Restore SB2OC70P firmware into a Hitachi disk

[mac1929]

Hi

I have just received a Samsung M3 1TB that looks like a Samsung (even the package and instructions) but is a fake. Istead of Samsung, the case holds a used (8000 hours) HTS541680J9SA00 Hitachi 80GB drive with a tweaked firmware that makes the unit report 981GB.

When the SO tries to write beyond 80GB the drive fails and stops responding. So it is unusable.

I will have my money back, no problem with that, but now I would like to fix that HDD firmware so I can use it.

Right now it has the SB2OC70P firmware. I will need a flashing tool for hitachi and the original firmware.

Does anybody know if this can be found anyware in the net??

Thanks in advance.

[Mr. Anderson]

Your first step is to call or email hitachi support and ask for firmware for HTS541680J9SA00. Firmware file comes with the flashing tool.

[mac1929]

I have just sent them an email thought this URL http://www.hgst.com/support/create-case

Let's see if they reply properly.

Thank you!

[mac1929]

I got no reply from them but I could use the hitachi FTOOL to set max LBA addressable sectors to 156301488 (that is the total number of sectors according to the manual).

Thank you!!