swingdjted
Limp Gawd
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Well, I bought and built gear for a new computer, and all seemed well. For details, see the last few posts of this thread:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1346074
Anyway, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive that I had bought as a boot drive (1TB) will not work. BIOS won't even recognize it.
Other than initial installation, it had never been touched, and was working very well. It was mounted in the Cooler Master Stacker 810 behind a filtered 120mm fan and was subject to rather light use. However, it was at a point where around 50-100GB space was unused, the rest full.
I tried removing the drive and putting in an old PATA WD 250 gig drive, and was able to install Vista and run the computer ok. Attempting to install the drive in question with the WD 250 caused the computer to hang at the Gigabyte motherboard screen, or on other attempts, it goes to bios but still doesn't recognize the 1TB Seagate.
Although most of the data on it is backed up, about a month's worth is not, and it's rather important stuff. Quotes for an in-lab data recovery service have been around $400-$600 to start, or up to $3500 if it's something complicated.
Any suggestions on how to handle this issue?
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1346074
Anyway, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive that I had bought as a boot drive (1TB) will not work. BIOS won't even recognize it.
Other than initial installation, it had never been touched, and was working very well. It was mounted in the Cooler Master Stacker 810 behind a filtered 120mm fan and was subject to rather light use. However, it was at a point where around 50-100GB space was unused, the rest full.
I tried removing the drive and putting in an old PATA WD 250 gig drive, and was able to install Vista and run the computer ok. Attempting to install the drive in question with the WD 250 caused the computer to hang at the Gigabyte motherboard screen, or on other attempts, it goes to bios but still doesn't recognize the 1TB Seagate.
Although most of the data on it is backed up, about a month's worth is not, and it's rather important stuff. Quotes for an in-lab data recovery service have been around $400-$600 to start, or up to $3500 if it's something complicated.
Any suggestions on how to handle this issue?