20 Most Recent Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A 80 GB Hard Drive - Page 7 Questions & Answers

Hello mmlv6...the Barracuda 7200.7 series has been around awhile...if it's been in use all these years then it has performed well and you have gotten your moneys worth from it. I would recommend replaceing it with the new 7200.12 series of your capacity choice...You can remove your exsiting hard drive and install it an external drive bay or docking station and all data on it can be saved and/or transfered...providing it will still spin and you have no major sector damage.
Good luck...i hope this helps...please rate me a fixya.

i have the same problem

right click my computer
click on manage
go to storage >> disk management
you will see your disk drive their
you can format or repartition it easily by right clicking on it
there will be options for partitioning and formatting the drive

Page 21 in this manual shows the jumper should be removed to set this drive as a slave. You could also position it over the second column of pins, that is the cable select position and should also work if the drive is a slave or master. Your other drive on the cable would also need to be set to cable select if you do that.

very slow

memory stick?

Hi there,

ok easiest option to do this is to buy a USB Hard Drive Caddy.
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Then you just insert the HDD into the caddy and plug it in via usb and you will have access to all your files unless your hard drive is corrupt :)

Hope this helps

alex

For shansterbaby:

The first thing for the computer to find the drive is when it does the very first test on itself, at the POST. It detects all the components. You hear a bip. Then, you can see the result of the POST in the BIOS. If the HDrive is detected, you will find the st380011a in the list of the drive. Once you see the drive in the list, you're okay for the next step, to boot from Windows. Do you use Vista? or XP? For XP, I would open Windows Explorer and see under My Computer if you have another drive (D:, or E:). Click on it.

For meadomuffin, I had some problem with an Internal drive. I download for Seagate website a tool (it is called Seagate tool). I started a check disk from that tool, reformatted and it was then Okay to use it. Windows could detect it. Maybe that is not the answer for your problem. Let me know.

if hard disk is ok, the check the jumpers behind the hard disk before connecting to computer. it should be on slave if already a hard disk is installed and on master if the it is a single hard disk.

Start from scratch. Start the installation from the beginning

Please try to check with your cmos system if it was detected, if not means your harddrive was absolutely damage.

Please rate me solved!

Best regards,

Philip

Master is 7-8 (the 2 furthest from the power connector)
Slave is no jumpers selected

Here is a manual for your model for reference:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/ata/cuda7200ig.pdf

You can't delete / remove bad sectors, they're faults on your hardware. Once you have a few bad sectors, you can be sure that your disk won't last any longer. My advise is to backup now your important files.

Hard drive was gone, you can send to seagate as RMA if it's within 5years warranty.

Graphics card or Monitor

Seagate is known for hard drive failures. The S.M.A.R.T. feature may warn you that the drive is failing. This is not uncommon and is most likely the case of why it is going slow now. You should contact seagate ASAP to see if they can give you a replacement.

Hello there..i have experience with same problem like this...there is two problem with hardisk: first with the mechanic platter inside your hardisk ( you can hear noisy sound from inside HDD) 'cause by wrong prosedure when turn off the pc or problem with chipset on hardisk board (you can see the small green pcb board at other side of your hard disk) touch that board...if feel hot yes there is problem.this problem cause by electrical shock from your power supply unit or you not plugin correctly to hdd power socket.

solution for first problem :
send it to nearest seagate 'cause they have all the parts that you need

solution for second problem:
replacle the board with same tipe and size of your hdd..and it will work again and you can safe your data.but if not...nothing you can do it

Best Regrad

SHOGUN 125

Yes, it can be used that way. Do you already have an operating system installed on your first drive?

Disk can be formatted after installing operating system on the first disk or prior to installation if you intend to install the operating system on this disk.

Hi there,

If you have access to another system, download SeaTools for DOS from the Seagate website:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

This program makes a bootable DOS disk that will check ALL sectors on your drive. If needed, it will give you the option to fix, including boot sectors.

Also, if you can, download the most current Chipset drivers for your system, these include the EIDE and SATA controllers, just in case.

Hope these ideas work

Tim

This is because an 80GB hard drive only has 75GB inside it will not be exact because of the way hard drive manufacturers compute the size. 80GB by name but only 75GB in real hard drive space. much like a if you have a flash drive or a portable uSB you will notice this also.