Several Models of Seagate’s  hard disks(320Gb, 500Gb, 1Tb in general) have experienced sudden crashes. The drive works fine for a while and then suddenly goes kaput. The computer will take a longer time to start with a long post screen; the motor will also be rotating but the computer reports no hard disk. Alternately you might see your hard drive but with a size of 0Mb.

This problem is caused by a flawed software that runs the hard disk. Initially seagate refused to acknowledge the problem but a sustained campaign by users woke up the company. You can test your hard drive online to see if it is from the batch of flawed softwares.

I recommend using the following site for a cheeky step by step procedure to repair your drive

http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html

All of the repair sequences have been derived from the one posted by gradius on the following forum.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807

In case you live in Bangalore, India and need your drive fixed. I’ve all the equipment ready to carry out the procedure & could help you out. I’ve used the Max232 IC with appropriate capacitors as my RS232-TTL adapter and it worked fine.

Bangalore’s Oldest Fest and one of India’s most popular Fest’s is in jeopardy this year.

The organizers are finding it hard to find sponsors for this grand fest. The students are being asked to conduct events if they can find sponsors for their own event.

Most IT companies have stopped sponsoring these type of events due to lack of funds.

The students are banking on the alumnii to help them bail out of the crisis. Or  else there would be no Utsav this year

R-5 is a video produced by a group of students from RNSIT, an engineering college in bangalore .
It's a story about an attempted hijack of their college bus, the ' Route no 5 '.
the movie has a cast made entirely of students and added to it there is the driver and a few teachers who show up in 1 or 2 frames
This short movie won the first place at "Parichay", a movie making competition in RNSIT !
Here is the 10 minute shortened version of the video which uses open-source i.e creative commons music