Pros and cons of "free" software : no one can or would help you.

Screenshot after the Alloc function.

if anybody still interested i maybe able to decompile the software if you have the procedure address map for those hard drives the you can tell what is it doing. im not familier with hdd
but i think they call some specific factory precoded routing or combination of them for most part .if you use this alot its easy to write your own to do a special job on bath for you

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

ALLOC could probably be merge G>P but not looked deeper at this software

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

Alloc button shows the G-list of a Maxtor drive. If the G-list is empty you'll see nothing...

If you want to use this program with sata drives you'll need a motherbourd that can run SATA drives in compatible mode (look in BIOS ). For examle MB with Intel 865, Intel 875 or Intel 915 chipset. In compatible mode SATA drive can be seen as Secondary Master and HDD repair 2.0 ENG will work just fine. Tested with Maxtor Diamond Max 9 SATA drives.

umm i dont know that much about hdds but looking at this thinking that mhdd could be very easy made to work on windows atleast ALL of the the direct I/O read/write will work without changing the orginal code . since the driver gives direct I/O under windows actually it maps the port to the user address space passing you a file like handle (ie pen/close/read/write.)
this is the decompiled version of the program . I also included the used driver orginal source code . program seems to be writen very simple maybe for personal use to satisfy some spasific needs of the authur.
if its hard for you to flow the the code anothrer possible way is to add some debug output to the driver itself and rebuild it then monitor all the read /write down the port in user space . here is the code hope it helps.

Persia2500,

I like your thinking.

What do you want to do with HDD ?

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Persia2005 you are the boss !!!!

Actually my own case with an hdd had a sad end .but reading this forum I learned allot
Thanks to all of you. As a suggestion if some of you which have the knowledge and
Leader ship step up for change in industry it would greatly benefit everybody.
I don’t know who the mhdd programmer is but if he makes it commercial with low price and change it abit he could easily super pass everybody else and set a new standard in quality that others had to keep up with. It’s a very nice shock to the old rich fat industry. And they should work allot to keep up. His contribution to community is great but he can help everybody with a big step and his pocket a well deserve money.

I have got some emails asking for a terminal to send their own commands to hdd!!!
I have to ask you know what command to send and process the outcome but you waited this long for a way to send those?? Needless to say it’s not like hdd serial terminal connection commands.this is direct signal to controler There is no translator in between It’s totally different. As far as I know it’s mostly useless to send 1 command to hdd maybe at least you should check bsy register and in some cases last error and current sector before
You can send. But if you know what you’re doing give me your port number I’ll do it.

I had secound thoughts.
if your are upto help tell me how exacrly
i can check a homemade cleanroom that it complies
to operational standard .is there special testing proc/equpment?
and if you know tell me read comands and error codes to read
backup copy of overlay from SA i know nothing so need sector
size and output structure in a way useful to be writen over damaged one
you have done this manytimes think.
I dont know the extent of this so can understand if you refuse to answer

Did you managed to REcompile the decompiled source ? Because I am not able to do that ! If you can let's keep in touch, send me a personal message with your mail or MSN account.

It is almost impossible (till now) to decompile to Identical source code. So you cannot recompile it without doing extensive changes .but I extracted forms, objects, and assigned event addresses, propeties,this is meant to answer The question about Aloc bottom only , you may load the project find the form containing Aloc bottom click it will show you the corresponding code. Study that part of code to find out what is trim not posting more detail since I don’t really have the knowledge and don’t know the down falls of doing this. Someone else might be able to do that in a safer way.

Hi everyone! Great info on this site.

I too have the Maxtor N40P problem. I'm trying to understand how to use HDD Repair V2, but can't seem to find the info. Any one have the procedure? Do you use it with the IDE interface? I know it has to be on safe mode and I do have the jumper settings for that. I also experimented a bit. I connected the bad hdd on the the ide interface on the motherboard along with my master hdd but it hangs. I managed to get to work with winxp by letting the pc boot and then connecting the drive. I did get some windows error but HDD repair v2 was able to recognize the drive as N40P. I hit the execute and installed the loader, so I thought. I didn't really see anything happen so I cancelled the program. Now I can't replicate what I just did and the drive is no longer recognized as a N40P. It now has a bunch of jibberish. I think I finally killed it.

If any of you have any insight, please share. Thx!

Can this run under linux or wine or vm at least ?

To let it know :

wine shows the gui at least

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