Hello everyone, this is my first post, after a long time searching on this great forum.

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB ( ST3500418AS ) with CC34 firmware (from factory). One nice day, when i boot up, the bios shown the 0 size problem. After a a few moments (or hours) of desperation, I've reinstalled my OS over another hdd, start googleing, and found the 7200.11 (yes 11) fix for size 0.

Unfortunely, I followed all steps successfully, (bought a sub - ttl, created the cable, started putty, connected, sended the command, and so on (check https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/ or this one http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807- ... e__st__506 )) When I rebooted, bios now shows the correct size, but when the OS is going to start I get a "read error".

Started from my another hdd, windows 7 took forever to start (about half an hour), and when it does, in file explorer I can see my two partitions but, again, when I try to see my files, a read error appears.

I really don't care about the disk, but my thesis is there, and I want to kill myself for being so stupid. You gurus are my last chance. So this is why this is my first post.

I've already tried:
- follow the tutorial again, with longer pause time between commands
- tried this tutorial http://translate.google.com.ar/translat ... 200-12.htm
- runned checkdisk (again a read error occurrs)
- started seatools from freedos (console version, since my mouse isn't working on the UI version, result: my hdd is not listed)

Really I don't know what else to do. I will go to a company for data recovering but in my country there are no companies that can make the job.

Sory for the long post, and sory for my english. And thanks for taking the time to read this

By the way, here is a copy of my last log:


ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

ExecuteSpinRequest

HighPowerMode = 0100
DiagError 00006002
F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 263.575 msecs
F3 2>U

ExecuteSpinRequest

ExecuteSpinRequest

HighPowerMode = 0100
Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 3.714 secs
F3 2>/1

F3 1>N!
Input Command Error

F3 1>N1
Input Command Error

F3 1>/
Input Command Error

F3 1>N1

Clear SMART is completed.
F3 1>/T

F3 T>V4
Reassigned Sectors List
Original New log log log phy phy
LBA PBA cyl hd sctr zn cyl hd sctr SFI

Alt Pending Total Alted Total
Entries Entries Entries Alts Alts
Head 0 0
Head 1 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Total Alt Removals: 0
Checksum = 0000

F3 T>V1
User Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI PBA
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0

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

Invalid Diag Cmd Parameter

F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 16, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 2DF8

DiagError 0000500D
User Partition Format Failed - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs
R/W Sense 00000002, R/W Error 843200A2, File Error 00000000
Blk Addr 71030001, Blk Addr Type D0, Cyl E1890000, Hd 01

F3 T>V1
User Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI PBA
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0

F3 T>/1

F3 1>N!
Input Command Error

F3 1>N1

Clear SMART is completed.
F3 1>
Rst 0x10M
RW subfile error 2044
RW subfile error 2044
ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>V4
Reassigned Sectors List
Original New log log log phy phy
LBA PBA cyl hd sctr zn cyl hd sctr SFI

Alt Pending Total Alted Total
Entries Entries Entries Alts Alts
Head 0 0
Head 1 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Total Alt Removals: 0
Checksum = 0000

F3 T>v
Input Command Error

F3 T>V!
Input Command Error

F3 T>V1
User Slip Defect List
log log log phys phys
LBA span cumm cyl hd sctr zn cyl sctr SFI PBA
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

Head 0: entries 1 slips 0
Head 1: entries 0 slips 0
Total Entries 1 Total Slips 0

F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 16, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 2DF8

Update Cap and Save
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 00 secs
Zone re-format was skipped.
F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 265.746 msecs

Sorry, but its end of the road for DIY...

" I will go to a company for data recovering but in my country there are no companies that can make the job."

A simple google search finds...

http://www.werecoverdata.com/SA/Argenti ... entina.htm

Never dealt with them, but sure there are more.

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Thanks guys. Kind of desapointing to know this but....well. At least I know this can be fixed

Thanks!