Nervous wrote:
I bought the ST3500320AS 500GB SATA-II drive about a month ago and everything was good. But yesterday my drive stopped working - now it is recognized as ST3500320AS 0GB (zero GB)! And of course I can read nothing of it, Windows DiskManager doesn't see it at all (Device manager does, though) SeaTools for Windows are unable to even get info about the drive, though Seagate Enterprise showed me info about it, but is unable to run any tests. Also tried the SeaTools for DOS. It recognized the drive, shows its serial number, but every test is FAILED. I also tried to change the capacity - failed. In info it shows strange big number as a capacity (something like 92323727372372.223GB).
I found the AD14 firmware on Seagate website and successfully have updated HDD by it. Now SeaTools reported the new version of firmware but the size is still reported as 0GB and I can't get access to data (btw, I tested the HDD on 2 different computers)....
I also tried MHDD. It sees it, but the size is reported also as 0. Moreover, it says the LBA is not supported and that is why it actually can do nothing! the LBA Maximum is reported as 0 too.... I really need info from this HDD, please advise!
Im sorry to bump this old Topic
but I have exactly the same problem with my ST3500320AS
Is there any way amateur (like me ) could recover the data??
only way is to go to recovery company??
please advice