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Due to some people that only know copy and paste, and later request donations ... I am thinking if I will give the programs or not.
I know, that's a little selfish. You could just host it yourself though. Don't let a few greedy people stop you from helping hundreds of others.
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67:9SZ*****:ST3320613AS:9FZ-162-300:SD11:08391:2008-03-29:TK:2008-08-01:2008-12-22:OEM:kadolf:Germany:(0GB reported):WinServer 2k8 x64
Has this fix been tested on other non-SD15, 7200.11 drives?
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I have a drive on the way here now to see 100% if this works. It should be here within the hour.
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Any updates on this?
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Seagate will be in deep problem for sure if they won't fix this for good.
Seagate are already in deep trouble. It will become very apparent when they realize that no one trusts them enough to buy their drives. As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing they can do now to amend this screwup
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No problem. I'll order my RS232 TTL now, but it should only arrieve after 27th.
If anyone try this guide (before than me), please comment if you had some difficulty, or something like that. The hardest part I see is to re-connect the PCB back to HDA while is still under power.
Gradius
I just ordered an RS232 board, but I'm gonna wait till all the kinks are ironed out.
Maybe someone with basic programming skills will release a simple GUI/program that automates the whole thing.
As for mounting the logic board, I'd use a teflon strip on the motor contacts, and pull it once the 2 screws next to either contact grids are secured down.
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Thanks For putting this together Gradius.
For those who can't find the "RS232 to TTL" board locally, there are plenty of them on ebay, just search for "RS232 -usb" or "MAX232"
Also, make sure its rated for 5v, then you can power it from your PSU.
And if anyone can find the little jumper cables on ebay too, please post a link.
In Windows XP SP3, the HyperTerminal is in "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\hypertrm.exe"
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Model: ST31000340AS
Firmware version: SD15
Date Code: 09045
Serial Number: 5QJ0****
Site Code: WUXISG Made in China
Seagate-Tool says: AFFECTED ... (after typing serial in upper-case letters)....
Date of purchase: Aug 2008
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suddenly seagate admits issues with their harddisk and offers now a tool to reactivate the affected drives!
pantera
Can you please link me to the tool that reactivates the drive? I can't find it.
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PLEASE: Help to make the EEPROM list.
I don't know how to get the EEPROM, maybe you could post a guide.
Anyway, I uploaded a pic of the PCBs that I have, I hope it helps.
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Have you guys seen this? I can insert it into the first post, just PM me if you'd like to see it there.
http://www.kbklawfirm.com/seagate/Seagate-...-hard-drive.php
They're chasing their next paycheck, but I think most people just want their data back. I'd take that over a refund.
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the failure being talked about in this thread has absolutely no symptoms.
There is one.
If you come home, and notice that you've bought a seagate drive, backup your data ASAP. Failure is imminent.
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Anyone still trying to recover that password, I've just run the ARCHPR 4.5 english.dic with smart mutations with no luck. It's also not a number between 0 and 2000000.
I get the feeling its Chinese, which is even more impossible to guess. Even if you had it, you'd have trouble getting winrar to recognize it.
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Just a thought... instead of trying to crack the password, is anyone on the forums well versed enough with low level Windows device driver stuff, such that they can write an ATA sniffer to see what commands are being sent from the HDDoctor software? Perhaps that's another way to get at the solution... at least that one is proven, whereas this one may or may not be real... Just a thought...
A. We are not cracking anything. That would be illegal and a violation of forum rues. What we are trying to do is recover a password to a publicly available file.
B. An ATA/Serial sniffer has been suggested a dozen times, but first we need someone with an HD Doctor who is willing to do that. But you are right, that would be the best solution to this problem.
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If I remember correctly, I needed to crack a password last year sometime. I divided the dictionary by four and started four instances of the program so each could have one core of the processor...
Just found a 2 GB word list. Gonna crank my quad to 3.6 and do exactly as you suggested.
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What do you think of the distributed attack idea?
That would be great, except none of the RAR password recovery tools are multi-threaded, so my quad core is working at 1/4 possible load. At this rate the "english with smart mutations" is gonna take about 20hrs.
If anyone can find a GPU (Cuda) powered RAR recovery program, please let us know. Those chips brute force about 20 times faster than consumer CPUs.
By the way, this is all assuming the password is actually a WORD. A true brute force would take a few decades.
So unlike all those d**kheads over on the HDD Guru forums.Yeah, those pillocks a complete cun*s. As soon as they start to figure something out, there's as storm of back peddling and covering up/post removals, as it may affect their "bread and butter". WTF is the point of having a help forum if any actual "help" is removed on the grounds that it's bad for their bottom line. Pr*cks, the lot of em.
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I have started a brute force attack to the rar file with a password recovery utility to try to find the password...
I'm running a 1-7 digit numerical brute force, and an English dictionary brute force with smart mutations in ARCHPR right now.
If it don't find anything with the standard wordlist, I'm gonna try some of the ones here:
http://www.theargon.com/achilles/wordlists/
keep us updated.
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I found a china-company that have a software for com-terminals that can fix lba=0 and bsy fix but the file you can download was encrypted with a password so if anybody is good in that kind a stuff you can find the file attached in this message.
I'm betting the password is Chinese, but I'll try an english attack with smart mutations anyway. And a 6 digit numerical while I'm at it. Silly single threaded software
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I'm a little reluctant to peek inside it or modify it yet as I'll still need it in 100% working condition for other people sending me in drives.
Could you at least post some pictures of the kit so everyone can see it? We're all very curious here.
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FWIW, for my recovery the price I paid for my serial to sata cable + software was $500.
Can you please post a picture of the Serial to SATA cable? I've never seen one of these before.
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Is the 0 GB bug the same as the BSY bug? Or do they both happen at the same time? It's either 2 different problems, or people are using the terms interchangeably.
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I know a lot of people are desperate to get their data back, but, just be careful who you send your drive to. You don't want to end up losing it forever.
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Hmm.. all listed 7200.11 models coincidentally appear to have that 0,34% annualized failure rate.. 0,34% of how many drives in total would that be?
Well, my drive 100% failed in 4 months, so that's and Annualized Failure Rate of 300% !! I Win !!
Awwwsommmme !!! i think we should all throw in and get Fuzzy a WD Black as a first place drive, for real, that really is bad luck dude............
Heh, already bought one, but Thanks
From seagate forum, it appears he has a fix/ solution for this problem.===================================
fuzzby
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I had the same issue with no detect in BIOS on boot. I also had the same frustrations in trying to get this acknowledged by support. However after much research I've found out that the firmware locked the drive in a BUSY state that does not allow BIOS detection. I ordered a repair kit online and it was able to reset the firmware and I have the drive working 100% now. No data lost, and I'm still using the drive so no need for RMA either. Kit was expensive though but this issue IS fixable.
If anyone needs help please feel free to PM me. I'm not a professional recoverer, just a determined Seagate customer but given the lack of recovery options Seagate is providing I'm hoping I can help other people out through this most frustrating experience.
I'm based in Toronto, Canada.
Has anyone contacted this man? He may be able to listen to the TX - RX lines and give us exactly the commands we need.
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Hmm.. all listed 7200.11 models coincidentally appear to have that 0,34% annualized failure rate.. 0,34% of how many drives in total would that be?
Well, my drive 100% failed in 4 months, so that's and Annualized Failure Rate of 300% !! I Win !!
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HEAR HEAR 
The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs
in Hard Drive and Removable Media
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Just Fixed My Drive
Got my RS232-TTL adapter this morning, backing up my data right now.
But only after figuring out that the connections are TX to TXD, and RX to RXD. Should've been the first thing I checked
Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed to this solution, and Gradius for putting up this guide, and putting up with the naysayers.