Sata HDD on desktop stopped working, and replaced with Seagate Baracuda.
The HDD which I took out had jumpers set for master. I didn't set the new one with the jumpers as the Seagate site says that SATA doesn't need them.
I attempted to run Vista install, but had a problem part the way through and had to switch off desktop, and since then any machine I try can't see the HDD properly.
In the machine I want to install it in ...
The BIOS sees the HDD as a Third master.
Tried Seagate tools - DOS version on floppy and it saw the HDD, but won't format, and all tests fail or not available.
Tried it as an external HDD in Win7, and XP ...
Seen in Device Manager, but no access.
I can see it in Disk Management, but format fails.
Tried Partition Magic in XP, but shows as bad, and won't allow a format.
Any ideas how I can get this fixed.
Thanks

I would run SeaTools for DOS and if it fails do a RMA:

SeaTools | Seagate

Hi Jephree,
I Ran Seatools for DOS no success.

I've setup the HDD as an external drive, and it shows up on disk management screen as ..
Disk 1 Basic 465.76 GB Online
G: partition 465.76 GB RAW Healthy(Active, Primary Partition)

Also shows up in Vista Computer as Local Disk (G, but if I try to click on it I get Disk I/O errors.

Don't know if I'm making any progress.

Sorry I missed the SeaTools note in the first post.

I'd send it back to the retailer from whence it came.

A final throw of the dice, and it appears to have worked.
I have a Netgear Readynas Duo.
I set up a 500gb HDD with a couple of files, and added the faulty Seagate HDD as the second X-RAID drive, and it started to sync. A couple of hours later it completed the sync.
I removed the first "healthy" HDD, and could read, and write to the "faulty" Seagate HDD.

Don't know why, but appears OK.

Cool.

Let us know if we can help further.