20 Most Recent Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Likely fatal drive failure. Had the same happen to me. Does it make multiple clicks/clicking sound?

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If you are trying to boot from this drive you have to go into bios and change the boot order.

Is this drive both sata and ide if so just choose the sata connectors. and just one power wire.

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 continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect/ boot up a computer hard drive

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

the leads from your "((MOTHERBOARD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE))" make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs its connections to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error even something as small as a faulty electrical extension or fan lead can cause this problem

computers need all of the data and electrical current to travel through every working device and to have an end to be able work properly

a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail check all electrical power input and extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working

also check the Cmos battery and computer RAM modules make sure they are securely seated with no dust built up or in the sockets

hope this helps you

you could run the chkdsk utility click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to repair any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive another way of running the chkdsk utility click start control panel administrive tools,computer management ,disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now,start should schedule this task when restart do not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer then defragment your hard drive hope this helps

the beeps are post during post the very first work is done by the ram,all the memory in the ram is first transferred to the hard disk,and remains active untill turned off. make sure that your RAM is securely seated test or replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive make sure the connections are secure including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive)) 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 ? hope this helps

An external storage-device has four major components:

* the USB cable

* the power-adapter

* the disk-drive inside the enclosure

* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

One of these components has failed.

Try a different USB cable.

Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.

Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.

Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.

Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.

There exist commercial "data recovery" services that can try to repair your device, just long-enough to rescue and copy your files. For example, see: https://services.seagate.com/index.aspx?lng=en-US for a "no data - no charge" guarantee.

Yes, although I would use my 160 as the master and the 1TB as a slave to store my info though.

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Be sure to backup your data.

You are probably using FAT32 for your partition on your drive: the limit for FAT32 is 32GB. Alternatively, you are using NTFS but your partition has been limited to that particular size.

You could you a Disk partition manager to change the format of your partition to NTFS or if you are already using this format extend the partion size to your requirements.

A safer alternative, if your current partition is set smaller than your drive size is to create additional primary or secondary partitions to fully utilize the available capacity: you could use (with great caution and only if you are experience) standard Windows Control Panel -> Systems and Security -> Admistrative Tools -> Computer management -> Disk management

Assuming that the jumpers at your hard drive is in the
right position. Run Scandisk to correct defect of the hard drive. If there's no change after the running Scandisk, then, the portion after the 137.4 either used space or a defective one.

When the system failed what was it that failed and how ?

If it was a drive failure then the good drive should be capable of runnig all on its own as that is part of the raid process.

This also depends slightly on the OS

If it was a harware failure that required a motherboard or new server chassis then you could drop the drives in after installation of a new primary drive to move / recover data.

If they are 3.5" drives then the enclosure must have a suitable PSU of its own and only use the cables that came with it NOTHING ELSE.

You have not said how your external drive is connected SATA, FIREWIRE, USB etc as the drive you mention could run in any enclosure just mentioned.

If you are using USB then ensure that it is a USB 2.0 port you are connecting to not usb 1.x Again if its USB DO NOT connect via a hub.

If it is SATA make sure again that the enclosure has its own PSU and that the cable is the correct type E-SATA etc.

Same with FIREWIRE it MUST have its own PSU

ONLY use the psu that came with the enclosure NOTHING ELSE

You cannot convert from NTFS to FAT32 unless you use say Partition Magic or other disk util.
If you have nothing in that partition then reformat it to FAT32 by right clicking on it and selecting > format> then select FAT32

I am thinking external HDD?? Bad power supply or check the connection.

Can you pleae be a little more explicit? What is the make & model of your computer? What kinds of repairs are you trying to do? What kinds of errors or symptoms are you experiencing?

Are the Hard drives setup as master & slave ? (plastic jumper on Hard drive at cable)..... is the Hard drives connected on separate ide cables... if they are ide drives ?