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enon97

Post subject: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 23rd, 2014, 16:58

Joined: February 2nd, 2014, 12:10
Posts: 29
Location: España

Hello!

Yesterday I wiped my drive with this tool and it completed the erase sucesfully but now I got the TIC of the death.

I don't care about the hard drive because it's an old ST32041A of 20GB that had a lot of bad sectors from 36400000 to the end of the drive.

Could I still reapre my drive?

Why did that happend?

Thanks and bye.

(Sorry for reposting, I thought it was in the wrong cathegory):

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arztt

Post subject: Re: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 25th, 2014, 14:17

Joined: October 9th, 2012, 18:37
Posts: 66

Maybe your drive was dropped time ago and this did some scratches on the platters.

Now with the heads working in this area for some time, the scratches killed the heads and you can't revive the HDD anymore.

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enon97

Post subject: Re: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 25th, 2014, 14:30

Joined: February 2nd, 2014, 12:10
Posts: 29
Location: España

LoL

I had never though about that.

Changing heads maybe? :p

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 25th, 2014, 14:45

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
Posts: 7864
Location: UK

enon97 wrote:

LoL

I had never though about that.

Changing heads maybe? :p

How would that fix the scratches?

Seriously, just scrap the drive.

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enon97

Post subject: Re: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 25th, 2014, 14:51

Joined: February 2nd, 2014, 12:10
Posts: 29
Location: España

Pfff.

It's a bit sad, ins't it?

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kaxi

Post subject: Re: Tick of Death after ATA Secure Erase.

Posted: November 26th, 2014, 5:51

Joined: March 14th, 2014, 9:39
Posts: 61
Location: Macedonia, GREECE

Such an old drive lasting up to now is not sad, rather a triumph for Seagate (they did make them robust back then).

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