Seagate barracuda firmware fix (BSY bug)

special thanks to 'Gradius' for originally figuring out how to fix this problem...you have saved our lives and us lots of money in repair bills so cheers for this :-) :-) !...This is a step by step tutorial that shows you how to fix the seagate BSY bug using a five wire version of the Nokia CA-42 Cable...i hope it works for you...

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• seagate
• seagate barracuda
• firmware
• firmware bug
• seagate firmware
• bsy bug
• 7200.11
• hard
• drive
• hdd
• failure
• dell
• xps
• 430

[Shaoboyy]

Thanks for the tutorial but how many volts did u use for powering your hdd? Cause it seems to me u used 12 volts which is not allowed in Gradius's opinion

[neo36uk]

@Shaoboyy no mate i used 2x 1.5 volt batteries to power it up (3v)

[MrThehogster1]

Your from stoke right? not that far away ! 1st good tutorial tho i wouldnt recomed it to novies you have no idea how many seagates i have seen banjaxed because of this method . as your tutorial is probably for uk people i can tell youhere and now seagate (HAVE) to deal with this fault for you send ur drive into them and if its from a branded machine the company you bought from (has also) got to deal with it ( for uk its free ) under statory law not sure about worldwide

[neo36uk]

@MrThehogster1 mine was an oem drive from ocuk, its just a few with certain firmware versions that have this problem i believe...Segate would bend you over bigtime if they was to fix it or so i believe....anyways the fix works a treat :-) yeah, im a stokie ;-) lol

[megabufferx]

hello , i do all like in your video but i get this

img259.imageshack.us/img259/48­08/ffffsy.jpg after ctrl+z push 3 enter and get this what i did wrong?

[neo36uk]

@megabufferx I think I can recall getting this error when I first tried it...try making sure capslock is not enabled before you press control Z....im sure this was the problem...just keep experimenting it should work.

[Handsx]

so after all the code is entered and the drive should be working again, do you just do the ol "safely remove hardware" or is there a special way to disconnect from hyper terminal and remove the drive? great video!

[megabufferx]

@neo36uk never buy again this firm products

[neo36uk]

@1976wc nope, never lost any data to date, i was also worried about that this but i have done a few now and all have been fine!

[neo36uk]

@zorkpl nope, never lost any data to date, i was also worried about that this but i have done a few now and all have been fine!