Hello!
I have a problem with a Samsung SpinPoint SP1213N 120GB IDE hard drive. All of a sudden it started giving errors so I tried deleting the 120GB partition and re-format the drive. As soon as I did that the drive showed up in BIOS as having 0 cylinders thus, 0MB capacity. I've tried manually setting the LBA but to no avail. HDAT2 couldn't do anything (I've tried setting native size back) and reports firmware as corrupted and S.M.A.R.T. warnings but the HDD doesn't make any funny noises and also S.M.A.R.T. from Everest Ultimate and HD Tune 4 reports everything is OK.
Any chance I can salvage this HDD?

Sorry for the double-post but I managed to take some snaps from HDAT2 and MHDD. I hope this helps. Here's the link to a photobucket album of the whole thing :
http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa11 ... 3N%20info/

up!

up?

Probably is bad firmware, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do without specialist s/w and h/w tools.

Bin the drive and get a new one, as presumably the data is not required?

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