Desktop died....help!

[fonso]

haha. That pic is funny, I dont care who you are.

Anyway, I pulled the drive out and hooked it up via an interface card. I can hear it spin up, but cant do anything with it. That being said, i am going to pick up another drive and reinstall windows, then talk to a place here in town that says they can pull the data off. They are saying $55 bucks if they can do it, nothing if they cant. I figure I dont have anything to lose.

For those that are interested, this was a seagate drive that kicked the bucket on me.

It sounds to me like you have on your hands what is known as "a Seagate Brick." This happens after the drive reaches a certain amount of accesses and, due to a Firmware problem, it goes into a "locked state" and literally shuts down.

I suggest that you search for "I've got a Seagate Brick... HELP!"

Also, check out these sites for more info on Seagate "bricks":

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/

https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home

^^^ These two sites have some great info on unbricking the drive.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hard-drive-firmware-bricked,6889.html

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/ST31000340AS-Brick-help-please/td-p/23038

I hope this info helps you out.

Good luck.

[Jel]

It sounds to me like you have on your hands what is known as "a Seagate Brick." This happens after the drive reaches a certain amount of accesses and, due to a Firmware problem, it goes into a "locked state" and literally shuts down.

I suggest that you search for "I've got a Seagate Brick... HELP!"

Also, check out these sites for more info on Seagate "bricks":

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/

https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home

^^^ These two sites have some great info on unbricking the drive.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hard-drive-firmware-bricked,6889.html

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/ST31000340AS-Brick-help-please/td-p/23038

I hope this info helps you out.

Good luck.

Thanks for this info!

[fonso]

Thanks for this info!

Happy to have been of some help. Good luck with your unbricking.