Seagate 1tb not being detected ?

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I had my pc running till 1-2am as usual but today afternoon my segate 1TB[sT31000340AS] hdd was not being detected ? it was bought like 6months back.

I removed all the hdd except for this, tried different power-cables and sata connectors but nothing works. The hdd is not being detected in bios.

The hdd starts to spin first, i get a light jerk but after 5-10secs it shuts down or may be the speed decreases, this happens in every restart ! I don't have any idea of such issues can anyone help me with it ?

I know that my model is on mass failing list of seagate flagship but when i checked my serial no. it was not on the list of failing model. I am really frustrated with this as 80-90% of hdd was loaded .

1. afaik the hdd is not really dead, this issue can be fixed or replacement is the only option ?

2. Will i loose my data ?

3. What if i wanna get back my data ? Will seagate help me ?

4. Any other opinions for this situation ???

The drive is in Warranty, Expiration 24-Oct-2013 . It had SD15 firmware, i don't really know much about hdd firmwares, can i update the firmware in such situation ?

[jaclaz]

Look in the forum you posted:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=5

there are 4 (four) sticked threads related to a known problem with Seagate drives.

Just start reading them.

jaclaz