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Darn, is my Hard Disk Drive finished? Can't read it.
I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I
was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by
Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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ccrc wrote:
I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. |
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:12:00 GMT, eb7g wrote:
ccrc wrote: I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. Well, it's worth a try to try to recover it then. I wouldnt put faith in it until you've had it running stable a while though. Do you have the tech to repartition and reformat yourself? Have a mildly well versed tech buddy who can help you? -C. |
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download the diagnostic disk from WD and run the quick and extended health
test on the drive. you can also zero fill the drive (since you don't need the data) and verify afterward to see if there are bad sectors in the drive. unfortunately the program does not give you the actual errors, just error codes so you can't really tell what they are. but having this happen to the drive once, you should avoid putting important data on it, even if it recovers. "eb7g" wrote in message news:4TCKe.186935$%K2.75849@pd7tw1no... ccrc wrote: I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. |
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"" wrote:
ccrc wrote: I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. Get back data is a good option... has worked for me with a dead 80 gb seagate. Easy Recovery Pro....can also be of much help....its got this option whr you can recover data from a formatted hdd. (hvnt still got a chance to try it tho...) hopefuly shuld work for you..as long as the drive detects in the bios and spins...uve not run out of luck.... im soon gonna start work on a WD Caviar WD400BB dead hdd which isnt showing up on bios... anyone knows any software for WD for e.g DM 9.5 for seagate cheers! -- Posted using the http://www.hardwareforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/PC-Sto...pict60309.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.hardwareforumz.com/eform.php?p=304701 |
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You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives
come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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Xrayman wrote:
download the diagnostic disk from WD and run the quick and extended health test on the drive. you can also zero fill the drive (since you don't need the data) and verify afterward to see if there are bad sectors in the drive. unfortunately the program does not give you the actual errors, just error codes so you can't really tell what they are. but having this happen to the drive once, you should avoid putting important data on it, even if it recovers. "eb7g" wrote in message news:4TCKe.186935$%K2.75849@pd7tw1no... ccrc wrote: I use GetDataBack and it has worked wonders on my old "unreadable" (by Windows) drives. -Chris. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:57:41 GMT, eb7g wrote: I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. Cool. I don't need the data on it, I just want to be able to use it again, as it's not an old drive. As it turns out the Diagnostic tools don't work as I immediately get a 'cable' error to the drive. The cables I fine, I tested it out with other cables and drives. |
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Zag wrote
You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, Wrong. Not when he bought it. look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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The whole industry was getting poor yields and sales were down so they
decided to release bunch crappy HDs and offer 1 year or 30 day warranties. WD hardrives are are the best I know of.. I have 4 WD740 raptors 1 WD360 raptor and 4 80gb JB IDE drives and have never had any issues with them,, I would stay clear of samsung fujitsu. "Zag" wrote in message news:s3OKe.194479$%K2.140427@pd7tw1no... You said it's less than 2yrs old and warranty's expired, all WD 120gb drives come with a 3yr warranty, look into RMA'ing it. I'd stay clear of any WD drives, due to past experience with them. "eb7g" wrote in message newsNBKe.186006$%K2.81544@pd7tw1no... I have a 120GB Western Digital Caviar that is less than two years old. I was rendering a movie from it when it froze and then nothing could read it again. The computer bios will see it, but windows can't. Can't seem to access it in anyway, even to reformat it. It spins and seems fine.... Any idea what happened, and if it's usable? If so, how, as my operating system won't read it. Warranty is expired. |
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