Hi,

My Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB IDE Drive stopped being recognised in the bios on boot. No prior symptoms.
Tested in several PCs, bios tries for 1 or 2 mins to detect drive and then moves on.

Drive spins up, but powers off after 2 minutes.
When powering up the drive makes a single, very quiet, click. When power is removed, there is often a short quiet buzz, like a mosquito. When the motor comes to rest there is a another single, very quiet, click.

Any thoughts as to what the problem might be?

Model: ST3300622A
p/n: 9BD044-320
Firmware: 3.AND
Date: 06317
Site AMK Singapore

Hi, if your drive does spinn up as it should but no reconized I would say that you either have corrupt firmware or bad/weak heads.
Anyhow it's nothing you can do by your self, check if there is a local Recovery company near you, they should be able to check and diagnose the drive rather quickly for a fair fee.

Regards/ Bosse

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