WD2000JB-00GVA0

[Fireman]

This is an updated post from before. I chose a new topic because the first one was mis-titled (sometimes the brain is faster than the fingers) and its been over a month.
Thanks jono-ats, beto, and dick for the help the first go round.

I am having a hard time finding the error, when I run the WD diagnostics (downloaded from their site and for the correct drive model, I get error code 0132 - incorrect version but I know its not. So I moved on to trying some of the software from the hddguru site specifically "Check_WD" attached is the log of the output. Can anybody offer me some assistance in deciphering the output? Also given what is contained in the log, would it be advisable to run Afua_WD and reformat the system area of the disk? What will this program do, I can't read the man page for it because it is in another language (Russian maybe?)? Or is there another program that I can try?

The Background:from http://forum.hddguru.com/hard-disk-drives-repair-and-data-recovery-f1/wd200jb-loss-of-lba-support-t8943.html

The Drive:
Western Digital WD2000JB-00GVA0 (EIDE)
200GB capacity, LBA 390721968
If I left Something out let me know.
The Problem:
Sorry in advance for the rambling
I was copying data from an external USB hard drive to this one, I noticed that the transfer rate was rather slow approx 1MB/s. Thinking this was unusual I checked to make sure I had USB 2.0 support enabled (I had recently installed the Kubuntu Hardy Beta), it was not, long story short I found my way to the BIOS to check it out there, at this time all the drive info here was correct. When I booted back to KDE i noticed that only one of the two partitions on the drive had auto mounted. I tried to mount the other partition manually and it failed. Thinking something was amiss in my partition table I ran testdisk from CGSecurity off a TRK3.3 Live CD. It was at this time that I noticed the drive was not displaying its properties correctly, it was showing up as only being 8.4GB and not 200GB, I manually set the CHS in testdisk to match the correct size and rewrote the partition table still no luck. I checked it out in the BIOS and the same size was detected there as originally reported in testdisk. I thought that possibly the pcb had gone bad because the drive was not detecting correctly, I replaced that with another of identical version/model and it made no difference. I called a data recovery service to get an estimate and he said that it sounded like the system area on the disk was corrupted. That lead me to the forums here, I downloaded MHDD today and tried that. with no success. When I ran the EID command from there I got the the correct S/N, Drive ID, FW, and Cache size. I also had
Quote:
LBA: 0
Size 0MB
Supports: LBA48 MS16
This drive does not support LBA mode and MHDD will not work with this device

So now I'm lost and in need of some serious guidance. Does any body have any suggestions?

Jeff

Attachments

Check_WD_Log.log

output log from Check_WD. Finally something productive, now if only I knew what it meant.

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[pallanur]

Hello !!

I have another WD drive that shows 0Mb size in Bios. I run over it Ceck WD but there shows more errors than your disk.

Have you make any prgress with this disk?

regards