thepspgamer

nvm, i fixed it :D, i managed to hex change it from a dynamic drive to NTFC, and its now working, with all my data on it thanks for all the help though :D

i have tryed re-activating it through disk management, to no avail, and i havnt put anything harmful on it, just music files, vid files etc

yes, i have tryed moving it to another port, nothing changed, and i have tryed replugging it, making everything is secure, so thats not the problem, and im not using a SATAII drive, just a regular SATA and in answer to the status of the drive, it is set to dynamic, and it just says "Import Failed" under it, with no info to the right like my other 2 drives hope this helps

does that answer your question?

Hey there about 3 months ago i bought a new seagate sata 500gb HDD for my computer and i got it up and running great, but today, it has just dissapeared from my computer when i do into disk management, it just says "Import Failed" next to the disk, and when i right click it to try and reactivate, it does nothing my BIOS picks it up fine and recognises it as a 500gb sata drive im worried that i might lose the data i have on it, all my school work is on it and so is all my music and vids etc, and i cant lose my school work, i would be screwed as you can imagine is there anyway i can get it working again, im desperate to get it going again, i have only had the thing for a couple of months my spec, if needed is: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00ghz 2GB RAM Geforce 7800gtx 256mb ASUS P5B-VM Motherboard Windows Vista Ultimate also, the drive if needed comes up as a "ST3500320AS ATA Drive", and my device manager says it is working properly, so windows is obviously detecting it as connected correctly please help, and thanks in advance http://www.pchelpforum.com/images/smilies/smiley.gif