valkyrio

Very, very glad to see that you got your hard drive working even though you froze and punched it (which I did too...lol)

He said he took precautions. When I read that I was also surprised, but maybe he actually knows what he's doing. I wouldn't ever dream of opening a hard drive I still want to use x_x

This is how I knew mine was bugged: Both my bricked drives are Seagate Barracudas 7200.11, with firmware SD15 Neither one was recognized by the BIOS They stopped working -for no reason- there was no physical nor software related reason for their lock up. After shutting them down one day, they simply stopped working the next. That's how the story goes, for pretty much every single bricked drive user. I have a feeling this fix won't help you, since your drive seems to have been damaged physically (the arm). That's all I can say, I've yet to get my cable so I can try to unbrick mine.

Unless you have a clean room in which you opened your hard drive...you might have already damaged it beyond repair. At least, from your own.

Some people just freak out (and some think they're entitled to answers...) Anyways I'm thankful to everyone who's helped compile this guide. I wish I had known about this sooner. I'm gonna try to repair my drives but I'm somewhat afraid they might've been damaged in the months since they locked up...(9 and 6 months.)

No, but it should be covered by hardware warranty. I think seagate has 1 years. But then again, do they care? You do have warranty until 2013... Check link. https://store.seagate.com/webapp/wcs/stores...urnOrderItemAdd I think that you can do the fix in order to get the drive detected in bios. I would however in you position, get a second opionion by someone else here. What do you thinks guys? Diblof, how did it happen? Did it just stop working one day? (And does it have the buggy firmware?) If it does, and if it just stopped working by itself (and you didn't hit it hoping it would make it spin up again) then just contact seagate, tell them you have a bricked drive, tell them your firmware and your model, and they should cover the data retrieval. If your drive is actually physically damaged, this fix won't work for you. You'll have to have pay for the hardware fix. You won't be able to fix it yourself. Do note though, that some clicking is normal, so long as it's not loud clicking.

Thanks a lot, I'll go ahead and test it out. If it works, it'd be a much simpler way

Hi, I don't know if it's appropriate for me to ask (or if someone's asked before) but I had someone tell me that it was possible to fix the drive using only one cable (this one: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_pag...products_id=70) and then go through with all the commands through the hyper terminal. Is that actually possible, has anyone done it? Or do you actually have to buy all those adapters that Gradius's guide uses?