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I have a seagate 1tb ST31000340AS drive with SD15 firmware. I bought it less than a year ago. I used this drive as a backup, was in my desk drawer with all my data on it I have kept for the past 10+ years.
My drive in my pc died on me two weeks ago which contained all this same data. I rma'd it to WD (have not received it yet) so in the meantime I put my backup drive in, the seagate. Well this weekend it died on me! it spins up, sounds fine, bios does not recognize it but windows sees the drive but will not initialize it, gives an I/O error when you try. I can't believe I have had two drives fail on me!
Anyone have any idea how/if I can get my data off this drive?
Apparantly there was a problem with this model drive from seagate and they had firmware update to fix it, but they claimed today on the phone that this drive was not in that batch. But its giving the same problems that others had, bios does not recognize the drive.
I have everything that is important to me on this drive.. How can I get my data off it without spending who knows how much it would cost to send it to a data recovery place.
My drive in my pc died on me two weeks ago which contained all this same data. I rma'd it to WD (have not received it yet) so in the meantime I put my backup drive in, the seagate. Well this weekend it died on me! it spins up, sounds fine, bios does not recognize it but windows sees the drive but will not initialize it, gives an I/O error when you try. I can't believe I have had two drives fail on me!
Anyone have any idea how/if I can get my data off this drive?
Apparantly there was a problem with this model drive from seagate and they had firmware update to fix it, but they claimed today on the phone that this drive was not in that batch. But its giving the same problems that others had, bios does not recognize the drive.
I have everything that is important to me on this drive.. How can I get my data off it without spending who knows how much it would cost to send it to a data recovery place.
