MHDD detects drive, hangs on further commands
Posted: February 17th, 2015, 23:28
I have a Hitachi HTS721060G9SA00 (60GB 7200RPM 2.5" SATA) pulled from a Thinkpad T60. I've used MHDD over 100 drive wipes and never had a problem like this.
BIOS is in legacy mode (not AHCI). I'm having the same problem on both the original Thinkpad and on a Dell Desktop.
The problem: MHDD will boot and the drive shows up when asked to select a drive controller. I select the drive and get the MHDD prompt. From there, if I hit F2 to detect the drive parameters, or "erase" to try to wipe the drive, MHDD simply hangs and the BUSY indicator at the top of MHDD stays lit.
What I've already tried: I disabled the recovery partition in the T60's BIOS, deleted all partitions, zero'd out the drive using DBAN, did a surface scan with HDTUNE which came up fine. I did notice that in HDTUNE, nothing showed up on the SMART report tab -- similar to what you'd see if the drive was connected via USB (but this was with SATA, of course). I'm suspecting that there's a link here. I tested the drive using the T60's built-in drive diagnostic function in the BIOS as well for good measure. I've tried multiple versions of the MHDD ISO, from my own custom one to a freshly downloaded copy of the original. All of them freeze as soon as I try to detect or erase the drive.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? Anyone have an idea?
Many thanks.
BIOS is in legacy mode (not AHCI). I'm having the same problem on both the original Thinkpad and on a Dell Desktop.
The problem: MHDD will boot and the drive shows up when asked to select a drive controller. I select the drive and get the MHDD prompt. From there, if I hit F2 to detect the drive parameters, or "erase" to try to wipe the drive, MHDD simply hangs and the BUSY indicator at the top of MHDD stays lit.
What I've already tried: I disabled the recovery partition in the T60's BIOS, deleted all partitions, zero'd out the drive using DBAN, did a surface scan with HDTUNE which came up fine. I did notice that in HDTUNE, nothing showed up on the SMART report tab -- similar to what you'd see if the drive was connected via USB (but this was with SATA, of course). I'm suspecting that there's a link here. I tested the drive using the T60's built-in drive diagnostic function in the BIOS as well for good measure. I've tried multiple versions of the MHDD ISO, from my own custom one to a freshly downloaded copy of the original. All of them freeze as soon as I try to detect or erase the drive.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? Anyone have an idea?
Many thanks.