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Seagate ST905003FJA105-RK Data Recovery Details
Seagate drives fail and the ST905003FJA105-RK is no exception to this.
   
On my Seagate, p/n: ST905003FJA105-RK That was connected to my MacBook by the USB port when I accidentally tripped on the cord and knocked the hard drive on the floor (falling 1.5 feet) and causing it to disconnect from my MacBook. I immediately got a "Device removal error" message, warning me about the dangers of disconnecting my USB device improperly. Currently when I plug in the hard drive I can hear the fan start, but when I connect it to my MacBook it does not appear in the Finder. I tried to connect it to my PC (it normally is compatible with both), and it will recognise that a device is connected but I cannot successfully call up its contents.
Paul Brown
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. I switched on my external hard drive and my computer recognises it. I can open the drive but I can't open any of the files on the external drive. The light on the front is usually blue but now it is red. I can hear it working and its not making any strange noises I have read about on the manufactures website.
..June Petts, Grimbsy, 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.
I plugged the drive into the wrong adapter and burned the PCP board. I realize the chances of finding the same board and firmware are slim. The drive does not spin now and I can see a burned module.
James Cole
Glasgow, Scotland
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 ST905003FJA105-RK please call us on 0207 112 1770. If you hear your Seagate ST905003FJA105-RK hard drive making some other unusual noises please call us on 0207 112 1770.
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