Hi so this is rather annoying. I had an external Seagate Freeagent drive that fell off my desk and broke the little mini-usb port on the side of the external drive. Instead of soldering it, I realized I could take the drive out since I had the cables to hook up another SATA drive inside my computer. The main problem is that the drive is "found" by BIOS, but it lists as unknown and does not show up as a hard drive when I get fully booted up. Any suggestions?

7/12/2009 1:07:39 AM

probly fucked that shit up when you dropped it

7/12/2009 8:37:58 AM

right click on my computer, go to manage then disk management. report back with what it shows. sometimes you have to force it to relate a drive letter with new drives/partitions

hopefully ^ isn't right lol

7/12/2009 6:07:34 PM

^ should work. Internal drives have to be mounted even in windows. USB is external so plug and play kicks in. Internal doesnt do this manually (though Ive seen it done before).

7/13/2009 10:50:33 PM

drives fucked, it buzzes trying to get the read head aligned.

7/14/2009 7:20:42 AM

whats it say in disk management?

7/14/2009 8:07:57 AM

^^ dropping HDs does that.

7/14/2009 8:27:51 AM

had a friend drop a hard drive. head got stuck. tapped it kinda hard when it was off. heads were freed and was able to backup the info on the drive.

might work, might not. drives fucked anyway. might as well try. i tapped it with a rubber mallet, but use whatever ya got.

7/14/2009 11:01:14 AM