problem recovering damaged sector 0

Hello everyone,

I am having some problems with a Seagate 2.5" HD.
Although I can detect it in the BIOS, it will fail in post.
The drive has allot of bad sectors and BIOS can't read smart.
I believe my main problem is that sector 0 can not be read.
I have tried several different tools to recover sector 0, but nothing seams to work. I have tried to format the sector and I have also tried to add the sector to the defect list. But evertime I run a scan the sector still shows up as Bad. Here is my log.

Code:: 7.05.2001 10:49:23 MHDD>ID 7.05.2001 10:49:31 ST9100823A LBA: 195,371,568 7.05.2001 10:49:31 SN: 3LG191VV FW: 8.03 7.05.2001 10:49:34 7.05.2001 10:49:34 MHDD>SCAN 7.05.2001 10:49:41 ST9100823A LBA: 195,371,568 7.05.2001 10:49:41 SN: 3LG191VV FW: 8.03 7.05.2001 10:49:43 Scan started 7.05.2001 10:49:43 MODE: IDE 7.05.2001 10:49:43 Device: ST9100823A 7.05.2001 10:49:43 F/W: 8.03 7.05.2001 10:49:43 SN: 3LG191VV 7.05.2001 10:49:43 ------------------------------- 7.05.2001 10:49:43 Lap : 1 7.05.2001 10:49:43 LBA scan: 0 to 195371567 7.05.2001 10:49:52 þ LBA Warning: 0 7.05.2001 10:50:20 þ LBA Warning: 1992570 7.05.2001 10:50:22 þ LBA warning: 1994355 7.05.2001 10:50:23 þ LBA warning: 1995375 7.05.2001 10:50:24 þ LBA warning: 1995630 7.05.2001 10:50:25 þ LBA warning: 1996140 7.05.2001 10:50:27 þ LBA warning: 1996395 7.05.2001 10:50:35 þ LBA Error: 1997180 7.05.2001 10:50:38 þ LBA warning: 2028270 7.05.2001 10:50:38 þ LBA Warning: 2028525 7.05.2001 10:50:38 þ LBA Warning: 2028780 7.05.2001 10:50:39 þ LBA Warning: 2032095 7.05.2001 10:50:41 þ LBA warning: 2036430 7.05.2001 10:50:41 þ LBA Warning: 2039745 7.05.2001 10:50:42 þ LBA warning: 2042295 7.05.2001 10:50:48 þ LBA Error in block: 2044080 7.05.2001 10:50:54 þ LBA Error in block: 2045610 7.05.2001 10:50:55 þ LBA warning: 2051475 7.05.2001 10:51:01 þ LBA Error in block: 2054280 7.05.2001 10:51:07 þ LBA Error in block: 2062440 7.05.2001 10:51:08 þ LBA Warning: 2064225 7.05.2001 10:51:13 þ LBA Error in block: 2065245 7.05.2001 10:51:14 þ LBA Warning: 2067795 7.05.2001 10:51:20 þ LBA Error in block: 2070090 7.05.2001 10:51:21 þ LBA warning: 2071110 7.05.2001 10:51:21 þ LBA Warning: 2071875 7.05.2001 10:51:22 þ LBA warning: 2076210 7.05.2001 10:51:23 þ LBA Warning: 2080545 7.05.2001 10:51:30 þ LBA Error in block: 2082075 7.05.2001 10:51:36 þ LBA Error in block: 2084625 7.05.2001 10:51:37 þ LBA warning: 2086410 7.05.2001 10:51:46 þ LBA Error in block: 2087175 etc.., etc.., etc.. 7.05.2001 13:15:13 Blocks > 500ms = 1054 7.05.2001 13:15:13 Errors: 606, Warnings: 1555 7.05.2001 13:15:13 Done 7.05.2001 13:27:24 7.05.2001 13:27:24 MHDD>HELP 7.05.2001 13:27:57 7.05.2001 13:27:57 MHDD>SMART 7.05.2001 13:28:10 7.05.2001 13:28:10 MHDD>SMART ATT 7.05.2001 13:28:10 Getting SMART attributes... 7.05.2001 13:28:10 SMART READ ATTRIBUTES 7.05.2001 13:28:11 HDD: ST9100823A; FW: 8.03; SN: 3LG191VV 7.05.2001 13:28:11 -------------------------------------------------------- 7.05.2001 13:28:11 SMART attributes: 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Name Val Worst Raw 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 66 51 205118579 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 3 : Spin up time : 96 95 0 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 4 : Number of spin-up times : 99 99 1894 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 5 : Reallocated sectors count : 100 100 17 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 63 60 86233680 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 9 : Power-on time : 94 94 5567 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 10 : Spin-up retries : 100 100 0 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 12 : Start/stop count : 99 99 1936 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 192 : Power-off retract count : 100 100 1955 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 193 : Load/unload cycle count : 5 5 191223 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 194 : HDA Temperature : 32 72 32 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 65 51 205118579 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 197 : Current pending sectors : 88 88 250 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 198 : Offline scan UNC sectors : 88 88 250 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 199 : Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate : 200 1 3869 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 200 : Write error rate : 100 253 0 7.05.2001 13:28:11 Att # 202 : Unknown : 100 253 0

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

I have also tried to do an image by copying the sectors to a new drive.
But without success.I tried it with media tools, but it doesn't get passed CHS 0,0,1 or LBA 0. (it's only the demo version, so I can't set it to ignore bad sectors) I also tried Copyr's HD DUPLICATOR which also hangs on CHS 0,0,1. If I start from CHS 0,0,2 it starts copying sectors but after about 25 sectors complains about not being able to get a signal from the drive anymore. after a few hundred errors it is able to recover about another 20 - 30 sectors and after about 1500 errors and 120 recorded sector just dies. I also tried a few other Duplication programs but the results where similar to the ones described above.

As a side note:

Code:: I also had problems with ATA password on this drive. After spending frustrated time going back and forth I got the Master password. But when I tried unlocking it with MHDD it would not work. It was complaining about password being invalid, although I know this is not true. After trying it several times I gave up with the my MHDD unlock atempt(DEll drive). I got the dell xps laptop from which the hard drive originaly was taken and was able to unlock it from the BIOS with the same password. Does DEll do something to 2.5" HD's to prevent the unlocking from tools such as MHDD? or is it a possible bug in MHDD? Unfortunaltey I did not test any other tools such as ATAPWD to compare. If anyone has had similar experience It would be great to share this here.

Thanks again

La, La, la, no one here :shock:

BAD sectors is very common in 2.5" Seagate Hard Drives. Do you want to repair the disk or recover the data? If you want to repair the disk I think you would be better replacing it. If you want to recover the data there are many ways to do it. Media Tools should be able to clone this drive, but you will need the registered version as you need to set read retries to 0 (default is 32!). You can also clone the disk in reverse, this way you will likely get all data after first sector and will very likely be able to recover the data. Other option is to add disk to Windows (you can add disk while windows is running and add from Device manager with detect new hardware) and select recovery software with good error control such as R-Studio.

Hddguy,

Thanks for the reply!
Yes, I am trying to recover the data. The Device Manager in Windows is crappy. It will make the drive hang. It's because of badly designed interrupts with Plug & Play (I think) :roll:

I tried this before! Plus the drive is only intermediately detected in BIOS.
I think PCB is slowly dying as well. But you are right, I will try to set read retries to 0 and if this doesn't work I will try to do a reverse clone. I have thought of this as well but, I only have a demo version of Media Tools which did not give me the opportunity to change these options. I guess I just didn't get around to purchasing full version. But it seams worth it, so I'll go ahead.

Thanks again

Download Hiren Boot Cd this contains full version of Media Tools .

thanki.tk

Have you tried dd_rescue?

dd_rescue what is it ?

And what does it do ??

... first google hit: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
It's included on several Linux boot CDs like KNOPPIX and INSERT (UBCD).

quasimodo wrote:La, La, la, no one here

It seems that prob's not only in bad sector 0, but also in IDE - Cable.

Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate : 200 1 3869

This attribute, unless it has zero raw value, usually means that it's the cable.
Try to change the cable.