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Luckily Seagate offered the firmware update and the the process completed successfully. Unfortunately no luck and the symptoms are the same. I am thinking may be head is stuck, should I open it?

Thanks for your new idea. I did not think about this before. Do you know if there is any generic approach to write the firmware back to the HDD?

I killed my 1TB external hard drive by accident. It is a 9SF2A4-500 - Seagate Expansion 1TB USB 2.0 3.5-inch External Hard Drive. I was doing low level formatting (old school) i.e; writing random 0,1 in one pass when suddenly I got BSOD and computer started rebooting. But since then HDD is...