not having much luck with seagate these days

turned on my laptop today
and the drive has zero capacity

it looks possible look like my hard drive has caught the famouse std seagate bug
where it makes the drive 0 bytes capacity.

hard drive not seen in windows
but seen on a external usb
but remains zero for the capacity



anyone help me in fixing this problem
as i dont want to loose my stuff


cheers


seagate drive is 160 gb

model ST916031 0A5

It's 2,5" so it's different from the 3,5". Sorry it's giving YOU a disservice, luckily you have everything you need (almost) to diagnose it.
Can you read the whole SA / save tracks and be sure about HEAD functionality ?

data compass see the drive itself and i can find the partitions on the drive.

clicked on each partition and there no data files there windows folders etc

only my Toshiba restore files.

it possible looks like one of the main head has failed

but again could be something else


ok just checked the partition on the hard drive and all im getting in the view sector is

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

there no file system at all in any of the sectors







thanks for your help

Did you try to image by selective head?

Salvation tools are found to show nothing in hex view, whereas it may contain some data in real format. In short, I never trust on the "raw" hex mode view of SD.

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