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i have just ran out of warranty on my seagate 1tb barracude HDD and guess what ! yep it died between a reboot for flashing a lite-on, i have lost all my backup games and every bit of console stuff i gathered for years nds/psp/iphone/dreamcast/ps2/xbox/360 the lot iv read that this drive has a fw problem (im not the only 1- but that dont help) there was a fix but not for after its turned of........
well i am truly gutted and am posting this in the hope some1 has a bit of info for me to recover all that i had ?
i have tried the shyte seagate tools with no luck and other tools but the hdd just isnt showing up in manager or bios (im using xp)
thankfully i didnt loose my 3 kids pics phew and its not the end of the world

do you hear clicking? --> place it in the fridge for 1/2 hour and let it thaw, then try spinning it again

do you hear nothing? --> at least you're still alive

can you get to the drive at all? try booting into linux to access the partition...

can you get to the drive but your files do not appear? try recuva to get what you can...

good luck man, that's the best i can think of

thanks for the reply bob
i do hear clicking (and its damn hot too)
i cannot see the drive at all or the stuff on it
i will try freezing it tomorrow (nothing else to loose)

freezer didnt work BOO HOO
guess im gona buy 2 more drives then .

From what I've heard, the problem is with the drive's firmware. If the disc or filesystem were bad, the drive would still show up. There is an update for it, but unfortunately, Seagate makes it a little tricky to find.

Look here

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/hardware- ... -read.html

The data is NOT affected, so you should definitely look into this before pitching the drive. You can then use whatever rescue utility to recover the data or image the drive. SystemRescueCD is pretty good, if you're comfortable using Linux.

thanks trailz
im not good with linux i know its meant to be easy ... but.
i read the same thing about the fw on the drive, i also read that the "fix"
only works if you use it before the drive dies ? how sad if you dont know eh !
iv read about imaging the hdd for backup purposes but have only just heard about it
is SystemRescueCD an imaging tool ?
thanks

sad i got a st31000340as (B) fw sd15
so that fix wouldnt of worked anyway

SystemRescueCD is a Linux live distro you can use to recover or repair a computer. It has the tools to do what you need. To do the actual imaging, you would use partimage(GUI), dd, or ddrescue.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

SystemRescueCD is pretty point-and-click friendly. Check out the quick start guide and the documentation in the links.

You'll have to google around for the correct firmware, I wasn't aware there were multiple versions of it.

iv got a new 1 coming from seagate it has a 5 year warranty i gues im just gona have to loose all that data and learn from that mishap guess im gona learn how to do a backup hdd image
thanks trailz
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick (does this mean i create a bootable usb like iprep ? to use in windows dos ? OOOOH i hope so
but either way i get a new 1tb back

Yes, I believe that you download the ISO, mount it, copy the files to a USB drive, and then run a little script that comes in the image. The USB would boot to exactly the same thing as if you had booted from the CD. It would still be a Linux GUI.

Sorry to hear you couldn't get your data back.

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