Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Elish]

Hi, i have a CC37 firmware & have bought it just 7 months back. & all of a sudden it gives me a smart error & before i could backup my data it just died off. it does not show up in the bios anymore. i tried the fix mentioned at : http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Desktop-ATA-and-Serial-ATA/SOLUTION-FOR-7200-11-SERIES-MAXTOR-SEAGATE-B..., i can do a spin down & spin up with no errors, but when i send the F3 1>N1 command or F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 it starts throwing up the error: Failed to load overlay 00000005 LED:000000CC FAddr:00289581& keeps repeating the same thing. Kindly let me me know if there is a way to fix my HDD. I need the data inside it. PLEASE HELP....

[fzabkar]

I suspect that one or more of your drive's heads have failed. :-(

When you communicate with the drive via its serial port, you are actually talking to the debug monitor firmware in the serial EEPROM chip. This is why you can spin the motor up and down. However, when you command the drive to perform a S.M.A.R.T. erase (N1), or a partition regeneration (m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22), the debug monitor needs to retrieve the corresponding code module from the platters. This is because the bulk of the drive's firmware is stored in a hidden firmware zone on the platters, not on the PCB. The error you are seeing is telling you that the relevant code module (overlay 00000005) cannot be read, probably because the head is bad, or maybe the sector itself is bad.

I believe your only course of action is professional data recovery. :-(

[Elish]

hi fzabkar,

Thank you for the reply... but there has to be a way to fix it right??? cuz if i go for a proffessional recovery i'll have to spend a fortune for it... sob!! sob!!...  i can buy almost 10 of these 500GB's in that amount..  kindly do let me know if we can patch it up or find a work around for it... 

[Elish]

hi fzabkar,

Thank you for the reply... but there has to be a way to fix it right??? cuz if i go for a proffessional recovery i'll have to spend a fortune for it... sob!! sob!!...  i can buy almost 10 of these 500GB's in that amount..  kindly do let me know if we can patch it up or find a work around for it... 

[fzabkar]

Sorry, Elish, I'm not involved in data recovery. I can't help you. :-(

[betanman]

hi, please help ,i have the same problem , like "alex sologub"

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Alex Sologub wrote:

Dear  Josef, thank you for instrumental advise.

My 7200.12 HDD seems to be in a busy state - it erratically appears at BIOS as 465 Gb, but the drive controller does not permit OS to start I/O operations (51 device paging error) Numerous HDD scan / data rescue tools I have tried up to test disk / recover information indicated my ST350041-8AS as a completely bad disk with no file system on it. Seagate seatools for DOS ver 2.14 recognizes the faulty diskand its volume, but short test always proceeds to just 90 percent and is never finished.

So, in a hope the data / partition info remains intact I will try to apply the 7200.11 BSY state fix as you described.

Alternatively, I have in mind a replacement of PCB with the same FW revision (CC37) taken off another 7200.12 ST3500418AS I expect to buy. However, I'm not sure that the service info kept on the track 0 and at SA ROM (partitions and head positioning) will be automatically translated to the replaced SATA controller. Anyway, will report the result if succeeded
Alexander

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