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January 6th, 2004 22:00
Seagate HDD Failure
Hi,
The other day the power pack in my old PC system blew and smoked. The hard
drive in that system (a 40 GB Seagate Barracuda) contains all of my most
recent files and was my main Windows XP OS drive. I have recently built a
new system and when I try to use the Seagate drive in the system it does not
turn on at all, no fans, no lights, nothing. Then when I remove the Seagate
and connect my new Western Digital hard drive the system starts fine.
Does anyone know a way I can access the data on my old Seagate hard drive if
it will not even start when connected to the system? Does this indicate a
serious electrical failure in the drive?
Thanks for any help,
Allan
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January 6th, 2004 22:00
Try connecting the Seagate as a slave to the boot drive of your new system. You will probably need to set the jumper to SL (slave). It will probably be CS (the Dell default configuration). The following page shows how to set these:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?dn=1036724
Post back with your results.
Allan_S1
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January 7th, 2004 01:00
Thanks for posting, I tried the drive on CS, master and slave and still no luck. Even if the seagate is connected as slave with my WD HD connected as master it stops the whole system from turning on, very strange.
Allan