My Seagate HDD locked me out :(

[Tamas]

I woke up to have my hard drive not getting recognized by BIOS. My life was on that HDD

Actually, after some research it seems the data is still there intact, its just that this series has a fucked up firmware which kind of ruins the event log or something, sending a permanent busy message out so it cant get recognized.

There is a sort of surgical method of overriding this, but I am way too afraid to attempt it myself, have e-mailed a hungarian guy who managed to do it, willing to pay for him to do it for me.

Now hold me.

[Iormlund]

The problem has been known for a while. It was a pretty big clusterfuck because the initial update bricked some models.

Don't sweat it, your porn is safe.

[The Brain]

:nelson

What's the problem? Just use your backup.

[Tamas]

:nelson

What's the problem? Just use your backup.

Very funny. There are hdds in my household which have been constantly used for 5 or 6 years with no problem, I thought that any HDD fault would be gradual. Who would have thought such a stupid bug can exist.

[The Brain]

We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!

[CountDeMoney]

Obviously, your porn doesn't want you looking at it.

[Lucidor]

:nelson

What's the problem? Just use your backup.

Very funny. There are hdds in my household which have been constantly used for 5 or 6 years with no problem, I thought that any HDD fault would be gradual. Who would have thought such a stupid bug can exist.

Ouch, just a reminder for the rest of us to back up frequently. I hope you get your data back!

[Josquius]

External HDD death is a recurring nightmare for me.
Travelling home last night I padded up my HD with several shirts and practically gave it my hand luggage to itself so as to protect it.

[Caliga]

I was thinking of buying a new HDD for Princesca's PC... what model/models are affected so I know not to get one of those?

[Tamas]

Seagate Barracude 7200.11 - actually its a fairly common error I could have avoided applying a firmware upgrade but i dont read hardware news so i had no idea

[Jaron]

Did gypsies take it?

[Darth Wagtaros]

I hear ya.  My six month old drive died.  Fortunately I didn't have anything important on it so I just ghosted the data onto the replacement and all is good.

[DontSayBanana]

Man, externals now are fragile. I've been running the same internal on this CPU since 2003.

[Grey Fox]

I was thinking of buying a new HDD for Princesca's PC... what model/models are affected so I know not to get one of those?

Buy a Western Digital.

I'm thinking of buying a new one, one of those 1TB.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I have a few WD 1tb USB drives as an extra-extra backup for my file servers.  Make a note to ask me in about six more months if they are still working.