Crashed HD

Bracye

Bracye

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I'm looking for someone who can fix my harddrive. the drive is still spinning, but it wont detect when connecting it to my pc.

The general consensus between all the techy friends is that the electronic board on the drive went.

Its a 1TB Seagate drive.

If anyone can help with contact details for a company that can fix these things it will be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanx. I hate it when you speak to ppl and they like hmm and ahhh at you and then say maybe rather bring the drive so we can do a fault check. The one guy told me straight what is wrong. So I will have to do a warranty swop out. :( My whole life is gone now.
 
I'm gonna find a place to save my stuff online from now on.

Do any of you know if the ppl taking the broken drives actually repair them and then go through your stuff?
 
your porn is safe... no one will repair and look at it.
 
Bracye said:
I'm gonna find a place to save my stuff online from now on.

Do any of you know if the ppl taking the broken drives actually repair them and then go through your stuff?
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LOL... CSSI are VERY professional. They will repair it for you... and give it back to you. End of story, no hassles, No questions asked.

They present you with a comprehensive repair estimate once they have examined the drive.
 
There was a firmware problem with early seagate 1tb drives where after a while the drive would not be detected by the pc. A firmware update was released to fix the problem but once the problem occurs the drive has to be returned to be repaired. Apparently seagate will cover data restoration of affected drives. Here is some info:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html
 
Is there a way to get hold of Seagate South Africa? I know they are next to the N1 close to the New Road offramp in Midrand. Cause I went to the seagate site and they only courier drives to other countries.

Gambit that is exactly the drive and the problem.
 
Ok, I'm gonna phone Rectron tomorrow and find out about the warranty data retrievel thing.

Thanx guys for all the help so far.
 
Gambit said:
There was a firmware problem with early seagate 1tb drives where after a while the drive would not be detected by the pc. A firmware update was released to fix the problem but once the problem occurs the drive has to be returned to be repaired. Apparently seagate will cover data restoration of affected drives. Here is some info:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html
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Yes it could be this. See this thread

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr....11-BSY-(not-detected-in-BIOS)-error-solution

My 1TB bricked and following this I built a cable and woke it up. Then updated the firmware and drive sorted. Seagate were not interested in data recovery. They just offered to replace the drive which wasnt much use.
 
Bracye said:
Thanx Chun. That seems to be my solution, but I'm not that technically clued up to do stuff like that :(
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Nor me really. But I know enough to get me in trouble and am good at following instructions :)

Perhaps someone from the thread I referenced lives near you (JHB ?) and has done this can help.
Alternatively HTC_guy from this forum may do it, or attempt to do it for a fee if you can get the drive to him.
I am sure he wont mind a PM for help.

I was going this route with him but decided that the data on the drive was not really important so did not warrant spending money on it,
even though his 'rate' was very reasonable.

So I just had a bash at it myself. The downside is that if you cock it up you may permanently trash the drive.

Good luck ! Hope you get all your stuff back.
 
thanks for the referral

and yes if you get it wrong you can toss the drive, unless you re-mount the platters... but in most cases that actually WONT work either

:D
 
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