Hello all, I'm new to the forums and have a question. A while back my Seagate HDD failed on me and I had to get a new drive and start over. I kept the old Seagate hoping that one of these days I'd take the time to fogure out how to get the data back off of it. I was trying today, and I'm getting some weird results. BIOS recognizes the drive, but WIN7 and Vista will not boot as long as the drive is plugged in. (I think XP is on the old seagate, not sure). If I plug the Seagate HDD in after Windows has booted, explorer struggles to find it. I eventually got the driver to install, yet it only recognizes the HDD as "Local Disk (F" and does not know the capacity or anything. I can not open the disk from my computer and I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions? The seagate in question: S/N: 5QE2MK3S Model: ST3200820AS
The disk's partition is corrupt use a program such as recover my files. to recover your data. What happens when you run a chkdsk? you can also try running a program called spinrite, tries to repair bad sectors of the drive. then you will have a better chance of recovering data from the drive. But running spinrite can take hours to days to even over a week.
