A friend wanted to remove the MBR of an ancient Hitachi Deskstar 120 GB (Model: HDS722512-VLAT80). He used a partinioning tool.
After this the drive was bricked. Drive spins but is no longer visible in bios.
He said that he wanted to reuse the drive. Data is not important. The best thing would be to throw the drive away.

But nevertheless 2 questions:
- is it really possible by a partitioning program to brick the drive? This seems unlikely to me. I would rather assume that he replugged it and damaged the drive with static electricity. But he said it was the program.
- is there a diagnostic port which could illicitate the drive state (e.g. terminal mode as in the Seagates)

Any ideas?

It is not possible (as I can see) for a partitioning program to "brick" a drive in this manner, he needs to look elsewhere for the problem.

There is no serial diagnosis port on this Hitachi drive.

Bin it and move on

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