Same thing happening to me. Luckily i got my unique files onto a backup. FYI never buy a Seagate 3TB Barracuda, they have terrible death rates. Other models under the barracuda name showed much better stats. Hope this helps someone.
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Damn. Of course all drives or any piece of technology can fail but from my research the 3TB models are around 2x as likely to die or obtain corrupt sectors than the 1,2 and 4TB models. I'm sorry to hear your 2TB model died. Edit: not died but you know
If my memory is correct they have 3 year warranty (I think). Mine was about 4 months too old to use but maybe you can use yours if you have the receipt? If not Seagate should be able to figure it out from the serial number. SeaTools can sometimes repair the drive, not so in my case. I'm just glad to hear you got your porn because...you know...priorities. =D
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... my porn and some of my games. You gave it your best, at least you got the most important things :D
Serious: I store all my important stuff on my nas which makes a copy to an external usb hdd attached. My pc may fail - the nas got it covered. pc and nas fail - usb hdd has it covered. if they all fail, hell breaks loose :)
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Anyone remember the faulty Seagate firmware bug from a couple years ago?
The system would suddenly no longer detect a hdd anymore, without any warning whatsoever.
There was a firmware update for affected drives but of course as a hardcore user rebooting your system to do such an update is not an option ... and then my system wouldn't detect the drive anymore one day. -.-
Had to actually "hack" the board of the drive and reset the firmware by using an Arduino and a telnet connection directly into the drive's firmware. Fun times.
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I bought one of the extra-bad 3 TB Seagate drives at a cut rate, and it lasted longer than a lot of other owners' reports. Rather than the click of death, it simply disappeared from the BIOS. I have some hope for a controller board replacement bringing it back to life to salvage its contents. (This is whitewashing the hard drive death experience. I'm still grieving.)
EXPAND DONG
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good on the data recov ^^
at least you can use this as an excuse to "expand" the hard drive size when replacing ;)
hehe
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So, my HDD just died. It is not even detected.
Backup? Haha, yeah... I lost all my personal work and games.
Enjoy this moment with me and have a giveaway.Good news!
After some reboots, I managed to make the hard drive to be recognized by the system.
I was trying the ddrescue tool and Hakimodo came to my aid.
He realized that there were no errors in the partition I was trying to clone, then he helped me with smarter ways to salvage the data. :D
Other partition is really damaged. If I try to clone it or just copy data, after a while, it freezes the system and BIOS won't detect it.
The important thing is that I was able to recover my work, my porn and some of my games.
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