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Hard drive question
Hello! I am in need of assistance concerning my external hard drive. My hard drive has been working flawlessly for the past 3 years. As of today, my computer no longer recognizes it. This is what I have done so far: -Unplugged it, plugged it back up, and my computer made a chime saying that it was recognized and said that it was ready to go. -However, the HDD does not show up on the my computer tab. -I removed the HDD from its enclosure, purchased a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE and tried uploading the HDD to my wife's computer. Once again, her computer chimed saying that it was recognized (she runs XP, i have vista), but, once again, the hard drive was not in the my computer folder. -I then proceeded to Computer Management, Disk Management, and noticed that my external hard drive is not there either. So.... anything? I thought that maybe intially my power cord to the outlet in the wall just went bad, but after I bought the USB to SATA/IDE adapter and it still didn't work...well, I ran out of options. Anything? Thank you so much!! -- hansbockler |
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hansbockler wrote:
Hello! I am in need of assistance concerning my external hard drive. My hard drive has been working flawlessly for the past 3 years. As of today, my computer no longer recognizes it. This is what I have done so far: -Unplugged it, plugged it back up, and my computer made a chime saying that it was recognized and said that it was ready to go. -However, the HDD does not show up on the my computer tab. -I removed the HDD from its enclosure, purchased a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE and tried uploading the HDD to my wife's computer. Once again, her computer chimed saying that it was recognized (she runs XP, i have vista), but, once again, the hard drive was not in the my computer folder. -I then proceeded to Computer Management, Disk Management, and noticed that my external hard drive is not there either. So.... anything? I thought that maybe intially my power cord to the outlet in the wall just went bad, but after I bought the USB to SATA/IDE adapter and it still didn't work...well, I ran out of options. Anything? Thank you so much!! It died. Requiem in pace. |
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Hard drive question
also, does anyone know how to see if the BIOS can read yoru HDD? i know nothing about computer lingo, i just read somewhere to see if the BIOS recognizes the drive. Help? -- hansbockler |
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Hard drive question
Try the drive on a different computer. If it is still not seen then the
device has likely failed. "hansbockler" wrote in message ... Hello! I am in need of assistance concerning my external hard drive. My hard drive has been working flawlessly for the past 3 years. As of today, my computer no longer recognizes it. This is what I have done so far: -Unplugged it, plugged it back up, and my computer made a chime saying that it was recognized and said that it was ready to go. -However, the HDD does not show up on the my computer tab. -I removed the HDD from its enclosure, purchased a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE and tried uploading the HDD to my wife's computer. Once again, her computer chimed saying that it was recognized (she runs XP, i have vista), but, once again, the hard drive was not in the my computer folder. -I then proceeded to Computer Management, Disk Management, and noticed that my external hard drive is not there either. So.... anything? I thought that maybe intially my power cord to the outlet in the wall just went bad, but after I bought the USB to SATA/IDE adapter and it still didn't work...well, I ran out of options. Anything? Thank you so much!! -- hansbockler |
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Hard drive question
Since you tried it in a different PC with the same result, its safe to
assume its dead Proffessional recovery of data is big $, usually on a no recovery no fee basis "hansbockler" wrote in message ... also, does anyone know how to see if the BIOS can read yoru HDD? i know nothing about computer lingo, i just read somewhere to see if the BIOS recognizes the drive. Help? -- hansbockler |
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On 14 July, 02:50, hansbockler wrote:
also, does anyone know how to see if the BIOS can read yoru HDD? i know nothing about computer lingo, i just read somewhere to see if the BIOS recognizes the drive. Help? -- hansbockler You can't read the HDD using just the BIOS. However most good data recovery programs will bypass Windows and read the HDD using the BIOS or even direct to the controller, in order to get maximum control to try to recover the data. My website www.tech-pro.net has a lot of advice about data recovery and some of the best data recovery tools. They are all try before you buy, so you can see if they will help before you have to pay for them. However from the symptoms you have described and what you have already tried it seems as if you have experienced a complete failure of the drive. My guess is that the controller board on the drive itself has failed. If you could get hold of another drive of the same make and model and are careful about precautions against static you could try taking the controller board out of the good drive and putting it into the bad one. That would seem to be your only chance of a DIY data recovery in this case. A profesional data recovery service such as Ontrack could do this for you. They could also read the data off the disk platters if the drive hardware rather than the electronics have failed. But as you already noted, it will be expensive. It depends what the data is worth to you and how irreplaceable it is. Your experience underlines the importance of regular backups. I have several backup programs on my site too. But although we sell around 30 data recovery software licenses a day we probably don't sell one backup program a month. Julian Moss Tech-Pro.net |