This is rather common with the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives. It happens during startup and the hard drives power cycles and then doesn't respond. You will probably get more help at the official Seagate forums where there are countless threads about this issue. And If all else fails, Seagate will replace your drive.
Yet another dead hard drive thread :(
I have three HDs, a 500gb I use as the main drive, and two 1tb drives I use for storage, all of them connected be means of sata ports. One of them, a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 32MB, SATA-300 that I purchased last august, has stopped working today
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. It was working perfectly fine yesterday, but today it just disappeared from My Computer. It doesn't even show up under Disk Management or Bios. The non functioning drive is on sata part 2, and no HD is detected there according to BIOS.
I also noticed that every time the system goes trough post, when it detects all HD installed, I get two "auto detecting SATA... IDE Hard Disk #" messages, instead of the three I would usually get. This part seems to be taking longer than usual too, as if trying to detect the third HD.
I tried resetting the BIOS to its default since I overclock my system, with no results. I replaced the sata cable and changed the port the disk is connected to, but no luck. Does this means my drive is fried? Is there a program I can use to verify this, or possibly restore it? I tried using HD Tune but it doesn't detect the drive either...
My specs if it helps:
[email protected]
OCZ 4 gb ram @DDR667
X-Fi Xtreme gamer
XFX Radeon HD 5850
ASUS P5Q
I can't think of anything that may have caused this. Today I uninstalled a few games and leftover Nvidia drivers from my previous video card. I also installed Half Life 2 along with the cinematic mod v10. Any ideas?
I also noticed that every time the system goes trough post, when it detects all HD installed, I get two "auto detecting SATA... IDE Hard Disk #" messages, instead of the three I would usually get. This part seems to be taking longer than usual too, as if trying to detect the third HD.
I tried resetting the BIOS to its default since I overclock my system, with no results. I replaced the sata cable and changed the port the disk is connected to, but no luck. Does this means my drive is fried? Is there a program I can use to verify this, or possibly restore it? I tried using HD Tune but it doesn't detect the drive either...
My specs if it helps:
[email protected]
OCZ 4 gb ram @DDR667
X-Fi Xtreme gamer
XFX Radeon HD 5850
ASUS P5Q
I can't think of anything that may have caused this. Today I uninstalled a few games and leftover Nvidia drivers from my previous video card. I also installed Half Life 2 along with the cinematic mod v10. Any ideas?
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Thanks, I will try looking for a solution there.
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Originally Posted by icy_cool_quad  This is rather common with the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives. It happens during startup and the hard drives power cycles and then doesn't respond. You will probably get more help at the official Seagate forums where there are countless threads about this issue. And If all else fails, Seagate will replace your drive. |
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Originally Posted by Eastrider I lost 1TB of data last September. I understand you. Two 500GB Maxtors. What's scary now is that the HDDs that died on you are exactly exactly exactly the same model than mines. |
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Just tried their online chat support, they can't help me because my drive is OEM
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