Comments on: Seagate Barracuda 7200-11 Hard Drive Recovery

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:56:34 +0000

I have the 500gb sata as a slave drive and seems i have this issue as well. My main computer will not see the drive nor is it showing in the bios. As others have stated, i have data that i wish to get off of it. ANy suggestions or help is appreciated.

By: lucas

lucas — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:13:36 +0000

ty jacqui great help muahhh hehehe

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:37:38 +0000

Lucas,

It depends are you going to put it on the same IDE cable? If so then yes. If this is SATA then no just hook it to the second SATA connection.

By: lucas

lucas — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:56:39 +0000

i have question relatined to seagate… i need to recover data from a 80g seagate i want to put it as a slave on my seagate 250g do i need to put a jumper ? ty

By: Lastonestanding

Lastonestanding — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:51:25 +0000

Hi I got a Seagate Barracuda 500GB Hard drive I put it on my computer and it worked for a bit, but now it went out. My BIOS well not recognize the hard drive. It’s like it’s dead, I try to change all the connections but it’s not working. What do I do?

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:36:41 +0000

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By: Nilesh Dakoria

Nilesh Dakoria — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:22:14 +0000

hello sir i have 500Gb seagate 7200.11 series hard drive but suddenly hdd show 0MB siz & 0 LBA . itry to update firmware which seagate provide on its site. But nothing done. Many important dat on this drive. how can i get data back

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:20:40 +0000

vijay, can you hook the drive up as a slave?

By: vijay odedra

vijay odedra — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:38:00 +0000

i have problem in my segate 500gb sata hard drive .its been when windoows is running normaly and i sow memury dump errr in my monitor ,the disk is goes to unknown mode when i start winows installatin(xp sp2)the data is verry imprtant for me pls give some idia to solve this problem.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:37:34 +0000

My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 stopped working.
The initial symptom: Windows froze
After reboot th BIOS does not recognize the drive any more.
Drove is quietly ticking.
When I hooked it as a slave to another computer, the computer stopped recognizing both drives.
Any idea?

By: Hugo Presser

Hugo Presser — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:53:54 +0000

Hi,
Recently my barracuda 7200 has had errors. The bios sort of gets stuck in a loop, you can hear it making a recurring loading sound, and the cursor freezes up every 5 seconds or so. Is there anything I can do about this short of buying a new one?

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:05:54 +0000

Troy,

I guess the first question would be what is wrong with the drive? As far as it not being the master drive have you tried unplugging the other drive completely from the machine while you try this process it would be bad to firmware revise the wrong drive. Unplugging the unaffected drive would make this situation much more safe.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:06:50 +0000

here’s my problem with my ST31000340AS, i am trying to run the new firmware for the drive hoping it wold fix it. my ST31000340AS Seagate Drive is not my master drive, if i run the firmware using my master drive and my ST31000340AS Drive as a Slave Drive, after system restarts, it wouldnt do the update since (i guess) its not the Master Drive of the system.

any ideas on how to fix it or how to run the firmware?

much thanks!

By: mico

mico — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:13:16 +0000

If you need to recover your files I used NTFS FOR DOS and xxcopy installed on a thumb drive and used a usb external drive and managed to recover my files these programs are free it takes a while to recover depending on the amout of data so be patient
you have to know the old dos commands

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:19:22 +0000

Steve, this was emailed to me by an engineer familiar with the Seagate issues:

This is NOT a firmware issue sounds like on of the heads is having trouble reading. The major indication would be the IO error drives that are bricked do not do this. I would clone the drive in DOS using any DOS based tool as Windows tries to read each sector multiple times; therefore, if the drive is having trouble reading it just makes it worse. Use Speed Clone or any other DOS base tool to clone to another working drive.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:23:34 +0000

Hi, I’m hoping someone can help. I have the Seagate 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB HDD. I noticed my PC running sluggishly and then a few days later I get an I/O error when trying to read the drive. The BIOS recognizes the drive every time I boot (now the drive is hooked up via an external USB enclosure).

Whenever I turn the drive on (in the USB enclosure), the PC takes forever to recognize it. Device manager recognizes it as “ST350032 OAS USB Device” and thinks it is running properly.

If I plug the drive into the MB and boot, the BIOS recognizes the drive and gives it the correct capacity, LZone, etc.

But Explorer sees the drive as a generic drive “Drive I” and there is no data.

The drive spins up very quietly, no vibration or clicking.

I have upgraded the firmware, but that didn’t help.

Any ideas?

I was thinking about finding another drive and swapping PDB’s.

Of course, I wouldn’t care about this drive failing if I had backed up my data, which I didn’t.

Thanks!
Stephen

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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:11:35 +0000

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By: Seagate Firmware Fix Does Not Work On All Hard Drives

Seagate Firmware Fix Does Not Work On All Hard Drives — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:55:42 +0000

[...] now most of you have heard that Seagate has issues with several of their newer Barracuda models. They released a firware fix for the problem, but what they didn’t tell you is, the firware [...]

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:51:24 +0000

The drive is Bricked which in English means it has an overflow in of errors do to malfunctioning ondisk firmware. The service area of the drive is now corrupt you can try seagates firmware fix but that is more of a preventative fix to a problem than an after the fact crash remedy. More than likely the necessary measures to fix this problem will need to be addressed by a company specializing in data recovery as the Service Area of the drive has become corrupt.

Service Area- The firmware on the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is a roadmap to the real firmware which is located on the platters of the drive. The Service Area (SA) contains defects list both at the time of manufacturing, grown defects lists while in use, overlays, adaptive info, Drive ID, all the info the drive needs to run.

By: Smiddy33

Smiddy33 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:29:11 +0000

Hey hey i have the seagate barracuda 1000GB serial ST31000333AS and the other day it just stopped working, i noticed when i went to play music and it has my music n some games on it. i then restarted my compy, n went into bios and my bios couldn’t detect it…

After going through switching cables and even dismantling and rebuilding my compy bios still did not see it, i then loaded windows as normal, and found that windows can detect it, my bios cant, and when im in device manager, in properties of the HDD im getting the following msg in the volumes tab:

Disk: Disk 2
Type: Unknown
Status: Unreadable
Partition Style: Not Applicable
Capacity: 0 MB
Unallocated Space: 0 MB
Reserved Space: 0 MB

Is anyone able to help me get the HDD working again, or atleast recover the data so i can back it up ?

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:03:34 +0000

willywonka,

Can the hard drive be seen by another computer when hooked up as a slave? If so we can remote in and recover the files. Also can you post the full drive number i.e. ST31000340AS

By: willywonka

willywonka — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:17:18 +0000

i built my first computer 6 months ago with the help of “my computer dork”. i have the barracuda 7200.11 1000Gbytes and it just all of sudden crashed. the only thing i noticed was the picture was slightly glitchy maybe only a few minutes before the “oh no”. i just thought it was my wireless conection. my buddy knew instantly that it was f@#&ed off when he manually rebooted the computer and it said “insert boot disk and press enter”. then he went into the computer by pressing delete right after start up. my computer wasnt recognizeing my hard drive after changing the cables it still did nothing. so he pluged his drive up in that bitchand it saw it. i just got the fax from seagate about the recovery process. IF ANYONE HAS ANY HELPFULL KNOWLEDGE PLEASE E-MAIL ME SOON . theres no telling how bad those F&!$s will rape me and still get nothing from it but a sore ass.

By: MOONA KHAN

MOONA KHAN — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:51:59 +0000

Hi ALL,

I have Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 gb Hard disk.

I installed the Linux on F portion. When i clears the MBR by fdisk/mbr.

My Primary C partition got corrupt, Logical D drive also shown as E:, F:, …. Z: and i LOST MY E AND F PARTITION..

PLEASE HELP ME. WHAT CAN I DO NOW? Which Software i have to use to recover my E AND F Drive Partition…

WAITING YOUR GOOD RESPONCE.

Regards
moonakhan88@gmail.com

By: Joseph Whitehead

Joseph Whitehead — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:07:37 +0000

It makes a huge difference in rather the BIOS won’t detect the drive, or if Windows can’t find the partitions. One is a lot more expensive to fix since you have to send the drive in if it won’t even be detected by the motherboard’s firmware. It sounds like you need to have them do a remote restoration service. Hopefully, it’s just Windows that can’t see the data.

By: ankur

ankur — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:26:34 +0000

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