I have a wd2500bb-55gua0 pulled from a TiVo box that I was trying to reformat to use in a PC.

The drive does not appear in Bios.

With MHDD I can see the correct drive ID. The drive will scan just fine with no excessively long-reading blocks.

However, if I try to do an erase I get:

Init drive: [RESET]
! ERROR: Drive not responding or operation canceled
[RECAL]
! ERROR: Drive not responding or operation canceled

MHDD then proceeds to try to do a fast erase but can only operate in PIO mode.

Anyone have any suggestions? Is this indicative of one or more bad modules and I need to reload firmware? I'm a HDD repair newbie and don't have advanced tools like PC-3000 available to use on the drive.