Hello, I come here in aid of help cause I don't know just what else to do. Case is pretty simple: 120Gb Seagate Sata hard disk started giving problems (corrupted winxp boot files) so I decided to check it using seatools. As I expected, Seatools veryfied there were several bad sectors on the disk and mark them consequently. This was using Seatools Desktop edition, Seatools for DOS hanged after finding 99 bad sectors, three times in a row. The important thing is that when I ordered Seatools to fix move or mark this sectors as bad to keep using the resto of the hard disk it hanged and the disk completely died. The Sata bios does not recognize the drive any more and shows "Hardware initialization failed", seatools doesn't "see" the drive anymore cause BIOS does not detect it; windows xp will only show that there's a conflict with the sata raid controller when the disk is pluged, none when unplugged. I want to know if there is any way to get the disk to be recognized using another BIOS in a floppy or something similar. When the disk is turned on it emits a sound like "pic pic" for several seconds and after that stops. I thank you in advance.
you mean a clicking sound when the HDD starts? It does sound like the HDD could be busted, though to make sure you could try it in another PC.
That's what I mean, unfortunately I don't have another pc to try it in. Sorry for opening this thread twice, I think this copy should be deleted.
