Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160812AS repair and data recover

[iSiek]

Hello guys,

I have this kind of question to you

I would like to know if I have any chance to repair this HDD and recover its data. When I plug HDD terminal into it then on a console I can see this output

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 02-08-06 15:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
ERR Read Boot Adapts

>
>
F>

am I capable to repair HDD and recover all data using "home" methods ? Or maybe firmware is broken, what do you think ?

More details about my drive:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
ST3160812AS
s/n: 4LS2W9YY
p/n: 9BD132-033
Firmware: 3.ADH

If you need more details, please do not hesitate to ask, I will provide all required information.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Krzysztof

[BlackST]

Bad bad bad news.

[iSiek]

What do you mean saying: "bad bad bad news" ?
Do I have any chance to repair HDD or just get my data back to another drive ?

Where I can find all supported commands within HDD terminal for this drive model/type or the latest firmware and procedure how to do that for broken drive (BIOS does not see it)?

Thank you in advance once again

Krzysztof

[BlackST]

What do you mean saying: "bad bad bad news" ?

that either you played with commands (then bye bye data) or there are SERIOUS PROBLEMS (to me almost beyond repair.

Do I have any chance to repair HDD or just get my data back to another drive ?

Close to zero (on your own).

Where I can find all supported commands within HDD terminal for this drive model/type or the latest firmware and procedure how to do that for broken drive (BIOS does not see it)?

Not here

[pcimage]

If the problem hasn't been caused by "DIY fiddling" then you probably have bad/weak heads in the drive.

Not DIY

[BlackST]

I vote for incautious command sent from T> or "number"

ONE WEAK HEAD should give a different behaviour, TOTALLY BAD , idem.

(and beside "aurora borealis" in the shower / bathtub , I think we almost have seen EVERYTHING , hence the hypotesis of FW damage)

P.S. could also be that the HW of the drive was fiddled with.... * COUGH * !

[pcimage]

I vote for incautious command sent from T> or "number"

ONE WEAK HEAD should give a different behaviour, TOTALLY BAD , idem.

(and beside "aurora borealis" in the shower / bathtub , I think we almost have seen EVERYTHING , hence the hypotesis of FW damage)

P.S. could also be that the HW of the drive was fiddled with.... * COUGH * !

All I can say that I has seen this exact error many many times where heads have been bad/weak/dirty and unable to read boot adaptives and/or defect lists etc..

Of course it could be caused by other problems, including "DIY bodging attempts" but only the OP will be able tell us this (if he/she chooses to)

[BlackST]

Sean, when you get this error STRAIGHT AT STARTUP without "attempts" and ALL copies are f***** up , what would you think ?

I have seen it many times, instead, when people decided to use terminal and instead of clearing SMART at the right level (oh, the BSY bug, the 0 LBA Internet Saturday Night Special one-fits-all solution, you know...) , they did it from T.
Power off and on and guess what happened.....
"I saw a lot of things on terminal, I let it end...."
variant :
"I started seen a lot of unknown stuff scrolling on video so I switched off"




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