Hello guys,

I have this kind of question to you

I would like to know if I have any chance to repair this HDD and recover its data. When I plug HDD terminal into it then on a console I can see this output

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TONKA2 - 1_Disk M-31 02-08-06 15:53

Buzz - Head Mask FFFF - Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
ERR Read Boot Adapts

>
>
F>

am I capable to repair HDD and recover all data using "home" methods ? Or maybe firmware is broken, what do you think ?

More details about my drive:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
ST3160812AS
s/n: 4LS2W9YY
p/n: 9BD132-033
Firmware: 3.ADH

If you need more details, please do not hesitate to ask, I will provide all required information.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Krzysztof

Bad bad bad news.

What do you mean saying: "bad bad bad news" ?
Do I have any chance to repair HDD or just get my data back to another drive ?

Where I can find all supported commands within HDD terminal for this drive model/type or the latest firmware and procedure how to do that for broken drive (BIOS does not see it)?

Thank you in advance once again

Krzysztof

that either you played with commands (then bye bye data) or there are SERIOUS PROBLEMS (to me almost beyond repair.



Close to zero (on your own).



Not here

If the problem hasn't been caused by "DIY fiddling" then you probably have bad/weak heads in the drive.

Not DIY

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I vote for incautious command sent from T> or "number"

ONE WEAK HEAD should give a different behaviour, TOTALLY BAD , idem.

(and beside "aurora borealis" in the shower / bathtub , I think we almost have seen EVERYTHING , hence the hypotesis of FW damage)

P.S. could also be that the HW of the drive was fiddled with.... * COUGH * !

All I can say that I has seen this exact error many many times where heads have been bad/weak/dirty and unable to read boot adaptives and/or defect lists etc..

Of course it could be caused by other problems, including "DIY bodging attempts" but only the OP will be able tell us this (if he/she chooses to)

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Sean, when you get this error STRAIGHT AT STARTUP without "attempts" and ALL copies are f***** up , what would you think ?

I have seen it many times, instead, when people decided to use terminal and instead of clearing SMART at the right level (oh, the BSY bug, the 0 LBA Internet Saturday Night Special one-fits-all solution, you know...) , they did it from T.
Power off and on and guess what happened.....
"I saw a lot of things on terminal, I let it end...."
variant :
"I started seen a lot of unknown stuff scrolling on video so I switched off"




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