After replacing PC’s power seems that two of my hard drives got hit for some reason. One SSD (no big deal about that) and other one 1TB Seagate HDD with lots of stuff but most importantly pictures of fun past times etc.
No sound, no nothing and seems that this HD does not even start up.
Got similar new hard drive and used its BCP board to replace the one on damaged drive as I thought that some components on that board got damaged as the drive not even start with plain power cable.
Now got some signs of life:
When booting up the drive, platter starts spinning and by the sound of the drive, seems that readwrite head is moving from inner landing zone and then returning back (and then making small click sound). This happens perhaps for few seconds and perhaps ten or so back and forth movements of the heads (=number of clicks it makes when hitting back to landing zone).
Also, HDD was not recognized by BIOS at this point.
So, thought that perhaps the head has been damaged too and therefore tries to read from the disk but cannot and tries that few times until gives up. And when I was looking for the instructions of how to change the readwrite head, saw some comments that (at least some) Seagate Barracuda HDD’s have unique BIOS and if chaning PCB, needs to transfer that BIOS too to get HDD function properly.
That can explain why the head moves back and forth at the start as if not finding some (unique) info or settings are a bit off, or whatever, cannot continue..
So, do I need to somehow transfer that BIOS (Firmware) and what are my options to do so? Worth of the pain?
No sound, no nothing and seems that this HD does not even start up.
Got similar new hard drive and used its BCP board to replace the one on damaged drive as I thought that some components on that board got damaged as the drive not even start with plain power cable.
Now got some signs of life:
When booting up the drive, platter starts spinning and by the sound of the drive, seems that readwrite head is moving from inner landing zone and then returning back (and then making small click sound). This happens perhaps for few seconds and perhaps ten or so back and forth movements of the heads (=number of clicks it makes when hitting back to landing zone).
Also, HDD was not recognized by BIOS at this point.
So, thought that perhaps the head has been damaged too and therefore tries to read from the disk but cannot and tries that few times until gives up. And when I was looking for the instructions of how to change the readwrite head, saw some comments that (at least some) Seagate Barracuda HDD’s have unique BIOS and if chaning PCB, needs to transfer that BIOS too to get HDD function properly.
That can explain why the head moves back and forth at the start as if not finding some (unique) info or settings are a bit off, or whatever, cannot continue..
So, do I need to somehow transfer that BIOS (Firmware) and what are my options to do so? Worth of the pain?