SeDiv 2.3.5.0 Hard Drive Repair
Jamar Lizarraga
I had a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drive fail on me about 2 years ago. I took it to a data recovery place, and it was determined that one of the 4 heads was bad. They were able to recover 75% of the data without opening the drive, which was acceptable to me. Many of the photos are corrupted though (so I may only have half or 2/3 of the image). I've kept the drive and am playing with the idea of attempting a DIY head swap to see if I can get more off of it.
Hello FlorianK, welcome to the WD Community. There are no Red dots/lights that you could use to determine if the drive is faulty or not. If the hard drive is not responding I recommend you to try using another SATA cable or if possible another motherboard to connect it. If you feel that the hard drive is vibrating you can try running a DLG test.
My first spark of inspiration was this site: In this thread is a detailed list of how to manually place the security sectors of an official Xbox drive onto a different hard drive. The poster states that he has used this method to use a Seagate drive in his Xbox; however the tutorial itself was performed on a Western Digital drive. After numerous failed attempts at contacting the author of this thread and a few others, I did a bit more digging.
Another problem that exists is that a Seagate hard drive only allows 8 character serial numbers, and most of the available hddss.bin files freely available on the net are dumped from Hitachi drives. These drives have serial numbers that are up to 15 characters. Since this is the case, there is no way to successfully spoof the drive into looking like a Hitachi. The only real solution is to use an hddss.bin file that has been dumped from an official Seagate drive.
Check out this website. I forgot to post it when I was working on this initially, but it explains very well (In my eyes anyways) how to calculate the LBA of the hard drive you are working with. It will be different for each one, but you can delve into the hddss.bin file you are working with, and calculate which values you need to change it to on your drive.
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