Hi, this drive's controller card alone comes ready on PC3KUDMA.

But when attached to the HDA, the drive stays BSY with the following
readout in Terminal - which repeats as long as powered on:

MCTPWrt FAIL
MCTPWrt FAILASSERT_ID_00009650
LED:000000CC FAddr:00352A5F
Rst 0x10M
(P) SATA Reset

MCTPWrt FAIL
MCTPWrt FAILASSERT_ID_00009650
LED:000000CC FAddr:00352A5F
Rst 0x10M
(P) SATA Reset

It does not ID and shows 0.49 MB capacity.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks!!

-Drew
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I just tried the Solution for LED error, and I get this:

Test : Solution for the "HDD Lock (LED: 000000CC)" problem

Switching HDD power supply OFF

Switching HDD power supply ON
COM port reconnection...
Spin Up...

Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 2.138 secs
F3 2>
Error starting command "En Tech" (Drive is not ready)

Sorry, I should have also said, we opened the drive in our clean room
and it's a single platter - no scratches on top, filter looks clean, both
heads are present and everything moves freely.

I have access to an exact match Donor.....

-Drew
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Anybody??

These are tricky.

What's story based on the customer's description?

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

It's from a laptop and they said "just died"

D

Checked surface 0 for media damage?

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

Hi, there was no visible surface damage
spotted in our clean room examination.

-D

Update: We did heads transplant from exact donor
and drive comes ready, but with 0MB!

I am able to do a HDD Resources Backup and I get these errors:

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Obtaining Saved Mode Pages File information...
Reading Saved Mode Pages...
Parsing Saved Mode Pages...
SMP Dbl: 0x3C000317 - 0x037FF7FF (0x0000000F)

LBA alignment........................... : 0

Obtaining Registry File information...
Reading Registry File...
Parsing Registry File...

Media Cache
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MC : enabled
MC Size : 0x0
MC MCMT Ver is unavailable!!!
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and also these errors:

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Module 002B, R/W Operating Parameters (translator, etc)............... : Error
Error : Rq Rd Sys File part ID 2B, Offs 0x0 err! Tech state 0x72, 0x04440000

Sys File FC34D028(0).................................................. : Error
Error : Rd SysF 3:28:0 (0/8000) err = 0x0000000E
Sys File FC34D028(1).................................................. : Error
Error : Rd SysF 3:28:1 (0/8000) err = 0x0000000E

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I am not sure if those modules/files are important - how does one ever know that?

ALSO, the 0MB solution fails to fix this.

Help, still, please....

-Drew
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Translator error: the most important when it comes to data access.
Seems like media is severely deteriorated.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

Thanks labtech. Yesterday, I gained the following additional info:

The drive "ID's" but the firmware is wrong and capacity is empty!

Model : ST320LT020-9YG142
Serial : W040JRFF
Firmware : 0001
Capacity : MB ()


With power cycling, the Terminal shows:

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(S) SATA Reset

Rst 0x10M
(P) SATA Reset

M_FT_IF_MC_Mct_Init_Fail 1
[PORFAIL:MC.disabled]
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Thanks again - I'm still hoping for some specific things to try...

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Have you ruled out PCB is native and in proper working condition?

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

How did you check surface 0 on the media?

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