Clean Room training. July 2008

We went to a drive recovery class put on by a company that just put out a new device for evaluating, repairing, and imaging drives. It breaks password protected drives too. Pretty good device, the beta version is out. But the final firmware is not out for the device.

Watching an oscilloscope, you can see the disturbance from simply yelling at the drive. Just the sound waves. When you tap on one or move it, you can really see variations.

We worked on these in the open, no clean room as it was just training, removed and reinstalled heads and platters and got them up and running again.

One of the guys was from Slovania, some from Spain, Japan, and other countries. We had some locals from California in the class too. Nice group.