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I have a Samsung Spinpoint ST1000M024 which is stuck at BSY. Soft and hard resets seem to do nothing. It fails to identify at all. The full specs are below. Using the utility Spinpoint USB and Spinpoint M8E 2.5 HN-M101BB I'm unable to even get terminal access (using UART bridge) or detect the baud rate. Does anybody have any suggestions? I am fairly new to using the PC-3000.

Model: ST1000LM024
HDD P/N: HN-M101MBB/AV2
Rev A F/W 2BA30003

It also has Seagate Momentus on the label, this is from an external Seagate 2.5" USB drive. I have removed the USB controller and connected it directly to SATA. Should I be using a Seagate utility instead? Which one?

Thank you in advance to anybody who is able to help on this, your advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,

It's Samsung HN-M101MBB model name drive.
And it should be prepared in Samsung utility (as you did).

Terminal report should be available.
Else Terminal connected wrong or PCB is damaged.
Check terminal connection or use donor PCB.