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Old October 22nd 06, 01:41 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
White Dragon
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Default Unreadable SATA Hard Drive... HELP!!

Okay, here's the scoop...

I bought a SATA 400 GB WD hard drive a few months ago, ran it in my
eMachines as the slave (used a IDE to SATA adaptor) and put all my
important data on the HD.
Well, about a month ago it just stopped working on me. I was going
through files on the drive and it froze up.

I thought I might have fried the adaptor, but I found out that's not
the case as I bought a new motherboard with SATA plugs.

Now when I go into my computer, it's not there at all, I go to the
computer management/disk management and it's not there. But when I go
into the device manager it says it's there. When I go to the
properties and go to volumes then click on populate, it says;
Disk: Disk 0
[b:5dd6a0de98]Type:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown
[b:5dd6a0de98]Status:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unreadable
[b:5dd6a0de98]Partition Style:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown

Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet. Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.

[b:5dd6a0de98]Can someone please help me with my problem
here???[/b:5dd6a0de98]

Thanks, Nick

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Old October 22nd 06, 03:00 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Arno Wagner
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Default Unreadable SATA Hard Drive... HELP!!

Previously White Dragon wrote:
Okay, here's the scoop...


I bought a SATA 400 GB WD hard drive a few months ago, ran it in my

^^ A mistake....

eMachines as the slave (used a IDE to SATA adaptor) and put all my
important data on the HD.
Well, about a month ago it just stopped working on me. I was going
through files on the drive and it froze up.


I thought I might have fried the adaptor, but I found out that's not
the case as I bought a new motherboard with SATA plugs.


Now when I go into my computer, it's not there at all, I go to the
computer management/disk management and it's not there. But when I go
into the device manager it says it's there. When I go to the
properties and go to volumes then click on populate, it says;
Disk: Disk 0
[b:5dd6a0de98]Type:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown
[b:5dd6a0de98]Status:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unreadable
[b:5dd6a0de98]Partition Style:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown


Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet.


Oops, better give back-up a higher priority next time.

Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.


[b:5dd6a0de98]Can someone please help me with my problem
here???[/b:5dd6a0de98]


Please leave the attempt at color out. It does not work with
newsreaders and looks silly.

As to you rpoblem, professional data recovery is you best
bet. If you mess with the drive yourself, you might well make
recovery more expensive or impossible. Be prepared to pay
a significant amount though. Should also help to adjust your
back-up priorities....

Arno

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Old October 22nd 06, 01:29 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Aidan Karley
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Default Unreadable SATA Hard Drive... HELP!!

In article , White Dragon wrote:
Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet. Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.

The bill from the data recovery specialists will change your
work:backup allocation.

The new motherboard (with on-board SATA) should be able to
identify the hard drive from it's BIOS (in order to be able to boot
from it), but you're telling us what's reported by "device manager",
which I thought was a Windows program? What do the hardware routines
say. Can they recognise the type of the hard drive when it's the only
storage device attached to the machine?

--
Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:32 +0100, but posted later.

 




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