I have a 160 GB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD.
Drive gets detected properly on my asus p4c800 motheroboard BIOS, I get a prompt to press F4 to continue resume booting. (Showing S.M.A.R.T. Status bad)

But i am unable to locate (it wont get detected) on hardware device manager.

Is there a solution for this problem ?

Drive is getting detected in Windows 2003, drive has 2 partitions 20 gb and 140 gb with NTFS filesystem in both partitions.

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You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000
setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's
controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

After the install you can apply the reghack in this article.

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098


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hi dave,
it is a normal ide drive (serial ata) drive was getting detected properly before the S.M.A.R.T. status was detected bad, but it wont get detected under OS now

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As far as I know serial ATA came out after Windows 2000 hence the
requirement of a third party controller driver at install time.

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Talk with Seagate tech support. If that drive is still under warranty,
they will replace it. If that is the case, arrange for a "cross-ship"
replacement, where they send you the good new drive and you have a week
or more before you must send the old bad drive to them. That way, you
can try to copy material from the old drive to the new drive, which may
be possible even with the SMART BAD status. You'll also have the
packaging materials you need for shipping that old drive. Worth trying.

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