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Seagate has admitted that a fix for some of its Barracuda disk drives is itself faulty, but says it won't cause a data loss. On Sunday, Seagate issued a firmware update to resolve issues with some of its Barracuda disk drives. Yesterday it issued an alert for users of its Barracuda 7200.11 ...
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Seagate Fix Causes More Problems
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... with drives not working after the update, and in some cases reportedly losing data.
In the alert, the company warned that if the update guidelines were "not followed carefully" then "the software and information in this article [the drive] could be data destructive and/or render your hard drive inoperable."
Following this came another statement, warning users not to attempt the upgrade. It’s now removed the problem-causing software, and
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