Seagate 500gb 32mb - Not seen by bios, working fine 2 mins ago??

Vegetarian · 3 Oct 2008 at 18:10

Been using the seagate 32mb 500gig drive for a few months in my media centre - all seems fine. Today I was using the PC and went to get a glass off water and found the PC had rebooted and was stuck on Identifieing IDE at boot up... restarted the PC a few times - same sticking - cant even get into my bios - reset cosmos... still no joy. So unpluged the seagate and pc booted fine into bios (2nd 500gig for files).

It seems totally dead

anything else I can try? The second 500 gig (seagate too) seems to vibrate less than dead drive.

Vegetarian · 3 Oct 2008 at 18:36

just ran seatools and no harddrive seen!

ConTRo13R · 3 Oct 2008 at 18:39

Take the battery out leave for a minute, put back in a should be fine? after that you will need to re-set the time and the settings you made changes too.

Shawk · 3 Oct 2008 at 19:08

You'll see a post from me earlier today with the same problem. Bad batch?

Vegetarian · 3 Oct 2008 at 22:11

right - just swapped the circult board from my other 7200.11 and the drive is seen - but it wont boot into windows and fails the seatools test right at beginning

Will have to RMA the drive

AtaRo · 3 Oct 2008 at 22:22

might only be a bad batch