To confirm it stays in Busy state use MHDD and read the status registers coming from the drive.
Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lubomír Cabla > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] dead drive > > 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? > > > >
