How to repair your Seagate hard drive’s firmware issue.

 

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.

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