fzabkar wrote:
Apart from attribute 0xBB, I can't see anything wrong in the SMART report.
The fact that you were able to apply a firmware update suggests that the drive is not password protected. Do you still have read access to the data on the drive?
Thanks again for replying. I don't have any read access. In fact the only way I can access the SMART information is when I use an USB to SATA adapter. If I use a Sata cable connected directly to my desktop computer, the drive cannot is not recognized in Bios.
Using the USB adapter I can see the drive under Windows Disk Management. But when I try to initialize it I get the cyclic redundancy check error.
Do you know if there is a way to force the factory settings? I don't need the contents of the disk
Another strange thing is the the drive is really cold and consuming only 130mA.