Hi, I got an external HDD (LaCie rugged) from my sister which died.

The drive was in use for about 2 month, then suddenly the drive wasnt detected anymore.

Drive details: Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB - ST9500325AS SN: 5VE.

FW: 0002BSM1 DisksHeads 24 I removed the the drive from the USB box and connect it directly to a PC with SATA.

First question, could a badweak head cause the problem Second question, can someone recommend a DR guy in europe Thanks for any advice.

Hi, Drive is showing both pending bad and reallocated bad sectors.

Sisters eh Try scanning the drive in reverse using Mhdd but if you hit bad sectors either stop or jump a couple of percent at a time.

First of thx for your replies dick: Is there a way to do a reverse scan with mhdd The drive is not accessible in windowslinux as the drive scan during boot kills the drive.

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Does anyone know how to disable drive initialisation in linux (libata) pcimagedobrevjetser: Do I have to get a donner drive on my own What is the price for a head change.

You can use ddrescue or ddrescue to clone your drive in reverse.

Hi, Im having exactly the same experiences as madmotz, with a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS.

BIOS recognizes the name of the drive but not the size.

From the disk I hear the same noise as the file dying heads and slow down from the HddGuru seagate mp3.

In your opinion is it a matter of firmware or a phisical damage of heads.

What do you want - to save the information or to get the drive fixed.

Is there any difference (for saving the information) if a firmware reconstruction or alternatively a phisical head substitution is performed Anyone has an opinion about the sound dying heads and slow down of seagate momentus more likely firmware or phisical damage of heads As Ive written before, BIOS recognizes the name of the drive but the size its 0 MB.

Hi there, I have an identical drive to madmotz with nearly identical symptoms, so Im posting here to seek confirmation of my plan which in short is to clone the HDD then recover whatever data I can.

So, could you folks Confirm my plan to clone and recover data is an appropriate next step, and if so what SW will permit me to manually specify the LBA range(s) to clone because once the bad sectors are read the drive needs power cycling - so even if SW can automatically detect then not copy bad sectors, I know it will failhang unless it is able to power cycle the HDD.

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Confirm that this is most likely a head failure and no SW methods will recover the badunreadable sectors This SMART log is sufficient proof for me to make a replacement warranty claim with Seagate How common this kind of problem is with this modelseries of seagate HDDs, cause I reckon seagate has a lot to answer for with the anecdotal evidence I have come across showing such similar problems.