How to extact the data off the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB HD

The hard disk must have crashed and only professional data recovery service providers can retrieve data from the hard disk. It will cost money and if the data is extremely important then only you should opt for data recovery.

You can recover hard drive data with hard drive data recoverysoftware. Thenformat the drive to get it fixed.
For data recovery software,here are two of the best Iused.

For Windows: http://www.any-data-recovery.com/index.htm
For Mac: http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm

You can download one of them and scan your hard drive for free to previewwhether your files can be recovered. They will show you the file name, type, dateand of your files and thumbnails for your pictures that it found on yourdrive.

You need a usb cable to harddisk. than a computer running linux. connect hd by usb to linux and copy.

It needs the tattoo file for the motherboard - HP can provide.

I don't know exactly what model of Seagate Barracuda do you have. I know that the warranty for Seagate drives is 5 years (maybe not for all countries). I suggest you to take a look at this link for your own country and disk drive, and ask for hard disk replacement from Seagate. Mention that at the disk replacement procedure the new disk is clean (without data) so you will need to reinstall windows at the new disk.

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The motherboard has two SATA connectors but they only go up to a 150 MB/s data transfer rate.

Your Seagate however, is engineered for 300 MB/s data transfer.

Download the Seagate manual for this drive and you will see the diagram on the last page that shows how to place a jumper on the drive to make it work at 150 MB/s.

Hard drives are only designed to last 3 to 5 years. Most hard drive manufacturers only warranty them for 1 year.
For whatever reason yours has died.

Backing up your data is imperative.

If you need to recover data from this hard drive, there are places online that you can send the drive to and they can recover the data on your hard drive. This can cost you a bundle though. If the data is not necessary, all you can do is buy a new one and reinstall your operating system.

They sure are !
You need an IDE or EIDE enclosure.

If you bought the enclosure very recently you may want to try taking it back and swapping it for another one

If its a big box store you might want to try the "it just doesn't work and I am clueless" routine
Seen that work quite a bit much to my dismay. Then the people usually get money back and go to another store to get the correct item.

NOTE I dont condone that method !

check on newegg.com

The drive is bad, I had a similar problem with a WD HDD, You can download Seatools and work on it in DOS, http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools