Fujitsu MHT2060AT - how to update firmware?

[Ford Falcon]

Greetings all,

My first post here, and I am glad to have found this site!
I hope someone can help me out with my challenge.

I own an IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop.
The laptop has a 40Gb Fujitsu drive (MHT2040AT).
I recently purchased a larger 60Gb Fujitsu drive (MHT2060AT).
The laptop seems to recognize the 60Gb, well, at least while I partitioned it and then installed an OS onto it, but when I tried to get it to boot off the drive, it would just sit there.

So I thought, maybe it's the HDD firmware that needs an update.
I visited the Lenovo site for some details and tried the ISO file. When I ran it from boot, it recognized the firmware as "009B" and tells me the firmware needs no update.

After searching this site, it seems that the 009B firmware matches the version for the 40Gb drive, which makes sense, since the laptop originally came with that drive. So I found the firmware version (0022) for the 60Gb drive on this site, which lists the files but I couldn't find an executable in order to perform the upgrade.
http://files.hddguru.com/download/Non-PC-3000%20firmwares/Fujitsu/

Can someone suggest how I would go about updating the firmware?

Thanks in advance.

[harddrivespecialist]

You don't need to update your firmware.
There might be a little problem with your new drive.
Try to reinstall OS on that drive.

[Ford Falcon]

Thanks for your replies so far.

UPDATE:
I low-level formatted the drive, and then installed Kubuntu.
The drive did load the operating system off the drive, but it was rather s-l-o-w.

I then tried another Windows XP install. It too did load, but it was also very slow.

The same symptoms happened with another HDD I tried a couple of weeks ago.

Why would I not need to update the firmware ?

[pepe]

MHT2060 drives are quite a few years old now, so if u bought it nowadays, U probably got a used one that's even more probably defective...

pepe

[ephraim2]

Hi all friends

i got a MHT2060AH which is detected clearly by bios, but seemes working very very slow.
customer said that his kid put some magnet on the notebook for couple of hours.

we need to recover the data. we used copule of s/w with no success, including ghost etc.
seemes the computer hangs some how.

tks
ephraim

[unknown]

IMO I think it's "game over". I think that "couple of hours" are enough to destroy the paramagnetic field layer inside.

Anyway that's my opinion.

Good luck.

[fzabkar]

i got a MHT2060AH which is detected clearly by bios, but seemes working very very slow.
customer said that his kid put some magnet on the notebook for couple of hours.

ISTM that a magnet would have to be seriously big to affect the drive. In any case, if the embedded servo information were damaged, then I would expect to hear a lot of clicking. You may also expect to find numerous seek errors in the SMART report.

[BlackST]

There is a solution that may give good results but depends on how much money the customer want to spend...

[ephraim2]

hello BlackST

u know customers never like to pay much.

what is your estimation?

ephraim

[unknown]

u know customers never like to pay much.

Then the data inside the drive doesn't worth.

[DR-Kiev]

IMO I think it's "game over". I think that "couple of hours" are enough to destroy the paramagnetic field layer inside.

Anyway that's my opinion.

Good luck.

Don't believe in this myth!
Constant magnet cann't destroy servo
Look this


And after this


It work almost fine .


@ephraim2
Your drive has just bad-blocks ( its typical for 2,5 fujitsu) , magnet couldn't something spoiled .
It is easy to recovery.

[ephraim2]

hello DR-Kiev

tks for your reply.

it seemes to me also a myth despite i cannot proove and understand the reason.

in any case we got lot of crc errors on this drive and succeede to recover only small amount of files.

tks again
ephraim