Quote - .I booted my system up and the HD just....wasnt recognized..as if it wasnt even there. I have tried about everything short of sending it to a company in london that claims to be able to get data from even burned HDs...

 

 

Though a external HD is begining to look awefully good right now

When I got my Seagate external drive, it was recognized for all of 1 hour maybe. Enough time to transfer 500 gigs of filese to it. Then bam. Nothing.

Turns out that my computer isn't powerful enough to boot up the Seagate, or whatever it does, with all of the USB attachments I had plugged in.....printer, tablet, Notebook external drive, speakers etc.  I even tried extra external hubs. But nothing worked.

One day I unplugged my graphic tablet and BINGO, the Seagate was recognized again, and has been every day since.

Maybe that is your problem too?  Too many USB things?  Try disconnecting some.

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