ST31000333AS and HyperTerminal I have this HDD : SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.11 - ST31000333AS - FIRMWARE CC4H - P/N: 9FZ136-516. Can i estabilish a HyperTerminal link? If this is possible, what are the correct parameters? Regards http://www.storage-zone.it BSY repair@low cost -============================================================================ WD2500BEVS CLICK Hello everyone I have a WD2500BEVS-22UST by four times then hangs up, suggestions thanks heads _________________ PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk =========================================================================== Unlocking ATA Password for Western Digital I have my hard drive locked by ATA password with an unknown reason. MHDD mentioned, "WARNING : tHIS DRIVE IS LOCKED BY ATA PASSWORD". The locked Hard Drive is WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0 SN : WD-WCAL78032380 Do you guys have any idea of how to unlock the drive without paying $50? ALL my important files are buried in there. I tried using [url="http://www.hdat2.com/"]hdat2[/url] to unlock the drive, but it is said that the Master password is changed (Master Password Revision Code = 3033h). How is this possible? I never attempted to change the master password. I've even don't know if there were such thing. The Security Status shown in HDAT2 is enabled/Locked/High User avatar if u have pc3000 use it to unlock ur hard drive _________________ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Thanks. But, what if I don't? Hi, fifty is not too much for your buried stuff I think. Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery i think Data Recovery lab (mumbai) is right. _________________ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. agree _________________ PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk May I know what is that PC3000? and where to buy it? Google is your friend http://www.pc3000.com/ _________________ You don't have to backup all of your data, just the data you want to keep. MHDD 4.5 (ata terminal) Code: ; rm modul id 42 reset waitnbsy regs = $57 $44 $43 $00 $00 $a0 $8a waitnbsy regs = $00 $02 $00 $00 $0F $E0 $21 waitnbsy checkdrq sectorsto = 42.bin ; End. Code: Offset 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 000002E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000002F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000300 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000310 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 57 44 43 20 57 44 31 36 ........WDC WD16 00000320 30 30 4A 42 2D 37 35 47 56 43 30 20 20 20 20 20 00JB-75GVC0 00000330 B0 9E A1 12 00 00 00 00 57 44 43 20 57 44 31 36 °ž?.....WDC WD16 00000340 30 30 4A 42 2D 37 35 47 56 43 30 20 20 20 20 20 00JB-75GVC0 00000350 B0 9E A1 12 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 °ž?............. 00000360 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000370 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 02 04 02 06 02 ................ 00000380 08 02 16 17 18 19 1A 00 10 02 12 02 14 02 16 02 ................ 00000390 18 02 26 27 28 29 2A 00 57 44 43 57 44 43 57 44 ..&'()*.WDCWDCWD 000003A0 43 57 44 43 57 44 43 57 44 43 57 44 43 57 44 43 CWDCWDCWDCWDCWDC 000003B0 57 44 43 57 44 43 57 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 WDCWDCWD........ 000003C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000003D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 57 44 43 20 57 44 31 36 ........WDC WD16 000003E0 30 30 4A 42 2D 39 38 47 56 43 30 20 20 20 20 20 00JB-98GVC0 000003F0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 :D I have a funny feeling about that last New - --- I think it may disappear :) er... I think so... POOF !! :mrgreen: Are you stupid or what? Guy just put solution for problem and you want to it dissapear? Its working solution, without any PC3K and other stuff. The only thing you need just use your brain. Happy New Year _________________ This New was my opinion today. It cant be used against me in tomorrow or later. In addition, I reserve the right to change views without giving any reason. 1. No I'm not stupid, are you? 2. Yes you only need your brain plus the proprietry information in the New. Daisy I just didnt underestand what you mean about dissappear. You meant password will dissappear or just New with that information will dissappear? _________________ This New was my opinion today. It cant be used against me in tomorrow or later. In addition, I reserve the right to change views without giving any reason. Just a joke, aviko CMIIW _________________ My Forum I take it too serious. Just have bad experiences with some forums where good informations were simply erased by administrators. For what? I dont know. Maybe they just want to make money not helping people. _________________ This New was my opinion today. It cant be used against me in tomorrow or later. In addition, I reserve the right to change views without giving any reason. Well, I hope not in this forum. Cheers. _________________ My Forum Daisy Woo wrote: I have a funny feeling about that last New - --- I think it may disappear :) Or it should?!!?? :) _________________ I just hate spammers...It was a Spammer, who ruined my life! Come on guys, I Newed that script back in February 2005 (almost 4 years ago) here :mrgreen: It is useless for modern hard drives... _________________ Dmitry Newrigan ============================================================================== Hard disk platter exchange. Hi friends, I have a seagate 1TB HDD.Model no is ST31000333AS.That was fallen from 1M height.Now i hear mechanical sound trrr.....trrrr....trrrrr....after that the motor spinning stops.I planned to replace platters to another seagate HDD.I couldn't get same model HDD.I can get only ST31000528AS model.Can i change platters to that model?Is there any possibilities to recover my data? I attach the sound file.Pls hear & say ur idea. Attachments: File comment: Pls listen HDD.rar [433.65 KiB] Downloaded 7 times do you think if you performed a heart transplant on a loved one they will live? You have no chance of success. You need to send the disk to a pro. Absolutely no possibility whatsoever to do this DIY. Put your hand in your pocket and pay for a pro, or say goodbye to your data. Simples. _________________ PC Image Data Recovery www.pcimage.co.uk CAUTION... recent months, many customers have crabs in their pockets...NO Money ! XRONIS ================================================================================ maxtor 7Y250M0 firmware Anyone knows howto ugrade firmware on a maxtor 7Y250M0 using firmware on this link:http://files.Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/download/Non-PC-3000%20firmwares/Maxtor/Maxtor%207Y250M0%20YAR51EW0.rar Is it possible to make a bootable CD-ROM? Don't have floppy. /Davidoff That model don't have any upgrades. If your drive failed, take it to a pro or just replace it if you don't need your data. _________________ Don't gamble with your data! The current firmware is YAR511W0 and the one in the download section is YAR51EW0. So my question is how do i install the firmware in the link above? If i wanted to take the disk to a professional, i would have done so already. 1. why do you want to upgrade firmware? 2. if you want a tool to do it google search 'acelab'. 1. The HDD sometimes behaves abnormally. When writing it starts a clicking sound and after that becomes unreacheble. After a spindown/spinup it works fine again for a while. 2. I figure, since I found another firmware for the HDD i will see if it works better with that one. Any ideas? back up your data and then change the disk. probably got bads on the disk surface. I am aware that I probably need to change disks. I was only wondering if someone on this forum could help me to use the file under the following link :http://files.Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/download/Non-PC-3000%20firmwares/Maxtor/Maxtor%207Y250M0%20YAR51EW0.rar It must be good for something? I am aware that I probable need to change HDD. I was only wondering if someone on this forum could help me use the file inder the followin link: http://files.Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/download/Non-P ... R51EW0.rar It must be good for something? Guy's I'll explain for him on Swedish. Tjenare Davidoff, Din hårddisk är på väg att krascha totalt, så om du behöver spara något ifrån den så gör en backup direkt. Det är väldig sällan hårddiskar behöver en updatering av firmwaren, och denna disken behöver inte det. Om du inte kan läsa ur informationen ifrån den kan jag hjälpa dig, bara att skicka mig ett PM. När backupen är gjord är det bara att kassera den hårddisken. Bosse Thank you for all the answers, in several languages aswell. I have already recovered all data from the disk, I was only hoping to be able to repair the drive instead of throwing it away. My conclusion will be then that nobody knows how to use this file: http://files.Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/download/Non-P ... R51EW0.rar ? Thanx Bosse, much better :D Data Recovery lab (mumbai) _________________ - Data recovery Davidoff wrote: Thank you for all the answers, in several languages aswell. I have already recovered all data from the disk, I was only hoping to be able to repair the drive instead of throwing it away. My conclusion will be then that nobody knows how to use this file: http://files.Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/download/Non-P ... R51EW0.rar ? Hi again, Of course we all know how to use it, but the thing is that your drive don't need it...your drive is failing and a frimware upgrade is not the solution. So bin the drive and buy a new one, and be happy that you had time to do a backup before the drive is totaly dead. Regards/ Bosse Thank you for your will to share your knowledge, and for knowing what's bwst for me. your drive have failing heads or surface problem. Any fw mod will be useless in this case Maxtor have a lot of calibration data in the modules, so if you write in fw from the link, your drive will be dead completely. This pack is only good for pros for using the modules as donors if needed and if the pro knows wich is for wich and knows exactly what he is doing. If you want to destroy your drive, using a hammer is an easyer solution. But if you really want to destroy your drive with fw updating, google for hddrepair Janos I know my drive is ****** up and I will throw it away, I promise. I just wanted to do some experimenting first, and hopefully learn something in the process. But now it goes in the bin! Prompt Not showing for 7200.11 bsy problem MY HDD BARRACUDA 7200.11 500GB ST3500820AS FIRMWARE SD35 MADE IN THAILAND, ( WAS ATTACHED TO SEAGATE EXTERNAL FREEAGENT DESKTOP) Steps Tried 1.> Verify it is stuck in busy state, downloaded victoria 4.2 and ran a PCI scan and the busy was blinking occasionally. 2.> Verify the serial interface cable is working properly CA-42 Clone Chinese, Blue, Red,Green White and Yellow, Ripped open the USB end connector and found that Green -> TX Red -> RX Blue-> GND Connected the cable to front USB connector of Desktop pc and it detected the USB -> UART and installed the driver from the cdrom which came with cable, the driver was Nokia CA-42 USB, no chip was mentioned. Connected TX with RX for loopback test Ran putty with 38400,8 N 1, none for hardware flow the loopback was successfull as the letters were getting echoed back on screen and when i removed the loopback the characters were not getting echoed. 3.> Inserted a thick paper between PCB and Hdd contacts and Connected TX from Cable to RX of HDD, Connected RX from Cable to TX of HDD and GND of cable to GND of HDD tried pressing CTRL + Z ( uppercase) and CTRL + z ( lowercase) .....no response Power cycle the system + HDD, no success Tried swapping the RX and TX cables , No Success Removed the paper between the PCB and HDD and Powercycle the system+HDD the putty ( terminal ) window was displaying (LED: 000000CC Faddr.........) every 1 min tried pressing CTRL + Z ( uppercase) and CTRL + z ( lowercase) .....no response , I would like you comments 1.> Since i am getting LED message in terminal window, does this means my serial interface is properly connected 2.> Do I need to add power ( 3.3v) to other pins 6.30PM measured the Voltates GND and TX - 3.2 Volts GND and RX - 3.1 Volts The Power to HDD is coming from PC's SMPS, and USB is connected to Same PC, also I have connected the USB Cable GND to HDD GND When i Put a insulation between PCB and HDD, i.e. for Motor Pins or Other Pins ( rectangular set) , I am not getting any data from the HDD to terminal Only when i remove the insulation i keep getting LED: 000000CC FAddr:0024900D from Hdd every minute..... 7.10 PM As per Suggestion Tried below 1) Loosen all screws and lift PCB and remount the PCB 2) Loosen all screws so far that the head connector is dissconnected. 3) Tighten only the head connector screw so that it get's contact again 4) Supply power to the disc, wait until you get the LED: blablabla message 5) Keep sending Ctrl z ( z in lowercase) had also tried Z in uppercase ( i kept sending for 3 minutes but i could not see the prompt at all ) the prompt keeps on alluding me....... I have the same problem: the terminal session doesn't work. I have a Barracuda 7200.11, 500Gb, model ST3500320AS made in Thailand, with the "bad" firmware SD15. The drive doesn't get detected, even prevents a Gigabyte motherboard from booting at all when connected to the first SATA port. I didn't check, but I guess it's the busy problem. My laptop has a com port, so I used a serial cable, and connected RX, TX and GND to the drive following a diagram I found. I checked the connections using a cable tester, And I tried to short RX & TX to see if I have loopback. I'm using Windows 7 on my laptop, so I downloaded the Hyper Terminal 7 trial (I was used to it from using it in Windows XP). The settings I used are 38400-8-N-1 and no flow control. When I power on the drive with the connection enabled, I can't see anything on the terminal. I can type, and I get looback, but no command has any effect (I tried Ctrl+z and a lot of other things). I also never receive any message on the terminal window. I even tried with the PCB without the hard disk, with the same result. Update to my problems: I tried reversing the RX and TX cables, but all I got was trash. Sometimes a screen full of random characters, happens too when I try to write something. I guess I was connecting the RX and TX leads ok. I tried too with another computer. I digged a serial port bracket to connect to the motheboard of my desktop PC, and I got it configured. To try another software, I downloaded RealTerm. I got the same results as with my laptop & HyperTerminal. As I had another hard disk with the same problem (an ST31000340AS) I tried that other hard disk with the exact same result. I looked at some tutorials, and I tried putting some tape in the connector for the heads, and leaving only the spindle motor connected, same result. I'm getting out of ideas. Perhaps it doesn't run with a standard serial port? The USB serial ports everyone is using has something special my "real" serial ports doesn't have? I need to recover the data on those hard drives... I have found this page here that shows the schematics for connecting a serial port from a Seagate hard drive to a PC's COM port: http://Hard Disk Recovery Lab.com/content/en/articles/ ... schematic/ I guess what I'm trying to do doesn't work, I need that USB to serial cable or I have to make that thing on the schematics. Can anyone confirm this? Ok, at last I found my mistake. The serial port on the hard disk works with TTL voltages 0V & 5V, while the RS232 port uses -12V & 12V. I hope I didn't fry the hard disk serial ports. Tomorrow I'll buy a RS232 to TTL adapter and I'll try again. ============================================================================= Toshiba 80 GB drive reading half the sectors I have a Toshiba MK8026GAX drive that we got in for data recovery. The drive is detected properly and the DeepSpar read about half the sectors. There was a pattern to the good and bad sectors which seemed to mostly chunks of about 28,000 read sectors, then 28,000 unread sectors. I thought it would be a bad head, so a donor was ordered, and tested after it came in to be sure it is working properly. The drive is a 2-platter, 4-head drive ... so now I realize that 2 heads would be bad to only read half the drive. The head swap went well, but the drive is still failing on the same sectors as the original heads, and it can still read the sectors it could read before the head swap. I put the patient heads in the donor drive, and I let it run MHDD for a while and it didn't have any read errors when I stopped it at 20% of the drive. One other note: On many of the unreadable sections of the drive, it makes a "click-grind-click" noise when trying to image the drive. I left the platters in the drive, but I couldn't see any obvious platter damage on the exposed top platter surface, or from what I could see of the other platter surfaces. Any other ideas? You can send it to a pro or throw it away. _________________ Don't gamble with your data! Heads. If you are a DR company you can change them out other than this do as harddrivespeicalist said send it to another DR company who can. Sorry _________________ Iorana Haraharaini Maybe I wasn't clear in the original New, but I did swap out the heads. After the head swap, the drive was able to read the same sectors as it could before the head swap and still unable to read the same sectors it couldn't read before with the original heads. I put the patient heads in the donor drive and it reads the donor drive with the patient heads. So this confirms to me that the issue is not the heads. Did you try to check translator? =================================================================================== Samsung HDJ753LJ Explanation! I read a few topics from other users who had similliar problem like me on the forum! My problem is similliar to this >> samsung-hd753lj-power-surge-t11606.html fan-mod-may-have-killed-disk-t13277.html#p86977 My samsung hdd just stoped working after i plugged on Manhattan sata quick dock! Actually i bought that and they didnt give me the adapter,so i used adapter from my w lan aolynk,and when i connected my hdd to the dock,a little bit of smoke just come from my hdd! Now,my question is can someone just explain how to remove TVS from my hdd and when i remove it what do i do next!..and how can i seperate the electronical part of my hard disk from the other so i can do that! I am not electronics technician,and i dont have a money for it right now,and i wanna do this on my own! I am new to this forum,my English is not good,sorry about that! Greetings from Serbia! Photos> My hard disk! http://img691.imageshack.us/i/dscf0059f.jpg/ http://img687.imageshack.us/i/dscf0064wf.jpg/ http://img11.imageshack.us/i/dscf0055gh.jpg/ And here the dock that caused problems! http://img39.imageshack.us/i/dscf0071z.jpg/ http://img39.imageshack.us/i/dscf0068tn.jpg/ http://img11.imageshack.us/i/dscf0067b.jpg/ _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! Here are direct links to your photos (avoids banner ads, popups, etc): http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/2433/dscf0059f.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6796/dscf0055gh.jpg http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9103/dscf0064wf.jpg http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4593/dscf0071z.jpg http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/390/dscf0068tn.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1134/dscf0067b.jpg The two TVS diodes are highlighted here: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/TVS.jpg The one on the right appears to be the 12V diode and is the most likely culprit. Here is the pinout of the SATA power connector: http://pinouts.ru/Power/sata-power_pinout.shtml You can remove the faulty diode(s) by desoldering it, or by snipping its pins with side cutters. ok..thanks my friend! i checked the diodes and the dead one is the left one! it says 00.7 and another is 282 ! so after i remove the diode,should i desolder left and right side of the pin on the hard disk to each other,or just leave it like that?? _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! Just remove it. Then your drive is not protected be careful when plugging it back in. If this works get your data and RMA the drive. If it does not work take it in to a DR company becasue you have more problems with the PCB or could be internal to the drive and the preamp is also burned. If this happens it is not a DYI job for you to handle and a pro needs to do it for you. _________________ Iorana Haraharaini i just removed both diodes ,and connect hdd to my pc,and it dodnt help! Hdd still looks dead! now i really dont know what to do!.. anyway is there a chance to find that part what i need anywhere? damn,my whole life is in that hard disc! _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! Now it is beyond you to fix this drive. If you take it to a shop they will be able to recover your data for you and the price should be reasonable. Without the proper tools to work on this drive you will not get back your data. You still have a good chance to get it back with the right shop. Just removing the TVS will not increase the price of your repair. If you continue on with DYI it will increase the price of your repair and you will pay 3 to 4x's more for this job. Search here on the forum for somene in your area and send him the drive and let him fix it for you and get back your data. _________________ Iorana Haraharaini hmm..i have brother in the Germany,and i saw on ebay a new hard disk like mine for 60euros...what if i buy a new one and change the whole electronical part?? do you think that can save the situation?? and is it hard to change that electronical part? _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! anyway i found this ,someone had the same problem>> Quote: Recently I bought 3 Samsung F1 750GB drives (HD753LJ). First one and 2 weeks later 2 more. They all worked perfectly, until I mounted them into an IcyDock 5-in-3 SATA backplane module. At first only one of the drives was recognized, later none at all. Other drives work without problem in the module. When I tried hooking up the 3 Samsungs apart from the module (= directly to the mainboard), they all appear to be dead. They don't even start to spin-up, no matter what I try: connecting with/without sata-data-cable, in a sata-usb docking station. Is it possible for three drives to die at the same time? Is there anything else I could/should try? Any chance of recovering my data before I RMA them would be great. As a last resort, I've tried taking the pcb off of a new drive and installed it on a broken one. Result: drive works perfectly (before that, it wouldn't even spin-up). I hope Samsung will be kind enough to send me a couple new pcb's ;-) jeeeej//:D i;ll buy a new one,and change the PCB..so now i need any instruction how to do that.! Is it hard to change it? _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! speedfreakz wrote: i;ll buy a new one,and change the PCB..so now i need any instruction how to do that.! Is it hard to change it? Before you buy anything, can you show us a close-up photo of the area around the diodes? The device to the left of the faulty diode may be a fuse. If so, then you can replace it with a 2A picofuse, or just bridge it with a wire. Otherwise, if you need to replace the board, remove the 6 Torx screws. Then take care not to damage the flexible PCB at the spindle motor. I don't know what kind of connector is used, but some have a sliding plastic locking tab. This must be released, after which the flex cable can be withdrawn with very little effort. You may have to change ROM in order to match another pcb with your drive and ROM is in BGA , which is PITA . ok..thank you for your patience,and your will for helping me to solve this! here are the pictures>> http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6269/dscf0081c.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7413/dscf0076b.jpg http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/4225/dscf0075y.jpg http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6606/dscf0072x.jpg _________________ !!! MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME !!! Hi, U may contact HelpDisc, he should be able to help you in Serbia. regards, Data Recovery lab (mumbai)