I have a 2.5" Seagate Momentum drive (ST9320423AS) that was originally used in a 2010 Dell Studio laptop. I've been using the drive as an external usb-powered drive on the same computer for the past 6 months or so. Primary but with no OS. While I was using it a few days ago I noticed the computer warned me about not being able to write to the drive (something like that). I can't remember exactly what it said but the error popped up when I attempted to right-click>new folder. I was still able to access contents on the drive, open the drive, and watch videos stored on the drive. I figured I would just restart
Well, an hour or so later my video card driver crashed (I had just updated it) and within minutes of that crash my computer experienced a BSOD (which may be unrelated to the drive, but I figured I'd include it). When I restarted my computer the drive was seen as raw and I was asked to reformat.
In disk management my drive is showing as an empty raw disk (K).
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In CrystalDisk everything seems okay.
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I ran tests in SeaTools and the drive passed the basic tests.
In Windows I've already imaged the drive with TestDisk and extracted the files with PhotoRec to an external drive. What I'm having trouble with is diagnosing/fixing the disk. I've attached pictures of the results in testdisk.
Initially it says Bad Sector Count - No Partition is bootable.
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It then gives the message about heads per cylinder being 255 but may be 16. When I search it finds the same disk but when I try to open it (P) it says "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem may be damaged."
When I changed the heads to 16 in geometry it came back with Number of Heads - Cylinder Masmatch error
