Cut off or bend in Toshiba MK scratched?

[Paulo Braga]

Hello, friends.

I have a question regarding a specific case, as I have never performed this procedure on this particular Toshiba drive family.

I am currently working on a Toshiba MK5059GSXP. After inspection, I confirmed that three of the four surfaces (0, 2, and 3) appear to be completely undamaged, while surface 1 is severely scratched.

I have already cleaned and decontaminated the drive and replaced the recirculation filter, which also had a considerable accumulation of particles. I would now like to attempt at least a partial recovery from the unaffected surfaces.

My question is: for this specific Toshiba family, which approach is usually more reliable?

Would it be better to physically bend or offset the corresponding head suspension so that the damaged head can no longer touch the platter surface, or is it generally safer and more effective to remove or cut off that head entirely?

I would especially appreciate feedback from anyone who has worked with this same Toshiba model or family and has experience with this type of procedure.

Thank you very much.

[Data Recovery Guru]

Bend first, then cut as needed.

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On Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:22 PM pbzcbf...@gmail.com <pbzcbf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have a MK2559GSXP? Would installing a MK5059GSXP ROM on a MK2559GSXP simulate a MK5059GSXP with two cut heads, assuming that the preamps are identical?

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[zyana itsolutions]

I worked in these models according to my research head cut is not working in this case. I think you must try head lifting in it. hdd only works till head is connected to proper circuit but physically head cut makes drive busy for very long 

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[George Yakobic]

• Clean and fully decontaminate the HDA.
• Disable the damaged head (removal is generally more reliable than bending).
• Configure the head map to skip the failed head.
• Image the healthy heads/surfaces first.
• Reassess whether the damaged surface is worth attempting afterward.

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[pauloa...@gmail.com]

Hello friends,

Thank you very much for all your help, but unfortunately nothing worked. I also spoke with AceLab support, and according to them, these drives perform a read check on the heads during initialization. They gave me a few suggestions as well, but unfortunately none of them worked either.

It seems that cut the head doesn’t work on this model—the drive simply won’t initialize. I also tried slightly bending the head to keep it away from the platter, but I still couldn’t get the drive to initialize.

Thank you!

[zyana itsolutions]

sir i request you if you have one more donor please try to lift the head and make sure head wont break i am aware about this becasuse i work for scrached cases for very long time these toshiba drives do only hardware check of physicall connectivity of heads to the drive so head cut wont work in this case but if head is intact and you can lift it up then head wont read data but you can get data from other three heads.

also these drives remain busy mode if any head got physsically damaged so, please try and get data from all three heads 🙂

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