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Malenko:
have you tried a different USB port? my SATA to USB is finicky, thats why I ask.

vanrose72:

--- Quote from: Malenko on June 28, 2012, 08:28:50 am ---have you tried a different USB port? my SATA to USB is finicky, thats why I ask.

--- End quote ---

I've tried multiple USB ports in both the front and back of my machine, but none of them will detect the drive.

I'm still thinking the controller board is the culprit. Besides that, I could only imagine a shoddy USB adapter as the source of my issue.

ed12:
hi
i use a proggie called easeus partition recovery 5.0.1
it's freeware
with it u can tell if u can repair the drive or not
in winblow's if the mbr is not there winblow's will not asign it
with this proggie u can c it even if the mbr is bad
if the controller board is bad
u could poke around to find a drive that u can salvage the control board off
of

ed

vanrose72:

--- Quote from: ed12 on June 28, 2012, 01:14:03 pm ---hi
i use a proggie called easeus partition recovery 5.0.1
it's freeware
with it u can tell if u can repair the drive or not
in winblow's if the mbr is not there winblow's will not asign it
with this proggie u can c it even if the mbr is bad
if the controller board is bad
u could poke around to find a drive that u can salvage the control board off
of

ed

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the info, ed. I will most definitely check that out as soon as possible. Sounds great for troubleshooting stuff like this!

vanrose72:
I finally got to the bottom of my issue. My problem was the result of buggy firmware on the hard drive.

I contacted Seagate after researching an existing firmware issue prevalent among other hard drives like mine. The company agreed to flash the firmware free of charge, which completely resolved the issue at no cost to me.

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