Total Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 For those who have a series 7200.11 Seagate Barracuda drive - read this carefully! There is an error in the firmware of some of these drives that can cause one of two failures. An 0 LBA failure - the BIOS reads the drive as 0MB A BSY failure - the BIOS does not see the drive at all If you are technically inclined, you can fix this yourself by going to the following link: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate-7200-11-hdds-t128807.html Last night, I turned on my PC and it didn't see my drive. Tried it in another PC (recommended you do this first) and still nothing. I started going thru everything I could remember from the old "1001 way to revive a hard drive" document that floated around the net for years (3 things in there were from me actually lol!) Nothing worked. Thank God for Google! I found a thread that linked me to the one above. It took the greater part of the evening simply due to having to find the blasted parts to build the interface, but it does work. I did wind up having to performt he optional step. I'll post pics of my setup once I get everything going again. I bought a newer drive last night and am in process of transferring all of my files over to the new one. In all of my time working on PC's, this one ranks in the top 3 of nerve-wrecking fixes! 1
RedTiger Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 Thanks man! I have a Barracuda, but I'm not sure about the series. I've had it for almost 2 years now with no problems. I'll keep your post in mind in case I ever do! :)
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