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seagate HDD wont format
ello everyone,
so my problem is that i have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB HDD that seems to disconnect itself when trying to format it, by that imean it stops responding. every time i try to format the drive in windows it produces 5 event id 15's (The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR2, is not ready for access yet.) a event id 11 (The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.) and another event id 15.
another possibly related oddity is that inside windows and when i boot from the W7 install dvd the drive letters/paths are different. inside windows i have the System Reserved partition on my first HDD(Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB) without a drive letter, my W7 partition is labeled as C:, my seagate HDD is labeled as E: and my DVD burner is labeled as D:. outside of windows, booting into the install DVD, the System Reserved partition is labeled as C:, the W7 partition is listed as E:, the seagate drive is listed as D: and the dvd burner is labeled as F:.
my question is if this is a software or hardware issue, the seagate drive is still under warranty and i can just return it, but if it's a software issue that will rear up it's head later then i would need to fix that instead. so, any ideas?