very nice,the data was still on the disk sometimes

willr666,

I am having the LBA 0 error with my Seagate hard drive and I purchased this cable that your recommended. Does it require anything else other than connecting this cable correctly the the hard drive and supplying power to be able to use in Hyper Terminal to repair. I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Thank you,
Darrin

Hi All,

I could be able to successfully retrieve my 500GB Seagate drive with this method.


I got the same error as frodo.baggins.

F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 0.146 msecs
F3 2>U

Error 1009 DETSEC 00006008
Spin Error
Elapsed Time 7 mins 17 secs
R/W Status 2 R/W Error 84150180
F3 2>

This is due to the contact issues between the HDD and the PCB. So i , I had tightened all screws (with power ON to the HDD. So we need to do this carefully. Any wrong doings could fry the PCB) and then i issued the command 'U'. Now I got the spin complete message. Then i successfully completed the remaining steps to get my 500GB back(465GB actually ).

Thanks
Guru

will i get my data back if i do all that exactly as you say

If the problem is the same, probably yes, but there's no warranty, as there can be some problems with defect lists that make the process a bit more complicated.
Also be aware that ANY wrong move can render your data gone forever, so if you are not confident, it may be worth finding a pro who did many of these...
Please also read this

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I did exactly as given but first i did the 0LBA and the it completed successfully but still the drive did not come back then i tried with bsy it also completed successfully but still the drive is not showing up

You need pro help, DIY has gone as far as it will go in this case.

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can there be any other problem than this one
If the hard disk is not getting detected in the bios and windows too ???

Thanks for the guide guys

I'm doing it right now and 10 mins left after m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 but nothing happens and i'm waiting :/ hdd's motor is spinnin non-stop. it has 450 gb data maybe because of this ?

hi..
just had my 1TB seagate fail on boot up... seagate say it's is not affected by the 0LBA issue.. and thus won't waranty the data... but if i put drive in another machine and use linux and run

so drive is there...
and

but whats this... LBAsects=0 surly that means 0LBA..
so will this fix work on this drive...

many thanks

Hi,
You are right my friend, Gradius deserves sincere Thanks for the help he posted on MSNF forum, I used it , and
worked perfectly. I am new on this formu too, seeking more knowledge from Gurus.
My regards,
Toni

See this thread for instructions and photos:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/mes ... 467#M18467

Good luck.

-Franc

+2 "zero LBA" drives recovered with data intact.

I had extremely bad luck: 2 of my 5 drives in a RAID-5 (ZFS RAID-Z actually) failed at exactly the same time. Bad timing too... I had just installed 5 new bigger disks in order to migrate the array onto them. I thought, why fail now, just as I was to retire the disks, and why TWO of them at the SAME TIME! What bad luck! If it had just been one, I wouldn't have cared... I actually might have been thrilled because the RAID array would still have given me my data intact, and that would have validated all the effort and expense. But two failures at the same time was a real kick in the shorts.

These were ST3500320AS with AD14 firmware. As shipped from the factory, they had SD04 firmware. I think I remember updating them shortly after buying them because of performance issues with the SD04.

I mucked around with different cables and controller cards for nearly two days. Seagate support insisted that my drives are not affected by the firmware issue and I should just return them for warranty. This was despite the symptoms being identical to the firmware issue. I didn't accept that and decided to search for other people with similar problems. I found this board within minutes. It took me just a few minutes to rig up a RS232-TTL converter - having a fully stocked and fully equipped electronics workshop in my basement doesn't hurt - and within a few minutes I had both drives working again.

My converter has an ADM232 (Analog Devices MAX232 clone), and I powered it with 2 LR44 alkaline button cells for 3.0 Volts. I took apart a CD-to-soundcard connector cable to make the connectors, I just removes the 'female' connectors from the housing and added some shrink tubing to the bare connectors so I could plug each to the appropriate pins on the HDD. The connection would have been a lot easier if they had used standard 0.1" headers instead of 2 mm ones. Anyway, I got it done. The drives and my data are alive again.

Thanks a million.

is there any reason why i cant just "pinch" the HD controller off another identical 500gb seagate 7200.11 drive that isnt stuck in busy mode to get my data off - yes i know it doesnt resolve the drive issue but im more concerned about my data than a $NZ100 hard disk

i need my data back now and can wait to resolve the drive issue either by RMA/replacement to the supplier, or the RS232 method described


thanks in advance!

Havent you read anything on this forum? Each PCB is unique to each drive, also changing pcb does not correct common firmware issues.

Thanks for your help in solving this issue, my seagate works again..now i'm still not sure if I should update the firmware on the drive as i've read others having problems.

Very detailed explanation,thanks admin!!

Hello friends I want to tell you how I managed to recover data from my hd seagate, because even though experience in the bio, it made a strange noise, ticking, and did not have a valid partition, what I did was update the firmware through the. iso seagate's website, and then used as a tool for data recovery program from seagate recorery file (easy to find on torrents site) is there to help me, sorry ITS verry bad English, translate for google. thanks.

Thnx guys!

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Drive is busy example, not solution: drive ST3500320AS SD15

remove 3 screws nearest heads connector, motor connected, put something between pcb and hda to lift pcb and prevent contact.

power on, wait until drive stops motor


(ctrl+z)

F3 T>/2

F3 2>Z

Spin Down Complete
Elapsed Time 0.146 msecs

[color="#FF0000"]ADDED: Now its time to put pcb back to hdd and install it.[/color]

F3 2>U

Spin Up Complete
Elapsed Time 6.864 secs

this part is not necessary, use when firts try fails

F3 2>/

F3 T>F712
Byte:0712: RealTimeUpdatedFlags = 00 00
Byte:0712: Bit:0, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:1, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX_EXT = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:2, DCO_SET_ACTIVE = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:3, CONGEN_READ_FROM_MEDIA = 0 <- configuration not loaded from surface

F3 T>F,,22

Drive Configuration restored to defaults.

F3 T>F712
Byte:0712: RealTimeUpdatedFlags = 08 00
Byte:0712: Bit:0, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:1, HPA_SET_BY_SETMAX_EXT = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:2, DCO_SET_ACTIVE = 0
Byte:0712: Bit:3, CONGEN_READ_FROM_MEDIA = 1 <- done

(end of part to skip at first attempt)

F3 T>/1

F3 1>N1

F3 1>/

F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22
Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 0000

User Partition Format 5% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00008DED, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs
User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs

F3 T>

(finished, power off)

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