Thread: Any help for a Dead Drive ?

Originally Posted by talsilo

My Seagate 500gb HDD, which i use as a back up drive, hangs at the BIOS. but when i press the reset button it starts. i dont know the reason. See if pressing the hardware reset button helps.

thanks , but it doesn't work.

I have a 32 Gb pan Drive But Thats not working properly. pls help.

Originally Posted by subir12

I have a 32 Gb pan Drive But Thats not working properly. pls help.

pls start a separate thread and please give more details - make/cost etc

I'm of the opinion that the pen drive maybe of chinease make, in which case you are out of luck.

Originally Posted by subir12

I have a 32 Gb pan Drive But Thats not working properly. pls help.

Check this... 32 Gb Pen Drive (A Great problem in Pen Drive)

Originally Posted by newprouser

pls start a separate thread and please give more details - make/cost etc

I'm of the opinion that the pen drive maybe of chinease make, in which case you are out of luck.

Obviously that's chinese make..

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

Obviously that's chinese make..

Not necessarily isn't it ? Like nowadays 16 Gb and 32 are available for 2k and 4k na.... Ofcourse cheaper ones are defanitely fake.

Originally Posted by newprouser

Not necessarily isn't it ? Like nowadays 16 Gb and 32 are available for 2k and 4k na.... Ofcourse cheaper ones are defanitely fake.

That guy took for 200 bucks only.... And that's happening everywhere.. Wonder why people take 32 Gb Pen drive in 200 bucks

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

Good morning Jee, Np

hey doc, good morning....

BTW the freezing method didn't work, and I found out why....

see this link, it has this bloody firmware problem...

Re: READ THIS | If your model 7200.11 Seagate Barracuda drive ST3500620AS has stopped working. - TouchSmart PC - HP Support Forums

The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs - MSFN Forums

the solution is hardly easy, esp when i hav to buy some hardware to do it...

@ Np

just went through the link, but that procedure is really pain in the neck to buy some stuff just for one use and that too touching the sensitive parts of the disk and trying to recover it,

I too will ask a few of my friends who are PC Service engineers here and will update it soon.

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

hia.. np.. good morning.. good that u found the way for ur HDD>.... so now its gonna be ok or no??

dunno yaar, the steps aren't eaxtly easy as it requires hardware tinkering.

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

@ Np

just went through the link, but that procedure is really pain in the neck to buy some stuff just for one use and that too touching the sensitive parts of the disk and trying to recover it,

I too will ask a few of my friends who are PC Service engineers here and will update it soon.

Thanks, i'm eager to know all about it. I jus wish that if the pictures in those links were working it would have been somewhat easier.

ya pics would make it clear if you should go for it or not..
lets see and now i realized My HDD also is 7200.11 1 TB

Sorry link i was abt to give.. Npro already pasted ere.. Yeah... I can see.. Its a tough job.. Never thought hdd can be so mesy...

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

ya pics would make it clear if you should go for it or not..
lets see and now i realized My HDD also is 7200.11 1 TB

check this thread

The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs - MSFN Forums

But urs is 1 Tb version na, is it affected too ?

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

Sorry link i was abt to give.. Npro already pasted ere.. Yeah... I can see.. Its a tough job.. Never thought hdd can be so mesy...

:lol: thanks anyway doc !!

Me too, had i listened to dhanno, i wouldn't have been in this mess...

Y?? Dhanno told u not to buy hdd or wat lolz...

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

Y?? Dhanno told u not to buy hdd or wat lolz...

well in dec/jan a problem in seagate drives was indicated world wide, and that time i checked with seagate website and they said this model was not affected. But dhanno used to tell me that even my model may hav been affected.

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

What u mean by affected?? Is it something like swine flu?? Lolz.. And by the way.. If its problem such big and company itself is telling dont they give replacement?? And as per i know.. Seagate is a nice company i mean reputed brand..

Well u must have surely come accoss software problems in mobiles, where they harg or restart inexplicably, its just the same.

Bhai, replacement is hardly the issue. Problem with h/w guys is that they give no gaurantee for DATA, only free hardware replacement is provided. Right now ALL my data is in THAT drive

Oh god.. Ok ok.. Its tough time man.. Once u get ur data back than i think u will can go to company ppl and get it replaced free right??

And u know even i was planning to get a hdd 500 gb or something.. I dont know the company.. But its was ok he told me the company may be watever but the ultimate hdd inside is of seagate.. But i was not ready to spend tht much money so i dint buy.. But once upon a time just recently i was thinking when i wanted to format my pc.. All drives.. Tht i wish i could have a hdd it will be the safest for data.. I mean backing up or restoring while formatting wont be a problem.. But now looking at such condition i dont think there is any means where we can say data is stored safely..

its true that HDD can be unpredictable at times, like my previous Hitachi HDD failed within a week, i was lucky not to have any data on it.

Thing is that failures happen in all models. If u wanna backup data, then tape drives are good, but very expensive and huge too.

Originally Posted by Mr.Tooth Fairy

Wat the hell.. Within one week?? I dont know y ppl r so dumb.. I mean when a company is making a devise to store data.. And if it has stopped working or something how can they say tht no gaurantee for data...hdd we can replace?? I mean obviously for any and every customer their data is more valuable than hdd..

P. S ; wat is tht tape drive now??

that unfortunately is the situation.since all manufacturers do the same thing, we are helpless

tape drive
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_drive_01.jpg

www.wps.com/NOVA4/images/602x-tape-front1.jpg

What Np said is true, My HDD 500 GB Seagate failed in 2 months and i sent it for replacement and at that time i was very rude and shouted at them etc for my data loss, so they in compensation sent me a 1 TB HDD, this one is working fine till now but when i checked in net this version is also affected and i dont know if when i got this drive company has updated the firmware or not.

Yes now no media can be said as SAFE, see my fate how it is,
Last week suddenly my handset software got Kaput and nothing was working just Nokia it would come at startup and thats all. So the treatment was to format it, ok i did it and as soon as it was formatted and i inserted my SIM the SIM also was corrupted and i tried in different handsets still when i inserted i would get the message "Insert SIM" again got the SIM replaced now working fine but as both my handset & SIM are formatted i dont have a single phone number now...!

So not i am back to original writing phone numbers in Physical paper Diary...

Originally Posted by kirankumargb

So not i am back to original writing phone numbers in Physical paper Diary...

:lol: :lol:

PS: are u suggesting that shouting can get us a higher capacity drive as replacement ?

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

Good morning Jee, Npro, Both Doc and Saurav...

Good mornin ashish

Originally Posted by dhaneshv

Good morning everyone!!

How's life going?

Morning mate...

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

That guy took for 200 bucks only.... And that's happening everywhere.. Wonder why people take 32 Gb Pen drive in 200 bucks

Lol, yeah....

Some of the solutions are mentioned here, althought the steps are far from easy for n00bs like me....

The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs - MSFN Forums

some more picx :

Seagate Bricked Firmware Drive Fix (With Pics) - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

a crashed HDD opened up and Running !

YouTube - HDD Clicking Not Normally (click of death) (HD)

Yippey.................. MY HDD"S BACK AGAIN... thx a lot to those guys who came with the solution....

Back to work.... Backup backup backup.... unk:

S**** $EAhAte

Congo bro..

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

Congo bro..

thanks mate.... waited for a long time....

Congrats NPU ...