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[sky007]

Here is my first post. I hope this topic could give someone a help.

Yesterday I got a used WD12000BEVS 75LAT0 for my XBOX. I tired flashing it on three different south bridge chip mother board, no lucky at all. Get error "EC sector count was not found in the FW".

And I speed more than three hours try to find a solution on google, nothing help. And I see lots of people get same problem, changing to another HD is a only way.

So, I using my knowledge (very old knowledge, almost 15 years ago done a project about HDD writing and reading ) to find out what really happen for this error.

The truth is the total sector does not match the factory setting (think about the loptop computer always have a hidden partition for system restore or something like that). So now fixing will very easy.

Following steps, you will get a 360 HD:
1. Mount HD to a computer as second HD.
2. Boot to windows.
3. Go to hddguru.com download HDD Capacity Restore Tool and install it.
4. Run it, you will see a list of HDs.
5. Select WD12000BEVS, you will see the size is different with FW.
6. Fix it.
7. Shut down computer.

Then follow HDDHackr manual flash you HD.

I tried on intel, VIA, SIS and nForce4, they are all working very well.

If this could help you, I will very happy.

Sorry my poor English.

[MODMANMIKE]

This should be stickied tyvm i could kiss u JK i was searching for hrs on a solution to this

[Simple Fix]

QUOTE(sky007 @ Mar 2 2009, 11:26 PM)

Here is my first post. I hope this topic could give someone a help.

Yesterday I got a used WD12000BEVS 75LAT0 for my XBOX. I tired flashing it on three different south bridge chip mother board, no lucky at all. Get error "EC sector count was not found in the FW".

And I speed more than three hours try to find a solution on google, nothing help. And I see lots of people get same problem, changing to another HD is a only way.

So, I using my knowledge (very old knowledge, almost 15 years ago done a project about HDD writing and reading ) to find out what really happen for this error.

The truth is the total sector does not match the factory setting (think about the loptop computer always have a hidden partition for system restore or something like that). So now fixing will very easy.

Following steps, you will get a 360 HD:
1. Mount HD to a computer as second HD.
2. Boot to windows.
3. Go to hddguru.com download HDD Capacity Restore Tool and install it.
4. Run it, you will see a list of HDs.
5. Select WD12000BEVS, you will see the size is different with FW.
6. Fix it.
7. Shut down computer.

Then follow HDDHackr manual flash you HD.

I tried on intel, VIA, SIS and nForce4, they are all working very well.

If this could help you, I will very happy.

Sorry my poor English.

Well I have a WD BEVS-00UST0 Drive and I have tried to flash this drive with a 6421 Sata Board plus my own 8237 chipset on my Mobo and I just bought a Sil 3511 chipset PCMIA card for my Laptop but I guess it doesn't work in DOS because it will not see any drive. So now I bought a Sil 3511 chipset and its on the way. I will say I just flashed 2 - 22UST0 drives perfectly with my 8237 chipset. But this 00UST0 driver will not work for anything and I tried your restore program with no luck. Any answers?

[sky007]

When you run HDD Capacity Restore, did you the different between "Reported Capacity" and "Factory Capacity"? If there is a difference, then HDD Capacity Restore will fix it.

But if hard drive has problem, example some sectors dead. If bad sectors are great than "Reallocated Sector Count" value, which you can check it by using HDTune, that mean this Hard Dish can't restore back to Factory Capacity.

[milo0911]

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