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Data recovery from F level

Users often encountered the malfunction of Level F, in which the HDD can’t be detected and it will output “F>” in terminal mode. In most condition, if the drive turn to F level, that means the data has gone. Because we couldn’t retrieve data from F level at this time. But it’s not absolutely, in a few condition, with good fortune, we also could retrieve data from some F level condition.

This is a Read APP Code error, as the following picture:

The reason of the problem is that the Application Code is damaged (maybe head broken couldn’t read the module, maybe the module itself broken or there are some bad sectors on the SA), the HDD can’t accomplish basic initialization, and works on PCB only.

First we try to locate to the track which stored this module, then read the track:

If the head was broken or there are some bad sectors on this track, the command may reply the error info. But for the above picture, we know the read command was success, which means the head is working well and no bad sectors on this track.

In this condition, we could try to add the APP module to momery for boot the drive.

Go to Boot management page clicl “repair CE LOG” button, try to load the APP to momery, a moment later, it shows complete:

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then go to CMD mode agian, type “Enter”, its turn to T level now, then go to View sector page, now we could access the data area:

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 Since the data can be accessed,now we can remove the data cable from the HD doctor and connect it to the Data Compass with power on.Then you can get back all the data by DCEXP.

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