help? Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ide

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dannyboiio18

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help please my Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ide drive wont show up in bios or my computer, you can hear the hdd spinning and clicking but nothing comes up it was on windows 7 genies edt(fake) but i wiped it, and re-installed it to xp home but now it wont show up??
 
What do you mean by "clicking?" Usually that means the drive is about to fail, if its the right kind of clicking.
 
That is a very old drive and if its clicking, you might as well forget about it and get a new drive. Clicking is a bad sign especially if its not showing up in bios or windows.
 
Is this a constant clicking or a click, pause, click, pause? Like I said, you have a very old drive there and would replace it.
 
If its clicking like that then replace it, thats not normal, any clicking is not normal. If i asked if it was contant then that means most likely you weren't hearing clicking but the drive as being as old as it is. We call the clicking you are hearing the click of death. Its not a good sign and the drive needs to be replaced.
 
You just said it didn't show up in the bios... Now your saying that the xp disk can see it when installing?

Does the clicking sound like this drive? If so, its bad.

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johnb35 said:
You just said it didn't show up in the bios... Now your saying that the xp disk can see it when installing?

Does the clicking sound like this drive? If so, its bad.

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This is EXACTLY what happened to all 6 WD drives I had within a month and they were brand NEW!
Oh man I hate that sound xD
WD HDD back in 2009: CLICK CLICK CLICK
Me: SHUT UP!!!
HDD: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
ME: SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
HDD: CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
ME: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Same thing happened to me with the remaining 5 new WD drives lol.

dannyboiio18 said:
when i use the xp setup disc it shows up
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If that's true,as a test try to perform QUICK format and then try to install XP and see if it will even work.
Still it is strange that XP shows it and BIOS not...
 
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Since its an IDE drive, do you have the jumper set correctly? What other ide drives do you have attached to the system? Do you have another drive attached to the cable that this drive is attached to?
 
nothing attached to same wire but cd rw attached to other ide port atm im running the xp full format it says
c: partition1 [unknown] 152617 mb < 152617 mb free> on 152617 mb disk 0 at id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MRB]
its currently at 48%

^^^
this is on the blue full format screen using the xp setup disc
 
Since this is the only drive on the cable, is it on the last connector on the cable or the one in the middle? Look at where the jumper is located on the drive. If set to cable select then the drive needs to be on the end connector not the middle one. If set to master then it can be attached to either connector on the cable. The drive can't be set to slave, which this may be your issue where it can't be read in the bios.

If I were you, I would download and run seatools on the drive to test for errors and to make sure the utility says its a good drive.
 
johnb35 said:
Since this is the only drive on the cable, is it on the last connector on the cable or the one in the middle? Look at where the jumper is located on the drive. If set to cable select then the drive needs to be on the end connector not the middle one. If set to master then it can be attached to either connector on the cable. The drive can't be set to slave, which this may be your issue where it can't be read in the bios.

If I were you, I would download and run seatools on the drive to test for errors and to make sure the utility says its a good drive.
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how do i download that?
 
johnb35 said:
I prefer testing drives in dos mode to windows mode.
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Me too.

dannyboiio18 if you have only 1 HDD connected then you can remove all the jumper from that HDD since they are not neccessary.Or you can set them to make HDD as a master HDD,but it is not neccessary.But be sure that jumpers are set correctly otherwise that can cause the HDD for not being showed in the BIOS as johnb35 said.
So if you have only 1 HDD connected,feel free to remove all the jumpers since you don't need them and the HDD should show up in the BIOS.Because if you have only one IDE HDD connected without any jumpers,it is automatically recognized as a master drive.




My head hurts like hell by the way xD
 
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