My 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500gb still alive after 2 years. planning to sell it cheap, because already got samsung spinpoint. =P

I have a Seagate Barracuda GT 7200.11 1TB
ST31000340AS
Firmware: SD15

i think my board of the harddisk have been spoiled

is there anyway i can get replacement for my harddisk's board, or second hand?

does the firmware update erases all data on the drive? i have some pretty important stuff on it, afraid to risk losing everything on it

Nope, I had updated the firmware and all my data are intact.

i updated the firmware already, but still the drive is giving me problems. i can access the drive, but when i want to copy out my data, it just hangs..i can see from the LED indicator that it keeps on reading only, but no response at all. any hope on saving it?

Go to Seagate to download Sea Tool. It can can be used not only for checking your hard disk but also repairing it.

hello guys,
my seagate 500gb just got problem today..
bios(dfi p35 dk) cant detect it...it says "reset port error"
any solution to save my data??? plz help me..
i googled and found the diy fix but its so complicated....
any taiko can help me??

Well, ask the retailer whom sold you whether they can do specific warranty, I heard Seagate can recover the data for you FOC.
According to one of my friend at KL, he didn't manage to nego with the retailer and he exchange it with a 250GB external HDD, lol... after few months... yep

how do i use seatools to repair the drive? now it detects the drive in windows, but i cant even open any hard disk related programs, like seatools or acronis. it's just hangs at the start, saying detecting drives. cant even copy anything from the hard disk. what should i do now?

I was aiming for 7200.12 before I read this....

phew... (-/_-)X(- _ -)X(-_\-)

read through a few post... very few? (relative to 11 version) cases related to 7200.12....

What's make me step away from 7200.12 is its 3 years warranty period instead of their normal 5 years. Does that mean that they know there is something not right about this platform? I don't want to get into "fix thing" trouble and I also don't want the drive to die suddenly right after 3 years.



Too bad.... this "was" a good choice for me. nice speed, good price.

Okay.... Anyone got some good suggestions for 500 GB drive. mainly gaming & "download/upload" purpose..... \(X0X)/

go for WD drives, or even better, samsung F3

hmm my SD15 is still working flawlessly after 1 year +.
But I've back uped all the Data. Pray for it

I just fixed problem with all my Seagate 7200.11 500GB and 320GB that running only SATA-1.5GB previously ... now happily running at SATA 3GB.

Just set jumper near the SATA connector on the harddisk.

By default it was set at SATA 1.5GB only perhaps for compatibility with older board. ... I lol to myself

Umm, you're pretty lucky to not have this problem, but it's recommended to flash the firmware, some people just randomly had it after few months, few weeks, 3 days? and some even after 1 year+, and *shrug* didn't backup, retailer does not want to do the fussy warranty, one word "die".
I guess if you frequently backup those data from the HDD, you data should be safe.

FYI, Seagate reduced the warranty after this firmware fiasco.

sad, both my 500gb 7200.11 just die on me after 22 month. does seagate still give us foc recovery for this drive?

Something happening on my HDD today, BIOS warned me for some bad sector, luckily it just my storage and backup HDD, going to Update firmware later

You can get a new hdd from Seagate but data recovery is way out of the question. But before you do that, use SeaTool to repair your hdd.

my bios no longer detect it.

Not detect never mind. Burn the SeaTool to a CD and then boot up your pc using that CD.

Then u can go for Long DST check and will be prompted for repairing after some time.

Yes, it will really take some times!!!