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Windows 7 won't recognize second HDD
So like the title says, my second HDD just refuses to be recognized by windows. Or perhaps saying it won't initialize might be a better way of putting it. The drive was all fine, it's only about 4 months old at this point and has been working. But I had some weird crash and on a restart Windows said it needed to run a repair and restore. After doing so I noticed my second HDD wasn't being picked up. While annoying, not tough to fix. But that when I ran into an issue.
I get this error message.
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I looked into it and some are saying that means the drive is likely dead. While other suggested running a tool from Seagate to confirm. So I downloaded it, let the tool do it's thing which took just over and hour but it came back with this.
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Neither of them seemed to comeback with any sort of issue. Now I should add that the HDD installed via a bay or a caddy (not sure which is the correct way to explain that) but I'm not sure if that's causing my issue. But at this point I'm at a loss. Is the drive just dead despite what the tool turned back?