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Hello,<br />
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I had an old Dell computer when one day the hard drive stopped booting (Seagate ATA-100 ST9100823A). &nbsp;I've since bought a new computer, and am giving the hard drive one last try. &nbsp;I've bought an external USB hard drive enclosure (Super slim external storage system). &nbsp;The light on the external drive case is now flashing red/green in quick succession, which tells me it is plugged in properly, but I hear no noise indicating the drive is functioning. &nbsp;When I try software such as SeaTools or ZAR, the drive is listed (sometimes called Generic Void Disk), but with a capacity and size of 0 bytes. &nbsp;In Vista, the old drive does show up under Disk Management, but I can't initialize it no matter what I try. &nbsp;I've tried everything I know to access the data on the drive, but it looks hopeless. &nbsp;Any ideas before I toss this old drive?<br />
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Thanks!
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Hello,

I had an old Dell computer when one day the hard drive stopped booting (Seagate ATA-100 ST9100823A).  I've since bought a new computer, and am giving the hard drive one last try.  I've bought an external USB hard drive enclosure (Super slim external storage system).  The light on the external drive case is now flashing red/green in quick succession, which tells me it is plugged in properly, but I hear no noise indicating the drive is functioning.  When I try software such as SeaTools or ZAR, the drive is listed (sometimes called Generic Void Disk), but with a capacity and size of 0 bytes.  In Vista, the old drive does show up under Disk Management, but I can't initialize it no matter what I try.  I've tried everything I know to access the data on the drive, but it looks hopeless.  Any ideas before I toss this old drive?

Thanks!

Irrecoverable Hard Drive

Hello,

I had an old Dell computer when one day the hard drive stopped booting (Seagate ATA-100 ST9100823A).  I&#39;ve since bought a new computer, and am giving the hard drive one last try.  I&#39;ve bought an external USB hard drive enclosure (Super slim external storage system).  The light on the external drive case is now flashing red/green in quick succession, which tells me it is plugged in properly, but I hear no noise indicating the drive is functioning.  When I try software such as SeaTools or ZAR, the drive is listed (sometimes called Generic Void Disk), but with a capacity and size of 0 bytes.  In Vista, the old drive does show up under Disk Management, but I can&#39;t initialize it no matter what I try.  I&#39;ve tried everything I know to access the data on the drive, but it looks hopeless.  Any ideas before I toss this old drive?

Thanks!

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.