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

[ThePith]

Hi Seagate forum

I have an issue concerning my HD and I hope someone here can help me solve it. I looked around the forum but I couldn't find any similiar close to my problem.

One day my pc ran properly. I shut it down, and the next day started up again.

Then i got an error displaying "winload.exe couldn't be found" and "Reboot and Select proper boot device"

For some reason my HD just disappeared! theres alot of important projects on that which I made just recently, and I really want them back.

My HD's serial/name is "Maxtor DiamondMax 6L200P0 (200 GB)" and it is connected by IDE. (In POST it shows a SATA error ???)

I tried it in another PC but it doesnt seem to work there either. It does show in BIOS that there is 'Hard Disk' but only "0 MB".. The jumpers are set correct

Is my HD dead or is this fixable ?

Help is very appreciated!

[fzabkar]

A disc that reports a capacity of 0GB is usually unable to read the firmware on the platters, or some other critical data, eg defect list.

Does the HD spin up? If not, then the PCB is probably faulty.

[ThePith]

I can feel it spinning and I hear it too but it's not giving any data signal to my system.

I cant execute any dos commands (BCD and boot default commands) either because it needs that system first to be recognized

Message Edited by ThePith on 01-02-2010 05:23 AM

[ThePith]

Can anyone please help me ???

[solution]

hi,

you try to do this by yourself first. http://www.gotbackdata.com/article-recognize.html

it may don't do by yourself if still no work. can you hear some clicking noise? here is my opinion:

1, firmware damaged.

2, head damaged if you can hear some clicking noise.

[ThePith]

I hear no clicking or anything in that direction.

But i can hear it spin and feel it when i slightly lift it up

Message Edited by ThePith on 01-02-2010 05:57 PM

[solution]

hi,

does it same as normal? can you attach MP3 file here if it different as normal.  

[ThePith]

I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you are asking !!

Anyways, here's some more info I noticed.. might help this topic some more:

* HD doesnt show up in My Computer

* In POST it says: IDE [Master], IDE [Slave] which means that the computer 'somewhere' recognises the disk.. but continues with a SATA error ( ???, maybe because IDE is automaticly set under SATA in BIOS ... )

* In BIOS however; it only shows the name Maxtor SABRE with a capacity of '0MB'

Now I looked it up in windows 'Hardware' it shows 2 IDE controllers, could this be another proof it DOES detect my disk ???

hopefully I provided some more information...

[fzabkar]

The two IDE controllers will appear in Device Manager (or Windows "Hardware") regardless of whether you have any drives attached to them. You probably have your BIOS set for "legacy" or "IDE" or "compatibility" mode. This makes SATA controllers appear like PATA.

The fact that BIOS identifies your drive as a "Maxtor SABRE" rather than by its model number suggests that the drive is unable to read critical data from the platters. Instead it reverts to reporting a code name from within its serial EEPROM chip on the circuit board.

You need professional data recovery services. :-(

[solution]

yeah,

it looks like firmware has been damaged like website mention. you need to send it out for data recovery.