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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
I've had two new 1TB Seagate hdds for about a year that have never been
used. Still in the boxes, stored out of sight till a couple days ago. I've put both of them in a Xion hdd dock and am told there is no disk. Win 7 gives me a drive letter but says to insert a disk or some negative message indicating the hdd isn't working. The card read and usb ports on the hdd dock WORK. Is it more likely the hdd slot is bad on the docking station or both NEW hdds are bad? I would connect one of them to my crippled desktop to let Ubuntu "see" it but that OS has decided to stop booting. I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages Monica |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
On Aug 10, 4:24*am, "Monica" wrote:
I've had two new 1TB Seagate hdds for about a year that have never been used. *Still in the boxes, stored out of sight till a couple days ago. I've put both of them in a Xion hdd dock and am told there is no disk. *Win 7 gives me *a drive letter *but says to insert a disk or some negative message indicating the hdd isn't working. *The card read and usb ports on the hdd dock WORK. * Is it more likely the hdd slot is bad on the docking station or both NEW hdds are bad? *I would connect one of them to my crippled desktop to let Ubuntu "see" it but that OS has decided to stop booting. *I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages Monica Are the drives formatted? Does the HDD dock have any built-in limit on drive capacity, due to its use of older hardware chips? It's unlikely that these are bad drives, but you never know. Too many negative out-of-box experiences these days... Ben Myers |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:24:14 -0500, "Monica"
wrote: I've had two new 1TB Seagate hdds for about a year that have never been used. Still in the boxes, stored out of sight till a couple days ago. I've put both of them in a Xion hdd dock and am told there is no disk. Win 7 gives me a drive letter but says to insert a disk or some negative message indicating the hdd isn't working. The card read and usb ports on the hdd dock WORK. Is it more likely the hdd slot is bad on the docking station or both NEW hdds are bad? I would connect one of them to my crippled desktop to let Ubuntu "see" it but that OS has decided to stop booting. I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages Monica I can't answer your question. I tend to think like Ben and am thinking maybe they're good but need formatting. However, I've had drives go bad as well as new drives arrive bad from the vendor so it's possible they are bad too. |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
As far as I know they're not formatted, unless bare drives are supposed to
come that way. I didn't realize that if the drive wasn't formatted the dock wouldn't recognize it or at least give me the option of formatting it. I can right click on the drive letter and get the option to format but it says to put a disk in the disk drive. Is that correct behavior Last night I removed my b/u drive from the desktop to see if the dock could read it. It did, so I now know it's not the dock. Don't know if it would have worked but since Ubuntu will no longer run on my crippled desktop (I even burned a new CD) I can't attempt to format it using Linux. After I choose "run from CD", cd drive spins for a few minutes, stops and nothing happens. At this point, I guess I'll attempt to install Ubuntu vs running it from the cd. Website says it can run along side of Windows but I have no idea if it will work since the Windows os isn't working. Did I mention I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages?! Almost 20 years of computing and not one crash till 3 months ago and now another one. One Mother Nature's fault (ok, I should have had better protection) and one mine If there is anyway to fix my ailing hdd just for the purpose of making a couple current backups of a couple programs, I really need to do that. I googled this STOP error code but came up empty. Do you guys know of any software I could download and purchase that might be able to fix the drive? Stop: 0X00000024 (0X00190203, 0X8ABF48B0, 0XC0000102, 0X00000000) "RnR" wrote in message ... On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:24:14 -0500, "Monica" wrote: I've had two new 1TB Seagate hdds for about a year that have never been used. Still in the boxes, stored out of sight till a couple days ago. I've put both of them in a Xion hdd dock and am told there is no disk. Win 7 gives me a drive letter but says to insert a disk or some negative message indicating the hdd isn't working. The card read and usb ports on the hdd dock WORK. Is it more likely the hdd slot is bad on the docking station or both NEW hdds are bad? I would connect one of them to my crippled desktop to let Ubuntu "see" it but that OS has decided to stop booting. I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages Monica I can't answer your question. I tend to think like Ben and am thinking maybe they're good but need formatting. However, I've had drives go bad as well as new drives arrive bad from the vendor so it's possible they are bad too. |
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Incorrect Internal HD Designation and Other Problems
I have a Dell Studio XPS 9100 computer with Windows 7 Prof (SP1), and two installed internal physical HDs. The HDs were initially setup as follows: 1st Physical HD (Disk O - Disk Management): OS (C)(920gb), OEM (no letter)(39gb), and No Name (no letter)(10.88gb). The 2nd Physical HD (used only for data backup)(Disk 1 - Disk Management): Image Backup (D)(521gb), and Data Backup, (E)(410gb) In the past few months, I began to notice unusual problems with the computer such as: (1) in Disk Management, Disk O designation would be reversed with Disk 1. Generally, a reboot would resolve this problem. (2) I also began to have problems with moving files and folders and some other unusual errors (3) Had problems in seeing the external HDs (USB). Checked the external HDs on another computer and they were okay. (4) Began to have trouble with printer errors). I decided to check the computers memory (Windows Memory Diagnostic) and found errors. Checked with Dell, and they decided to replace all of the existing memory. The computer did seem to settle down a bit, but the external HD problem began to appear again, as well as the printer. Dell decided to replace the motherboard (replaced yesterday). The printer errors have gone away and the external HDs did appear in Disk Management but I had to assign a partition letter to each external HD so that I could see them in windows explorer (did not have to do this in the past except for the initial setup of the external HDs). As to Disk assignment, in Disk Management, the primary HD (OS) is now Disk 1 and the second internal HD for Data is now Disk O. I went to System Information (Disks) and it too shows the same incorrect information as Disk Management. I would very much appreciate any help in resolving the above problems. Sam |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
"Monica" wrote in message ... As far as I know they're not formatted, unless bare drives are supposed to come that way. I didn't realize that if the drive wasn't formatted the dock wouldn't recognize it or at least give me the option of formatting it. I can right click on the drive letter and get the option to format but it says to put a disk in the disk drive. Is that correct behavior Last night I removed my b/u drive from the desktop to see if the dock could read it. It did, so I now know it's not the dock. Don't know if it would have worked but since Ubuntu will no longer run on my crippled desktop (I even burned a new CD) I can't attempt to format it using Linux. After I choose "run from CD", cd drive spins for a few minutes, stops and nothing happens. At this point, I guess I'll attempt to install Ubuntu vs running it from the cd. Website says it can run along side of Windows but I have no idea if it will work since the Windows os isn't working. Did I mention I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages?! Almost 20 years of computing and not one crash till 3 months ago and now another one. One Mother Nature's fault (ok, I should have had better protection) and one mine you are obviously using another computer to get online and post to this NG. Connect your USB dock and the new HD to this computer. Go to disc manager and activate and then format the drive. |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
Thanks for the direction. Didn't realize I had to do that. But, I don't
think anything has changed. I got the option to activate but even after refreshing the disks, the drive reads, unallocated and if I right click on the drive (in Computerf) and choose format, I still get an error message that there is no disk in drive E. I've been using this Win 7 laptop all along to try to recognize the hdd in the dock. I put my backup drive in the dock and it shows up as a healthy logical drive in Disk Management. "olfart" wrote in message ... "Monica" wrote in message ... As far as I know they're not formatted, unless bare drives are supposed to come that way. I didn't realize that if the drive wasn't formatted the dock wouldn't recognize it or at least give me the option of formatting it. I can right click on the drive letter and get the option to format but it says to put a disk in the disk drive. Is that correct behavior Last night I removed my b/u drive from the desktop to see if the dock could read it. It did, so I now know it's not the dock. Don't know if it would have worked but since Ubuntu will no longer run on my crippled desktop (I even burned a new CD) I can't attempt to format it using Linux. After I choose "run from CD", cd drive spins for a few minutes, stops and nothing happens. At this point, I guess I'll attempt to install Ubuntu vs running it from the cd. Website says it can run along side of Windows but I have no idea if it will work since the Windows os isn't working. Did I mention I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages?! Almost 20 years of computing and not one crash till 3 months ago and now another one. One Mother Nature's fault (ok, I should have had better protection) and one mine you are obviously using another computer to get online and post to this NG. Connect your USB dock and the new HD to this computer. Go to disc manager and activate and then format the drive. |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
Ever heard the saying "you can't see the forest for the trees" or "if it had
been a snake it would have bitten me"? HDDs are formatted. "Monica" wrote in message ... Thanks for the direction. Didn't realize I had to do that. But, I don't think anything has changed. I got the option to activate but even after refreshing the disks, the drive reads, unallocated and if I right click on the drive (in Computerf) and choose format, I still get an error message that there is no disk in drive E. I've been using this Win 7 laptop all along to try to recognize the hdd in the dock. I put my backup drive in the dock and it shows up as a healthy logical drive in Disk Management. "olfart" wrote in message ... "Monica" wrote in message ... As far as I know they're not formatted, unless bare drives are supposed to come that way. I didn't realize that if the drive wasn't formatted the dock wouldn't recognize it or at least give me the option of formatting it. I can right click on the drive letter and get the option to format but it says to put a disk in the disk drive. Is that correct behavior Last night I removed my b/u drive from the desktop to see if the dock could read it. It did, so I now know it's not the dock. Don't know if it would have worked but since Ubuntu will no longer run on my crippled desktop (I even burned a new CD) I can't attempt to format it using Linux. After I choose "run from CD", cd drive spins for a few minutes, stops and nothing happens. At this point, I guess I'll attempt to install Ubuntu vs running it from the cd. Website says it can run along side of Windows but I have no idea if it will work since the Windows os isn't working. Did I mention I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages?! Almost 20 years of computing and not one crash till 3 months ago and now another one. One Mother Nature's fault (ok, I should have had better protection) and one mine you are obviously using another computer to get online and post to this NG. Connect your USB dock and the new HD to this computer. Go to disc manager and activate and then format the drive. |
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Two (New) Bad HDDs??
"Monica" wrote in message ... I've had two new 1TB Seagate hdds for about a year that have never been used. Still in the boxes, stored out of sight till a couple days ago. I've put both of them in a Xion hdd dock and am told there is no disk. Win 7 gives me a drive letter but says to insert a disk or some negative message indicating the hdd isn't working. The card read and usb ports on the hdd dock WORK. Is it more likely the hdd slot is bad on the docking station or both NEW hdds are bad? I would connect one of them to my crippled desktop to let Ubuntu "see" it but that OS has decided to stop booting. I'm ready to go back to the technological dark ages Monica RTM Xion 3.5 HD enclosures only support up to 400GB max http://www.xionusa.com/Product-case-...ureLECL002.asp Troll over Luke |
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