Hi I original had a western ditial hard drive and would let me get to my desk top stuff but could not open anything it would say need administrator and I was the main. Well a removed the hard drive as a main drive and installed a new seagate 250 Gbytes Barracuda 7200.10 and installed it by itself and ran my cd for Xp and then hook up the western ditital as a slave so I could get my stuff from there and I did a few weeks later my daughter was on a public library and the seagate froze so I tried to restat my computer and it said it could not find my hard drive so I checked for wiring it was okay nothing I also tried to run or reboot my XP cd and the same result can you sugguest anything for me ?
Download testdisk and run it to see if it recognised in the list. If so use the intel option to find a boot sector
SOURCE: My seagate barracuda 7200 b will not boot up. It has been operating fine for the last 8 months
i suggested you use NORTON DISK DIAGNOSTICS to repair the MBR(master boot record)the master boot record is bad and you can use winXP bootable nto repair the drive by pressing R after booting is completed.but you need to be able to use DOS prompt before you can do this
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you might have to physically unplug the disk drive then plug it back in this should activate the found new hardware wizard or
control panel administrive tools computer management device manger scroll to disk drives + to expand if you see your drive right click you will have options update driver ,uninstall,scan for hardware changes,properties in the properties tab you will have more options in the general tab you can troubleshoot, in the driver tab you can update driver,rollback driver,uninstall driver
hope this helps
SOURCE: My Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
If I were you I would make sure your computer has no size barriers.. Some computer bios have
a maximum drive size that it will accept. Be sure to check this before purchasing. Of course you can always go with the same size 40GB, but your best move is to upgrade to a higher size.
Everyone has their opinion about vendors. If you ask me Drives fail just like any other device, so
get one with a good included warranty and back up your stuff. Look for speed and size and
make sure its the same I/O as your original.
MOST IMPORTANT : Verify your system can handle the size you wish to purchase
SOURCE: Is Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 Gbytes a Sata Hard
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Yes this series of Seagate is SATA.
Concerned, Nooh.
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