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Hi,
I'm having a big time problem with my Seagate 3000GB external HDD. It was starting to run slow, so I was moving data to an external SSD. I thought that maybe the powersupply was going, so I removed drive from it's housing and placed it in removable HD slot on my acer Predator. Here's where I think I messed up - I booted computer up with the drive inserted and I think computer didn't recognize drive as a bootable drive and it added script (disk.inf) to MBR or partition?? Device manager / disk management sees drive but says it is not initialized. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

You may want to try to access this disk on another computer or boot from a Linux LiveUSB (cf https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf )
This way you will be able to see if the problem is only windows driver related or not.

I tried both ... I believe the problem occured when I booted up the computer and the hard drive was connected to MB via a slot in the front of the computer, not by USB. You can see on the "Device Properties" image that the computer configured the HDD when it was booting.