How to repair Seagate 2TB hard drive?

[ruw2]

Hi,

My desktop internal hard drive stopped working suddenly on Windows 7. Then, it was not recognized by PC BIOS. The hard drive is:

Barracude 2TB
Its S/N: 5YD67T0P
ST2000DL003
P/N: 9VT166-302
F/W:CC3C
Date: 12135 Site: SU


Seagate refuses to repair it because it is an OEM drive, even though its website says the firmware has a bug.



I feel that it is the firmware problem as on the web: 
http://www.ireckon.net/2009/05/unbricking-a-seagate-bar...

When I do the repair as the above link, it does not have the exact phenomenon to me. That is, when I power the hard drive up, and connect the RS232 to my PC, the putty terminal window shows:

Boot 0x40M
Spin up

I do not see the above repair link said these info in the terminal window. Furthermore, I can clearly feel that the hard drive stops spin as there is no light vibration on the hard drive body.
BTW, I power the hard drive with a spare PC power supply. It is turned on by short the green and the nearby black pins. The power supply' fan turns. It obvious outputs power when the hard drive stops spinning. 

 

On Seagate website, there is a firmware update for my hard drive. That is, its firmware does have problems. Before I try to repair it, PC BIOS cannot recognize it. Seagate test software does not find this drive either. I can feel the motor spin vibration all the time. But, after I insert a piece of paper between the PCB and the underlying DIP contact bins, the motor stop spinning shortly after power it up, receiving message:

 

Boot 0x40M
Spin up

 

 

I have post my question to the repair link, but there is no reply yet. Forgive me I post it here hoping to get help from some experts.
 

 

Thanks,

 

[jaclaz]

That is a "green" or "LP" drive, isn't it?

 

We have unfortunately little info on that drive, WHICH IS NOT a Barracuda 7200.11 as the models for which the "main" thread was started, all we have is here (it is a sticky and you should have already found it):

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/150475-st2000dl003-seagate-barracuda-lp-green-2000gb-suddenly-ceases/

 

jaclaz

[ruw2]

Hello,

 

Now, I restore the hard drive PCB back and use PC putty to get the following message. Could you tell me what is wrong with it?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

Boot 0x40M

 Spin Up[0x000246DF]

 Trans.

 

Rst 0x40M

 MC Internal LPC Process

 Spin Up

 RECOVERED Op=0900 Resp=0005

(P) SATA Reset

 

  MediaPartition:

 

                        Host LBA  Length    Disc LBA  Length   Start Cyl  Head

       Media Partition  00000000  00999800  00000000  00133300  00000000  00000000

               MC       00000000  00989960  00000000  0013132C  00000000  00000000

               MSP      009912A0  00000C20  00132254  00000184  00000215  00000004

        User Partition  00999800            00133300            00000220  00000004

 

 MCMainPOR: Start:

 Check MCMT Version: Current

 MCMainPOR: Non-Init Case

 MC Seg Disc and Cache Nodes:  40134924  40132A34

 Seg Write Preamble VBM start: 000011B2 end: 000011D9

  Footer - start: 000011DB end: 00001202

 Seg Read Preamble VBM - start: 00001204 end: 0000122B

  Footer - start: 0000122D end: 00001254

Reconstruction: MCMT Reconstruction Start

  Max number of MC segments 22E0

 Nonvolatile MCMT sequence number 01B06CCC

 [RSRS] 0B4B  DiscLba 00062D04  RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Reconstruction: Completed 1:

[MCMTWS]

 MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCStateFlagsDisc = 00000041

 MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCTStateFlags = 0000002A

 MCMainPOR: MCStateFlags = 00000041

 

 MCMainPOR: Feature Enabled...

 

 

 MSP MainPOR:

 MSP Init Metadata

     Buf Bytes/VBM 00000210  DBA Base 40000000

     Metadata size in bytes 0040

     Num Segments 0061

     Logical Sector Alignment 00000000

 MSP Reconstruction

 MSP Read ScratchPad Section 0000  DiscLBA 00132254  BlkSize 00000C20  Num Segments 00000061  DiscLba 00132254  RW_RTL 000F4240

     No valid segments found

 

 MSP MSP Main Store Verify  Reconstruction Status 10003000

     Reconstruction Status 00003000

 MSP Init ScratchPad on DiscDiscLBA 00132254  DiscSize 00000184  PhyBlkLBA 009912A0  BlkSize 00000C20

     Write MSP Segment   PhyBlkLBA 009912A0  BlkSize 00000C20  DiscLba 00132254  RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

 MSP MainPOR: Complete

 MSP MainPOR: Feature Enabled...

     ScratchPad restore NOT required

 

(DOS)STE OGHT: 0x043A6704 - 0x043A84F4 - 0x00007FC8 - 0x00007FDC Count 0049

(DOS) Refresh Start.

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