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Originally Posted by psyang
Just a stab in the dark, but is the drive a seagate? I just "recovered" a Seagate drive that suffered from bad firmware. The drive just suddenly became unrecognizable by the system, and was unrecognizable in an external dock. I sent the drive in to Seagate. They updated the firmware and the drive came back with all data intact, all at no charge (they paid for shipping too). The bug is such that, once the proper firmware was applied, the data becomes available again. In my experience, a drive rarely fails and becomes totally unrecognizable unless it suffers a serious head crash or something. |
It is, but it's a different model entirely. Much older.