Hi all,
i am a new user to the pc 3000 that i have just recieved. I have been working through the manual on my first test drive, and would appreciate any pointers to guide me through if possible.
This is a test drive i have, pre the pc3000 it clicked, windows could not detect it, Prgrams i have copyr and Rstudio could not work with drive to image.
I installed it onto the PC3000 UDMA card started the power, utilities, ran audodetect, then utility start and got the following
Techno mode key:
HDD geometry loading.................... : Ok
Cyl Count............................... : 22386
Head Count.............................. : 3
SPT..................................... : 900

RAM:
Zone allocation table................... : Ok
ROM version............................. : 15.4A.
SA FW version........................... : 15.4AR
Link table version...................... : 05.FB.

Serial ROM:
Read ROM................................ : Ok
Heads configuration..................... : From map
Heads number............................ : 6
The number of heads in use.............. : 3
Disabled heads.......................... : Yes
Head map................................ : 0,1,5

Service area:
Modules table loading................... : Drive is not ready
Configuration loading................... : Module 42 not found in modules directory
Translation overlay checking (Copy 0)... : Not found in modules directory
Translation overlay checking (Copy 1)... : Not found in modules directory

with my limited guessing i see there is an error with the service area of the drive, i am guessing in order to proceed from here i need to try and repair this,
do i need to rewrite firmware to repair this drive and if so is it just done from the utility work with service area?
do i need to enter a special mode on the drive in order to do this ?
if i am just after the data can i run Data extractor or do i need to get the drive operational first?
Thank you in advance for all the help

Hi Crecomp,


Which drive are we talking about here? I assume it is a WD, but what model ?

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Hi, the drive is a WD1200BB-22FTAO
just a small addition to the previous question, when having a look at the drive with data extractor it finds 2 partitions, 1 is the HP recovery hidden partition which i can access with no issues, the 2nd partition shows up but appears to be completely blank, thought this may help.
Thank you