Hi All,

I have 1.5 tera of seagate (7200.11)
The problem with the drive is that every short and randomally time, the drive disconect it'self and even the bios does not see it.
I have to shut down the system completly, wait few minutes and than turning on the system. The HD is recognize again for few minutes and disconect again.

It is a defective HD (100%).
Seatools report that the drive is over 70 degree but it does not feel like that when I tuch it.
I have to buckup all the data from it. How do I do that?
How can I prevant from the drive to disconect or to expand the time before it does?

Best Regards,

Just curious what is your system configuration. I have seen this happen here on SATA drives on older model MB. Not sure if this one is your problem just curious what system configuration you are using on this drive and how you have it set up. Found here that older model mother boards chip set did not support these drives very well and was always losing them in the system configuration after a short period of time.

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Iorana Haraharaini

I dont do any special settings for that drive.
I worked with such drive before and it did not happen.
I positive sure that it is the drive because I check it on other computer.

I dont do any special settings for that drive.
I worked with such drive before and it did not happen.
I positive sure that it is the drive because I check it on other computer.

sorry for the spam, but someway I can't edit and delete my last message

I always thought you two sounded similar.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

RMA the HDD - get a new one and go on.

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Iorana Haraharaini

But I have to buckup the data first.
How can I extand the period time before the HD disconect it self?

Many Thanks!

Heat issue is probably the case. Take the drive out of PC, connect via external enclosure and then put a fan next to it or something. If that doesn't help, try unscrewing the PCB, blow dust out and screwing it back in.

What about this product? can it help solve me problem?
http://www.itrends.co.il/uid_40299/EVER ... -HD-SC.htm
It cost 10$
Is it worth the money and the supply time?

Or this one
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 63938&SID=
Which I didn't find the price of it.

Is there any way to bypass the temperature-sensor?
Any creative cooling methods? I don't think that table fan is effective for that case, isn't it?
Mmm... what about put the hard drive in the freezer for some hours?
I heared that it is the old trick but it ruin the hard drive

The new symptom from the hard drive is that: when I connect it with usb adaptor to my computer, I get from windows a pop message that I have to format the drive.
I think that sector 0 is corrupt or something.
I tried to retrieve the data with recovery data softwares such as "Getdata back for ntfs" and "Rstudio" with out any success.

Is that the case of BSY stat?