gulliver wrote:
Thank you xsoliman for your help and wisdom. Thats what I believe too after looking around!
I finally did the SMART clear:
F3 1>N1
and unfortunately that too:
F3 1>/T
F3 T>i4,1,22
which should be for 7200.11 and not 7200.12 which is mine.
I also run
F3 T>m0,2,2,,,,,22
which responded
User Partition Format Successful
and now the drive gets detected in BIOS with correct size and sector size but if I try to access it with data recovery tools, it only works for a little time varied from 10sec to 2 minutes.
If I scan it for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator it starts to detect bad sectors after 200something MBytes and does not stop for about 1000 sectors without 1 single good sector so I believe this has to do with the line above (HDD stops responding) so I quit the scan.
I still have terminal access. Do you know if you can help me with this one? Hasn't anyone found a solution that wants to share or suggest?
Dear Friend guliver
u made big mistaq to handle this case as seagate 7200.11 case. ur drive is stucked in partial sector accesibility problem and in udma says it Translator broken problem. if u have correct tool u have good chance to solve this issue.
u can solve this problems menualy too but its need very high experiance and knoledge.
sorry for my bad english
yours friend
jignesh pankhania