120GB HDD reports 1TB

[FreeBSD4Me]

Hi all,

I have an Apple/Fujitsu OEM 120GB SATA HDD (details below) that reports the wrong size as 1.3TB. I am trying to get data off the drive with DD_RESUCE, but the program can't find any data after running for a week probably because of the geometry problem. The drive does not make clicking noise or behave strangely, it seems normal other than the misreported size. I want to get a donor PCB but I am having trouble locating one. Any thoughts?

Code:

model: MHV2120BH
PART NUMBER CA06672-B55600AP
DATE: 2006-10
CAPACITY: 120GB
LBA: 234441648
FATP-V1.4.0


Code:

From OS X Diskutil output:
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   *1.3 TB     disk2


[poehere]

You have to correct the problem before you can get data off this drive. You can not run this program and expect to receive your data on this HDD. You might have some problems in the SA FW of this drive. Get it checked out by an pro to determine the exact problem before running anymore recovery programs on this drive. Fujitsu have knows issues in platters and heads on this one. I did some recoveries on these that took a lot of time to clone them and get off data on them.

[nande]

This is an SA problem with fix if you have the right tools to read/write SA (i.e. PC3000 / SD for Fujitsu and Toshiba).