Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

[enon97]

Hello!

Yesterday I wiped my drive with this tool and it completed the erase sucesfully but now I got the TIC of the death.

I don't care about the hard drive because it's an old ST32041A of 20GB that had a lot of bad sectors from 36400000 to the end of the drive.

Could I still reapre my drive?

Why did that happend?

Thanks and bye.


(Sorry for reposting, I thought it was in the wrong cathegory):

[arztt]

Maybe your drive was dropped time ago and this did some scratches on the platters.

Now with the heads working in this area for some time, the scratches killed the heads and you can't revive the HDD anymore.

[enon97]

LoL

I had never though about that.

Changing heads maybe? :p

[pcimage]

LoL

I had never though about that.

Changing heads maybe? :p

How would that fix the scratches?

Seriously, just scrap the drive.

[enon97]

Pfff.

It's a bit sad, ins't it?

[kaxi]

Such an old drive lasting up to now is not sad, rather a triumph for Seagate (they did make them robust back then).