![]() As Seagate does not warrant the data on your drive, in addition to regular back-ups, your data should be backed up, if possible, before upgrading the drive firmware. If the firmware upgrade installation instructions are not followed properly, the firmware upgrade could be data destructive and/or render your hard drive inoperable. If firmware is available, we recommend that you make a backup before running the actual update and that you read and follow all instructions, cautions and warnings that may be displayed. If you are troubleshooting a system or operating system problem, you should not consider firmware updates until after exploring more typical troubleshooting steps like file system error checking and anti-virus scanning. This situation has improved and Seagate now offers firmware updates as a routine matter for the general support of your Seagate drive. This situation, in part, was based on a lack of friendly firmware download tools and operating system limitations. Until recently, firmware updates for typical desktop and laptop computers were difficult and somewhat risky. Please note that Seagate does not offer details about specific firmware. Firmware for legacy products will be the final release from manufacturing. If newer firmware is available for your drive, it will reflect the improvements we have engineered for the latest manufacturing. SeaTools offers 13 language choices (including English). Please check in regularly at the Seagate Download Finder to determine if new firmware is available for your drive. SeaTools User Guide, RevB 7 Launching SeaTools 1.4 Launching SeaTools 1.4.1 SeaTools BasicNon-Gaming 1.4.1.0.1 Language Choice When SeaTools launches, the tool asks you to choose a language. Every drive family has a couple of firmware releases during the life of the product. Like any software, firmware is improved over time and problems are also fixed. Seagate recommends applying new firmware to enhance the performance and or reliability of your drive. Having the latest firmware can improve performance and or reliability of your product. ![]() If your Seagate disk drive is used as a component in a name brand computer system, then the system manufacturer is usually responsible for firmware updates, so if you have questions, please contact the original equipment manufacturer. This is typical when a disk drive is new and recently manufactured. SeaTools V2.This message means that the firmware on your disk drive is the most current version available from this website. will check SeaGate - If anybody has a link / ANY info / tried - SeaGate ![]() Possibility to attach it as a second one to any working Nbook + OS (any Windows) as internal one.I only haveĮxperience of some (less then 10 all together) NoteBook HDD FW update this way (If software only - I have notįound any last years - other words such software is NOT "public".Thx again - FirmWare up or DownGrade might work No OS of any kind + it is 2.5 IDE.The FW update is possible, as far as I know, The drive itself I SUPPOSE it has to be "internal".As this is a NoteBook drive, I have no Itself or partitioning.FirmWare update (even backwards to lower version) MIGHT work. Thank you for reply - HDDscan (at the moment V3.3 Win X86 appz) like Hard Disk Sentinel V3.40 and some others are nice utilityĪpplications for internal and external (USB, FireWire.) HardDrives info = Nothing to work on or change - neither HardDisk Full erase many different applications (not only SeaTools as "official")is done + formatting both FAT32 and NTFS.Only there is "trash" at SMART I can not delete.Any suggestions?.HDD is SeaGate Hard Disk Model ID,ST96812A FW 3.05 NOT in warranty (age time).MartinJV Europe 2011 02 10 written Now cleaned and put to "healthy" environment - the drive is 100% OK. at the original NoteBook use (24 hours 8 minutes all together). ![]() Before any test start SeaTools says the drive is "Smart Tripped", gives Warranty validation Code, other words - the drive has so many errors recorded by SMART and has to be exchanged.Conclusion is - the "dead" drive had bad cables, contacts and/or drivers and/or bad power supply etc. The "failed" drive tested Seagate SeaTools Windows 1204 AND SeaTools DOS V2.20 - drive is OK. The drive has been exchanged in HP noteBook for a new one.The warranty is not covered by SeaGate (an OEM product for HP), neither HP because there is only HDD Serial Number and not the Product (NoteBook) serial number. Hello, SUBJECT = Hard drive 2.5 - Seagate OEM for HP Compaq NoteBook.
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