I am using seagate 500 gb SATA hdd firmware cc37. two days before it was working fine but now when I connect it to pc it enters into the BIOS too late and sometime it shows the hdd and sometimes not and when installing windows on another drive I connected it to the system after booting from xp it shows the drive in device manager for three or four minutes and goes off from the device manager after that.It is not opening any partition also at that time. Can someone tell me what is wrong with my hard disk

looks got weak head

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hi,
have you check does it recognized correct capacity after recognized?

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Yes it is showing full capacity and it shows the partitions also but are unaccessible. May be it is the firmware fault I am also searching for the firmware cc37 which is on my harddisk so that I can rewrite the firmware

You are wasting your time. It's NOT a firmware issue if the drive appears at correct size and even show partitions on it.

You either have severe media issues (bad sectors) or a bad/weak head (more likely).

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