Bah! Bloody seagate 320..

Just got a seagate 320 pr drive, was working fine for a week or two. Turned on the rig today and the computer thinks it's unformatted

Running recovery software on it later, just wondering if anyone else had this problem?

Been there before...ran recovery software and got it all back no problem

Wow, quick reply

I've had this issue on other drives but usually because they were abused (cooked in heat, rattled etc..) but never just spontaneously on new drives. What drive was yours that died?

I wouldn't say it died...Just like you I rebooted one day and found it "unformatted".

I don't remember what drive it was...might have been my SATA Maxtor 160gb - since it was my main storage at the time. But it was just fine after I got my data off and did a clean format (I did a full to be safe)