Atola tests drive and indicates either a head fault or translator issue, also a several hundred bad sectors from smart. Wont image, every sector unreadable. Drive does ID and comes ready, not really any odd noises so im thinking firmware.

PC3000 appears not to support this drive so cant do much in the way of testing on that. I can seem to get a basic directory structure up but delving further seems to just result in unreadable sectors. Im thinking translator. Can find very little reference to this drive anywhere.

Im not that up on Hitachi drives but if anyone has any thoughts Id love to hear them. May well outsource but I'd like to have an idea whats likely going on before I do.

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i don't know what the different about atola or Pc3000
i just know them all is tools for repair hdd, hope master answered next

Should be supported by pc300, select "custom" family and go down to HTS5450xxx

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These are most certainly supported by PC3K, as pcimage says you need to select the family manually from the custom menu.

Do a head map and see if there's a bad head or if it's just bad areas. What about if you image it in reverse, how does it read from the end rather than from the beginning?

Rather than trying to get a folder structure from step 1, first rule out what the problem is.

You said you find 'very little reference' to this drive, I'm not sure what you mean by that? HTS545025B9SA02 is a very common drive, same troubleshooting and resolution applies as to many other drives.

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He has legit UDMA

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So it is! Missed that. Looks like one dead head and one dying one.

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