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Seagate ST940801U2-RK Data Recovery Details
Seagate drives fail and the ST940801U2-RK is no exception to this.
   
Seagate - ST940801U2-RK. My computer is stuck in a reboot loop. I have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. The problem happened after I installed the windows service package 2. It seemed to install the update fine but after i restarted my computer i couldnt seem to get to my desktop. The computer manages to get to the light blue windows xp loading screen but instead of entering my desktop the computer reboots and the whole process starts over again.
..Oliver Stevens, Birmingham, UK
Seagate is the world's largest and oldest manufacturer of computer hard disks. The company has been going from strength to strength with its $1.9 billion acquisition of rival hard drive firm Maxtor in 2006. Segates flagship desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB - ST31000340AS units, are failing at an alarming rate and prompting outrage from their faithful clients. A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it’ll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won’t be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there’s power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting. We have the fix for this issues without the need to open the drives up.
Common Seagate Hard Disk issues include, Seagate Momentus - can suffer premature media damage; Seagate U series - can suffer motor damage; Seagate Cheetah - Firmware corruption is No1 issue; Seagate Barracuda - Suffer from firmware, motor and read/write head issues. LaCie Ethernet Disk and Vista access issue. Cannot access to the Lacie Drive via Vista. Log in works only with XP. When used the same login info with Vista,it doens't let me log in to the shared drive on the Lacie Ethernet Disk. Model Seagate ST940801U2-RK Its hard to see the number.
..J Prescott, Scotland, UK
Seagate hard drives are vunerable to a power surge or spike. As is the case with other hard disk's Seagate drives controller board is usually the weak spot that will fail. The controller board of most drives stores unique adaptive data that can only be associated with the drive that it was originally a part of. In other words, it's very seldom that you can just swap out a controller board from one drive to another and get the dead drive functioning again. In more cases than not the spindle motor controller driver (SMOOTH chip) on the logic board gets burnt. If this occurs the computer would shutdown completely, you would also normally notice a burning smell and when powered on the drive will not spin up at all.
If a drive is not spinning at all this can mean that there is a seized motor or indicates possible platter damage. Data recovery in this case involves opening the hard disk in a clean facility to work on the drive internally.
The Seagate(model ST940801U2-RK)Hi I have a computer that when I boot it up it gives me an error stating.
"Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Not Found"
Strike F1 to continue or F2 to run setup
I have tried another HDD, another IDE cable and still get the same error. I have also tried a master and slave combination with no success.
I also reset the NVRAM through the BIOS and checked all cables.
..Paul Bryne, Newcastle, UK
The last typical Seagate hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear.
Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files, stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the Seagate drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from Seagate Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.
The last typical Seagate hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear. Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files, stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the Seagate drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from Seagate Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your Seagate ST940801U2-RK please call us on +44 (0) 2890 961976. If you hear your Seagate ST940801U2-RK hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on +44 (0) 2890 961976.
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