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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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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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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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