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Seagate offers free data recovery for faulty drives
Published 1/20/2009 by lucas_mearian@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
After issuing a firmware upgrade for hard disk drives that have been failing at a high rate, Seagate today announced it would offer free data recovery services for Barracuda 7200.11 drive owners.
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forums.seagate.com 1/21/2009 — mine is screwed too. i'm really angry about this - i followed the instructions to the letter and triple checked my model/serial/firmware to make sure i really needed this. i applied the darn update and now my hd doesnt work. how do i fix this? ...
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