Seagate barracuda 7200.10 failed

[babo]

My 250Gb Seagate barracuda 7200.10 failed recently and can not be recognized by Windows. Status in Disk Management is unallocated but disk size is shown correctly. But I managed to ran SMART test and three test were unsuccessful. Would you please help me how to correct the three errors which is in bold:


HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. Report
Model: ST3250310AS
Firmware: 3.ADA
Serial: 6RY7TA20
LBA: 488281250

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.3
Report Date: 8/17/2011 4:13:14 PM

Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold

001 Raw Read Error Rate 112 099 00000002AF-57D3 006

003 Spin Up Time 098 097 0000000000-0000 070

004 Start/Stop Count 095 095 0000000000-1774 020

005 Reallocation Sector Count 098 098 0000000000-0071 036

007 Seek Error Rate 086 060 00000019A8-328D 030

009 Power-On Hours Count 081 081 0000000000-4212 000

010 Spin Retry Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 097

012 Device Power Cycle Count 099 099 0000000000-0571 020

187 Reported Uncorrectable Error 001 001 0000000000-21B1 000

189 High Fly Writes 100 100 0000000000-0000 000

190 Airflow Temperature 055 054 45 C 045

190 Airflow Temperature Minimum 055 054 36 C 045

190 Airflow Temperature Maximum 055 054 45 C 045

194 HDA Temperature 045 046 45 C 000

194 HDA Temperature Minimum 045 046 20 C 000

194 HDA Temperature Maximum 045 046 54 C 000

195 Error Rate 120 055 0000000E70-8240 000

197 Current Pending Errors Count 099 006 0000000000-001F 000

198 Uncorrectable Errors Count 099 006 0000000000-001F 000

199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 0000000000-0000 000

200 Write Error Rate 100 253 0000000000-0000 000

202 SWAT Error 088 241 0000000000-000C 000

 

[Emerald]

what it is telling you is that it found bad sectors on the hard drive and it is out of available space to reallocate the data.

a hard drive has a certain amount of spare area which it uses to relocate data to in case it finds problems with the drive.

the only way to recover some of that space would be a low level format which would, however, delete all the data.

best thing to do is get a new hard drive and use a data recovery program to get your data back

 

[babo]

Tried many data recovery SW. So far no success. (EASUS, Diskinternals Partition recovery, Kernel etc) Almost all of these SW's can not recognize all of the HDD parameters and just halts to respond.

Can you please suggest a better SW?

Unfortunately here in Mongolia we have no professional data recovery company, so I really need to take action by myself with internet community help.

I have a guess regarding the reason of the failure. Initially my windows 7 could recognize drive and once started to automatically repair the errors during its start up. But unfortunately due to no more free space on the HDD the disk repair procedure halted. Ever since the hdd no more recognizable to any windows (win7,winxp) system through SATA nor USB.

BTW, I already tried swapping HDD controller PCB's with working and exactly same HDD. No success, which means PCB is working normally.

 

[pepe2907]

"I have a guess regarding the reason of the failure. Initially my windows 7 could recognize drive and once started to automatically repair the errors during its start up. But unfortunately due to no more free space on the HDD the disk repair procedure halted. Ever since the hdd no more recognizable to any windows (win7,winxp) system through SATA nor USB. "
Unfortunately that happens with the windows recovery not for the first time.

Try Paragon Disk Manager and this silly program Filerecoveryangel /yes, seriously, no joke /

 

[fzabkar]

emerald, the OP's drive has not run "out of available space to reallocate the data".

In fact the drive has recorded 113 (= 0x71) reallocated sectors, and lost only 2 points (= 100 - 98) from the normalised value of the attribute. That's still along way from the threshold value of 36. The drive can actually reallocate approximately 2600 bad sectors before it will report a SMART failure. Having said that, I wouldn't trust the OP's drive at all from this point on.

As for the Pending and Uncorrectable errors, they amount to 31 each (= 0x1F). These are bad sectors that are waiting to be replaced by the OS. It could be that one or more of these is impacting upon the file system.

IMO, the safest approach would be to clone the drive sector-by-sector using a tool that knows how to work around bad sectors, and then use data recovery software on the clone.

Some freeware cloning tools are ...

dd_rescue: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

 

[babo]

Hi All,
This was my office PC - DELL 755 with two 250G Seagate HDD. XP was installed on the first HDD. Windows 7(cracked through HAZARD loader) was installed on the second HDD, which was broken.

Yesterday strange thing happened with my home PC, which is exact same machine as described above (DELL 755, 2 HDD, 1st - XP, second - Windows 7 cracked with the same loader). The second disk was broken just like the office's one(win 7).

Symptom of the both malfunction is very similar. On both cases HDDs' response become extremely slow and Machine becomes unresponsive.

I have two guess now:

1. The bad air conditioning due to bad location of the second disk is the reason of the failure (see below image - red arrow)
2. Cracked WIndows 7 might be the reason of the HDD failure

Does anybody has any idea?