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| Author: | Xitomatl [ March 20th, 2009, 20:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | pcimage [ March 21st, 2009, 10:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | Xitomatl [ March 21st, 2009, 12:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | harddrivespecialist [ March 21st, 2009, 12:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | pcimage [ March 23rd, 2009, 6:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
Agree, doesn't sound like PCB problem. |
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| Author: | Russwinters [ March 23rd, 2009, 13:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | Xitomatl [ March 23rd, 2009, 18:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
so there is no hope but in forking over $1000+ to a data recovery service? |
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| Author: | Junior0409 [ April 8th, 2009, 7:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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| Author: | harddrivespecialist [ April 8th, 2009, 9:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted: Seagate 1.5 TB ST31500341AS Board or Whole Drive |
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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