tek4biz wrote:
One of my clients has 200 of the same drives as the OP. ArturG what tool did you use to restore the original LBA info to the drive? I have tried the WD lifegaurd utility, MHDD, Seatools, Atola, Bootit-NG all with zero success.
Maybe on your case some further hacking is necessary like changing mod 02 ?
Try to use Victoria for windows and detect the drive using PIO mode. Then click RHPA and HPA. Post screen captures. The drive should ID to victoria with it's full available LBA size as well and it should be easy to see if HPA is enabled to cup the drive size.
In any case if this doesn't help get a free DEMO of WDMarvel and try to read SA modules and ROM. If you manage to do so compress them using zip/rar and post here.
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