timha Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 hey everybody, glad the fix is working out for everybody , i'm going to try it here in a day, thanks again to the guys who figured it out....what i was thinking though was that one thing we never documented with all the bricks was " how full were they at , at the time of failure, mine was at 450/500 gb when it died and i had it since last april 2008 primarily empty i guess.....was wondering if it becomes unrecognized when it reached a certain amount, or did we scratch that off the list before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunyat Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!Updated my SD15-firmware-bricked ST31000340AS Part No 9BX158-303 to the latest SD1A firmware and it bloody well worked. The drive and all its data is again visible.Many people are saying that this firmware upgrade won't help if the drive is already bricked, but this experience contradicts that.Some notes...After being bricked, the drive was not visible to BIOS in my Windows box, but was visible in the BIOS on another machine. I used the other machine to do the firmware upgrade, then moved the drive back into the Windows box as a data drive, and can now see it all in Windows. I don't know if using that other PC made a difference, but may be worth trying if you have other ones.This post has been edited by Karlston: Yesterday, 11:01 PMYES! -good job man! will see these afternoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFreek Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 some good news at last!could someone please provide a step by step guide to updating firmware for n00bs like me!how to burn bootbale iso and install the firmware etc.your help is greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robintay Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 wow excellent news. i've been following this thread for the last few days now and am also plagued with the ST31000340AS SD15 drive. it died a few months back and was contemplating freezing the drive to attempt to recover the data thinking it might be a hardware fault or something. now i've actually downloaded the firmware update from seagate yesterday before it was taken down so im really interested in the setup that was used to recover the drive. i've got a nvidia chipset mobo and the bios cant detect the drive at all. thanks to all who are helping others to recover their drives. fingers crossed that i can get back our holiday pics. wife is already killing me for not backing those up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSilverHotdog Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!Updated my SD15-firmware-bricked ST31000340AS Part No 9BX158-303 to the latest SD1A firmware and it bloody well worked. The drive and all its data is again visible.Many people are saying that this firmware upgrade won't help if the drive is already bricked, but this experience contradicts that.Some notes...After being bricked, the drive was not visible to BIOS in my Windows box, but was visible in the BIOS on another machine. I used the other machine to do the firmware upgrade, then moved the drive back into the Windows box as a data drive, and can now see it all in Windows. I don't know if using that other PC made a difference, but may be worth trying if you have other ones.This is not possible for most of us, who have drives bricked so bad no bios can see them. I have 6 boxes in my work room right now and 5 of them have different chipsets but not one single one can see this bricked Seagate, so no firmware fix will work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolcarpet Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Slightly off topic here, this incident has gotten me spooked and I'm looking to get an external hard disk to backup my data. Is anyone using Buffalo Mini Station?http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products...ation-turbousb/Any problems with it? I can't find any info on what hard disk lies inside, I don't want another shocker to find out it's a Seagate!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Gradius,This is not true. After RMA, you get 90 days or the balance of your 5 year warranty, whichever is the greater value.Seagate warrants that repaired or replaced products are covered for the greater of either the remainder of the original product warranty or 90 days."I don't like Seagate now, but yet I wouldn't put them down this way Thanks for the explanations, the other guy got me confuse on this matter. Gradius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caba212 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 okay it seems that there is a fix but i still dont understand how ppl r doing it. my drive is bricked and no other machine can recognize it not even in an external enclosure can some one pls help me. i have fotos and important data on this drive and dont have a clue on how to retrieve it. pls help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunyat Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 've been trying with last night fix with the Grand Trash one's.seems that the sd1a briked them! o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefloe01 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) Updated to SD1A last night after they silently fixed the first ISO with the incorrect flash program. So today my drives are (potentially) safe!! Happy birthday to me!! WOO HOO!! Edited January 20, 2009 by icefloe01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViniciusFerrao Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Where is the new SD1A update?Damnit, removed files at Seagate KB. I have a brand new SD15 1Tb disk here and want to upgrade but I got a memory exception with old SD1A update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpXuxu Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I think we all deserve some kind of compensation for the nightmare we are passing thru... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Updated to SD1A last night after they silently fixed the first ISO with the incorrect flash program. So today my drives are (potentially) safe!! Happy birthday to me!! WOO HOO!! Actually, they removed the firmware from site again.Gradius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradius2 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) Old firmware hash:File: MooseDT-32MB-SD1A.ISOMD5: F47E8927D241FAE6A5C85C249A57D1A1SHA1: CE0ABB95B0A8350959DD43212A7455EA41A02782CRC16 (ITU X.25/T.30): 3324CRC32 (ISO 3309): 7E7F3886CRC64 (ISO 3309): C3D44AFF55604A83"New" one:File: MooseDT-32MB-SD1A(2).ISOMD5: 2C48FC21925FB2C56219AF524E3CE8A4SHA1: 3E5CC22E03486D72BF5187287F2F473F510B6C1CCRC16 (ITU X.25/T.30): D839CRC32 (ISO 3309): CAD01127CRC64 (ISO 3309): CDF9A1C717B7170E Edited January 20, 2009 by Gradius2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpXuxu Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Where is the new SD1A update?Damnit, removed files at Seagate KB. I have a brand new SD15 1Tb disk here and want to upgrade but I got a memory exception with old SD1A update.I have the yesterday one at home. I can share it whenever i get home.Is there a new one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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