Hard drive died.. what to do?

[Kogan]

I've got a 17 gig IDE seagate drive I can't access anymore.. It was formatted as NTFS in Windows 2000 professional. It's not a primary drive.

I booted up today and it was showing up as unformatted in Windows. I reset and it ran chkdsk. Took it about 20 minutes, and was saying it was deleting a bunch of files . But it only gets so far and says "an unspecified error has occurred" Windows then continues to boot and I still can't access the drive. When rebooting, I go through the same process (minus the deleting files part).

It's done weird things like this before when it was fat32, but I just ran a scandisk and it was fine again. Is there any way to save the data on it? I plan on trashing it after I do and get a 75gxp or something..

 

[bacillus]

have you tried running the seagate diagnostic tool?

 

[Kogan]

I tried, but it requires a floppy drive.. Who uses those things anymore?

 

[murdock2525]

Go buy a damn 15$ floppy and run it.
You can take it back tomorrow and pay the $1.75 restocking fee LOL...

 

[junthin]

Run the diagnostic tool. If it is dead, just RMA it (assuming you still have warranty on it )

 

[jj1492]

$15 floppy?! Where do you shop? I got my Sony for $3.