ST38002ACE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST38002ACE Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST38002ACE hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST38002ACE Technical Details:
Seagate ST38002ACE Hard Drives:
- ST38002ACE, 5GC, WU, PN 9T7084-221, FW 3.39, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST38002ACE Failure Symptoms:
- Electrical Failure Symptoms:
Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize; - Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
Clicking, grinding sounds;
Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
“music” tone as the disk is powered up; - Logical Failure Examples:
Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more. - Firmware Failure Symptoms:
drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
Drive freezes during booting up; - Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
Unable to access folders or files which could be seen; - Complex Failure Model
Seagate ST38002ACE Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST38002ACE Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple PCB Number revisions:
100139362, etc.