Seagate drive recognized as garbled characters

My friend S.K met a problem last week.It was a barracuda 9 drive and the detection is wrong and showing very busy.

In the beginning,I’d like to say the fix procedure by HD DOCTOR is simple but I think it is helpful for our client.I apologize for not taking a screenshot or recording it by Teamviewer.

After load from hdd,the drive can be detect,but all info are garbled characters,just like P$,XK and so on.

Get into the terminal mode and get the following message.

From that message,I guess it might be a CELOG problem.

So I tried to use the command T4E to repair it.T4E is used for re-write the cert log.

After T4E test finished,power off and on the console.

The drive can be detected properly and the data can be accessed after load from hdd.

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