proscuitto wrote:
BIOS takes a lot longer to post when the drive is connected. After a while I get "no physical device found" and it does not show up in the BIOS configuration. I've tried this on a second PC with the same results. The drive was working fine prior to the shutdown that after 15 minutes resulted in a BSoD with "driver power state failure". Now it's impossible to find the drive on any PC. This was not the boot drive, it was a secondary storage drive.
There are zero funny sounds, no rattling, no grinding, nothing out of the ordinary. The drive does NOT get hot. The drive does spin when it's powered up. Scan utilities cannot see the drive either. I've tried other SATA ports on two different motherboards too. I've swapped out the SATA cable, and the power cable as well.
First, you should try to connect to the HDD via terminal. Search about "7200.11 BSY fix" to find out how to connect your HDD to the PC via USB-to-COM interface or plain COM interface and access it in terminal. You also need to know that the method stated for the 7200.11 model ONLY allows you to see what terminal says when you power on the drive while connected to the COM interface. If needed in the future, you will need to use a 1.8V USB-TTL adapter OR you can easily modify the classic Nokia DKU-5/CA-42 adapter yourself using this guide:
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=29286&f=1&start=0#p202330.
Once you get response from terminal, please write here what you get. Based on this, maybe there is another problem.
About the shorting points: yes, the blue points need to be shorted while the drive is running. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO SHORT OUT OTHER CONTACTS OR COMPONENTS ACCIDENTALLY BECAUSE THIS MAY RUIN YOUR PCB/HDD !!! Once you short them out, you will hear a clicking sound from the HDD, let it shorted for about 2-3 seconds then let it run normally, then turn it off and try to start it up. You can also try connecting the drive through an USB to SATA adapter and check what device manager says. Also if you get corrupted RAW partition, you can try AIOMEI Partition Assistant standard to "refresh" the NTFS partition or repair the MBR in order to "see" the old corrupted NTFS partition or RStudio to recover the files from the RAW partition.
Also, I have some questions for other users. I want to reset my SMART attributes for my 7200.14 HDD. Accidentally, I've destroyed my USB-to-TTL adapter by short circuit (my hand was shaking when I wanted to modify the adapter to make it 1.8V compatible) and I want to know if anyone tested or has any knowledge that the /1 command followed by N1 will successfully wipe out the SMART data, because I have residual Interface CRC Error and End-to-End Error Detection since my last incompatibility problems with the previous motherboard and I want to clear them to have "a brand new" drive in SMART. I am looking forward for an answer, so I could proceed or not in buying a new USB-TTL adapter to do the job done correctly this time.
I forgot to say something about the shorting method. I used 2 sewing needles to fit the two holes on the PCB and to have a stable contact which I touched one each-oher by reorienting them. I did this because the drive was still under warranty and I wanted to recover my data without paying hundreds of dollars to the recovering services WHILE also keeping the warranty so I couldn't solder anything. But knowing you have to short the 2 points for just a couple of seconds, it's not worth to solder two wires and even add them a switch, then desoldering them because it's a loss of precious time. Just be careful when you do this not to accidentally touch other components and it's ok.