is my 1TB seagate dead?

[warriorfan23]

Last night I turned my computer on and left the room as it was booting up. I got back and it was totally frozen. I could move the little arrow around, but couldn't click on anything. OK, fine. I restarted my computer and it wouldn't boot into windows. Tried again in safe mode. No go.

OK, I thought, maybe it's the ram. I have 4 1gb sticks in there. I took out all but one and tried booting. Yay it got into windows and everything was excellent....except my 1TB seagate now shows up as a 32mb unformatted drive? What the heck? OK, so I shut down and test out each other memory stick. They all work. I put them all back in and now it's time to troubleshoot the hard drive. I tried using different sata cables, to no avail. I tried plugging into different sata slots on the mobo, no worky.

My computer knowledge isn't that great so can you guys help me out? I don't know what else to try. It's weird that the drive is detected in the bios and by windows as a 32mb drive. I had a lot of somewhat important work data on there. Good thing I back up all the REALLY important stuff to a different drive.

Can I RMA this drive? I did some cleaning during the winter holidays and threw out the Seagate box....doh!

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Denithor

Originally posted by: Blain
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JK

Seriously, if you use their software please report back with results to inform us of whether it helps or not.

I'm a rabid listener of "Security Now". Steve Gibson is always reading email feedback about the astounding recoveries that SpinRite has pulled off.
Steve is also the one that gave us https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2">ShieldsUP</a> to test for open ports.


The last email testimonial for SpinRite from the show (linked here)...
"STEVE: And I have what is perhaps one of the oddest SpinRite stories in a hundred and...

LEO: Oh, come on. You've had some pretty odd ones.

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LEO: Really.

STEVE: This is from Mike Roberts, whose subject looked rather benign. The subject was "SpinRite recovers from burned hard drive."

LEO: Okay.

STEVE: So he says, "Hello. I recently had one of my older computers fail to boot. When attempting to start up, the motherboard would only issue a series of beeps. I figured the first thing would be to replace each part piece by piece to determine which part was causing the problem. But replacing each piece failed to solve the problem. Next, I decided to move the jumper on my motherboard to clear the CMOS. Reasonable. As I was turning the machine back on, I accidentally dropped a screwdriver into it, and it began emitting sparks, and parts began to catch on fire. Within seconds my power was shorted, and the entire house lost power. Without even thinking, I grabbed a nearby can of Mountain Dew." He probably had been drinking too much of that. Don't know if anyone knows, that's seriously caffeine loaded. He says, "Without even thinking I grabbed a nearby can of Mountain Dew and splashed it on the burning computer."

LEO: Oh, my god.

STEVE: "I realize now that this was an electrical fire, and pouring this on earlier, before the power went out, would have been disastrous. After turning the power back on from the basement, I went to assess the damage. Needless to say, pretty much everything was destroyed beyond repair. Even if it wasn't all burned and/or melted..."

LEO: It was covered with sugar.

STEVE: "...it was now covered in Mountain Dew. The files on my hard drive were not critically important, but I wanted them. I took the hard drive, pulled the melted plastic off, and wiped the stickiness and black burn marks off. I connected the hard drive to a clip that I had pulled off an external hard drive and tried to connect it to my computers. Neither my Windows, Mac, or Linux machines could find the drive. So I decided to try one more thing. I connected the drive to a computer and started up SpinRite."

LEO: Oh, man.

STEVE: "To my utter disbelief, SpinRite found the drive, and I ran it at level 2 for data recovery. After SpinRite was finished, the drive was recognized by my computers, and I recovered every single file. Thank you. P.S.: I love the show. Keep it up."

LEO: P.P.S.: I'm going to stop drinking so much Mountain Dew.

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LEO: And don't drop a screwdriver into your computer. It's a bad idea.

STEVE: Bad idea."

 

[Quiksilver]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-...ort/downloads/seatools

 

[warriorfan23]

OK, I checked everything with SeaTools and it passes every test.

 

[Quiksilver]

Are you OC'd?

 

[warriorfan23]

Everything is stock speed. Looks like I'm going to have to RMA. Check out this thread on a lot of failing 7200.11 Seagates.

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/..._drives&thread.id=3668

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: warriorfan23
OK, I checked everything with SeaTools and it passes every test.

Originally posted by: warriorfan23
Everything is stock speed. Looks like I'm going to have to RMA.

Seagate is going to issue you a RMA number when the drive passes their diagnostic test?

 

[warriorfan23]

I've been keeping up to date with the firmware situation and will wait until there is a final solution before I try the RMA.

 

[Lightning983]

Okay i had the exact same problem with 2 of my Samsung f1's.

Are you possibly using a Gigabyte motherboard? because i did a bit of research when it happened to me, and it happens with 1Tb drives sometimes. The board just decides to switch to 24-bit LBA adressing, or some thing like that.

I basically got into DOS, and ran a program HDAT2, which restored my drives to full size.
There are other tools out there to solve it, but this is the only program that actually worked for me.

And BIOS updates from Gigabyte didn't help.

You can also try programs like (they worked for others but not for me):
Hdd capacity restore (thsi is a windows tool, and easiest to try 1st)
MHDD


I hope this was of some help,

 

[Elixer]

Before the RMA, you might as well try testdisk.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Good program.
(and free)