Need help with a Toshiba MK6026GAX hdd. It is recognised by the bios, but unable to read or write to hdd. What can I do to repair?
Thank you.

Is recognised fully by BIOS?

Model and capacity?

Run MHDD, to check ID and also if it reads s/n.

Run scan on MHDD, to see if it will read ANY sectors.

If it will only read the first few, then you have a head problem.

Need to swap heads, if you need data.

If you don't need data, then throw it away.

Hi,

Check wether the drive is spinning. if U cannot hear/feel the spinning, probably the bearing is seized, or the heads are stuck on the platter surface.
Don't be confused by the fact the drive is detected correctly, everything is on the PCB so it doesn't need the HDA to get ready and report ID and SN correctly.

regards,
pepe

I can hear the drive spinning and it´s fully recognized by bios. MHDD recognized the ID, s/n and capacity. I´ve left MHDD running scan since last night and it´s still running, but only completed 2.5%. It´s detecting a lot of errors. Do you think a low level format will solve this?

Thank you.

Hi,
from the idea U would try low level formatting I suppose there is nothing important on the drive.
So I would say just nail it on the wall or give it to somebody who can use its parts
Sorry, I don't see any solution U could make it working and RELIABLE again. What if U repair it then a week later U lose really important data if it fails again? that recovery will surely cost a lot more than a new drive. However there is not any pledge the new drive won't fail, so please do backups regularly.

regards,
pepe

Drive has at least one bad head.

LLF will not fix this.

Agree with Pepe, throw it away.