20 Most Recent Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 GB SATA Hard Drive - Page 4 Questions & Answers

seems that your drive has unfortunately failed, there is noting you can do in this case, if you are in warranty get in touch with your dealer or seagate directly, if you have important data on the drive, please contact seagate they will direct you to one of their approved data recovery services.
There is absolutely noting that you can do to this drive yourself.

If it is no longer recognized by the BIOS. Head over to pcinspector.de and download the utility. The software supports the most popular file systems on the market: FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS. To be able to use PC INSPECTOR File Recovery you will need a working Windows System. Never install it on the drive from which you intend to recover data! The software must be installed and run on a second, independent drive (Amazon.com has many affordable hard drives if you need one!). When you are done, the utility is very easy to use. Just let the application extensive HTML tutorial guide you through all the steps. I hope this little hard drive recovery how-to could help you. Hopefully, the application will let you recover your data.
If after trying this, you still are unable to recover your data, you can always ask experts to do the job for you. The folks at DTIDATAand at the RAID Group can probably help you get your data back, no matter how damaged your drive is. Here are the specific pages on their sites concerning hard drive data recovery solutions

the knoppix distribution CD. This bootable CD has the ability to mount and read FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions, even damaged ones. So after your HD crashed, you can always use this to recover your data and back it up on a USB key or second HD. Knoppix can be downloaded at: Knoppix.org

It has some VERY complete instructions about how to use Knoppix to recover your lost data.


Here is a beginnners guide to hard drive recovery if your interested:


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dead disk... could be pins stuck... take it out hold it approx 20cm from floor and drop it..... see if it unsticks.. if not unfornatley all hope is lost and you will need a new disk....

What operating system are you using

check to see if the drive is the only drive hooked up on the cable if so then remove the jumper from the drive

is it in 2.5 if it is 2.5 it will work but have to make sure that the drive can support large capacity drive

see jumper setting also go to bios and disable native for sata....

Make sure it is connected to power and SATA, try a different SATA connector on your motherboard, there are probably 4 different connectors. Also make sure that the SATA controller is set to "NON RAID" mode in bios.
You need to go into BIOS to change these settings, If you don't know how to do it Give me your motherboard details (model no makers name)and I'll write you out a walkthrough to set the bios up properly for your drive

well i would advise u to try the hard drive in any other PC and if the problem persists just drop into the seagate service center and they can help u to recover the data in it .

Verify what Drives have been detected by your Operating System by using Windows: Control Panel -> Admistrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management -> Your Hard disk(s) will be displayed with all existing partitions and any assigned drive letters.
Your external (or internal) drive must be recognized as having formatted partitions that have a drive letter assigned to each required partition.
Hope it helps: let me know how you go!

Hi,
I have also experienced similar problem and found out that the problem is with the harddisk. It may have bad sectors which cannot be rectified. If your harddisk is older than 3 years then probablity for this this kind of problem is high. Better claim the warranty for your harddisk if its life is within 3 years as segate HDDs were given 3 years warranty.
I hope this is helpful to you

let me get this straight... you can boot-up and windows does start. So your system is seeing the hard drive well enough to get you into window, but once there it refuses to see the hard drive it is based on??? Or by some chance is there a second hard drive which you are attempting to access? If that is the case you need to #1 see if it listing in your bios menu which you can access during start up, but even before that you need to make sure that the second HD is jumpered to slave mode if your running off the second hookup of a dual IO cable, if on the other hand you have it plugged into the second plug on the motherboard make sure you have it set to master. If that is all set then.
#2 reboot your computer and log into your bios menu look to see if your HD is listed if not using your +/- keys once you have the first open slot highlighted use the +/- keys to run through you options when you see auto check your bios control legend on the bottom hit the button which activates it your HD should show up in that selection area.

To determine if the drive is at fault, try it in a different computer. If it doesn't work, its now a faulty drive I'm afraid.

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Hi,

Is the drive being detected in BIOS but not windows or does it not show up in either? You do not need a driver for hard drives, so I'm assuming either the drive is faulty or it just hasn't been initialized yet. Reply back and I will assist you with either issue.

Chris

I myself would purchase the external USB empty SATA Hardrive interface box and then connect it to your PC to see if it at least recognize the drive.
If you really need the files from the drive if this tactic doesn't work then I would find a Data Recovery company that can pull your information off the disk and send it to you. 'You will loose the drive but recover the information'.
Not cheep at all. Usually 3 to $400 charge.
Blessings,
A/V Media Guy

If the proper power cable is attached and it doesn't spin or click and you can hear no movement inside it's bad. Contact Seagate and send it back on warranty