Seagate ST9250315AS,bios detects, 0 capacity

[spoon]

First of all, hi!

My friend just gave me his laptop which stopped working: he put it in sleep mode for whole night and at the morning computer wasn't booting anymore. I took out hard drive and it shows 0 capacity. MHDD says go to hell so I connected it to terminal and got this:

Code:

Rst 0x08M
RW cmd 0002 req = 89 3E 00 00 17 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 8D 08 00 87 98 09 00 08 8D 08 00
            opts = 00001121

RW Err = C3160084

RW cmd 0002 req = 89 3E 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 8D 08 00 87 98 09 00 08 8D 08 00
            opts = 00001121

RW Err = 43110081

RW cmd 0002 req = 75 5F 02 00 17 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 8D 08 00 87 98 09 00 08 8D 08 00
            opts = 00001121

RW Err = 43110081

RW cmd 0002 req = 75 5F 02 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 8D 08 00 87 98 09 00 08 8D 08 00
            opts = 00001121

RW Err = 43110081

ASCII Diag mode

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I dont want to use 7200.11 LBA 0 method on this as as i know its not the right solution (or is it?). However my friend needs only one folder with his important documents so drive don't have to be fully repaired, i need it in state where i can recover data. What can i do?

Best Regards.

[BlackST]

Nothing without professional tools (and knowing what to do)

P.S. the drive can have SERIOUS problems but only a precise diagnose (with the tools mentioned) can tell. Several thousands EUR worth of equipment, just in case...

[spoon]

Nothing without professional tools (and knowing what to do)

P.S. the drive can have SERIOUS problems but only a precise diagnose (with the tools mentioned) can tell. Several thousands EUR worth of equipment, just in case...

So only PC-3000? I was hoping that something can be done without this equipment... Thanks anyway!