sometimes when I hit "ctrl +z" or any other combination of keys I'll get a single character that looks like its static-ed out. Upon connecting the power, I see nothing. in terminal (putty), when I type, there is nothing. My only problem is, when I connect the SATA power to the HDD, you can hear it silently start to spin up but thats where I'm stuck. I placed the piece of cardstock between the primary circuit board and the hdd and tightened and loosened the certain screws (that part definitely confused me, but I realize now it's because you need to temporarily disconnect a certain piece of the PCB from connecting to the HDD for a brief bit. I've got two breadboard jumper wires (female to female, connected to TX and RX of HDD and USB adapter) and I'm running Putty. I've come a LONG way to where I feel like I'm right on the brink of success, but I've gotta be missing something simple. I've been searching the web and trying to learn from scratch about this for like a month now. Hey guys, I hadn't posted in here before now, mainly because the issue I'm working on I thought was like 1990's technology. if anyone just happens to know the Master Password for this HDD, that would probably save me a whole lot of time, although this has definitely been a great project for learning and I would rather finish it even if I could get the master password to unlock it. Anyways I know I'm missing something and if anyone can help that would be amazing! The computer it came out of was an Asus 1005HAB little mini netbook and the HDD is a Seagate Momentus 5400.6. IU've tried switching around the cables and am currently waiting on two more jumper wires to see if 4 connected to 3.3v, tx, rx, and ground will have more affect than just the TX and RX with the data power giving it 5v. ) In attachment I've added the complete ddrescue log & smart data. Seatools also reported failure on test & repair : Short Generic - FAIL 18:15:31 SeaTools Test Code: 6C9AC2A4 Long Generic - Started 18:16:26 Bad LBA: 0 Unable to repair Long Generic - FAIL 18:16:49 SeaTools Test Code: 6C9AC2A4 So my question is : anybody has an idea how to advance ? How should I proceed, how can I find where the problems is located. block level copy of disk with GNU ddrescue only worked for the first 220 000 bytes. s.m.a.r.t check resolved an issue with reallocated_sectors : 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 003 003 036 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 2006 B. ) At this moment i'm stuck on a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 - ST9500325AS. I the past i've done some recovery, but mostly on logical problems ( corrupt filesystems. I'm a pc enthousiast from belgium, making my first steps into hdd recovery. Hello everybody, This is my first post on the hddguru forum.
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