FWIW I'm not "fanboi" for anybodies drives, but those who know what I do for a living will know why I said what I said.

I've seen the results of tens of thousands of failed drives, it's just one of those things that will happen and all you do is plan to deal with it.

It wasn't aimed at you ya knob , I posted it because of what you told me in a pm last week.

Anyway I fixed it today, all back 100% and working, reflashed and recognised, only cost me £5 for a cable, anyone suffering this let me know and if I get time I'll do a how 2 on it for you.

It wasn't aimed at you ya knob , I posted it because of what you told me in a pm last week.

Anyway I fixed it today, all back 100% and working, reflashed and recognised, only cost me £5 for a cable, anyone suffering this let me know and if I get time I'll do a how 2 on it for you.

All right you dispatcher of balls

Glad to see you've got your drive happy again.

All right you dispatcher of balls

Glad to see you've got your drive happy again.

Ahh it's rockin tbh, I'm on the forums saying so as well, I love Maxtor myself, nothing in it for me to trash them, I was miffed as I thought I'd lost some pictures I really didn't wanna lose, but since I've ressurected it, it's not made any funny noises or misbehaved, acid test comes when I boot it tbh, but right now I need to get everything into a lifeboat just incase, but I don't think it's gonna go that far.

The fault is when the drive hit's a certain point it causes it to reboot and shutdown, hopefully they've sorted that in the firmware, besides I love to learn and I now have bragging rights that I have reprogramed a HD

Anymore on this one - got one 400 GB seagat and one 80gb maxtor running at mo .

Segregate disk check says both are affected .But inputting serial nos etc get answer that neither are - any idea where next to look .Both brand new drives ,just registered with no feedback on anything like this .Bit suspicious .

Edited 11 March, 200917 yr by VWD

There is a problem with the drives showing as faulty by model and not by serial number, if it's been made since December 08 it should be ok, can you post me the firmware revision number of it and I can tell you if you still have the dodgy firmware or not, I don't think the 80 gig ones are effected.

If their still working you haven't entered the world of pain yet, but a flash is advisable if you have the old FW, let me know before you do anything to them.

It wasn't aimed at you ya knob , I posted it because of what you told me in a pm last week.

Anyway I fixed it today, all back 100% and working, reflashed and recognised, only cost me £5 for a cable, anyone suffering this let me know and if I get time I'll do a how 2 on it for you.

Hi Supurbia,

I am reading with interest here what you are saying. One week ago before now, my Seagate barracuda, (7200) 320 Gbytes. failed for me. On the boot up of the PC I was getting error messages, and also windows firewall would need to be turned on for every time.

This was causing me the big problem, and so I tried system restore on XP, but this would not fix problems. I then tried the windows repair, and this was working until windows tried to load device drivers, each time, and it gave blue screen of death to me, at the same place in the loading green line. I then tried the format windows install and this would not put operating drivers on. I was now dead after making bad noise for operating.

I have now made the replacement on this PC that I use to talk with you, with Hitachi Deskstar 500 Gbyte ( which I think is the same as IBM here) .

I am the lucky person, that I keep all programmes/files always as back up.

This is the first time that I have had this one happen for me.

Thank you.

Soviet;)

Hi Supurbia,

I am reading with interest here what you are saying. One week ago before now, my Seagate barracuda, (7200) 320 Gbytes. failed for me. On the boot up of the PC I was getting error messages, and also windows firewall would need to be turned on for every time.

This was causing me the big problem, and so I tried system restore on XP, but this would not fix problems. I then tried the windows repair, and this was working until windows tried to load device drivers, each time, and it gave blue screen of death to me, at the same place in the loading green line. I then tried the format windows install and this would not put operating drivers on. I was now dead after making bad noise for operating.

I have now made the replacement on this PC that I use to talk with you, with Hitachi Deskstar 500 Gbyte ( which I think is the same as IBM here) .

I am the lucky person, that I keep all programmes/files always as back up.

This is the first time that I have had this one happen for me.

Thank you.

Soviet;)

Ok, this is what you need to look for, at boot up where memory test etc happens look for the drives name on the load up screen, if it's not there and all you see is your CDrom listed before the page goes off to load Windows, then you have the classic case of drive shutdown, this can be reversed so all is not lost, if however the bios is seeing the drive you have another problem and that will probably be bad sectors and require a RMA to wherever you bought it from for a replacement, if you can confirm that the drive isn't showing up though I can help you unlock it, but get a Nokia CA42 cable first as this is how you interface the drive, and make sure it gets recognised as a new device in Windows or it won't work, so test it before you hack the end off it, generally as long as the USB end is about 2 inches long it will have the tx board in it and will work, other stuff you need is a T6 screwdriver and a CDrom patch lead, the one that comes with a drive and hooks to the soundcard port, and a small piece of card.

Ok, this is what you need to look for, at boot up where memory test etc happens look for the drives name on the load up screen, if it's not there and all you see is your CDrom listed before the page goes off to load Windows, then you have the classic case of drive shutdown, this can be reversed so all is not lost, if however the bios is seeing the drive you have another problem and that will probably be bad sectors and require a RMA to wherever you bought it from for a replacement, if you can confirm that the drive isn't showing up though I can help you unlock it, but get a Nokia CA42 cable first as this is how you interface the drive, and make sure it gets recognised as a new device in Windows or it won't work, so test it before you hack the end off it, generally as long as the USB end is about 2 inches long it will have the tx board in it and will work, other stuff you need is a T6 screwdriver and a CDrom patch lead, the one that comes with a drive and hooks to the soundcard port, and a small piece of card.

Hi Supurbia,

Thank you for the help here. I am now using replacement drive, but now you are telling me of the problem with seagate 7200 Barracuda then I will keep this, and not throw this one away. Thank you for offer of help, and maybe I will, contact with you again in the future, as I am not really wanting to try to fix the Seagate one in Pc at this time.

I have found here, the web address that is saying what you have told me:-

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing

Thank you, and I will keep the copy of your good thread.

Regards for you

Soviet:)

Edited 15 March, 200917 yr by soviet
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