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Hello, I just bought a 1 TB HDD for my Desktop PC. Earlier I had two 250 GB ones. So I exchanged one of them with new 1 TB HDD. I installed Win xp in 250 GB HDD and Win Vista in 1 TB HDD. Both worked for about a month. But, suddenly my comp failed to boot. I found in the BIOS that my 1 TB HDD is shown as 4.1 GB. How shall I correct this problem? Please HHHEEELLLLLLLPPPP !!!

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Welcome to the forums!

Run manufacturer hard disk diagnostics.

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evongugg wrote :

Welcome to the forums!

Run manufacturer hard disk diagnostics.

I am using Seagate HDD Can you help me in finding out the diagnostics. Pllleeeeaaaase....

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Seatools:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/s [...] s/seatools

Try to get a CD version.

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Message edited by evongugg on 09-22-2009 at 03:09:59 PM

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evongugg wrote :

Seatools:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/s [...] s/seatools

Try to get a CD version.

Did that. It gave the result as 'Failed'. So contacted Seagate. They acknowledge that the HDD is bad.

Thanks for your help.

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