Lol, i've learnt the hard way to backup and then play around when trouble shooting HDs. As for connections and stuff, yeah, checked that as one of the first things and then after that have swapped it in and out a number of times now to an external drive.
Its a seagate barricude 500GB SATA and the motherboard is a gigabyte EP43
Newegg.com - Open Box: GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard
At this point I can't get my system to identify the drive anymore. After that failed re-format it no longer detects it or the other partition. I'm going to swap it back to her system for a final check to see if it's detected there, if not then no doubt she's bricked.
My next plan was to run seatools as i imagine seagate will ask her to run it when/if she RMAs it but as I can't ID the drive right now even that is out.
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That was my initial thought as well but all these other problems followed....still confuses me but no way to double check anymore as the drive is a mess now
Its a seagate barricude 500GB SATA and the motherboard is a gigabyte EP43
Newegg.com - Open Box: GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard
At this point I can't get my system to identify the drive anymore. After that failed re-format it no longer detects it or the other partition. I'm going to swap it back to her system for a final check to see if it's detected there, if not then no doubt she's bricked.
My next plan was to run seatools as i imagine seagate will ask her to run it when/if she RMAs it but as I can't ID the drive right now even that is out.
Edit:
I dunno guys, he was able to back up the files when he transplanted the hard drive. That tells me that the HD is good.
That was my initial thought as well but all these other problems followed....still confuses me but no way to double check anymore as the drive is a mess now