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Seagate Firmware Bug, Possible Fix?

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After my Seagate 750GB died, I've gotten a real education about this firmware bug. Has anybody here fixed the problem by swapping control boards (PCB) from an identical working drive?

By the way, Seagate is only offering data recovery services to people who buy the drives from stores. If it came with your computer, you are SOL.

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I've been searching through the internet trying to find an issue to the problem, although Seagate offers a firmware update, although it seems that in general it doesn't resolve the problem, or at the very least only the people whom it hasn't helped is reporting back about it.

Reply to Cure

Seagate has changed their warranty policy! They now offer free data recovery to ALL owners of the drives, even us lowly Dell customers. I've been working with them for about a week now and I gotta say it's changed my opinion of Seagate around.

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