Personally I recovered several times practically lost information on HDD with SpinRite, the companies who read the data directly from the disk surface claim that they can even recover the data which is overwritten because of the hystersis and mechanical unperfections of the positioning system.
In all cases this is doable where converting HEX to C is in the area of the dreams. The HDD data recovery is almost guaranteed but could take some amount of money. So if it's very valuable firmware it will be worth to recover the HDD info. Mechanical - even if the problem is mechanical there are many companies who recover the info directly from the disk surface. The problem is bad or weak sector or there is wrong record - you can use some software to recover data - Disk Recovery Software and Hard Drive Recovery tool for Windows or you can use SpinRite software, etc.ģ. WebIntel HEX file are required to download the software into an EPROM programmer or simulator. Let’s see an example to get the clarity on hexadecimal and binary number representation. Each block is replaced by the corresponding hex digit.
in the electronic -you can try to find the same HDD electronic (buy same HDD from eBay for example) and exchange it.Ģ. To convert from binary to hex representation, the bit string id is grouped in blocks of 4-bits which are called as nibbles from the least significant side. Actually it's possible to retrieve the Hard disk information.
