I initially tried this with the 'Mini Windows XP' from a USB stick I made with Hiren's Bootable CD. : 3.Haha, funny you should mention that the next thing I had tried after the last test was just getting a copy of all my personal files off, just in case. : Not supportedĭevSleep To ReducedPwrState. : Not supportedĪutomatic Partial To Slumber Translations. : Not supportedĪsynchronous Notification. : Not supportedĭevice Initiating Interface Power Management. : Not supportedĭMA Setup Auto-Activate Optimization. Non-Zero Buffer Offsets In DMA Setup FIS. Receipt Of Power Management Requests From Host. : Not supportedĪCS-3 Commands Allowed By Sanitize. : Not supportedĭeterministic Read After TRIM. IDLE IMMEDIATE Command With UNLOAD Feature. : Not supportedįree-fall Control Sensitivity. : Not supportedĮxtended Power Management. : Standard SATA AHCI Controller (AHCI) Version: 2.1, 6-21-2006ĭisk Location.

Physical Disk Information - Disk: #7: ST2000DM001. Here is the text file report from Seatools & HDD sentinel Post an image of the test result into the thread HDTune wasnt able to `see` the problem HDD Post images into the thread for results on these tabs: Is there anything else I can try ? 99% of the searches for HDD repair tools, simply give data recovery software, there IS a difference, but that simple premise seems to be lost on many advertising their wares.Ģ) Post images of results for these tests:Ī) Run HD Tune (free version) (all drives) I tried seatools booted from a USB, but couldn’t work out how to use the program to repair the HDD. I realise I may have to give up and dump this HDD, but want to be certain I have tried everything first. Windows drive manage shows it as bad, with no option to do anything.I ran seagate tools for windows, the short and long test passed, but when I selected fix everything, it failed.did a sector test with Aome partition manager and it started reporting sector errors immediately, but allowed me to rebuild the MBR ? I unplugged the Sata data lead, allowed windows to boot then reconnected it. Windows refuses to boot up with it connected. I have a 2 TB Seagate internal HDD, I am unsure what happened, it’s not very old and has always been fitted inside a PC case, so hasn’t been knocked.

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