I have a failed drive of this exact model. Has anyone had any success transferring a control board from one drive to another to recover the data?
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Actually tried that with one of the drives. Was a pain in the ass, and in the end it resulted in 'nada'. The switched controller reported the same error. Did have a little luck with another approach. Got a portable unit that accepts a hard drive on one end and has a USB on the other. With two of these, I was able to use an old CD copy program to make a copy. Took some errors on the way but worked well enough that the new drive had about 99% of the data. Since then, RAID 5, and while other drives have failed, no more dta loss.Hope this helps.
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Alas, no. Like many modern hard drives, certain unique drive parameters are kept in the firmware ROM on the controller board, so swapping firmware will not work. There is a company that advertises they can do a firmware copy--you send them your dead controller board, they copy the firmware onto a new controller board and send it back. It's spendy and if the problem isn't the controller (or if the firmware on the controller is damaged) it won't work. You can reach them at http://www.hdd-parts.com/
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Alas, no. Like many modern hard drives, certain unique drive parameters are kept in the firmware ROM on the controller board, so swapping firmware will not work.There is a company that advertises they can do a firmware copy--you send them your dead controller board, they copy the firmware onto a new controller board and send it back. It's spendy and if the problem isn't the controller (or if the firmware on the controller is damaged) it won't work. You can reach them at http://www.hdd-parts.com/
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Yup. I can fix it. Your whole hard drive must be formatted and firmware update is required alongwith partition table re-creation
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I did exactly this, without problems. The drives weren't even the same, one was 2 years old and full of data and the other one new.
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I called the Drive Company and gave them my model number. You can find their number on their website.
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Try returning it? I was very unhappy with my unit. The SATA connection was very loose and it was impossible to get a reliable connection.
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I can only tell you about my experience - I was in the process of transferring files to the drive. The transfer stopped about an hour in, and my system no longer recognized the drive's existence. Rebooting did not help. I also tried the drive on other computers, and they failed to recognize the drive also. The return process was fairly painless and my refund was processed very quickly.
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Not sure... I had been trying to get some data off of the exact hard drive from a Seagate External HD and as a last resort for the girl, I had bought this to swap out boards. I wasn't successful but the drive I bought has been a good one. I stuck it in another build. Sorry I couldn't answer your question.
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I got it, cut and pasted 300 gigs worth of backups to it saw it complete a bit later on and took a nap for an hour. Came back and it was dead along with all the backups. Will try to break it open and see if there was just a failure in the power unit. It was ac tho..
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That depends on the kind of failure you have on your external drive. If the drive has died, then nothing to do. If the drive works, then you should be able to recover. I rather do that connecting the drive to a PC directly.
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Sorry to tell you, yeah it's a bad drive. These aren't official Microsoft hard drives, so sometimes they won't work. Try returning it. Mine works pretty nice, but had I known that it wasn't actually produced by Microsoft, I wouldn't have bought it.
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It did not work for me. My advice is do not take a chance on it. I downloaded the FREE EaseUS ToDo Backup application and cloned my entire hard drive to a smaller solid state drive as easy as copying files in windows. Then I just plugged the new drive and it started the computer just like the old one. I can't imagine it can be easier than this.
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Thanks. Would see if you have Part Number 9FS066-150 with Firmware ER62 or higher. If not i would take Part Nr. 9FN066-008 with firmware 008. 2 HDD I Need. Let me know. Thanks
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Lacie will send you a replacement if the drive doesn't work. If under warranty they will respond quickly and send you a shipping label to send back the damage drive. In the past they did have a service to rescue the media, but its costly unless you have everything backed up.
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It depends on what failed on the HDD. If it is the PCB you can buy another of the same model HDD, making sure the label states it uses the same (or sometimes very close revision of) firmware, then swap the PCB from the working drive to the dead one. If it is the motor or actuator arm that failed and IF it uses only one platter, you can send it off to a data recovery service and they can buy the same drive as mentioned above, remove the platter from the dead HDD and put it in the new one, or if it has multiple platters they can read one platter at a time and reconstruct the data. If it is the platter itself, the data is usually unrecoverable. Based on the basic nature of your question I suspect any recovery is beyond your abilities, that a "dead" HDD will be no more recoverable than you can resurrect a dead person. Sorry to state this but that is why making backups is so important.
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I have heard of this issue in ASUS laptops, but have not experienced any kind of Drive failures in mine. Though Ive only had mine for a little over a year now. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you can recover the data.
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You call get and RMA and send it to buffalo. I have 4 and 2 failed. Sent one in and 1 they lost it. the other one the "case was opnened" so warranty is void. Hope you have better luck. Waiting for #3 and #4 to fail. I took the drive out of #2 and it works fine.
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Mmm ,,, What install/set Bios?? ... I put mine in and the system recognized it as drive g: and Done. Could be a bad drive as Andre says ... Try formating. My Sys is Win7/63bit HP Elite. If your replacing C: then use the transfer program from WD Free and works great.