about two years ago i bought a seagate barracuda st3500320as 500 gb hd with firmware sd15 - ran fine for almost a year then just randomly bricked, so i returned it and got a new one. after about another year with the drive it bricked again this morning out of nowhere, so i did a little googleing and i guess the sd15 firmware has a bug that bricks the drive randomly @ bootup. my question is, is it possible to flash the drive to a newer firmware and un-brick it? it spins up and everything just fine, couldnt find a y/n answer on google :/ - if anyone knows how to fix it or if it can be fixed at all i would greatly appreciate some help. plz lmk

ONCE IT BRICKS sorry for caps. its pretty much toast.

so theres no way to flash the firmware on a bricked drive at all? :/

iirc correctly from what ive read once a drive is bricked your outa luck. prly not what u wanted to hear. i believe taht the 7200.09's were plaigued by it. might have been 7200.10 or .11 though cant remember.

It's gone Lee.

its the .11's that had the problem, just saw a thread how to fix it

http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate-7200-11-hdds-t128807.html

looks like a pain in the ass tho :/ ill just get a new hd most likely

y bro... i had same problem in my office (on a Server)
contacted seagate, they simple told me "try to change your hd (if bought from less than 7 day"

bye

ya thats about the only way to fix a bricked drive expensive i know the parts and such but ya if you know stuff about thats buy the stuff its always fun to mess with that if not scrap the drive splurge the 80-150 for a new one save yourself the hassle