20 Most Recent Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40 GB Hard Drive - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Test your PSU or replace it if your power supply units fan is not working your PSU is faulty

One bad lead can cause a computer to fail to detect a hard drive continue on a cycle or to shutdown

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA and

the leads from your motherboard to your hard drive make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty
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make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ?
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If you go ahead and format the hard drive, fromatting will lock out these bad sectors.
Bad sectors can indicate that the hard drive is wearing out especially if the number of bad sectors increase as you use the hard disk and if this is the case then back up your data regularly so you won't lose your data when this hard drives fail completely. I would consider retiring this hard drive ASAP.
Bad sectors are usually cause by the magnetic oxide layer on the platters wearing out or breaking down.

actually you want to know 512 mb either better than 192mb or not ob course better b

best left internal you can still use it as a back up drive.

This does not sound hopeful, Have you tried the same drive in different slots on the motherboard and using different power and data cables?
Perhaps in a different machine? Is this IDE or SATA?
Apart from that you may find your only solution to be sending the disk to a data recovery expert.

if it isnt picked up in the BIOS check the jumper on the back its a small plastic cover which will blank out two of the gold pins remove it follow the diagram on the front and set it to master.
Failing that check to see if you have power to the device and the ribbon power cord isnt damaged.

Yes, your can format the hard drive and install Windows this drive
If you have the Windows XP disk it will partition the drive also
The drive must be fully formatted to work properly.

This hard drive is very old and the guarantee period is for one year from the date of purchase. Therefore it is no longer under warranty.
Seagate no longer manufactures a hard drive of 40Gb capacity, the hard drive are now over 100Gb in capacity.

click start,run type in CMD to open DOS then type in chkdsk/f
good luck

Have you tried reformatting it?

If you have, does it spin? Can you hear it spinning when it is on?

Lightly give the hard drive a small tap with your hand. It could reset and or reposition the pin/needle inside the drive if it is hung up for some reason or another.

It is not a definite fix if it does work out. Once a hard drive begins to stop working, its pretty much gonna give out sooner or later.

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Just find out that the xp cd is a genuine one and they try problem may be with the cd

you can check it on your hard drive, remove it and see.

The best way to recover your data if you cannot boot up your computer. Remove the hard disk and attach it to an USB hard drive adapter. Plug this adapter into a working computer's USB port and this computer should see this as an external storage device. You can then open the folders and files to backup/copy, provided the hard drive is not faulty.

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Try installing 1 of the drives as slave,or cable select if you're familiar with that method,and then start it up.
Right click on the "My Computer" icon,then pick 'Manage",then down toward the bottom "Disk Management".
When your list of drives comes up,make sure that the new addition has a letter assigned to it.You need to choose the drive on the bottom listings,not at the top.Rt click on it,choose "change drive letter and paths..." then pick a letter to assign.
That might do it,let me know.
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Hi thanks for asking, you should make sure your hard drive is properly connected. There are two cables need to connect to the hard drive (1) power cable (2) data cable IDE/ SATA after connected and receiving power if computer still not boot this mean your hard drive is bad and need to be replace.

right click on my computer and go to manage.then click on disk management.



Then on right pane you will see your hard disk partition table..If you see something in black color or green color right click on that partition and select create new partition and create partition. once you create partition it will be in blue color,then you can go to my computer and see the partition you created there.

Can't be certain what's wrong with your old one, but for the price of a new drive these days, I'd say goodbye to all the data on the old one and replace it. By all means, try connecting your old one as a slave and getting the data off it..... If the drive is broken, be aware a professional data retrieval companies will charge a fee for trying to recover data.

bro did you check your power supply connector if it is connected properly to your fan.

If it's the same for all the hard disks then the problem is in the install/Windows disk = that copy isn't ok. Use another one.

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F6 EEPROM checksum error Replace main control board (also called clock or ERC).

The main control operates a series of software commands, which control the various features and functions of the oven. Each function or operation has a numerical value assigned to it. The numerical values can be added up - this is called the check sum operation. Every time the system is powered up and after each clean cycle the system performs a check sum and compares the value to the value programmed into the software (stored in memory).

An EEPROM check sum error or F6 code occurs when the values differ. If this happens, replace the main control board (also called clock or ERC).

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