I am tryng to fix an used hard disk Seagate 1,2 Gb and I´m encountering problems on formating.Mesage uneble to read hd.I have tryed to fix it whit Norton Utilieties,dosn`t work,downloaded Seagate tool,dosen`t work.Do you have A sugestion? Don`t want to renounce to this HD,so wath to do?Thanks for the posibilities to ask someone Right today I have discovered you and it is 2,25 in the night-now i shut down PC an go to sleep.

you might want to start by telling us the error message

daniel, check the ribbon (flat & wide) cable that goes into the harddrive; make sure you didn't install it "upside-down" or "downside-up". some cables have a little notch in the middle of the plastic connector which prevents you from installing the cable upside-down; some don't. also, check the other end of the ribbon cable, the end that plugs into the motherboard or i/o card; it may be upside-down. only do one at a time; if you flip both at the same time, you still may have it backwards! also make sure your computer is turned off before doing this; and don't wear wool socks!. ground yourself out on the computer's metal casing before touching anything inside. one little static shock and you may not be able to boot the computer up again. james

Make sure the Harddrive is detected by the BIOS. Upu may want to try and use the utility FDISK; remove all partitions and then create a single new one. Or best of all; download maxtor's hard drive setup utility maxblast; it can be sued on any harddrive. when it asks if you install a maxtor harddrive; just say yes. Good Luck

I have download today in the morning some other Seagate utilities and will try again.The cables are ok(I have built my PC on my on);at first didn`t want to be reconised even in BIOS but after some resets it started.One i have reach whit NU to have reconised even by Win98 but it still can`t be readed or accesed.I have used MS-DOS 5.0; Seagate Diagnosis tool-Ontrack(standalone prg);Win95-setup disc;Win98-setup Disk;WinME-setup Disk.I´ll see what comes out whit those other prg`s that I have downloaded today.Thanks anyway and thanks for the Idea whit maxtor util.till next time i wish you all all the best boys.Danielk

yesterday I have tryed whit those other Seagate util.,didn´t work.Afther that I downloaded maxtor powermax and maxblast so that today I have to try again.Wish me look. Till next all the best.No other sugestion? DanielK

Did´n`t work anything,not even PowerMax and MaxBlast.I allso tryed with Destroyer and Zombie,nothing.Norton Utils. sayd he repares, no he don`t.Í`m stell searching.By the way:it is a Seagate Hdd but they`r own driver dose not recognize the Hdd.I`ll be back in the next time to inform you about my HDD-Adventures.Wish you all allthe Best.