My Hard Drive Died!

The cost of the distance learning class will be $3000+shipping. In that $3000 you will be receiving hardware and software that is used in the class to KEEP for your own lab including the very expensive Platter Replacement Kit delivered to your door.  The obvious benefit of the distance learning format is that you can do it at your own pace, take the test when you want, don’t have to pay for airfare or hotel and food. In addition you don’t have to take off work to do the class. The class still covers everything that is in the class and all the material listed on the class information page for the seated class.  The material will be presented with videos actually taken in the class with a few extra videos where things were done up close and you don’t have the benefit of being there for. The materials and equipment and software that will be supplied to you accounts for more than $1000 of the cost and will belong to you.   

If you are interested in this type of class and material, please email me. The responses I get may determine the release date and the quantity of material I add to the delivery of the class. smoulton@nicservices.com Here are the details of the physical items you can expect to get in the class:   

The “Distance Learning Package” consists of: 

Hardware: 

1x Book that is the Lecture and Slides used in the class, also includes 20 labs.
1x Head Platter Replacement Tool that includes a Lab Bench Stand,
1x 3.5” Platter tool,
1x 2.5” Platter tool,
1 Magnetic Voice Coil removal tool.
1x Set of Screwdrivers that includes Torx drivers necessary for small hard drives from T4-T8 for 2.5 in hard drives.
1x Set of Screwdrivers that includes Philips and Flathead drivers needed for small hard drives.
1x Set of MP3’s that includes 40 hours of class that can be used in mobile players or computer, or car CD player.
4x Hard drives for practice and are the items used in the class room and on the Videos. 1x Set of Straws, Post It Notes, Plastic for Head Assemblies
1x USB hard drive connector that includes 2.5”, 3.5” and SATA connectors
1x Fine Metal Tweezers
1x Static Mat
1x Set of Static Gloves
2x Bootable CDs with additional Software
1x Flash Memory Stick with Special Format for Discovery in the Class
1x Voucher for the Certification Test
1x Set of Videos of how to use the DeepSpar Disk Imager and the Forensic Disk Imager.

Software: The Software and licenses for the recovery software that will be your property for the items designed for the class and are taught in the manual. It will include licenses of R-Studio, R-Studio for Linux, Runtime GetDataBack NTFS, Disk Explorer for NTFS, GetDataBack for Fat, DiskExplorer for Fat, Raid Reconstructor, Captain Nemo Pro, SpeedClone 2003 and copies of these other great packages: Victoria, MHDD, TestDisk, FTK Imager, HFS Explorer as well as 20 others I have collected that are excellent data recovery packages, plus the correct training and right way to use each package.   

Videos & Audio of the Class 1x Set of High Quality Videos and MP3 audio recordings of the classes. It is an actual video of the class with all 40 hours.   

Mentoring: The ability to converse with Scott Moulton via email to help mentor and answer specific questions.   

Data Recovery Expert Certification: In Addition: After passing the certification exam with a 70 or better, you will also be sent a high quality sealed certification for framing. If you fail the certification exam, you can retake the exam for $50. 

Your Requirements: You would need to have your own Windows XP Machine to run the class on, and a browser with Flash Installed. That is the only requirements other than to spend the time and have basic computer skills using Windows and DOS. 

Details for Data Recovery Expert Certification Class

If you are interested then please email smoulton@nicservices.comfor details and an outline. If you have seen Scott Moulton's videos you know how detailed they are about the in-depth technical material of a hard drive and forensics. This class is like that material on steroids! If you would like 5 SOLID DAYS OF TRAINING AND TRADE SECRETS on Data Recovery and Forensics then this is the class for you. For those people that have asked about purchasing additional copies of my BOOK on data recovery & class material, you can purchase it here:              
I am Scott Moulton from MyHardDriveDied.com and Forensic Strategy Services. Many of you have seen some of my 25 data recovery videos that are published on the web and the detail I put into teaching data recovery and forensics.  I have put together a 5 day class with the same quality and details for doing forensics and data recovery of damaged hard drives and logical data. It is a spectacular class fills all 5 days followed by a test for the “Data Recovery Expert Certification.” I have taught this class to several companies/agencies/people/etc, such as Boeing, Symantec, Department Of Defense, Government Agencies, Berkley University, as well as other data recovery and forensic houses. See Testimonials at the bottom of this page. I guarantee that everyone will come away with new skills in forensics and data recovery they didn’t have before!



The class is a One on One Training course that will consist of five days total, two days of lecture and labs where we disassemble two hard drives and attempt to reassemble them into working machines. The third and fourth day will be logical recoveries where we will use the lab computers to image memory sticks for class, there will be other images of drives provided for Raid 0 and Raid 5 recoveries. There will be images provided for NTFS, Mac OSX HFS and EXT3 Linux drives for recovery as well as the previous mentioned sets of images for Raid 5 and Raid 0.  The last day will be review, then Solid State Hard Drives and a Test for the: 

Data Recovery Expert Certification.
Some of the items covered in this Class are Hard Drives and Basics Recovery Functions
•     Going over the basics and working parts
•     Data Recovery With Forensic Drives
•     Clean Room Basics
•     Equipment Basics
•     Tools and Software
•     Sounds of the Drives
•     Samples of drives with sounds I will bring
•     What you can tell by listening to the drive
•     Basics on success rates
•     Opening the Drive
•     Mechanical Operations on Drives
•     Rebuilding Hard Drives Physically
•     What a Sector Looks Like Encoded on the Drive
•     PCB Board Issues and Live Board Swaps
•     Forensic Logical Recoveries
•     Rebuilding forensic drives maintaining the state
•     Plus much much more…..
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Over 17 hands on Labs Including:
HANDS ON LAB: Repairing a Damaged Drive
HANDS ON LAB: Four Hard Drives YOU Rebuild!

HANDS ON LAB: Hard Drives Mechanical Operations

HANDS ON LAB: Operations Rebuilding a Hard Drive Physically

HANDS ON LAB: Mounting a Damaged Drive on PC

HANDS ON LAB: What an Encoded Sector Look Like with data

HANDS ON LAB: PCB Board Matching Issues and Review

HANDS ON LAB: RAID 0 Rebuilds

HANDS ON LAB: RAID 5 Rebuilds

HANDS ON LAB: MAC OSX REBUILDS

HANDS ON LAB: LINUX EXT/REISER REBUILDS

HANDS ON LAB: SELECTING DONOR DRIVES

SAMPLE OUTLINE HERE IN PDF <- CLICK HERE - 1meg PDF
This class covers disassembly and reassembly of hard drives and restoring them to working conditions for data recovery and forensics purposes. We will perform logical recoveries where we will use software and computers to image memory sticks, hard drives, and other media such as CD’s. We will also restore and rebuild drives in a Raid 0 and Raid 5 configurations. This book also covers Windows NTFS, Mac OSX HFS+ hard drive formats and EXT3 Linux drives recoveries.  In the last section is an education on the functions and abilities of Solid State Hard Drives followed by a test for the Data Recovery Expert Certification.
There will be a Data Recovery Kit that you will get to use for the class and will include hardware for recovery, Torx screwdrivers for hard drive sizes, the power supply connectors and sample hard drives, cd’s,  and lecture and lab materials. We will rip apart two hard drives and reassemble them and go over the processes and methodologies for handling damaged drives and doing logical recoveries AFTER successfully reassembling them. I will also demo live in class the DeepSpar Forensic Disk Imager as well as other equipment and teach what is special about this machine that will change your life with forensics and damaged hard drives.

 
Testimonials:
Scott’s data recovery class was well suited for me. My previous skills in software data recovery were intermediate level and hardware recovery were nil. The course expanded my knowledge 100 fold.  I hope to be successful in hardware recovery soon.  Scott freely imparts of his knowledge and skills and I found his course to be extremely helpful to my education.
Thanks,
Steven Wright / Symantec
Systems Administrator for Symantec.com
IT-Alexandria



You put on a fantastic class!

William F Paulin / Infrastructure Generalist
Boeing-SVS,Inc.
4411 The 25 Way Suite 350

Albuquerque, NM 87109


Scott is an extremely knowledgeable instructor and has no problem at all sharing information...even some of those industry secrets that no one else wants to divulge. As a person who has spent a lot of money (like most of you I am sure) on past training, I will go as far as saying it was the best training for the dollar that Ihave ever had. If anyone of you are looking into data recovery training, you cant go wrong with Scott Moulton.

Best regards,
Vadon Willis
Forensic Investigator
Ispirian Computer Forensics
16401 Swingley Ridge Road, Suite 250
Chesterfield, MO 63017-0762
 
Dear Scott,
Thank you very much for the excellent course.  Though initially I took the course because of the certification, I realize that the knowledge you gave me was very valuable.  The curriculum was very well thought out and the delivery of it was awesome!  I would absolutely recommend your course to anybody who wants to get into data recovery and also to anybody who has been doing it for less than a year. Your skill in supervising labs of 17 people -- while they were simultaneously changing head assemblies -- was amazing.  Also, the certification in Data Recovery you’ve arranged for us could be helpful one day.
Gratefully,
Sam Roitman, President
784 Columbus Ave. Suite 11L
New York, NY 10025
Rescue Your Data Corporation


 
Scott's data recovery class was a great investment. We got to learn from somebody who is not just a trainer, but somebody who does data recovery on a daily basis and knows the tricks, and which tools work best in which scenario. There were also lots of hands-on labs where we got to take drives apart and practice removing heads and platters, in addition to labs covering numerous logical and physical data recovery scenarios.
 
Thanks,
Gary Huestis / Houston Computing Services
9000 Emmott Rd, Suite C
Houston, TX 77040

 
Taking Scott's data recovery class was one of the best things I have done for my career.  Aside from meeting and learning from one of the industry’s best, Scott’s class afforded me the opportunity to network with others that are in my field and get quickly certified in Data Recovery.  Before the class, I had some knowledge in this field.  After participating in the hands-on labs and listening to Scott teach the concepts using real life examples, I was able to vastly expand my data recovery capabilities.  The course was very interactive, and Scott made the class fun with his energetic, personable style.  This was the best technical class I have taken in my 20 year IT career.  I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get into the Data Recovery or Forensics field.
Jerry Sawyer, Jr.
Certified Computer Forensics and Data Recovery Specialist
JEStech, LLC

 
I wanted to send you an email quick to say thanks for such a great week of class!  At this point I have spent plenty of time in trainings and found this to be hands down one of the best trainings I have been too!  It isn’t an easy task to keep people’s attention for 8+ hrs a day, but you certainly managed to do it.  The hands-on portion as well as the RAID reconstruction was alone worth the price of admission! Although the title doesn't have "Forensics" in it, there are many topics that are very closely tied to the forensic industry.
Brandon Fannon 

Mainstay Data Services 

office: 616.855.2559 

cell: 616.893.3533

fax: 616.532.4552

email: bfannon@mainstaydata.com

 
Most of my forensic training has focused on the evidence resident in logical disk structures.  Scott's instruction on the inner workings of traditional hard drives, solid state drives, and RAID arrays at such a granular level has made me a better forensic examiner.  Not only do I now have the hands-on training to potentially save "dead" hard drives seized from a crime scene, but I can also now confidently explain to a jury how the state of the physical disk impacts on the evidence that I have recovered.  This course is invaluable for any forensic examiner wanting to expand her knowledge beyond how to use software to recover evidence, and I highly recommend it. I was really impressed with not only the amount and quality of information presented but also the almost dizzying level of detail that Scott could present. I recommend the course highly.

Beth Whitney, CFCE, SCERS
Forensic Computer Examiner
City-County Bureau of Identification
PO Box 550, Raleigh, NC 27601
 
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If you are interested in any classes or any details then please emailsmoulton@nicservices.com. If you would like to confirm your seat for any class we can take payment at anytime so please call 770-926-5588 and ask for Kim or email smoulton@nicservices.com to arrange the details.
SAMPLE OUTLINE HERE IN PDF <- CLICK HERE - 1 Meg PDF

Sample training material for class:

Hard Drives and Basics Education 

• Going over the basics and working parts

• Clean Room Basics

• Equipment Basics

• Tools and Software

• Sounds of the Drives

• Samples of drives with sounds I will bring

• What you can tell by listening to the drive before opening

• Basics on success rates


MORE MORE MORE ......
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If you are interested then please email smoulton@nicservices.com for details and an outline.
 


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