1. ST31000340?AS w/ SD15 has firmware symptoms http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-and/ST31000340AS-w-SD15-has-firmware-symptoms-but-Tech-Support-says/m-p/39556
2. Fixing a Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive These are instructions for fixing a Seagate 7200.11 hard drive that is stuck in the BSY state. This can be determined by the fact that it won't be recognized by the computer's BIOS. http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/ Good luck. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died. I had about > 800GB of video on it, two thirds of the space were backups of my DVD > collection and I still have the DVDs so it could of been a lot worse. I was > running it in an external drive bay, pretty much 24/7 when it just > disappeared. I have never lost a drive by just disappearing, two others I > have lost in the past all died slowly with failed access warnings or just > screwing things up but this just went silently. > > After trying restarts and reboots I put it in another USB2 external drive > bay with no change, then I stuck it in a PC and the same problem. If the > BIOS can't see it then I can't recover anything so I guess I'm done... > unless somebody has another idea? > >
