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 Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • 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.