smokerob

agree with "heyyou"....controller board failed...and just like he said you could replace the board but if the drive motor or head movement motor is dead you wont get anything out of it....to be blunt 8 years out of a seagate is a good run....i have had seagate drives die on me in as little as 2 years....if you were not using it as a OS drive it would have lasted longer....Kingston 120gb SSD drives can be had for 23 dollars on newegg....get one just for the OS plus a storage drive....getting the OS off the drive will make it last longer never mind the fact it will make the computer 5 times faster in everything you do....