Seagate Barracuda 7200.7

[ninjasFTW]

Hi,

I have a seagate barracuda 7200.7 160Gb that has died.

The drive initializes ok and can be seen in the bios and mounted etc. however after a minute or so (it vaires each time) the drive stops responding.

Testing in mhdd shows that the drive goes to busy on and then stay on after a few moments of trying to copy data off the drive using atof.

Does anyone know what could cause this? i know the 7200.11 had a busy on problem but i cant find any reference to the 7200.7 having it and I thought it was on drive power up rather than a few working minutes.

Any advice on whether it is heads or maybe the control board would be helpful.

Thanks!

[pcimage]

Sounds like bad sectors, or possibly a bad head.

PCB will not make any difference.

Shouldn't be too expensive to recover AT THIS STAGE with the right equipment and knowledge.

If the data is worth anything at all, then suggest you contact member "buster80" who has the equipment and skills for this case and is in Glasgow.

[northwind]

+1 for buster80

[ninjasFTW]

hmm unable to send PM's as have just registered. Would appreciate it if someone could PM him on my behalf and ask him to drop me a message?

Thanks!

[loki]

hmm unable to send PM's as have just registered. Would appreciate it if someone could PM him on my behalf and ask him to drop me a message?

Thanks!

I have PM'd buster80 for you.

Loki

[buster80]

PM'd

thanks guys

andy