Hi
I have few USB Portable Disks from Seagate ("Freeagent Go") which are not getting detected in the Windows.

So I opened the portable device and took out the seagate hard disk from it.
Details of the Disk are ->
Seagate Momentus 5400.6
Firmware 0002BSM1
Model ST9500325AS
Interface = SATA

Now I tried to connect the disk direct to the PC. But BIOS is not detecting the disk. So I did following activities
1) Connect RX TX pins to RS232 connectors
2) Executed Following terminal commands (just for check), But i got stuck with Init SMART FAIL error.

Quote
ASCII Diag mode
F3 T>/2
F3 2>Z
Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 6.015 secs
F3 2>
ASCII Diag mode
F3 T>/2
F3 2>U
HighPowerMode
ExecuteSpinRequest
Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 3.624 secs
F3 2>/1
F3 1>N1
Init SMART Fail


3. Now I tried again with direct following Terminal commands

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F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22


This time command was successfully executed , with no error. :w00t:

4. Now I connected this hard drive to the machine, and now this Hard disk is getting Detected in the BIOS.

5. But when i start the Windows - It automatically start the "scandisk" operation on the newly detected Partition (I am now desperately waiting to finish this scandisk operation, so that i can get my data back... but) :}

6. Scandisk Operations - shows me continues Unreadable Sectors , so i restarted the systems and on the next scandisk interaction with the this hard drive was skipped, so that i will be able to diagnose the disk with some other tools like HDD Regenerator

7. HDD Regenerator shows me NON-REPAIRABLE bad sectors.

8. I tried the same thing with one more same momentus drive (everything same as specified above)- but to my surprise I now found Repairable Bad Sectors but the count was tooooooo high. In 48hours HDD Regenerator have fixed only 9GB out of 500GB disk. So I dont have any other chance to Stop this activity as well.


Now I tried to explain the problem in as maximum details as i can provide.
So please help me out to fix this drives.

I do have few more momentus drives in my friend circle, and all are having hopes associated me. :wacko:

Please do help me out.