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"MHDD could not find the hard drive" vs "Model #, serial, and firmware are all correct"

Which is it?

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I couldn't get MHDD to do anything. It couldn't locate anything. I even hooked up a known good hard drive, and got the same message. It kept saying "disk not ready"( I have the damaged hard drive slaved with a USB adapter) I tried HDDscan, and got the results I posted.

USB adapters block most of the low level access.
To use MHDD you'll need to attach the harddisk (through an 2.5" - 3.5" adapter since its a notebook drive) directly to the motherboard.

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That would explain a lot then. HDDscan read it easily, but I don't know what the results of the surface test mean. what's the differnce between hddscan and mhdd? Looks to me that HDDscan has all of the same functions, and then some.

I ran a smart scan, using HDDscan, and here are the results. Could somone please look this over, and decipher for me? ( #199, Ultradma crc error count, was flagged)


HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. Report
Model: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS
Firmware: KA024A
Serial: 94LP6040T
LBA: 156301488

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.1
Report Date: 9/26/2009 6:17:22 PM


Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold

001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 00000000-0000 050

002 Throughput performance 100 100 00000000-0000 050

003 Spin Up Time 100 100 00000000-0652 001

004 Start/Stop Count 100 100 00000000-1370 000

005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 050

007 Seek Error Rate 100 100 00000000-0000 050

008 Seek time Perfomance 100 100 00000000-0000 050

009 PowerOn Hours Count 068 068 00000000-32C7 000

010 Spin Retry Count 199 100 00000000-0000 030

012 Device Power Cycle Count 100 100 00000000-052C 000

192 Power-off retract count 100 100 00000000-0040 000

193 Load/unload cycle count 043 043 00000008-B4F1 000

194 HDA Temperature 100 100 29 C 000

196 Reallocation Event Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

197 Current Pending Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 200 00000000-02FD 000

220 Disk shift 100 100 00000000-0063 000

222 Loaded hours 077 077 00000000-256B 000

223 Load retry count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

224 Load friction 100 100 00000000-0000 000

226 Load-in time 100 100 00000000-00D8 000

240 Head flying hours 100 100 00000000-0000 001

Looks normal to me.

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The drive shows up as e/ drive when I slave it, and when i click on it, I get this error message

E:\ is not accessible. The wrong diskette is in the drive. Insert (Volume Serial Number: )

It shows up as a RAW file, 0 bytes. ( Back story, real quick....laptop gets wet, starts going into never ending rebooting cycle. Hard drive switches to RAW. I know the data is still on there, just trying to get it off) Is there a home program I can use that would work? I've tried most of the freeware stuff already, amd most of them didn't see the drive, and those that did, would not access it. Any suggestions?

Image to known good drive or image file, then try something like r-studio.

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