Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[fzabkar]

The firmware updater compares your drive's existing firmware modules against a matrix of "package versions" and servo modules in a configuration file. Two drives with the same overall firmware version (eg CC34) may have different packages. It may be that some packages are affected by a particular bug or performance issue, while other packages are not. I assume that Seagate's updater attempts to exclude the unaffacted packages from the update in order to minimise the incidence of upgrade failures.

This thread may throw some light on the issue:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-and/7200-12-cant-update-Firmware-from-CC38-to-CC...

[prizeman-uk]

I also have this "non-system disc press any key" issue after trying to use the windows updater to update my second (storage only) Maxtor hard drive and NOT my boot-up Seagate hard drive.  Like others, I actually managed to update the drive by creating a bootable CD as the Maxtor drive totally failed to do the upgrade following the Windows updater running.  As I result I get the annoying non-system disc message every time my computer starts.

I will try the Windows 7 64 bit equivalent of the Vista repair and see if it works for me too (but not now - it's late and I want a fresh mind for this).  I did raise a ticket for it last week but no response at all from Seagate on it.  However, after my experience I also believe that this issue is caused by the Seagate Windows firmware updating software and recommend that until it is fixed (how will ytou know??) that you should only update your hard drive firmware using the bootable CD solution

[Cantbecanit]

Non system disk is because it's trying to boot to another drive, F12, select the drive by name and it should then find the correct disk, no O/S on the disk, means no boot.

p.s never flash a drive in dos with another drive connected, always run the drive on it's own when updating FW.

[truelies]

I also used Seagate firmware reflash, and got "non-system disk press any key..."

Please tell me how to fix this?

[VeganFanatic]

http://www.windows-it.tk/wp/7200.11.html

One of my most popular IT pages

Sadly if the disk is now a brick, look into a warranty replacement

[fzabkar]

Seagate's Windows based firmware updater temporarily overwrites your boot drive's MBR with its own code. I believe it does this in order to gain full control over your machine during the update.

Unfortunately, under some circumstances, the original code is not restored after the update. The fix is to use Microsfot's FIXMBR command.

See this thread:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/Firmware-update-fail-leaves-a-quot-Pre...

[VeganFanatic]

I have experienced issues with the Windows installer, so I suggest the CD version which seems to work perfect every time

[toudoku]

Hi, I wonder how your story went on? I tried the same firmware upgrade also having a Intel SSD510 in my PC and beside the annoying "non system disk" message, the Intel SSD tool now also claims that the drive needs replacement.

Did you actually have to replace your SSD and did you find a different solution?

[Renovazzio]

Have the same problem. (Non-System Disk, Press any key massage, then system boots normally)

It is because firware updater modyfied MBR. To recover the MBR you need to use System Recovery from Windows 7 installation dvd. There type in console: bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr