i have the same hdd WD10EAVS - 00D7B1 and after one year it developed a few bad sectors which i recovered with hirens boot cd and it was working fine. After cleaning
the connectors of the pcb of a few 80gb maxtor drives and saw that some bad sectors dissapeared, i've cleaned the pcb connectors which sits on the hdd of this HDD. when i put the drive back to the computer ... suprise ) the bios recognized it,but 0mb damn... windows sees it 32mb , sux... is there anything i can do ?
I tried with 2 different motherboards...same result.

thanks.

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If the drive spin up normal (i.e no strange noises) then try -H.D.D Capacity Restore-.

Could the contacts on the hda have a bit of eraser gunk on them? Could the pre-amps be damaged from static electricity? They are the most sensitive parts I've ever seen. Look at them wrong and they blow up.

In any case I would not run HDD capacity restore. Not until we've determined the exact mode of failure.

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Pure coincidence especially if the bad sectors were always in the same position. Also they would have clicked furiously at random / make the "Maxtor sound" if there was something at the contacts.
You would have obtained the same result by saying "AbraKaDabra" to the drive : simply scanning the drive called internal healing of these soft errors, to me. If there were real HARD errors, no cleaning would have worked.

What is the risk in running HDD capacity restore ?

The 32MB symptom is consistent with a Gigabyte BIOS bug. I believe some Asus motherboards may be similarly affected.

See Q2:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HD ... y_FAQ.html

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H.D.D Capacity Restore won't work. it says that the hdd is not accesible or damaged in some way ... which way ? the hard way...
please run on another platform... any more ideas?

Ok, let me know.. the motor spin up correctly?
And then stay on?

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yep... it worked fine before i removed the pcb and cleaned the connectors. though a few bad sectors...

any thoughts?....

As asked before, it is not clear if you are saying whether the drive spins after powering it on. Does it spin?

If it does spin, does it click few times and then stops spinning?

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yes the drive spin corectly and it is recognized as a 32mb drive

Seems like the firmware may have somehow gotten corrupted or something. Need advanced tools to examine the firmware in more depth.

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i figured it out it's a firmware problem... advanced tools like ?...

Use search function with keyword "3000", "salvation", etc.

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