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« on: August 26, 2008, 03:55:30 PM »
 I have a 250 gig seagate that has me baffled. Windows says it can not access it, I can not format because of "errors". Was fine yesterday. Think its bad? I ran seagate test on it and it says its "locked". Any ideas??
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 05:40:24 PM »
Have you tried Re-formatting it ? Using an Operating system install, I.e: Windows XP Install, Windows Vista, anything that could Format it without loading anything but the Windows Disc.
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2008, 05:45:49 PM »
make a boot disk and format it outside of windows.
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2008, 05:49:09 PM »
dlewis23, you got infected with bugs yo, you should get that checked out man.

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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2008, 06:19:27 PM »
You could also run Darik's Boot & Nuke. It will wipe out everything on the harddrive. Than reinstall Windows.

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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2008, 06:29:53 PM »
 Yes I have tried to reformat outside of windows with a boot disk. No luck. Its like its locked? Windows sees it but can not access it. I have no clue what else to do?
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2008, 06:45:01 PM »
Try Darik's Boot & Nuke. Download it / Burn it to a CD / Than boot the computer off the CD. Let it run till it is finish. It will take some time to finish.
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2008, 08:25:43 PM »
Quote from: Buntz on August 26, 2008, 06:45:01 PM
Try Darik's Boot & Nuke. Download it / Burn it to a CD / Than boot the computer off the CD. Let it run till it is finish. It will take some time to finish.

It will take about 3+hrs to complete but when its done you will have one clean hard drive. When you format don't use "quick format"! wink
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2008, 09:37:03 PM »
 Well tried the boot and nuke. Nope. Its locked and I have NO CLUE how to unlock the silly thing. Thanks seagate. Thats fine. If I can not get it figured out I will just get a diffrent harddrive. Thats the one reason I love having a slave drive. One drive goes bad, which happens I still have another drive to run from til I get the bad one replaced.
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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2008, 11:44:30 PM »
 Well I finally found the software to unlock it. Problem is the only password (seagate default) just dosent work. So I pitched the harddrive (after spending some time and releasing some frustration on it with some tools), Needless to say thats one harddrive that is dead and forsure can never be recoverd.
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