URGENT!! troubles with a seagate Momentus 5400.2

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URGENT!! troubles with a seagate Momentus 5400.2

Post by SLOTh » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:32 pm

its a: ST9120821AS my computer will not recognize it (desktop) and the seagate drivefinder utility won't either... i have tommorow evening to try and see if i can get it to work... this is urgent and all helpful ideas appriciated. I will have to return it on monday if i can;t get it working...

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Post by Rusty075 » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:47 pm

1. Does it spin up?
2. Does it show up in the Bios?

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Post by SLOTh » Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:30 pm

1: Yes
2: no

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Post by andyb » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:32 am

Chances are that its the electonics side of the HDD thats gone wrong.

Your only real hope of getting the data off of it is by finding an identical drive, with identical hips/firmware, and swap the pcb.


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Post by Le_Gritche » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:34 am

If it doesn't show up in the BIOS you should do the regular checks :
- is the IDE cable correctly fitted
- try an IDE cable that works for sure
- try the other IDE plug on the mobo
- check if the master/slave/cable select switch is correctly selected on the hard-drive to accomodate for 2 hard-drives on the same IDE cable if that is the case.
- check in the BIOS if the IDE port is disabled (in case you are not using the regular one)

EDIT: ahemmm, it seems you have a SATA drive judging from the following comments, so me and my off-topic advices will get back to formating my IDE drive now that it cares to appear in the BIOS after a glitch crashed the main partition.
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Post by mg1394 » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:28 am

Gotta appreciate all those IDE tips for a SATA drive 8)

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:53 am

mg1394 wrote:Gotta appreciate all those IDE tips for a SATA drive 8)
i am thankful that he at least replied with some ideas... anymore? got another 12 hours vbefore i can test it (about to go to work) load this thread up!!! (there is no data on it yet i would just really like not having to return it.

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Post by DaveLessnau » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:09 am

Since I don't know what motherboard you have or whether or not you've had previous SATAs installed, I'm shooting in the dark here, but look around in your BIOS for your SATA controller information. In my AMIBIOS setup, it's under Integrated Peripherals. First, in my computer, there are two IDE controllers: the "On-Chip" one and the "OnBoard Promise" one. I set the OnBoard Promise IDE to Disabled since I'm not using it. Under On-Chip IDE Configuration I had to do some trial and error stuff to figure out things that work. I ended up with:

- Native Mode (Legacy Mode is if your operating system doesn't recognize SATA yet).
- SATA Only (I have no PATA devices)
- PATA Keep Enabled = No
- SATA Ports Definition = P0-1st/P1-2nd
- Configure SATA as RAID = No

You'll probably have to play with your system's equivalents to figure something out (assuming this is the problem).

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:32 am

thanks for the idea... i will try that tonight any more ideas?

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Post by jackylman » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:30 am

Are there any jumpers on it to force compatibility modes?

Also, what motherboard are you using?

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:35 am

the board i am using is an msi http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130529

its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?

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Post by jackylman » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:31 am

SLOTh wrote:its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?
SATA2 drives do to select speeds (1.5, 3.0) because some sata controllers that are only compatible with the original SATA spec can't read SATA2 drives.

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:13 am

jackylman wrote:
SLOTh wrote:its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?
SATA2 drives do to select speeds (1.5, 3.0) because some sata controllers that are only compatible with the original SATA spec can't read SATA2 drives.
i don;t think its a sata 3.0

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Post by Rusty075 » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:15 pm

Is this the only SATA drive in the system, or is the boot drive sata as well?

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:55 pm

Rusty075 wrote:Is this the only SATA drive in the system, or is the boot drive sata as well?
the boot drive is also sata... hmmm well i am gona give it another go this evening...

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Post by Rusty075 » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:25 pm

Try swapping their locations..plug the 5400.2 in where the boot drive is, and the boot in where the notebook drive is now, and see if they both show up in the bios...would help isolate whether its the drive or the controller.

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:44 pm

Rusty075 wrote:Try swapping their locations..plug the 5400.2 in where the boot drive is, and the boot in where the notebook drive is now, and see if they both show up in the bios...would help isolate whether its the drive or the controller.
OK i'll try that too...

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Post by SLOTh » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:32 pm

thank you all for your time, i really do appriciate it. I will be shipping the drive back tommorow.

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