If it doesn't read data stop attempting to clone it or you will kill that one as well for good.

What is the full model of that one ? Another Seagate 7200.12 ?

The majority of 7200.12 drives that one can see nowadays are like this :



Goes without saying that if your drive is on that state it's un-recoverable !!!

DO NOT OPEN THE DRIVE OUTSIDE HEPA 100 CLEAN ROOM.

CHECK DRIVE WITH TTL ADAPTOR !!!

If the drive is still not damaged at platter level and if heads are still fully working drive might have some other problems related to firmware like typical translator issue, partial access to LBA due to bad translator caused by damage to defect lists or drive attempting to add defects, bad blocks, etc ...

If your problem can be fixed by firmware patching and you don't want to pay $600 or more for a full recovery there are cheaper alternatives ...

You can but firmware tools and learn how to use them or you can try to use something like my firmware fixing services !

If the drive does have traslator issue, etc it would cost you $90.00 USD to fix the firmware and pacth it for easy data extraction (patch sysfile 93 and disable re-location + fix translator, etc) ...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seagate-Hard-D ... 3023689172

(this is for any size drive)

Then if you would like for me to image + extract the data it would be more $100 :

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Logical-Data-R ... 3016948382

(This is up to 500 GB but if you do buy both services I can extract the data of your 1TB drive for the $190 USD) ...

Goes without saying I DON'T DO CLEAN ROOM WORK so no head stack replacement... It's just fixing whatever problem the firmware have like translator, DOS TABLE, whatever, disable flags on sysfile 93 so that i can image/clone the drive faster and safer and then clone and extract data !!!

If the drive ends up dying in the process (heads die or platter do get damaged) you will end up with partial recovery only ...

READ HERE : - http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=2750

This is as HONEST as you can get ... If your data is realy important you SHOULD BY ALL MEANS consider the use of A REPUTABLE DATA RECOVERY FIRM/BUSINESS with clean room that can inspect heads prior to work with the drive. It will be a lot more expensive but it will be a lot more safe.

If you do want cheap alternatives there are many people out there with firmware tools as well like MRT, even PC-3000 that can provide the same sort of service as me (WITHOUT CLEAN ROOM) it will be cheaper by way more dangerouse to the data as heads might kill the platter while attempting to clone/image or extract the data.

For last there are DO-IT-YOURSELF but you will need AT LEAST something like $500 USD SeDiV to safely backup the firmware and something like HDDSUPERCLONE to clone/image the drive but only after applying pacth to sysfile 93,etc with SeDiv ...