Hi,
If the drive is not showing up in the BIOS, but seems to be spinning,
you can try this:
Get an identical model/series drive (exact identical model and size),
and transplant the controller board from one drive to the other.
I have had this work on quite a number of drives that just would not
show up in the BIOS.
This is why my DVD backup images (3 year olds are murder on DVDs) are on
RAID6
Harry
On 9/10/10 7:10 PM, Winterlight wrote:
> I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died. I had
> about 800GB of video on it, two thirds of the space were backups of
> my DVD collection and I still have the DVDs so it could of been a lot
> worse. I was running it in an external drive bay, pretty much 24/7
> when it just disappeared. I have never lost a drive by just
> disappearing, two others I have lost in the past all died slowly with
> failed access warnings or just screwing things up but this just went
> silently.
>
> After trying restarts and reboots I put it in another USB2 external
> drive bay with no change, then I stuck it in a PC and the same
> problem. If the BIOS can't see it then I can't recover anything so I
> guess I'm done... unless somebody has another idea?
>
