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  • Avoriaz
    Avoriaz Posts: 39,110 Forumite
    edited 9 February 2010 at 3:14AM
    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.
  • cit_k
    cit_k Posts: 24,812 Forumite
    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....
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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 9 February 2010 at 5:31PM
    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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