Hello, First of all is it spinning? If it is, does it click? What's the model number?
There can be so many things wrong with it, it's not funny. Some of the fixes that were posted do work, but do these at your own risk. If you fail you only make it harder for a professional to recover your data. If the drive is a 7200.10 then the Firmware fix will not work. If the drive is a 7200.12, there is a different fix for the firmware. That one fix only works on 7200.11 style HD's (F3). Good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 7:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] dead drive > > 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? >
