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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 unable to install OS

September 16th, 2016, 4:50

drive is detected in BIOS but windows 7 setup not show any drive
i'm able to install to another drive, but not on this one.

just to mention, that someone remove password from drive

thx

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 unable to install OS

September 16th, 2016, 11:03

can you show us the s.m.a.r.t status of the drive ?
drive is probably failing.

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 unable to install OS

September 16th, 2016, 18:22

Maybe it has some strange leftovers from where it was used and the way it was formatted.

Have you booted Seagate utility, or MHDD, and cleaned the drive ? Probably zeroing a couple GB from the beginning would be enough, if you do not want to test it fully

Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 unable to install OS

September 17th, 2016, 5:45

thx rogfanther and MindMergepk for suggestions

i fix the drive with mhdd

case closed
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