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Sunday, May 3, 2009



Right Solution for Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive Problems – Stays “busy” and “drive not Ready”



Right Solution for Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive Problems – Stays “busy” and “drive not Ready”


Author: Zoe


Seagate has recently discovered that Barracuda 7200.11 family hard drive has a random, unexplained freezing problem that was usually most apparent with hard drive stays BUSY.



There are many talks about this major problem, some says that if the hard drive powers up, it will be recognized in the system for a few seconds, and soon it shows as “BUSY” and “Drive Not Ready”. Stop panic around these problem hard drives! A new release version of HD Doctor Utility for Seagate 7200.11 hard drive claim to fix the problem without damaging the data, actually works for data recovery. It will be the unique feature which is only available in HD Doctor Utility; no other similar tool is capable for solution before this time; otherwise, you will need to send back to Seagate technology support in case they could work it out, but only the drive, not the data.



As most of us already know, Seagate 7200.11 family has a huge capacity up to 1.5 TB of storage. Bearing GMR recording heads technology, it can provide the drives with increased area density; in this case, an error-correction algorithm was made to enhance the correction and storage of the read/write data. SalvationDATA experts verify that hard drive will consequently read the data in P-List and G-List, when perform on a detective list. Otherwise, as long as the read command fail to pass through; the hard drive will immediately get into a state of self-protection, so the data stored on the disk will not be destroyed by other operation errors at any time. The reason that can cause read failure is a mess of the data in G-List and P-List, and that’s the problem where the hard drive goes into a BUSY state soon after being powered on.



Also, there are some other problems are stated in Barracuda 7200.11 family, such as in CMD mode, the utility outputs no log information or messy code if users connect a Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive. Now by installing the upgrade version, after choosing drive family as Barracuda 7200.11 the utility can automatically adjust the baud rate, so users will receive the correct display in CMD mode.



Experts and professionals are generally showing positive perspectives on HD Doctor for Seagate, say, it is a software-hardware complex designed for data recovery from damaged Seagate family hard drives. It is noted that the first release was on 2004, since then it was developed from a DOS program that supported the major models of Seagate drives to a software-hardware complex runs on Windows with easy and instantly renewable USB installation. Now it has been the tool supports the most comprehensive drive families.



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