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***CaffeinePowered*** · 03-31-2010, 08:41 PM

(03-31-2010, 08:35 PM)negate link Wrote: If you schedule windows chkdisk to run at at windows boot it might be able to fix the drive and make it work again. I had a drive 'die' on me the technical support people all said I would have to replace it but after I did that it worked again just fine.

I would do this...except even the BIOS doesnt see it, if the motherboard doesnt see the drive at all, fat chance windows will Sad

***HeK*** · 03-31-2010, 10:11 PM

What you do is, buy another of the same HDD, swap the control boards, and RMA the bad 'drive'.

***CaffeinePowered*** · 03-31-2010, 10:19 PM

(03-31-2010, 10:11 PM)HeK link Wrote: What you do is, buy another of the same HDD, swap the control boards, and RMA the bad 'drive'.

The guy on the phone actually asked if I did that....

....I thought I would have to break a warranty seal to do that.

***CaffeinePowered*** · 04-01-2010, 06:15 PM

Ok, so the issue with my drive was not what I expected, turns out it was the drive's firmware. It had faulty fucking firmware, had I known about this before hand I could have updated the firmware myself, but since the drive became unrecognizable by the BIOS I could not do this.

When they flashed it they verified all the data to be in good working order and will be shipping it back to me tomorrow. Since this was due to faulty firmware, Seagate is picking up the tab, so chalk another one up for karma I guess.

Now they get to write a happy letter from me instead of a rant.

04-01-2010, 07:03 PM

this thread should be condensed and merged into the lulz thread.

Ianki · 04-02-2010, 10:01 AM

i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

***CaffeinePowered*** · 04-02-2010, 10:07 AM

(04-02-2010, 10:01 AM)Ianki link Wrote: i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

Who do I look like, Versus? neonie

K2 · 04-02-2010, 11:03 AM

(04-02-2010, 10:07 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: [quote author=Ianki link=topic=4380.msg144789#msg144789 date=1270220476]
i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

Who do I look like, Gary Glitter?
[/quote]

Fixed that for you.

***HeK*** · 04-02-2010, 11:38 AM

(04-02-2010, 10:07 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: [quote author=Ianki link=topic=4380.msg144789#msg144789 date=1270220476]
i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

Who do I look like, Versus? neonie
[/quote]

Only a matter of time before the US matches Canada with CP laws.

Versus · 04-02-2010, 03:18 PM

(04-02-2010, 11:03 AM)K2 link Wrote: [quote author=Caffeine link=topic=4380.msg144790#msg144790 date=1270220852]
[quote author=Ianki link=topic=4380.msg144789#msg144789 date=1270220476]
i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

Who do I look like, neonie?
[/quote]

Fixed that for you.
[/quote]

K2 · 04-02-2010, 05:23 PM

(04-02-2010, 03:18 PM)Versus-pwny- link Wrote: [quote author=K2 link=topic=4380.msg144794#msg144794 date=1270224230]
[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=4380.msg144790#msg144790 date=1270220852]
[quote author=Ianki link=topic=4380.msg144789#msg144789 date=1270220476]
i'm glad this didn't turn into a "man turns in a hard drive of underage porn to get repaired, house gets raided" story.

Who do I look like, neonie?
[/quote]

Fixed that for you.
[/quote]
[/quote]

Did you see the micro-text in Caff's original post?

Versus · 04-02-2010, 06:20 PM

no.

***CaffeinePowered*** · 04-06-2010, 07:47 AM

Got my hard drive back yesterday, worked perfectly fineÂ ;D

Kirby · 04-07-2010, 03:59 PM

(04-06-2010, 07:47 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: Got my hard drive back yesterday, worked perfectly fineÂ ;D

Nub.

IdiotWithGuns · 04-29-2010, 01:00 PM

***HeK*** · 04-29-2010, 11:02 PM

(04-29-2010, 01:00 PM)IdiotWithGuns link Wrote: Time to save some money for a nas
http://umlan.com/temp/nas/IMG_4043%20(Medium).JPG

Hope you checked your serials for the firmware bug.

IdiotWithGuns · 04-30-2010, 08:40 AM

yeah looks like its good

Dtrain323i · 05-03-2010, 09:07 PM

My 1TB Seagate HDD took a shit on me. Less than 1 year since I bought it. I also just found out that somewhere along the line my exteral HDD got unplugged from the computer so it hasn't been backing itself up.

FML

***HeK*** · 05-03-2010, 10:26 PM

(05-03-2010, 09:07 PM)Dtrain323i link Wrote: My 1TB Seagate HDD took a shit on me. Less than 1 year since I bought it. I also just found out that somewhere along the line my exteral HDD got unplugged from the computer so it hasn't been backing itself up.

FML

It's not a gen 11 drive, is it?

***CaffeinePowered*** · 05-04-2010, 04:49 AM

(05-03-2010, 10:26 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Dtrain323i link=topic=4380.msg150497#msg150497 date=1272938825]
My 1TB Seagate HDD took a shit on me. Less than 1 year since I bought it. I also just found out that somewhere along the line my exteral HDD got unplugged from the computer so it hasn't been backing itself up.

FML

It's not a gen 11 drive, is it?
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Yes, check the serial number on it, if its got .11 at the end, its a known issue and may be salvageable

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