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Hard disk PATA damaged failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x1)

Hello,
I've a Maxtor HDD N40P (40GB PATA) damaged.

From BIOS, unit is detected correctly, however doesn't boot (no system disk error message).

Starting from Linux live distro, I see on dmesg the following errors:

 [    9.257576] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xd000 irq 14
 [    9.257645] ata4: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xd008 irq 15
 [    9.432819] ata3.01: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x1)
 [    9.432897] ata3.01: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling
 [    9.432968] ata3.01: ATA-7: Maxtor N40P, NAR6159Z, max UDMA/133
 [    9.433033] ata3.01: 80293332 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
 [    9.433102] ata3.01: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
 [    9.440280] ata3.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x1)
 [    9.448052] ata1: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
 [    9.660055] ata2: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
 [   14.596277] ata3.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x1)
 [   14.596359] ata3.01: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO3
 [   19.752292] ata3.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x1)
 [   19.752358] ata3.01: disabled

 root@this:~#

So at hardware level, disk is detected but I'm not able to access to partitions.
Gparted doesn't recognize the device.

Is there a way to recover this hard drive ?

Thanks a lot.
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Yes, recovery lab is one option already discussed with the Customer.

However before send the unit to the lab, I would like to try with some software that can do surface analysis, or check at low level.

Thank you.
It will be a waste of time, and do more damage. The message indicates catastrophic media failure.  It isn't as if you just have a few bad blocks.  The disk is reporting that the media is unreadable in its entirety.

There isn't a software product on the planet that can fix this. You need a lab.
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