Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB hard drive problem ? Look here.

Your system might not recognize your new Seagate 1.5TB drive when it boots up. It could be that you have a SATA1 system. The jumper to limit drive speed on these drives is non functional. Here is a link to Seagate's knowledge base on this issue:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-and/Barracuda-7200-11-ST3...

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[myshowman]

Hello i was looking for the disk with jumper setting.

can you please send me Model no and s/n, etc , for the disk.

cause i purchased the wrong HDD & dealer is asking if such HDD exists i had to give him model & s/n for 1.5 seagate HDD with jumper setting enable.

[greatestunknown]

@myshowman Thanks for the heads up, You are probably not alone. I added the Seagate link on this issue in the description.

[thatstek]

SATA doesnt use jumpers

[greatestunknown]

Sata drives do not have master and slave jumpers. They do have jumpers to make the drive compatible with older systems by limiting the drive to 1.5gb/sec operation rather than the standard 3gb/sec.

[Joseph9536]

I hate Seacrap! WD FTW!!!

[thatstek]

Good to know. Thanks

[Arwrologist]

I have a Dell Dimension E510, and it has a Seagate Barracuda 80 Gb, 7200 rpm hard drive. Can I replace it with a Barracuda 1.5Gb HD? I have already ordered one of those USB to SATA, IDA cables.

[jinzo317]

i have almost the same problem except i had a 1tb seagate and my os is on it... it acts up and begins to not even boot

[MrSinister1990]

Urm I think my hardrive is broke. I just heard a pop sound, looked down at my seagate and the light went out. I really hope it isn't broke.

[lilrip4300]

lol..you said theres two versions of them out there 3 times :)

[captain150]

@BEERxxPiRATE All hard drives do that. It's due to the different definition of gigabyte by hard drives VS windows.

You have the same amount of storage, it's just defined differently.

[workensmart]

@BEERxxPiRATE All hdd makers do that its not just seagate. Both of my Western Digital Hard drives are also like that. My 320 gb has 298 gb of usable space and my 500 gb has 465 gb of usable space. In most test both WD and Seagate Hard drives are about the same in performance.

[1982jnr]

thaanks lots for that bit of info mate i have a 500 gb and could not get my head round why it not working as it works in in a sky box fine same problem just could not even see it but will get one of those addaptors as we speak thanks again

[TheSimsCreedGuy]

I sent it to seagate and they fixed it for free.