SATA 80GB Seagate HDD

Good day!!!

please check the HDD itself if it is set on master?slave?

please change it to master..

if the problem persist just add a comment.

there was wrong in the set up of jumper in your 80gb hdd. Look closely to the 80gb harddrive, in between the ide cable terminal and the power supply connector you will see 8pin terminals paired together and a jumper use to short the paired terminals. It is most likely that the jumper was configure to detect your hdd as master. If the ide cable you use for the 80gb hdd was also use for the dvd/cdrom drive then it will conflict with it if both jumper setting was set to master. See the description of jumper settings in the sticker of the hdd. Position the jumper to slave.

Reboot your system again and see if the 80gb finally appear in your system. When system boot upon detection of hdd, the primary master should be 250gb while your primary/secondary slave will be read your 80gb hard disk.

1) have checked bios cannot see hdd mounted.

That is BAD -- the disk-drive could have "died".



2) tried a seagate hdd works fine so connections in laptop seem to be working

That shows that your motherboard is GOOD, but that your disk-drive is BAD.



3) can hear hardrive trying to do something as can hear harddrive usual noise, continous noise for about 5 sec before getting the error message

That is BAD -- the disk-drive is "dying".



4) no rattling or crackling noise from drive apart from the above

That is BAD -- none of the files can be read from your disk.




i have created a ubuntu boot up disk which allows me to access laptop but does shows error when locating hdd,

That is BAD.




once in ubuntu i can access internet but it does not show the windows partition of the harddrive, only shows ubuntu as opearing system, confused.

That is BAD. Only the CD/DVD disk has been mounted -- Ubuntu could not mount the disk-drive.




In regards to ubuntu working does this mean the hdd is ok?

No, it means that your motherboard is working.






and is there anyhting i can try via ubuntu to locate the files?

No. The disk-drive is "dead".




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.

Sounds like your drive needs to be formatted, click the start icon in your taskbar then right click "computer" and select "manage" this will open the "computer managment" window from the list select "disk managment" and your drive should be visible in the lower list on the right. Right click and select format from the list. Hope this helps

change their place..

You will have to send it to a data recovery company in order to retrive the data sounds like the circuit board failed therefore the drive is not receiving power.Usually if this board is good you would hear the drive spin up.
Good luck

Dear,

You have to make IDE drive as slave. For this put the jumper to slave in IDE drive. Possibility of CMOS battery is rare, but you can confirm it by checking your system time in BIOS. If system time is ok then there is no problem in CMOS battery and you need not to replace it.

Thanks,
Rakesh Kumar

Seagate Drive not being detected:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=201713&NewLang=en&Hilite=
If your drive is SATA drive, then you may follow the steps in the below link:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SATA_Troubleshooter_-_Serial_ATA_Data_and_Power_Cables&vgnextoid=e4644a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
I recommend you to visit the below link that has information on similar hard drive issues in computer:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?SearchOperator=0&ssdFilterCommunity6=0&ssdFilterCommunity7=504
If the drive is not displayed in computer, you may follow the step My internal drive is not displayed in My Computer - 182615 in the above link.

• I suppose there is a jumper(beside the power pin) on your new HDD,
• if its true the your HDD supports 3GB/s mode but your motherboard does not .
• So place the jumper on the HDD on 1.5GB/s combination.

then

• Disconnect the 80 GB,
• Connect the new HDD,
• Boot from any bootable xp or vista or any disk tool like erd commander and try to format the new HDD.
• Then connect the new HDD and boot from it.

Tell me what happened.

Hi,
Make sure the power cable of SATA hard drive is properly plugged in or not.. It is possible.. Try with SATA 0..
Thank you........