Seagate, WD, and Toshiba may be trusted companies. This post discusses free hard drive repair tools with step-by-step tutorials to help users repair their corrupted hard disk quickly and safely.

Hard drive firmware is about the last place you want to find a bug. But that turned out to be the problem with [BBfoto’s] Seagate HDD which ... led him to a hardware fix for the problem.

After downloading the required tool, he found it only worked on WD hard drives, and not the Seagate sitting lifeless on his desk. Another Hackaday post proved to be more promising. By accessing ...