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rickster70 · 04-12-2007, 11:24 AM

I'm working with a Seagate 300GB SATA Barricuda 7200.8 hard drive. I believe that a virus has corrupted the firmware on the drive. All diagnostic utillities I have tried, including Seatools, have found no bad sectors or surface errors. I have tried several utilities, including Boot & Nuke, to wipe or zero fill the drive and it blue screen errors every time. At first it was only the "an error has occured...shutting down to prevent damage." Then I got the, "Page fault in nonpaged area" blue screen. I checked the ram and swapped it out for new and got the same error. That is leading me to believe that the cache on the drive is corrupted. If I'm on the wrong track or my logic is flawed, please let me know. Anyway I was going to try flashing the firmware for the drive, but I can't find a source for it. Model # for this drive is ST3300831AS. I would appreciate any help with this matter.

Thanks

P.S. I suspect viral activity because the problem started when the person this machine belongs to opened a stored AIM conversation they found.

04-12-2007, 11:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
rickster70 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 44 OS: XP Home SP3 My System	hard drive firmware? BSOD when performing LLF. I'm working with a Seagate 300GB SATA Barricuda 7200.8 hard drive. I believe that a virus has corrupted the firmware on the drive. All diagnostic utillities I have tried, including Seatools, have found no bad sectors or surface errors. I have tried several utilities, including Boot & Nuke, to wipe or zero fill the drive and it blue screen errors every time. At first it was only the "an error has occured...shutting down to prevent damage." Then I got the, "Page fault in nonpaged area" blue screen. I checked the ram and swapped it out for new and got the same error. That is leading me to believe that the cache on the drive is corrupted. If I'm on the wrong track or my logic is flawed, please let me know. Anyway I was going to try flashing the firmware for the drive, but I can't find a source for it. Model # for this drive is ST3300831AS. I would appreciate any help with this matter. Thanks P.S. I suspect viral activity because the problem started when the person this machine belongs to opened a stored AIM conversation they found. Last edited by rickster70; 04-12-2007 at 11:40 AM.