Ok after reading this thread I dont understand why you guys have not flashed to aam firmware, a simple google search would have solved you heartache.

I had two 500gb 7200.10s with aak firmware, and a while back contacted seagate support who basically told be to buy new disks becasue my drives couldnt be flashed, well I found a link with a firmware update, and guess what she flashed to the new firmware..

I have saved you the trouble http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread...=213448&page=5 a guy in this forum has uploaded the firmware for us ,burn it to a cd ,boot from cd skip thru the readme and then when in A:\ promt mash in firmware.bat I think it was.

Just make shure you read the readme file before jumping in, and please dont blame any one if you hose your disks, but I did my two and it worked a treat..

Good luck .