Spildit wrote:
Do you need the data inside the drive or you just need to "fix" the drive ?
What is the exact model fo the drive inside the enclosure ? Do not open the drive itself.
Did you try to connect the drive dirctly to a SATA port of a desktop ? Dies the BIOS pick up the drive that way ?
Also you shouldn't be using Victoria with USB connected drives and API mode. To properly use Victoria you have to let it install it's direct I/O driver (most likely you will have problems installing it on 64 bit OS) and use PIO mode.
If data is important to you you should consider the use of a professional data recovery firm.
If you don't care for the data just buy another drive and if possible don't buy Seagate.
Answering your questions, here I go:
1) Yes, I need data and fixing it.
2) It's a Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001-1E6166 - FW: CC45
3) Yes I did. Although my desktop motherboard BIOS is of 2008, it could see it but with wrong capacity.
4) Victoria usage mode noted. Tks.
5) Considering the use of a professional data recovery is out of question. I can't afford paying one.
6) I myself have given up on Seagate HDD for a long time. This drive is a friedn's drive that I was using to do some backups and now I have to give it back to him.
Well, I am not an expert on HDD engineering, but I think it could be fixed. What I can figure out is that it maybe has lost its MBR/GPT table/Vol and probably its SMART table. flashing its firmware could solve this problem but I would lose data, is that possible?
Tks.