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Hello all who know

Here is a problem with an almost new Seagate HDD.

I bought this drive in March this year, Barracuda 7200.10, Model
ST380215A, 80GB and it was working very well.

I got a Slax (KillBill) Linux CD and ran this from the CD itself and
was playing around with it. To ensure that nothing was written to the
hard disk I disconnected the drive and its power.

Alas, when I reconnected the HDD the bios itself does not recognize
the hard disk. It WAS working before I disconnected it. I also did not
physically remove the hard disk so there is no chance of a mechanical
damage.

The computer of course recognizes other hard disks when I put them on
so the problem is with the new hard disk only.

What could be the reason? How can I recover the hard disk short of
returning it to Seagate who provide a five year warranty for the
drive?

If I get an exactly similar hard disk and swap the circuit board will
it work - I assume the media must be still good and it may be only
some  fault in the circuit board.

Please tell me what I can try.

ClueLess

































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