Hi all,
again a samsung SV2001H. The drive head was damaged. I swapped the heads from another same model drive.

Now the drive is getting detect in the bios.

the model number is correct.
the geometry is correct.

But ........ the serial number is wrong. Its something like $$2041415.


No utility is able to read sectors from the drive.

regards

hi

please post the log from mhdd here ,

the drive status is important , buisy ready.. etc

i dont have much experience with replacing heads but seems

there are firmware problems also , if the serial number isnt shown

correctly the firmware is bad.

regards
A>S

here is the SMART report from MHDD

[PRE]HDD: SAMSUNG SV1022D; FW: MK200-49; SN: MK200-49
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Name Val Worst Raw
Att # 1 : Read error rate : 100 100 8
Att # 4 : Number of spin-up times : 99 99 1986
Att # 5 : Reallocated sectors count : 253 253 0
Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 253 253 0
Att # 8 : Seek time performance : 253 253 0
Att # 9 : Power-on time : 100 100 76182
Att # 12 : Start/stop count : 99 99 1985
Att # 197 : Current pending sectors : 253 253 0
Att # 198 : Offline scan UNC sectors : 253 253 0
Att # 199 : Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate : 200 200 0
Att # 200 : Write error rate : 100 100 0
Att # 201 : Unknown : 100 100 0
[/PRE]

The bug... http://mhddsoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4731