HDD died during low level formatting

ajax2010 · Aug 19, 2017

I killed my 1TB external hard drive by accident. It is a 9SF2A4-500 - Seagate Expansion 1TB USB 2.0 3.5-inch External Hard Drive. I was doing low level formatting (old school) i.e; writing random 0,1 in one pass when suddenly I got BSOD and computer started rebooting. But since then HDD is ruined, Diskimage does not detect it. Disk management detects it but can not perform any job on it. One time I was able to format it using AOMEI Partition Assistant 6. The job was done fine but computer still does not recognize it. When I plug in, it just spins and spins and spins . . . . . . and no sound from it. So for I have tried EaseUS Partition Master 9, MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Pro-9.1, Paragon-Partition-Manager-Home-15 but all in vain. I appreciate any help.

CountMike · Aug 21, 2017

Precisely why low level format is not recommended for SATA drives. You could try restoring firmware for it if it's available.

ajax2010 · Aug 21, 2017

Thanks for your new idea. I did not think about this before.
Do you know if there is any generic approach to write the firmware back to the HDD?

CountMike · Aug 21, 2017

It's something like flashing BIOS. Get FW from manufacturer and use their program ti install it.

ajax2010 · Aug 22, 2017

Luckily Seagate offered the firmware update and the the process completed successfully. Unfortunately no luck and the symptoms are the same. I am thinking may be head is stuck, should I open it?

CountMike · Aug 23, 2017

Unless it's in perfectly dust free environment that could ruin it completely. If you think that had may be stuck you can try to just gently knock it on a table on the side opposite of contacts and or on contact side depending where the head is parked.

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