WD2500JD - Unreadable Sectors

[marklee]

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem as it's another one I have never seen before.

I have a WD2500-75HBC0 250GB drive in for recovery. Firmware revision is 08.02D08.

The drive is being detected by Windows, but in drive manager it is showing as uninitialised. When I plug it into the Atola and PC3K, both detect the drive OK, but neither can read the System Area.

I plugged it into the Deepspar to try and image it, however every sector on the drive is showing as unreadable. I did a head map, and tried switching off individual heads (there are 6), and also tried reverse imaging in case the faulty sectors are at the start, but all I get are red sectors on the Deepspar.

I tried reverse imaging one block at a time as well, with the same result.

I've never seen a drive where every sector is unreadable, so I'm assuming this is going to be a head or firmware issue?

Can anyone give me any pointers here?

Many thanks for any help,

Mark

[einstein9]

Sounds like Copy/Paste issue Mark

http://groups.google.com/group/datareco ... c99ad41151

S.E.

i guess the problem is else where my dear

[marklee]

Hello,

I always double-post my questions between Scott's group and here.

I have had help in the past from people who are not a member of Scott's group, but on these forums. It's always worth asking as many people as possible.

Cheers,

[einstein9]

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