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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detecting!!

October 12th, 2012, 22:31

I have a desktop pc core i3 with Intel DH61WW it was just working fine.This morning when I switched on,Windows freezed for a long time so I switched off my ups and restarted,Windows again freezed.This time when I switched off my ups my pc still running,I don't know what malfunction in my ups,But this time hard disk is not recognized by bios and as well as windows.I tried changing cables but no uses.I also tried in my friend's pc but the result is same.One thing happened in my friend's pc,I went In device manager and had a scan for hard ware changes.my HDD appeared for a while and appeared a message to format it and then disappeared.I have a lot of data on this.Please help me !!!

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 0:53

Hard disk is deteriorating, bad sectors and likely a firmware problem. If you want to confirm this, search "terminal" and post output here once powering drive on.

Do not format if data is important.

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 7:00

I didn't get you ,terminal means
I examined the drive is spinning,
I want to say one more thing I tried seatools dos but no use...
please help me

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 9:11

Use the search function

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 9:25

where to use search? in this forum or in my hdd?

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 9:32

thank you labtech
could you please tell me the procedure to search terminal

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 13th, 2012, 13:49

you need to make this.

http://hddguru.com/articles/2005.10.01- ... schematic/

Use Hyperterminal and post the output

Get some help if you can't do it yourself.

google around, all these information is easily available .


But if your data is important, think if you want to do it yourself or take pro help.

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 14th, 2012, 5:07

you mean I have to connect rs232 to my hdd and perform some tests??
sir yesterday I again tried seatools Dos it some times detecting hdd but unable to perform short test as well as long tests....

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 14th, 2012, 8:03

shabber wrote:you mean I have to connect rs232 to my hdd and perform some tests??

Yes. But for now don't send any commands. Just capture HDD startup messages. Separate power supply for HDD is handy.

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 15th, 2012, 15:36

please any one post the link of complete tutorial....

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 15th, 2012, 20:02

Here it is: http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic872300.html

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 16th, 2012, 4:31

thank u SAjunky
but I need in English,..,...

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 16th, 2012, 4:47

The "search" function on the Forum, Google is easy to use as well. Here are 2 links about the TTL serial connection this is NOT a normal rs232 signal level so don't use normal serial port level pins you need the TTL level signals described below.

http://hddguru.com/articles/2005.10.01- ... schematic/

http://www.amazon.com/PL2303HX-RS232-Ca ... +usb+rs232

Here is info about where to connect cables to the drive

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

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb ST350310AS not detectin

October 17th, 2012, 3:22

Thank you Networks
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