Lucky save, HDD with shorted SATA connector - LFC#223
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This started out as an assumed lost-cause hard drive, but just as I was literally on the phone to the customer to say 'sorry your data has gone unless you want to send it to a lab' I remembered That One Time I Saw A HDD With A Dead Protection Diode and figured I'd try my luck. TestDisk - https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk The background, by popular demand: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/15043264 Join the new Discord right here: https://discord.gg/BDV4hTc Support the channel directly at: https://patreon.com/adamantit Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/adamantit
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