[MarcusLaw]

Originally Posted by mr_chin

Spoiler!

I plugged the HDD back in to test it out. At first, windows saw the drive, but was still inaccessible (no information on capacity, etc.) Then windows automatically installed some disk driver, and ask me to restart, but I pressed later.

Used the GetDataBack program, it saw the drive, but when I try to recover, it says I/O Error Unknown reading sector 0. So I went to restart my computer and now the drive disappeared. Can't be seen with any program. Did a system restore and still nothing.

Tried using Ubuntu, but didn't work either. How the hell does a driver cause my drive to suddenly disappear?

Dam yo, definitely a faulty disk or corrupted partition table. If software can't recover your drive... then try calling the manufacture you got it from to see if they can lend you a hand. Then just RMA it. No point formating the drive then reusing it. If the problem reoccurs again in the future... well it'll suck

Other wise keep trying to use softwares. Use a unix based os like linux, ubuntu or OS X. Hope for the best.

http://www.seagate.com/support/