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Reformatting Seagate 80gb

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Miller

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My brother has a Seagate drive that recently seems to have bit the dust. It is detected by the computer, but it either reads in some programs as entirely full (to the last 1000th of space) or it doesn't display any reading at all and just slows the computer down (i.e. when I click on it once in My Computer, it just makes the computer lag for a minute and then doesn't display anything on the sidebar concerning size or anything like that).

I tried Partition Magic (a trial) to reformat it, and Virtuallab to recover lost data, but neither of them worked - Partition Magic didn't seem to do anything (and neither did the format option of Windows), and Virtuallab gave me a cyclic redundancy check (and I have no idea what that means).

If anyone has any suggestions about how to recover any data and/or at least make the drive usable again, that'd be awesome. Worst case scenario my brother just buys a new drive, but I'd like to see if we can figure this out before it comes to that.

Thanks.

[Edit] Also, let me know if you need any specifics. If it helps, the drive is set up as a slave (I guess that's important...forgot to mention that - oops).
 
Unfortuantely, most drives that develop mechanical problems like the ones you describe are beyond any cost effective repair - it is cheaper to simply replace them. Try some of the tools on the Ultimate Boot CD, but I am reasonably sure that the drive has passed on. If the data on it is mission critical, a pro data recovery firm such as OnTrack or Seagate DRS can look at the drive and charge you a boatload of money to any recoverable data off of it. Think around $2000. Take it as a lesson in the value of backups, RMA if it is still under warranty, or start shopping for a replacement.
 
DougLite: Thanks for the advice. We've pretty much decided on RMAing it if it's still under warranty (which it should be, it's not even a year old - heck, I don't even think it's half a year old). Most of the data wasn't terribly important, but it would've been convenient to back it up anyway, hence my asking. :) Anyway, we'll take a trip to Best Buy one of these days and see what we can do about all this.

Thanks again.
 
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