Hi,
I need some help. I have this drive, somewhat slow to appear in BIOS but cannot be seen in Windows. MHDD detects it with some delay, also after pressing F2 it needs about 10 secs to id. SMART is tolerable and in terminal it outputs what should be expected.
after 8 secs delay
If press ^z - again a few secs delay and
appears.
Funny is MHDD lits HPA. The drive behaved normally until it happened and nobody played with it. So why can't I see the drive in windows device manager? Thanks for your advice.
According to Seagate, drive has 1,465,149,168 sectors, so do you think it has to do something with HPA? If I NHPA, it won't effect data, will it?

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Looks like it's failing rapidly.

If you don't need the data then bin it and buy a new one.

If you do need the data but it's not that important then you can try some DIY stuff like cloning with dd_rescue or media tooks pro and then using recovery software like getdataback or rstudio, AT YOUR RISK.

Or if the data is important to you, then seek professional help.

Good luck.

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Thank you for replying, at least the obvious was confirmed.
Let me ask some questions:
1. V40 is empty. Will it hurt to try m0,2,2 and N1 in this order?
Or how can I diagnose it better?
2. H2 is lower than the 2 others. What is a good value? The higher or the lower?
3. It has CC46 fw. Do you recommend updating to CC49? Might solve some firmware issues? What are the odds it will finish successfully?
Prosoft was unable to copy anything, so drive must be brought into a better shape before trying to clone with free tools. (My route is DIY, as you might guess).

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