Thanks for your help in solving this issue, my seagate works again..now i'm still not sure if I should update the firmware on the drive as i've read others having problems.

Very detailed explanation,thanks admin!!

Hello friends I want to tell you how I managed to recover data from my hd seagate, because even though experience in the bio, it made a strange noise, ticking, and did not have a valid partition, what I did was update the firmware through the. iso seagate's website, and then used as a tool for data recovery program from seagate recorery file (easy to find on torrents site) is there to help me, sorry ITS verry bad English, translate for google. thanks.

Thnx guys!

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Drive is busy example, not solution: drive ST3500320AS SD15

remove 3 screws nearest heads connector, motor connected, put something between pcb and hda to lift pcb and prevent contact.

power on, wait until drive stops motor


(ctrl+z)

F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 0.146 msecs

[color="#FF0000"]ADDED: Now its time to put pcb back to hdd and install it.[/color]

F3 2>U

Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 6.864 secs

this part is not necessary, use when firts try fails

F3 2>/

F3 T>F712
Byte:0712: RealTimeUpdatedFlags = 00 00
Byte:0712: Bit:0, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:1, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX_EXT = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:2, DCO_SET_ACTIVE = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:3, CONGEN_READ_FROM_MEDIA = 0 <- configuration not loaded from surface

F3 T>F,,22

Drive Configuration restored to defaults.

F3 T>F712
Byte:0712: RealTimeUpdatedFlags = 08 00
Byte:0712: Bit:0, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:1, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX_EXT = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:2, DCO_SET_ACTIVE = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:3, CONGEN_READ_FROM_MEDIA = 1 <- done

(end of part to skip at first attempt)

F3 T>/1

F3 1>N1

F3 1>/

F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 0000

User Partition Format 5% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00008DED, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs

F3 T>

(finished, power off)

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PERFECT!!!!!!

I am not an expert, but it is so easy.

THANKS.

welcome.

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hi

please help for seagate 320gb garbo

which is SMART module and sys file,

thanks

Hello
Got old Maxtor Diamond Max 22 fw MX15, made 08327. Wasn't visible in bios but it would spin up and it sounded healthy. My first attempt was to change PCB for another identical (I did swap BIOS chip). Yes, wrong method. Didnt help. Then Ive found this thread. It seems to be a BSY issue.

So I've tried this fix and it almost works. My HDD is now visible in bios and it reports correct size. I can even see two new logical partition. However I cannot access them. HDD reports 100% utilisation all the time. Every piece of software freezes once I try to access the disk. PC won't boot with disc connected to it. HWInfo won't boot up with the disc connected. No matter how long I wait it won't access it. I've tried to perform the fix second time hoping that I've missed something the first time. No bueno

Anyone got any clues what might go wrong please?

Log of my attempt:
F3 T>/2
F3 2>Z
Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 0.155 msecs
F3 2>U
Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 6.643 secs
F3 2>/1
F3 1>N1
F3 1>/T
F3 T>i4,1,22
F3 T>3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 14, Max Certify Rewrite Retri
es = 00C8
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs
F3 T>/
F3 T>F,,22
Drive Configuration restored to defaults.
F3 T>/1
F3 1>N1
F3 1>/
F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewrite Retri
es = 0000
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs

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