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Failed hard drive – Options?
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The chances of enough moisture to cause a problem geting through the filter were minimal. Anyway, who cares? It wasn't working anyway. Freezing has successfully cured a few disk problems so it was worth trying.
How do we upgrade firmware on a disk that Windows can't see?
Anyway, it is very unlikely to be a firmware issue. The disk worked fine from when it was bought in March last year and only stopped working a few days ago. Its identical twin, presumably with the identical original firmware, is still working fine
I suspect a component on the circuit board has failed or there is a dodgy dry solder joint somewhere. If the platters or read/write heads had failed Windows would see it but report it as faulty.0 -
Have you tried it direct, ie not through usb, by plugging it into a pc internally (may need an adapter if its one of those laptop drives to convert to IDE, unless its sata) - and is it recognised by the bios at all?
You could swap the pcb with a known working one to see if that fixes it, but that would invalidate the warranty if you broke any seals, and would need a clean room if you had to open it up to do so....[greenhighlight]but it matters when the most senior politician in the land is happy to use language and examples that are simply not true.
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The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
and we should be deeply worried about that[/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)0 -
The firmware issue affect certain disk in a certain write scenario, they can work happily until this happens
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagate_firmware_fix_breaks_barracudas/
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931!!
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