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[petergf]

When I try to access the drive I get " not accessible , incorrect parameter or drive must be formatted.

s/n [Edited: Removed personal information per the community rules and regulations.] - "sorry"

p/n 9SF2A2-500

Barracuda 7200.12 500g

ST3500410AS

win 7 ultimate 

[petergf]

well, for some bizare reason the HD started working and I retrived about 5g,

and then it stopped and came up with an error 0x8007045D i/0 device error .

Disk management tells me it needs to be initialized , but this fails as " the drive cannot find the sector required". 

[petergf]

now where back to incorrect parameter 

[petergf]

would it be better to try and mount the HD as an internal

[petergf · Accepted solution]

As there was no answers to my last question I went ahead and removed the Hd from it's casing and mounted it as a internal HD.

Starting, win tells me catastrophic disk collapse imminent press F2 to continue which I did win loaded and I could see the HD but could not access it.

I shut down,  rebooted, and got the win warning again, pressed F2 and then F8 to go into safe mode.

Win took anywhere up to 20 minutes to load safe mode files but eventually load.

The faulty HD was listed and I could access it, transfer of files 375g took 18 hours.