Weird Western Digital WD1600BB

Basically, ive got this drive.. it has some data on it:

Format disk shows succesfull, reboot (data is still there)

FDISK + DOS format, reboot (data still there)

Write-Zeroes, reboot (again, all the data is still stuck there)

Hex Editor, replaced sectors 0-64, reboot (the old sectors are back)

Basically it seems this disk got some type of protection, just wondering what type :!:

Any help would be appreciated, oh! ive tried to partition it with linux aswell and no luck... any ideas??

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This is a firmware problem u wont be able to repair it until u have pc3000.

so i have to flash the firmware? and in order to do that i need a pc3000, right? :roll:

there is no other way to flash this hdd fw? thanks for your reply

there is just partial problem in firmware u need to correct that and for that u need expensive tools like pc3000 . if u need to repair the drive i suggest u buy a new one because u will not be able to afford pc3000 for just one drive .

figured it out

well thanks for your support! i can stop wasting time atleast with this drive

thanks again rameez