@fzabkar you are right about DMDE you said it many times in other forums to, its very good. I have been watching YouTube videos comparing the DD Command and DMDE since its a good way to get a visual on their completed steps before I start and come to those steps. Both approaches seem quite easy to d...

ok so I have gotten both drives to spin up through the 12 volt adapter, and they say that its a Remote Disc in the Devices Index in the left side column of Finder Window on my OSX. They don't show any folders, files or any data numbers in its own root folder. Nor does it show up in Disk Utility eith...

Just buy two USB-SATA adaptors and allow DMDE to assemble a virtual RAID. DMDE then acts as a software RAID controller. Once you get to this point, use DMDE to recover the files from the virtual RAID to another drive. DMDE looks pretty good, the more I read up on it the more I like their software. ...

I will look into this USB IDE/SATA Cable, so I will thank you for that image. But on the contrary, I don't "insist on pursuing some pointless and potentially dangerous ideas." ...infact, I'm not pursuing any avenue yet, I'm only in the discover phase at the moment, trying to understand how...

to lcoughey and fzabkar ...yes, I have copied-and-pasted the same post in "many more" forums, thank you for pointing that out. But are you trying to say that, that is a bad thing? If so, why do you think that is morally wrong? And if that, then I'll tell you why you are wrong below: I've s...

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would not ...

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would not ...