A solution, at last! Built up new computer, set the drive in question to boot in IDE mode from the new (non-evil) BIOS, and ran a boot program...
Silly me, I assumed this was a vendor-agnostic problem. Turns out my drive, 1.5tb 7200.11 Seagate, in addition to having a crippling firmware...
Update: I've recovered one of two missing partitions, but a new problem has arisen. Since the problem began, I've been working with one 500GB...
Hard Drive Shrinking Hi. Had a problem with a USB-enclosed drive going RAW on me when I removed it from the enclosure and hooked it directly up...
Have a BLAX ThermalTake single-slot SATA mount. Been using a drive in this mount for some time. 1.5tb, two partitions of equal size. Moved...
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