SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 HDD not running

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Published on 2012-05-29T11:18:12Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 10:42 UTC
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After a huge research, I'm stuck at the beggining of getting my HDD data back.

Whats happening to me is that in the moment when I plug the power wire to my external 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000333AS HDD Fw LC15, it makes the sound like it's spinning to almost full speed and then shuts down and spins up again, and so on. It's well known that those HDDs have a bad firmware that someday randomly fails. There are like 2 main problems identified, BSY (busy) state, and LBA0 error. Last time I connected it to power nothing happened, it didnt try to start at all, is it that so called bricked state? I guess my HDDs error is the first one, but I dont really know if what I described is that BSY state or not, neither I know how to check it. How could I know it?

Thank you so much!

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