My Hard drive: problem and solution

       Recently my SEAGATE'S Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive with all my data and work failed which caused me an enormous headache, since most of my crucial files were not backed up.

Description of the problem:
“A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.”

       After a huge research, how I could get my data back I came across THIS tech forum thread which is explaining the problem and offers a fairly extreme and dangerous solution to fixing this particular firmware bug.

An FT232BM/BL adapter: a device which helps to fix LBA or BSY error on Seagate Barracuda.

Steps involved mounting the PCB board, as well as TX/RX terminal wires, back on the HDA case with POWER CONNECTED.











This is the forum thread which explains LBA and BSY problems and solutions in more detail.
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/ 


At the end of the day (more of a few weeks) I managed to save my hard drive and back up all my data.