The HDD also appears in the BIOS normally, and everything seemed to work alright over there.īut then it came to Seatools. I then ran HD tune's quick error scan, it all came in green, SMART reports nothing special. And that was pretty much it as well.Īfterwards I restarted the computer for reassurance, and the first thing I did was running HD sentinel's short self test, it passed. I might have repeated the previous steps several times though, but that was pretty much it.Īs for atapw, I tried opening it normally by windows (Double-clicking), however a small DOS window appeared for a few seconds and then disappeared without a trace. I said so far so good and closed the CMD window. I received a red text of the sorts of, 'the drive is not ready'. I typed ID, then pressed ENTER to receive the hard drive information. I then pressed ENTER, and it took me to a command line. I found a message similar to 'primary channel is disabled'. I first opened MHDD.exe via the CMD in Win7. I tried using two HDD tools for educational purposes ATAPW and MHDD, and I tried to be very careful in my approach. I have a ST9500325AS Seagate HDD in my Lenovo laptop.

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