Stupid %^&*£!$ hard drive

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Tasker

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Finally back on the air. :D

I had a catastrophic hard drive failure last week that meant I had to buy a new one and start from scratch again.

Apparently there's a fault in the firmware of all Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 series hard drives. Any made before january 09 have a chance of going pop whenever you start your computer up which makes it so that the bios won't see the disc . :x :evil:

The data's still there but you have to send the disk off to Seagate to get them to put it right.

As I have sensative documentation on mine, i'm not willing to risk sending it off, so that's a nearly full 1TB drive up the swanny. :x :?
 
Please change your avatar.. just by looking at that I can feel the guy's pain!!!

Oh, and welcome back :)

WRT HD, can't you copy the files using one of those usb linux?
 
Ouch. Losing a hard drive is never a good experience. Reminds me I should really make some backups myself.

Tasker said:
As I have sensative documentation on mine, i'm not willing to risk sending it off...
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So the question now is, does Tasker:

A: Work for the government?
B: Work against the government?
C: Have an objectionable pornography collection?

Answers on a postcard...
 
ayase said:
Ouch. Losing a hard drive is never a good experience. Reminds me I should really make some backups myself.

Tasker said:
As I have sensative documentation on mine, i'm not willing to risk sending it off...
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So the question now is, does Tasker:

A: Work for the government?
B: Work against the government?
C: Have an objectionable pornography collection?

Answers on a postcard...
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Edit: Actually, I vote C.
 
I vote C, as I can't imagine many other ways to fill up a (relatively) recent 1TB drive...

Sucks though, losing everything must enormously frustrating no matter what it was.

R
 
Tasker said:
Apparently there's a fault in the firmware of all Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 series hard drives. Any made before january 09 have a chance of going pop whenever you start your computer up which makes it so that the bios won't see the disc . :x :evil:
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Do you have any more information on that fault? I have a 500GB one in a PC built last September, and as unimportant as my life is right now, I could do without losing my... umm... Peggle save file? I mean, I've one-hundred percented a good portion of those levels.
 
Rather than destroy the data you should just buy an external caddy for the drive and then use a data recovery programme to transfer the files from the corrupted drive onto your new one. We deal with these sorts of problems all the time at my company and there are always ways of recovering the data yourself (just don't tell my customers that)
 
Nope, external caddy doesn't work, it's something in the drives firmware that locks it up and prevents anything from seeing it.

There is a fix that somebody posted on the net, but it involves building a mini adapter type thingie and then running a shed load of code through hyper terminal - which if you get even one character out of place, renders the disk fecked for good. If I ever get the nerve, i'll try it one day, but for now i'm not brave enough.

As for the contents, most of it's games ( have a lot of games, bought loads over the years ), but the sensitive stuff, is stuff like passwords and personal details that I used for copy pasting into things, downloaded music and tv shows and DVDs from my collection converted for my PSP, nothing major but enough that my paranoia kicks in

Oh and porn...

...just kidding. :p
 
kupocake said:
Do you have any more information on that fault? I have a 500GB one in a PC built last September, and as unimportant as my life is right now, I could do without losing my... umm... Peggle save file? I mean, I've one-hundred percented a good portion of those levels.
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I believe the widespread issues were only on the 1TB+ drives; smaller units were absolutely fine.

R
 
skikes said:
Tasker said:
As I have sensative documentation on mine, i'm not willing to risk sending it off
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lolz

that has kiddy porn written all of it.
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That isn't even remotely funny.

I have banking details and passwords that I don't want some unknown pleb getting access to, i've been the victim of data thieves before so forgive me for being overly paranoid and mistrusting.
 
kupocake said:
Tasker said:
Apparently there's a fault in the firmware of all Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 series hard drives. Any made before january 09 have a chance of going pop whenever you start your computer up which makes it so that the bios won't see the disc . :x :evil:
Click to expand...
Do you have any more information on that fault? I have a 500GB one in a PC built last September, and as unimportant as my life is right now, I could do without losing my... umm... Peggle save file? I mean, I've one-hundred percented a good portion of those levels.
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All I have to hand at the moment is this...

http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate-7200-11-hdds-t128807.html

It's a bit long winded as it includes a lengthy method of recovering the drive, but the information about the fault is right at the start.

If you do have a drive with a potential fault, then there's supposed to be a firmware update you can download to stop it happening.
 
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