Hi there,

I think many people here use a DAW PC for creating music. and save music projects in HDD.

If you use Seagate HDD,you should check if its frimware had a bug,otherwise you might won't be able to access to your HDD and loose the data.

I have 3 Seagate HDD(ST3500320AS)s in my DAW PC and one of them happened to stop working without any symptom yesterday.
and it was my music data drive that I put all projects.

and when I found the reason on the internet,it was bug of the firmware of HDD. If this problem happens,you can't access to the HDD nor recover the data in a normal way.
so before it happens,you have to update the firmware...
I could save 2 of 3 HDDs by updating today.

There is a way(DIY) to recover the data on the net but it seems to be very hard and needs much skill in electronics.

http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/

another way is paying big money to recover the data by the professional. It seems this is the only way for now?

SO If you use the Seagate HDD,check out if it's the one.
you can check from here;
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=seatools-win&vgnextoid=552bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD#

IF you know better way to recover,please let me know.
Thanks.