Recovering Formatted Data from a HGST HUS726T6TALE6L4 6TB HDD with PCB 004-0B36131

Recovering Formatted Data from a HGST HUS726T6TALE6L4 6TB HDD with PCB 004-0B36131

Posted by Data Recovery@Precision on 07 Dec, 2022

This is a successful case study of Western Digital Hitachi hard drive data recovery.

Patient Drive Details:

Model: HUS726T6TALE6L4 

Capacity: 6TB 

PCB Number: 004-0b36131

Problem:

The drive suffered an accidental quick format, resulting in lost data with only some system files remaining.

Data Recovery Steps:

  1. Connect the patient drive.
  2. Set up a new file extraction task.
  3. Locate the partition with the target data and recover by file types.
  4. Recover all files found in the folder.
  5. Easily delete invalid files and rename raw files with the content inside to easily find the needed lost files.

Note: WD Hitachi drives with a PCB number starting with 00x have an SED lock.