Question Drivers for Seagate HDD ?
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kerberos_20
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IO error mean windows cant comunicate with your drive (hardware failure), check power and data cables, make sure drive is spinning and its not making weird noises
https://i.ibb.co/NSvNXHT/hardisk.png doesnt work
power cable good data cable good,hdd at start makes some weird noises then it goes good
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Disk unknown Not initialized means the MBR is corrupt.
You use SeaTools Bootable utilities and run the Erase Overwrite Full command to zero-fill the drive, which restores things to the out-of-the-box condition if nothing is actually defective.
You use SeaTools Bootable utilities and run the Erase Overwrite Full command to zero-fill the drive, which restores things to the out-of-the-box condition if nothing is actually defective.
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I specified Bootable because I don't like to do low-level stuff inside Windows if I can avoid it, so have never actually tried the Windows version. Who knows, that one may work fine too.
If you only have a DOS computer that can't boot from USB, then the legacy CD or floppy disk versions there should probably be new enough to understand 1 terabyte drives, which came out back in 2007.
If you only have a DOS computer that can't boot from USB, then the legacy CD or floppy disk versions there should probably be new enough to understand 1 terabyte drives, which came out back in 2007.
look man i dont have manual from my motherboard is second purchase and what is pata mode now?
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Most motherboard manuals are easily found online. The exception is if you picked up an old prebuilt (which is just begging for headaches).
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PATA pretty much means the same as IDE: an older mode for accessing the drive
We'd be happy to look it up if you could tell us what motherboard you have. It would probably be much faster if we were there, as in some ways this can be more difficult and so takes longer than even tech support on the phone.
Of course instead of paying someone for tech support it's likely cheaper and more certain to solve your problem with fewer headaches to just buy a new drive. Sometimes they just die, but at least they are pretty cheap now.
We'd be happy to look it up if you could tell us what motherboard you have. It would probably be much faster if we were there, as in some ways this can be more difficult and so takes longer than even tech support on the phone.
Of course instead of paying someone for tech support it's likely cheaper and more certain to solve your problem with fewer headaches to just buy a new drive. Sometimes they just die, but at least they are pretty cheap now.
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Then leave your PC at a shop and let them figure out what's going on. Or just buy a new drive. Diagnosing a problem requires effort and possibly a headache or two. I'm not sure how we help you through pictures.
i dont have ide cable,and my motherboard is b450m-h and my hdd outputs are sata power and sata data cable
and i think i have some another output with metal pins
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That means - the disk is not initialized.
It has to be initialized first, before you can use it.
If initializing gives you error, then there's a hardware problem.
And ignore all that nonsense about IDE compatibility and PATA cables.
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To be fair, motherboard was a mystery at the time that was said and being old was an assumptive query involving dated interface cables.
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Well, OP is trying to salvage the HDD by zero-fill but Bootable SeaTools couldn't see it, so was just trying to see if their board had any compatibility modes to assist that as those use different drivers. But B450M-H does not have any. And the Windows version would just use the same drivers that Windows itself cannot initialize the disk with.
Selectable IDE and PATA compatibility modes are for SATA controllers and don't have anything to do with PATA cables. The BIOS for an IDE controller wouldn't have such settings as that would not be logical--what other mode could it run in?
I think we've expended enough time here trying to salvage a $36 drive, don't you? I mean even if it got fixed in another system, could you really trust it again?
Selectable IDE and PATA compatibility modes are for SATA controllers and don't have anything to do with PATA cables. The BIOS for an IDE controller wouldn't have such settings as that would not be logical--what other mode could it run in?
I think we've expended enough time here trying to salvage a $36 drive, don't you? I mean even if it got fixed in another system, could you really trust it again?
bfg the bios doesnt have ide mode,and its f2 version what i've got
you right about trusting if something breaks off,but i aint rich and my earnings are bad,keep in mind that everyone is from another country
btw my ssd is 27 euro wtf paying hdd overpriced?
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