is alright but empty, HDD 01 is the faulty one and with full of data. After trying one and half month, they said that the head is broken and platter has scratches. Every time they install a new head and try to run it, the new head just get damage again. So they failed to recover any Data. Now I have seen your video that you can recover data from even scratched platters. Please help me save my 20 years of study and a lot a personal data. Otherwise I will be dead. Please help me. I am eagerly waiting for your response. Thanks.
Maybe the fake-costumer did a semiconductor-jump just in purpose, and all in this SSD works when you remove that jumper.
you know, maybe. I mean there are other ways to make this unit play dead that would be more effective that a simple jumper that anyone with scope can spot
@@hddrecoveryservices Waaaay more dead LOL
@@hddrecoveryservices Yeah, we need to ask to the original customer because is an enigma, maybe for me. Thanks for reply me, by the way! I love all of your content.
GR8T video. I'm a new fan :)
thanks. Welcome to the channel
*Retrieves data*
*Rick Astley has entered the chat*
i would ask the owner about that i think some one ripped him of to fix it not you and as you said to cover his work but you were able to get the data good job never worked on a nmv drive or one of those m.2 drives
I definitely passed on the information along with time stamps to the owner
How does the customer address this? If they initially took the driver somewhere else, and they sabotaged it, then your video indicates (doesn't prove) that. But what recourse does the customer have - your word against theirs - in a possible civil lawsuit....?
its not a question for me. I fixed the drive, I can see it load, I can see last created dates of files. These files were created before I had the unit in my hands. Who did it before me, why, and how is not of my concern to be honest
No backup, no mercy!😁
so that cap would turn into a resistor per say .so thats a power rail on the bottom ..are schematics hard to find? watching the surgery is kool to see ..lol..
So yeah basically power shorts to ground :) schematics are not available for general SSDs maybe for apple ones
So can you refit a baseline trim to use the device again?
Wow the unskilled computer guy busted again
maybe it was a "friend who is good with computers" guy :)))))
however, he was clever enough to make the unit play dead, so maybe no so unskilled after all
Or maybe they wanted to test your skills.
I hope not :)
unbelievable
Truly
maybe they've got all data (precious data? bitcoin stuff or anything) then staged the drive full broken so the owner would never found it
anything is possible :)
Good video.👍
One never stops learning, hell fire I never expected that would be the issue. Sorry you forked out that money. Reckon you spot on re a cover up job as the reason.
Thanks dude!
have you ever repaired a samsung bar usb stick? mine all of a sudden says to format disk. 128gb lost thanks
I have recovered the Samsung bar stick as NAND recovery before. They are monolith devices
@@hddrecoveryservices I took the chip off and it seems the usb controller is built into it. it keeps asking to format the disk but cant read it. thanks for the reply
uhh maybe they thought it would give them more power and improve performance like a shunt mod on a gpu? That's crazy but I can see how you'd miss that tiny little detail and not something anyone would expect to be there
haha maybe
LOL Definitely a shunt mod.
Files and folders that are recovered in the above way, can the files and everything be contained in a zip or .rar archive and then shared ? Suppose if we didnt wanna loose timestamp information of folders and files then can personal files be put into a archive then given back to the user?
A simple image file will keep all that metadata
@@hddrecoveryservices in which format ? .iso .tar or .zip or .rar ?
@@anmac6910 raw
@@Dandan-tg6tj why raw what am i supposed to work with raw format?
@@anmac6910 What do you want to do with whatever you find on a storage device? Is it yours or it is a client's device?
why forensic tools are so expensive
Because the job is expensive
good eyes my friend...
Thank you! Cheers!
I have the same drive which failed and no schematics or any information available online could you help me with the reading you have in the donor drive you have☺️
Send it in and pay for it- this is his business.
i have apacer panther 480GB its not detected how to fix?
If you send it, I can tell you. Not from comments dude
Some one thought the capacitor was a fuse, maybe. Bypassing a blown fuse with a short.
The jumper is not super important by itself, as it did not have any impact on data. If the unit had some other issues with components I would not even mention it maybe. But the drive was working fine. However put the jumper in had to see that it was formatted clean. So why would you put a jumper on if SSD was working ?
Whats a "deck shop"
Hypey title is hype.
Can you recover user data from samsung galaxy s3 mini gti8200n the phone is dead if you can do it please reply me
We don't do phone recovery anymore Sameer. But any cell phone repair shop should be able to pull the emmc out and read it for you
Helpful video
How to deal with virused especially ransomware
You make sure you have all of your important data on a backup or two backups if it is very important, BEFORE you catch such a virus
@@Dandan-tg6tj in my side just running a firewall and working with linux mac and windows so if some system is infected , the important data will stay as i know ransomware are focusing on windows system only and using samba 2 old version before patched, so no way that i can get the virus in, else for data recovery there is no security working with unknown devices such as usb flashdrive hdd ssd and malduino for ex that could hack the system easlly , just wonder how he is dealing with lotof incomming data recovery
I never had any trouble with any image I recovered. I rarely open the data to see what's in there. I do that only at the client's request. Mostly I recover an image of a device then I can clone it on a working SSD/HDD. I don't even know what's in that image.
I recover an image of the device and the client does what he/she sees fit to do with it. For me there's no virus threat and if the client has viruses in his data, is not my problem for I'm not specialized in removing viruses and I don't do viruses removal.
Dude, that's sad
for the owner of the device for sure
I think a thermal camera it will be very helpful
Yeah in this case it would
Why not user adapter to pc3000 portabel
no reason. there is nothing special about a generic adapter I used for this case. Maybe I needed to use NVMe adapter later after this case and I wanted to keep it free so the generic SATA m.2 was used
can overwritten files be recovered?
No
@@hddrecoveryservices on HDD it can, right? i heard the analogy of drawing a long line in blue marker and covering it up with a line in black marker. if you zoom in real far you'll see that they aren't perfectly overlapped and a slim edge of the first line will stick out from underneath the edge of the new one. I don't know if this is true, but i heard the FBI uses much more precise reading heads to read those edges and recover scraps of overwritten data.
@@asdfasdfadfasdf2979 Yep, that's true on hard drives.
I haven't heard of a process where trimmed SSD data can be recovered after Active garbage collection has wiped it.
FBI can't solve this type of issue.
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What surely happened is that the previous technician repaired it, but the client did not want to pay for it. So he shorted a capacitor so it won't work.
It is something that is done when the client does not want to pay for the work.
Nobody works for free.
yeah but where is the data?
indeed....25 years ago, I did computer repairs...and I would go to the customers location and explain what I would and would not charge for and my prices were almost half of what others charged for the same service. I had a fee for showing up at the customers location which would cover stupid things like the computer being unplugged and other stupid things. This fee was fair and if it took me less than 15 minutes to figure out, all good.
I had some customers who had REALLY jacked up their systems and it would take hours, so sometimes I would take their equipment back to my shop to run overnight or whatever.....it was AMAZING to me to work on a computer for several hours and have someone not want to pay me because 'I DIDNT DO ANYTHING'.....ie....didnt open up the case and poke around in the internals of the computer.....and the fact that the system wasnt working properly when I arrived, but WAS working properly when I was finished mattered not in the slightest to these people.
In my shop if the customer will not pay, they don't get the goods back. They can jump up and down all they like but until they fork over the $$, they get nothing except a conversation.
@@olsmokey To avoid problems it is always better to return things. Even if they have not been repaired.
@@hddrecoveryservices The data was deleted because the customer did not pay for the repair.
If the previous technician was good, he may have made a backup, in case the client comes back.
I guess that’s a crime in most countries
I would assume it is. I would sue the F*** out of the place that had it on this date
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Can you put ps5 internal SSD nand in pc?
Possible, I have not tried
@@hddrecoveryservicesplease let me know if tried
Tnx sir
why would anyone do this???
Beats me
Woah.
when I split that wire up, my inner voice was saying "this is too good to be true", and it was :( sadly
nyc to see youu
Poor data :(
at first I thought that last place that worked it quoted too high and jump shorted the SSD in hopes the client will comeback. But as you can see it was to most likely to cover up the tracks :(
@HDD Recovery Services That's too bad, I figure they did as well.
Great channel, by the way. I really enjoy the content!
I may be a customer soon. I've been trying to recover a raid 0 array for about a year now (drives are fine, mobo failed). Ufs raid finds the files & structure, but the data is corrupt like the stripes are misaligned.
lol
dude, I honestly thought it was the easiest money I've ever earned in DR... heartbreaking :)
Extremely odd?
not odd comparing to what I am setting up to film, Paul. It will be one hell of a case.
@@hddrecoveryservices what state was it from?
IT HAPPENS IN SERVICE DEPT THEY SABATAGE CUSTOMERS WONT PAY ETC OR DAMGE DATA 😊😊😊
true
I think that this was just incompetence. Bad solder.
No as actually someone that knows how to do micro soldering did it as that not a solder bridge but they put a jump wire across so no accident. That someone that did it on purpose for a reason as they also wiped the data as well?
Anything for views...
WTF is this??...how could this be possible?
someone want to fraud a customer!! very very bad move!
когда ваш клиент отказывается от работы что вы уже провели. иногда вам уже так наплевать что вы ему делаете такое. это некрасиво но нервы дороже.
well, at least timestamps will let client know who had possession of the unit when it got formatted
Well, did you hear about customers who try to fraud someone who did the work for them? It happens more often than you know.
@@Dandan-tg6tj its true, i know!!
and its true that iam so stupid, that i cant write the word "customer"!!
ridiculous!
@@KnebebelmeyerI didn't say you're stupid, did I? About the way you spell a word... that's not relevant for this discussion, I think.
UA-cam creators who "fix stuff" have caused me to become very cynical. Want to know what I think? I think YOU did this so you could make a video.
You must think I have a lot of free time on my hands. :)
The criminal quesses a crime was committed as they think that way.
Sabotage we experienced was mainly components poped off the board.
Never a pro tiny wire bridge over a cap.
Setup....
This guy has a criminal mindset.
Nasty, nasty.
The level of this sabotage makes me think of forbidden content, like CP or similar.
I think it's more of an accident, and cover-up
@@hddrecoveryservices I sincerely hope so.
May be the person who sends u this unit wants to test ur honesty 🫠