20 Most Recent Seagate (ST380011A) 80 GB IDE Hard Drive Questions & Answers

what system, (PC, MAC< TV, DRV, external case? USB?, what?)what OS?with all HDD, this one is a very old PATA drive (wide cable)is this a primary drive (boot) or secondary, or external.1: does it have power, y/n 2:does the drive spin, (ear to case of drive, whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) if it clicks madly its bad drive or low power.NO SPIN, NO JOY , EVERY!3: try the cable in all PATA ports.4: PC( does the DRIVE show up in BIOS? if not, its either dead or has no power, try different power connector (molex 4pin)5: try different PC ?6: try a new cable, (data)7: if BIOS sees it, and its not a boot drive.boot in to OS, ill pretend its W7/8 can you see the drive in Disk managment?if not its dead.if yes, does it show up as DISK2?yes, then set a drive letter an now windows can use it.if you can not change the volume label on the drive. Rich click change it. then the drive is dead. this is the most simple task for any HDD. do that first. there is on other bad thing...in windows XP and up , if you put 2 HDD that are both active witha system and system boot on both in to a system, it will go quite nuts. (ill presume you didnt go there>)

Sounds like a loose power cord...

-Damian

Hi,
You can install a software called partition magic and use it to merge the two partitions into one.
But you might need to free some space on your C drive. What you can do is copy (CUT) all your My Documents data and paste it to your D drive or your second drive. This should free a lot of space enough to install partition magic.

You can download the trial version software from http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html
Install it and merge your partitions and then you can uninstall or purchase if you want.

Lolita

make sure that the cd rom is getting enough consistent power test all leads that are attached to the cd rom including electical extensions and make sure they have a secure connection or just replace them there might be bad/faulty or your drivers may have been corrupted or you might have a virus run your antivrus program you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd rom then plug them back in this will activate found new hardware wizard hope this helps or you might have to uninstall then reinstall your cd rom or uninstall the driver then reinstall for this device also control panel admistrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll down cd dvd rom drives right click you can you can update driver,roll back driver,or select properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver or uninstall then reinstall only do the registry check if you cant see the drive/s in windows explorer/my computer or it might be a registry problem Close all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete After deleting the keys, close the registry editor Reboot your computer Open My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone. hope this helps

I see you are trying to use a IDE HDD in a system that is meant to use a SATA HDD. If you have a desktop version of the Gx530 (not the small form factor) then you can still use the IDE. You will just have to put it on the ribbon wire as the CD/DVD drive. You will then need to have a power wire splitter to share the power for the DVD as the SATA power wire will not work on the IDE drive.

This only works on the desktop (larger) models, if you have the SFF or the USFF then it will not work as they dont have the IDE ribbon.

Hope this helps.

you could run the check disk utility click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to repair any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive then defragment your hard drive or go to control panel administrive tools computer management you can right click on the drive select properties tools check now?tick in both boxes to scan for and attempt to repair/recover any bad sectors and automaticall fix any corrupt files in xp hope this helps

You drive is worth say $15, if working. There are services to disassemble and install platters in a working drive but we are talking $1000 and up. Some have said sealing it in a bag (for moisture protection), placing in a freezer and you get one chance to play it back. I don't know and would not bet on it. As I told you--although I didn't--you should back up on more than one drive. Best of luck. -Ken

when you say its not running you mean there is no spinning
sound of the platters ? or the unit doesn't work by way of not
being recognized by the computer ? , if the platters are not
spinning the unit's drive motor is burned out , if the unit is
not being recognized by the computer means the platters
are not spinning up to the required RPM , you have 2 choices
1. you can obtain an exact match HDD or to make sure you are
within close proximity to the last 4 digits of the serial number
to harvest workable components to transfer to the broken HDD
to retrieve your Data , or 2. send your HDD to an authorized
specialist in Data recovery , there are many listed online to
choose from .

If the drive is the Seagate Baracuda series, then simply remove all the jumpers from 8-pin jumper block and it will be a Slave drive.

If you want any other settings, the jumper settings are described here:

the same problem i got few days back. but did;t find any proper sollution. The only thing u can do to format it.

run the checkdisk utility to repair corrupt volume
start - run - chkdsk drive_name /f /r
e.g. chkdsk e: /f /r

Do you need the information on it? Connect it as a slave drive, then you could run the following command

Start >> Run >> chkdsk e: /r where <e:> is the drive letter.

If that doesn't work, you could format the drive in windows explorer, however you will lose all data.

Jumper settings for Seagate ATA/IDE Internal drives <20gb & greater

For older/smaller drives visit www.seagate.com

download tiny xp and burn it on a cd and run spinrite located in recovery tools on the tiny xp. and that should fix the problem. hr29223

it really all depends on how far the damage is. I have swapped the controller board on a hard drive that had failed with one from an identical drive and was able to retrive the data. This is not a very common thing that works. Your data is most likly still entact on the platters. However, if the motor is damaged it would require expert and very expensive help to recover the data.

If you have access to being able to swap controllers then try it. This may get your data back.

I've seen a simular problem where the disk is empty but it says there is a reduced volume remaining, In my case i ran check disk (started on restart) on the drive and it found a ton of files that were lost and restored them, so this regained the lost space. If that doesn't work, try right clicking on it in my computer and formating it.

I've found this to just be the nature of hard drives. You never really can trust them, thats why you always need a backup. Maybe look into a fault tollerant RAID solution if it's really important (kinda expensive)

If it is corrupted repair the operating system or reinstall it.

It HDD is not working you may appraoch Segate service in Ernakulam for Replacement of it. They may take 15 to 30 days for the procedure. Your warranty is vaild across India.

for cloning there must be same size drives