Question Revive bricked Seagate Barracuda hard drive?

[franco]

I'm hoping that I might be able to revive a hard drive that got bricked when I tried to repair sectors with Seagate tools. It is an old Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST380021A 80GB Hard Drive, which is no longer recognised at all when I connect it to my old desktop PC.

Today I connected it to a laptop via USB with a "Sabrent" SATA / IDE hard drive to USB connector. Windows device manager seems to recognise that a device is connected but refers to it as a "USB Device." Is there anything I can do to reformat this so it becomes usable or recognised as a hard drive. I can't see any way to configue the drive in Windows 10. I have screenshots but don't see any option to upload them here.

 

[USAFRet]

For your screenshots, upload them to imgur.com, post the link here
(you do not have to create an accout there)

But...'revive'?
An 80GB drive is ancient. Likely it is simply dead.
Unless there is life changing data on it...let it go.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Today I connected it to a laptop via USB with a "Sabrent" SATA / IDE hard drive to USB connector. Windows device manager seems to recognise that a device is connected but refers to it as a "USB Device."

It is recognizing USB adapter. Not the drive.

I have screenshots but don't see any option to upload them here.

Upload to imgur.com and post link.

 

[franco]

It is recognizing USB adapter. Not the drive.

Upload to imgur.com and post link.

https://imgur.com/a/O5vBYPu

View: https://imgur.com/a/O5vBYPu


Windows seems to recognise the model code for the hard drive but displays it jumbled up.

I just want to get the hard drive working so I can make sure there is no data on it. That seems reasonable to me. Otherwise I live with these hard drives in my apartment forever, or until someone finds out how to get my data off of them when I am dead and buried.

 

[Bob.B]

https://imgur.com/a/O5vBYPu

View: https://imgur.com/a/O5vBYPu


Windows seems to recognise the model code for the hard drive but displays it jumbled up.

I just want to get the hard drive working so I can make sure there is no data on it. That seems reasonable to me. Otherwise I live with these hard drives in my apartment forever, or until someone finds out how to get my data off of them when I am dead and buried.

Take the platters out of the disk and break them up into pieces.

 

[USAFRet]

I just want to get the hard drive working so I can make sure there is no data on it.

Fridge Magnet Donor.

 

[franco]

OK, but none of these comments answer my question, or address what I want to do. Can this Drive ever be revived with any software?

Is it at least a positive that it is recognised when I connect it with a USB cable?

 

[USAFRet]

Is it at least a positive that it is recognised when I connect it with a USB cable?

Link to the specific USB thing you used?

 

[SkyNetRising]

OK, but none of these comments answer my question, or address what I want to do. Can this Drive ever be revived with any software?

Show screenshot from Disk Management.



Anyway - if your USB adapter doesn't work, then you could
get PCIE IDE controller card, install into your desktop pc, connect drive to it, connect power to the drive and
try to access the drive.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/pex2ide

 

[Bob.B]

OK, but none of these comments answer my question, or address what I want to do. Can this Drive ever be revived with any software?

Is it at least a positive that it is recognised when I connect it with a USB cable?

Is there some reason you do not want to physically destroy the drive?

No software will revive the disk if it's in pieces.

 

[fzabkar]

Windows seems to recognise the model code for the hard drive but displays it jumbled up.

That's weird. It appears that the bridge has swapped the bytes in each 16-bit word.

Can you show us a CrystalDiskInfo screenshot?

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/smart/

Can you also upload the text info?

Edit -> Copy Option -> tick all the boxes​

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Edit -> Copy (to copy the info to the clipboard)​

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Ctrl-V to paste the info into your next post​

 

[franco]

I finally have the CrystalDiskinfo screenshots. Due to a problem with the CrystalDisk software on the laptop I am using it took a while before I got the time to do it. There are two images.

https://imgur.com/a/LGreWRp

View: https://imgur.com/a/LGreWRp


To reiterate this hard drive was recognised by my desktop until I tried to repair sectors using Seagate tools software. Whatever Seagate tools done at that point it is no longer recognised. I used a laptop to connect with a Sabrent USB-DS12-EU USB 3.0 to Sata Hard driver adapter.

Does this drive have any hope of running software to erase all data?

 

[USAFRet]

Does this drive have any hope of running software to erase all data?

What is to be the final destination of this physical drive?

 

[USAFRet]

What would I do with it?

It is an 80GB HDD. 20 years or so old.
Useless.

Disassemble, and recover the magnets. They are quite useful.
Then break/bend the platters.
Zero possibility of data recovery.

Or, a few whacks with a hammer.
Zero possibility of data recovery.

Or, a Full Format in File Explorer.
Zero possibility of data recovery.