Yep, it appears that you may have to do that and that's way beyond me.

had a bad day myself, got up, had breakfast with a buddy, came home, started up my computer and bang, got the message can't find SATA hard drive.  Did the usual stuff ran diagnostics, unpluged both the power and data cables, hard drive power light comes on but na du.  Just came back from Best Buy with a Digital Western that is going to replace that SeaGate (not a year old by the way).  Another person was there to, with the same problem a dead SeaGate and eye balling a Western Digital--same mood.  I went to the check out and the cashier asked how my day was--told her guess and plopped the new hard drive down.  She laughed.

The computer I'm on now has two Western Digital hard drives in it . one is 1997 vintage, the other a 2001 vintage.  Guess which computer works?

Yep, I' m in a very bad mood, not looking forward the first time ever formatting the drive and installing an OS plus drivers, plus AOL, plus MS updates, plus Antivirus updates.  Poser and Vue, I got on my external hard drive.  No playing with Poser 8, or Vue 7 Pro Studio for the next week or so.  Jan