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Xitomatl
 Post subject: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 20th, 2009, 20:41 
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Just when I was about to make a backup, 600+ GB go bye-bye! Cry me a river? I suspect my problem is board related and will buy a working board or a whole working HDD, new or used.

The following MUST Match:

ST31500341AS
Firmware: SD17
Side Code: TK

Ideally as close in date code to 09134

If you have a match lets talk!
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 21st, 2009, 10:47 
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Why do you suspect it's board related?

Also, you do realise that all 7200.11 PCB's are unique to the drive, and require modification before they have a chance of working?

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Xitomatl
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 21st, 2009, 12:07 
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The motor spins in short, regular intervals, with no clicking sounds. The drive is not recognized at all by the computer. And if I try to start up the computer with the drive connected, the computer freezes during the OS loading screen (Vista). From what I've read, it sounds like the PCB may be the problem.

No, I had no idea that all 7200.11 PCB's are unique to each drive. Could you direct me to more information on that or explain it? What kind of modification?

Thanks a lot for your help.
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harddrivespecialist
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 21st, 2009, 12:45 
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It does not sound like PCB problem at all.

You have some other problem, inside a drive.
It could be firmware issue, Service Area issue or Physical problem.
Unfortunately, all of those problems could only be solved by a pro.

You can find many good pro's on this forum, if data is important to you or exchange your drive under warranty.

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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2009, 6:57 
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Agree, doesn't sound like PCB problem.

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Russwinters
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2009, 13:31 
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This is likely spindle failure, or circuit failure on the spindle. It could be stiction to, but that is less likely.
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Xitomatl
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2009, 18:17 
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so there is no hope but in forking over $1000+ to a data recovery service?
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Junior0409
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: April 8th, 2009, 7:24 
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I thought seagate had released a firmware update to fix this problem. Err, here.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/sea ... lures.html
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harddrivespecialist
 Post subject: Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive
PostPosted: April 8th, 2009, 9:37 
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Junior0409 wrote:
I thought seagate had released a firmware update to fix this problem. Err, here.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/sea ... lures.html


....to prevent this problem.

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