jives11
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Hi,
I have a 40Gb seagate IDE disk drive , a barracuda IV. I'mnot sure exactly what has been done to this disk in the past BUT I can run seatools and it passes both the short and long tests fine.No SMART settings have been tripped. However I cannot appear to format it.
BIOS recognises it OK but windows or Mac do not see the disk in Management/Storage or disk utility.
When I ran seatoolsone thing I noticed was that it said 'security mode supported and enabled'. I don't want to try to recover data, I just want to get the diskwiped and back to usable. The seagate disk installationtool fails with an error.I wonder if the MBR or something has been removed ?
Any suggestions if there are toolsto reset this back to a working drive or is it now a paper weight?
Thanks
I have a 40Gb seagate IDE disk drive , a barracuda IV. I'mnot sure exactly what has been done to this disk in the past BUT I can run seatools and it passes both the short and long tests fine.No SMART settings have been tripped. However I cannot appear to format it.
BIOS recognises it OK but windows or Mac do not see the disk in Management/Storage or disk utility.
When I ran seatoolsone thing I noticed was that it said 'security mode supported and enabled'. I don't want to try to recover data, I just want to get the diskwiped and back to usable. The seagate disk installationtool fails with an error.I wonder if the MBR or something has been removed ?
Any suggestions if there are toolsto reset this back to a working drive or is it now a paper weight?
Thanks