20GB ST920217AS read 1TB

[buokhalid]

Dear All;
Last month I bought 5 1TB external hdd from china , and i checked it their was reading 1TB with no problem but when i come back to my country and try to format it full pc hunged..

I tried to reformate it using different tools ended with no luck.
then i decided to open the case and I found Seagate ST92017AS installed . after doing some search on google found that this drive is only 20GB not 1TB ???????

even i lost my money i need to back this drive to it factory status. how can i do that? i cannot fid any ST92017AS firmware ....

please someone advise me what to do.

[pclab]

Post a picture of the label.

[BytesBack]

The label will be helpful. If you want to see if there is any unseen capacity you can try this: http://www.hddguru.com/software/2007.07 ... tore-Tool/

[Deimpost]

Dear All;
Last month I bought 5 1TB external hdd from china , and i checked it their was reading 1TB with no problem but when i come back to my country and try to format it full pc hunged..

I tried to reformate it using different tools ended with no luck.
then i decided to open the case and I found Seagate ST92017AS installed . after doing some search on google found that this drive is only 20GB not 1TB ???????

even i lost my money i need to back this drive to it factory status. how can i do that? i cannot fid any ST92017AS firmware ....

please someone advise me what to do.

hey! Hello....
I know that this is an old topic.. but I was wondering if you was able to find a way to restore the default capacity for this hdd (ST92017AS).
I just received 3 x "1TB" from china and guess what?

[BlackST]

hey! Hello....
I know that this is an old topic.. but I was wondering if you was able to find a way to restore the default capacity for this hdd (ST92017AS).
I just received 3 x "1TB" from china and guess what?

... they were real 20GB that pretend to be 1 TB