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Maheriano

February 8th, 2009, 01:26 AM

I just built a computer for my dad for Christmas and put a 500 gigabyte Seagate Barracuda drive in it and installed Vista Ultimate. It was working great for the last month but recently it started working REAAAAAALY slow and when he was playing cards on it yesterday, it shut off on its own. Tried to reboot, it gets to where it would normally POST but flashes a blue screen and reboots.
I had my brother take out the hard drive and put it in his computer, the BIOS picks it up but when he boots into his Windows partition, it doesn't get picked up. Then he boots into the Ubuntu LiveCD which also doesn't pick up the drive. The only thing that picks it up is the BIOS.

Any idea what happened to this drive? I'm pretty sure it's dead so he's going to have to mail it to me so I can return it locally here.

73ckn797

February 8th, 2009, 01:51 AM

Have they tried to reformat and re-install? At least reformat. Possibly could reboot with Vista disk and go to recovery to accomplish this.

Ericyzfr1

February 8th, 2009, 01:57 AM

Did you check the fan? Could be overheating....

Maheriano

February 8th, 2009, 02:24 AM

Have they tried to reformat and re-install? At least reformat. Possibly could reboot with Vista disk and go to recovery to accomplish this.
He puts in the Windows CD to reformat but it doesn't find the drive to install to.

Maheriano

February 8th, 2009, 02:25 AM

Did you check the fan? Could be overheating....

The entire computer is brand new, I bought everything a month ago right down to the case. It also doesn't pick up the drive in a second computer like I said.

Shazaam

February 8th, 2009, 03:08 AM

Maheriano

February 8th, 2009, 03:31 AM

Is your Seagate defective...
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/seagate_barracuda_drives_failing_alarming_rate_are _you_affected
Web page to check...
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

Edit:
As a test, try hooking up another drive to the pc and see if it works.

I'll tell him to check the page, thanks. I told him to put another drive in the computer and boot from it, haven't heard back the result yet.

73ckn797

February 8th, 2009, 05:20 AM

he puts in the windows cd to reformat but it doesn't find the drive to install to.

opps!!