Seagate external

[TechSeven]

Do you get a message to press any key to boot from the CD ? There is no option for this. Usually there is but in this case for some strange reason its not an option.

And i did burn the iso straight to cd without extracting anything.

 

[DavidE]

To me it sounds like you did not burn the bootable disc correctly.

If you did as Jumanji suggested with this, what do you see ?

I just want to ask you whether you are able to get into onetime boot menu by hitting the appropriate key as soon as your system starts booting.

 

[TechSeven]

I can press etc and get these options in the pic below.

I also remember seeing a different screen with a menu.. Remember seeing something written about uefi. If I see it again will show it.

 

[TechSeven]

I can press esc key*

 

[DavidE]

UEFI is different.
I have Legacy Bios, so my experience may not help

 

[TechSeven]

Ok then i can ignore the uefi screen that i did see once.

Apart from that, if im not getting the option press "any key to boot from cd" then i must have gone wrong somewhere like you mentioned.

 

[TechSeven]

Maybe i could insert the same cd into the desktop to see if the option arises.

 

[TechSeven]

I used isoburner to burn the iso file.

 

[TechSeven]

Ok I tried to go into seafood again in windows and it worked surprisingly.

 

[TechSeven]

Seatools*

 

[TechSeven]

It failed the short test.

 

[TechSeven]

I tried again then it said pass.

 

[TechSeven]

I had an error message that's why it passed after I hit continue. So it didn't really pass. Had some unhandled error message.

 

[jumanji]

So you were able to boot into Seatools on your desktop and it can see your external drive. Right?

If so persist and try to run the short test again, if you get any error message please note it and reproduce it verbatim or post a screensnap.
(As far as UEFI is concerned, I am also not very comfortable and on a few occasions I had a UEFI laptop, I used to disable secureboot and make it legacy boot whenever I wanted to boot from an USB device. But this setting and where you get it may vary.)

Anyway get on with your desktop only and wait for DavidE. I shall only be watching on the sidelines since he has more grip on it.

 

[TechSeven]

It only got lucky and went into the seatools on the desktop. After it failed the first test i tried again second time but i got some unhandled error message and had two options, continue or exit. I treied pressing continue first and the message went away and it said short generic pass under drive status. Which is not true, so the next error message i hit exit, and it will not recognise the drive again unless lucky.

 

[jumanji]

We may be missing from time to time due to other exigencies. Similiarly you may also take a break and continue when you get a response from the present handler.

 

[jumanji]

Post the error message verbatim and wait for DavidE.

 

[TechSeven]

Ok. I'm trying to get seatools to recognise the drive again. I'll give it a few tries.

You can take your breaks anytime... I just reply whenever there is a reply or whenever I'm back if I'm away. So no worries there.

 

[jumanji]

OK, I shall now go ahead and delineate the route I shall take.

Plan A: To run bootice and manipulate Sector 0 – after saving it -, if bootice can see the external drive

Plan B :later if Plan A fails.

1.Download Bootice from Bootice Download - Softpedia.
the 32 bit version if your system is 32 bit and the 64bit version if your system is 64 bit. But stick to one system on which you will do this.

2.Create a folder named bootice on your C: drive and extract the BOOTICE*.rar into it.You will have one single BOOTICE*.exe file in it.

3.Plugin your external drive before you run bootice.

4.Run bootice, select your external drive from the drop down arrow and click on Sector Edit. Please see my post here http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/310295-lost-partitions.html#post2584426 If your external drive is not seen by bootice end of this plan. Close bootice.

5.If you can see sector 0 : a) post a screenshot b)save it as sector0.bin. By default it will be saved in the same bootice folder. Check the folder and make sure it has been saved. Read the above thread further on how to save it. c) Click on the Partitions button and show what is seen, - only that info box . If you cannot snap it, note it and reproduce.

At any point you can close the windows and exit bootice and rerun later. But always make sure that you have selected the external drive and not the system drive.

Please wait for DavidE before you do this and check whether he would like to continue with Seatools or recommend Paragon Rescue kit. ( Since this was hanging on my head for long I wanted to post this and retire for the day peacefully. And why is your time being shown as US time? Please correct it as Greenwich time in User Control panel.)

 

[TechSeven]

I tried seatools but didn't get very far.