Won't show my 250G seagate

[djd_201]

This is probably gonna’ be a dumb dead drive post...but I wish and hope there’s
a fix…someone maybe I can send it to, to check it out and resurrect it?

It’s a 250G Seagate 7200rpm IDE drive that was, working great! It has XP Pro on it and was performing fine. I pulled a dummy and had the surge protector sitting on the floor by my desk and accidentally toe’d the “off” switch while the computer was running. No big prob…I thought. On a reboot, the drive won’t access anymore. After banging my brain for a fix… I tried to use Seagate’s drive utility to locate and wipe and reinstall and the Seagate/Acronis program won’t even recognize the drive. Anyone I can send it to, or any program utility suggestions from anyone that can help me? I hate to trash a 250G hard drive.

Thanks in advance for any help

Need more info on the system or anything? Please just ask…

Drew in Missourah

[Baddog]

Can you auto detect the drive in the bios?

[Sterling_Aug]

Sounds like the drive controller on the drive got a spike when you toed the outlet strip.

Check the manufacturers website if the drive is still under warranty (it could be). Then you can RMA the drive for a replacement.

[djd_201]

Sterling_Aug !

Good Golly Gee Whizzikers!

Went to Seagates site...RMA'd the drive through the serial number which WAS STILL UNDER WARRANTY!!!

SMILES

Paid the extra $20 to expidite, had the replacement in 2 & 1/2 days via UPS

That tip you gave me was worthy of $90-$120 depending on where you go for a NEW Seagate 250G 7200rpm drive

how much you need for counsel and guidance....??? smiling

I think my op for drives just slid from Western Digital to Seagate...

Does Western Digital have such an easy RMA user friendly option?

thanks a ton!

[Sterling_Aug]

I still prefer WD drives. Various manufacturers have different RMA policies and warranty times. I can remember, but there is only one company with a 5 year warranty on their drives now. Everyone else has 1 year or less warranty.