Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
January 25th, 2011, 7:20
Hello!
I have a problem with a Samsung SpinPoint SP1213N 120GB IDE hard drive. All of a sudden it started giving errors so I tried deleting the 120GB partition and re-format the drive. As soon as I did that the drive showed up in BIOS as having 0 cylinders thus, 0MB capacity. I've tried manually setting the LBA but to no avail. HDAT2 couldn't do anything (I've tried setting native size back) and reports firmware as corrupted and S.M.A.R.T. warnings but the HDD doesn't make any funny noises and also S.M.A.R.T. from Everest Ultimate and HD Tune 4 reports everything is OK.
Any chance I can salvage this HDD?
January 25th, 2011, 19:08
Sorry for the double-post but I managed to take some snaps from HDAT2 and MHDD. I hope this helps. Here's the link to a photobucket album of the whole thing :
http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa11 ... 3N%20info/
January 30th, 2011, 13:51
up!
February 15th, 2011, 19:08
up?
February 16th, 2011, 4:16
Probably is bad firmware, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do without specialist s/w and h/w tools.
Bin the drive and get a new one, as presumably the data is not required?
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