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.
Did the harddisk or case fell on the ground, or had an earthquake in the past? Because this looks like the harddisk received big shocks and is damaged.
no, it did not fall but I'm sure it received a lot of heat because of bad cooling and climatic condition this summer in Argentina. I'm sured it's been damaged, the thing is I need the files in it. I need Bios to recognize it somehow... motherboard is Asus A8V deluxe, heard it has some recognition problems with the drives, but my hard disk makes a strange sound...
If the harddisk makes a clicking sound, then the disc itself is damaged. You'll need recovery software to recovery your files.
OK but how do I get a recovery software to "see" my drive if bios does not recognize it? Please.. try to be more extense in your explanations
Yes, I've tried SATA bootrom enabled, and also RAID promise controller, both of them report there's a failure in the hardware intialization... I think the disk is dead and there's not much more to it is it?
If the system can't get it initialised then either the harddisk or the SATA controller on the motherboard is dead (I think the harddisk).
