Experimental Playground - Data Recovery

Another Disk Failure

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:14:00 -0400

I swear, you give me a hard drive that promises to be reliable and stable and it'll croak faster than a (fill in your choice of colorful euphemism here) Time to break out the cold pads and crank down the freezer...again. This time for a western digital passport drive. Apparently it liked where it was and didn't appreciate being moved.

Eat it Seagate!

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0400

About a week ago I was told by Seagate support that, and I quote

"Sir, I doubt it's anything you could possibly fix yourself."

This in regards to my failed 7200.11 1.5TB ST31500341AS that was exhibiting the symptoms of a firmware BSY error. Well, I just got my toy from China via Aussie eBay...in the states... (weird ya?) About an hour, a spare power supply, creative wiring and some help from Hyperterminal (if you don't know what that is you're too young) and I'm back in business baby! To anyone that has a similar failure, don't let tech support at Seagate tell you that your serial number is not among the effected drives. IF your BIOS reports that the "Drive is not accepting commands" this is fixable! Special thanks to a talented individual by the name of Gradius. Much respect! http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807 Check the link for walk-through.

Seagate Recovery!

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0400

Rst 0x20M ASCII Diag mode F3 T>/2 F3 2>Z Spin Down Complete Elapsed Time 0.124 msecs F3 2> ASCII Diag mode F3 T>/2 F3 2>U Spin Up Complete Elapsed Time 8.507 secs F3 2>/1 F3 1>N1 F3 1>/T F3 T> Rst 0x20M ASCII Diag mode F3 T>i4,1,22 F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22 Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 14, Max Certify Rewr ite Retries = 00C8 User Partition Format 2% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00004AA5, ErrCode 000 00080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 30 secs User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 30 secs Zone re-format was skipped. F3 T>