[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

Jaclaz,

Thank you for showing me those topics about 5400.5 series.

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

There is no data that I want to recover from this HDD; a friend of mine gave me this hdd as bricked (for "playing" whith it). That's the reason I tried to see if I can revive the harddisk using the methods shown here for 7200 and to do some experiments on it. I might be totally crazy as Smandurlo said; however, except the fact that I had the errors I specified in my post, the harddisk responded to all commands with no errors.

Indeed I do not have experience in repairing disks, but I had some free time and I said this is a good moment to start .

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

I read README FIRST. Even if the tutorial was made to 7200.11, I said it would not hurt to see if it works for 5400.5 (I had nothing to lose if something went wrong). I tried and I saw that the engine responds to commands, except " F3 T> m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22". That sounds to me like the heads are not moving, so I am going open the harddisk to see if the HDD heads are moving or not

[The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs]

Hello everyone!

From the beginning, please excuse my bad english - I'm not native English speaker. I have an Seagate ST9320320AS (320Gb, 5400.5 Momentus series, FW 0303) hdd with LBA 0 error. The hard drive is recognized by BIOS, but can not be accessed. I tried all the methods shown here, but it didn't work for me.

I used a cable 42. After typing the command F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22, I got the following error message : "F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22

Error 1008 DETSEC 0000500E Process Defect List Error

R/W Sense 00000002, R/W Error 841C0087, List Offset 00000000, File Error 0000000

1

F3 T> "

Is it the harddrive completely defective, or this procedure shown here does not apply to this series?

Please provide me some help!