I HAVE A HARD DRIVE BARRACUDA 7200.10 SATA 500gb AND MY COMPUTER SUDDENLY STOPPED TO DETECT HARD DRIVE WHAT CAN I DO?

If you are using it as a external drive you will find in my computer. If your using it as a new main drive it may have to be formatted .

1) Open your computer case
2) On the back of the drive where the connectors are, you have jumpers. These small plastic tabs change the function of your hard drive. All hard drives have a special setup procedure. The information about jumper settings is on the top of the hard drive.
3) Remove plastic tabs and put them according to "Slave" instructions.
4) Connect drive to middle connector of the cord.
5) Connect power supply cord.
6) Secure the drive in place and close computer case.

Also make sure that the main drive is not set as slave.

You must first press f6 to load the SATA drivers for the hard drive before you go forward with the install.

Good Luck,

NOLA Tech

Partion the drive into 5 100GB partitions, and then try it

Brother,it is a firmware problem for seagate drives,the 7200.10 has a typical problem of firmware,once it currupt,then it cannot be detcted by the BIOS or PC ,or showing 0GB or less capacity when connected,so you can use some useful tools such as HD Doctor for Seagate to repair it,this problem is very common but less tool can deal with it till now.

http://atulchitnis.net/files/seagate.pdf http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/downloads/firmware/ follow indications carefully

Read this.

You have to go online and search then download the drivers for preparing SATA laptop harddrives for installation of Windows XP otherwise during installation it will tell you there is no hard drive found.

You're not missing any step at all, because with SATA hard drive if its really working your computer should
automatically detect it and since this hard drive suddenly stop working there's a possibility that its already
fried but if you want you can try this hard drive again to a different computer and if still not detected by
second computer its already dead.........

have you partitioned and formated it ? unless you do that to the drive it will not show up with a drive letter in windows. go into control panel, administrive tools, computer management, disk management - there you should see all your drives and you can partiton, format, assign or reassign drive letters to them. hope this solves your problem.