Help, hard disk not detected

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jellymonster

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Hi,
I have sata hard disks (same model, which is annoying to tell the difference) on with mac os x on (hfs+) and one windows 7. It was all working fine until today I turned it on and the hfs+ HD isn't detected under windows or bios.
I have a ga-ep35-ds3l mobo.
I installed seagate tools and it seemed to detect 2 drives, I ran a few short tests on both and they came back ok.
I have also tries switching cables around and stuff with no luck.
Help =(
 
maybe reconnect the SATA power cables? mine came loose once and it took me an hour to figure out why my hdd wasn't working.
 
today I turned it on and the hfs+ HD isn't detected under windows or bios.
I have a ga-ep35-ds3l mobo.
I installed seagate tools and it seemed to detect 2 drives
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If the BIOS doesn't find it seagate tools shouldn't be able to either. Are you sure it's not detected in windows but just not showing up under computer?
 
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If the BIOS doesn't find it seagate tools shouldn't be able to either. Are you sure it's not detected in windows but just not showing up under computer?
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Well, when I say it's not detected in bios, on startup it says SATA ports detected, 4, devices, 2 but only loads one device (the working hard disk).

And now I can't get Seagate tools to detect it either, but I swear it did yesterday.
 
ha, reset bios, restarted, bios still did not detect it but Seagate tools did (Y)
I'm now going to run every single test on both hdd's.

I'm so confused.

Ooo, I also asked my mate if he was having any problems with his HDD as we bought them together. His answer was 'o that broke, nothing would detect it so I sent it to Maxtor and they sent it back, but I don't think it's the same one'.

Windows device manager tool does not detect it either.
 
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I just did all tests using seagate on both disk (because I didn't know which was which) and all passed. Does any one know any other good tests I could do or have any ideas on how I can recover the data?
Thanks
 
Ok, unplugged broken hdd, hit rescan in seagate tools, and it still came up with 2 drives... Helpful. I think that something has gone wrong there.
 
If they are exactly the same (usually it won't work if anything is different) then you can try and see if it's just the control/logic board that's burnt out.
 
ok, pretty sure it's just broken.

So I'm going to get a new one.

What is a good, fast reliable brand and model hard drive to go for at about 500GB and not too expensive?

If I ad the money I would have a SSD right now =P
 
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