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New Ultra 4 RNDU400 and 3TB Drives
Hi, Thanks to the forum members I have finally decided to buy the Ultra 4 RNDU4000 (4-bay). I also purchased 2 3TB drives by Seagate. From the HCL: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3 TB ...
Looks like I'm not through with my problems. I can't seem to be able to update the drive's firmware. This is what I did.
1. Ran discmgmt.msc which asked me to choose to activate or initialize the drive either as MBR or GPT. Since I didn't know what in heaven's name I should choose I cancelled the whole process since I knew I had SeaTools installed and could run tests and get drive information.
2. I have earlier downloaded from Seagate's webiste the firmware update "Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4H.exe". I ran it which rebooted my system into a linux-based system. Everything flashed so fast that I only saw a glimpsed that it stopped updating at 50% of the process because of something (either incorrect drive or drive not found -- not sure of message because it just flashed by and rebooted). After rebooting back to Windows I still can't see the drive from "My Computer" but I see the drive in SeaTools.
In the drive's label is a note that says to visit seagate.com/beyond-2tb. DiscWizard doesn't seem to be what I need so I did more searching and decided on the "Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4H.exe".
I also have a multi-boot partition system on my main drive. I have Grub managing my boot partition (I think) which gives me a choice of Windows 7 (default) or Ubuntu (more for my education). I'm not sure if this could affect the rebooting of the firmware updating app from Seagate but I guess that I should mention it here.
Other than that I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas or suggestions.
As always, thank you very much.
1. Ran discmgmt.msc which asked me to choose to activate or initialize the drive either as MBR or GPT. Since I didn't know what in heaven's name I should choose I cancelled the whole process since I knew I had SeaTools installed and could run tests and get drive information.
2. I have earlier downloaded from Seagate's webiste the firmware update "Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4H.exe". I ran it which rebooted my system into a linux-based system. Everything flashed so fast that I only saw a glimpsed that it stopped updating at 50% of the process because of something (either incorrect drive or drive not found -- not sure of message because it just flashed by and rebooted). After rebooting back to Windows I still can't see the drive from "My Computer" but I see the drive in SeaTools.
In the drive's label is a note that says to visit seagate.com/beyond-2tb. DiscWizard doesn't seem to be what I need so I did more searching and decided on the "Barracuda-ALL-GRCC4H.exe".
I also have a multi-boot partition system on my main drive. I have Grub managing my boot partition (I think) which gives me a choice of Windows 7 (default) or Ubuntu (more for my education). I'm not sure if this could affect the rebooting of the firmware updating app from Seagate but I guess that I should mention it here.
Other than that I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas or suggestions.
As always, thank you very much.
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