SATA Hard Drive Problem

Strag0 · 08-26-2004, 02:02 PM

All has been well with this SATA drive of mine, up until yesterday.

The drive is a 200gb Maxtor DimondMax Plus, and is running on a Abit NF7-S motherboard. Yesterday I removed the drive from the case so I can add in another SATA drive to the raid. After hooking the comptuer back up and turning it on, the SATA utilility at bootup couldn't find either one of the drives. Cursing I restarted the system and it did the same thing, however it found the drives after several seconds, nearly a minute, which was unusual. I removed the other SATA drive, thinking it was causing a conflict. No luck, however my luck changed when I unplugged the 200gb's SATA cable and then replugged it back in. Now the drive is found just as quick as it use to be when i didn't have this problem. However now a new problem arises, It won't boot. Checking this problem in Partition Magic 8 I find that suddenly the drive is "Unallocated". The two partitions i had on it are now gone, which is bad seeing as on one of them there was data that can't be redownloded =\. Has anyone a clue as to why the drive suddenly unpartitioned itself, or became unallocated. Also does anyone happen to have a solution to this? Granted I can just reformat it and start a new, but it's that data i'd like to recover from it.

C_deck · 08-26-2004, 03:45 PM

the loose cable made for bad writes to the disk balling up the tables. try this:

boot to the xp cd, select repair using the recovery console, at the prompt type:

fixboot
fixmbr
exit

and reboot. if a no go then:

install the os on another drive or place the hdd in another comp. try these tools to recover your data.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

08-26-2004, 02:02 PM	#1
Strag0 softcore Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 7	SATA Hard Drive Problem All has been well with this SATA drive of mine, up until yesterday. The drive is a 200gb Maxtor DimondMax Plus, and is running on a Abit NF7-S motherboard. Yesterday I removed the drive from the case so I can add in another SATA drive to the raid. After hooking the comptuer back up and turning it on, the SATA utilility at bootup couldn't find either one of the drives. Cursing I restarted the system and it did the same thing, however it found the drives after several seconds, nearly a minute, which was unusual. I removed the other SATA drive, thinking it was causing a conflict. No luck, however my luck changed when I unplugged the 200gb's SATA cable and then replugged it back in. Now the drive is found just as quick as it use to be when i didn't have this problem. However now a new problem arises, It won't boot. Checking this problem in Partition Magic 8 I find that suddenly the drive is "Unallocated". The two partitions i had on it are now gone, which is bad seeing as on one of them there was data that can't be redownloded =\. Has anyone a clue as to why the drive suddenly unpartitioned itself, or became unallocated. Also does anyone happen to have a solution to this? Granted I can just reformat it and start a new, but it's that data i'd like to recover from it.

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08-26-2004, 03:45 PM	#2
C_deck Look, my mum's a milf Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 10,615	the loose cable made for bad writes to the disk balling up the tables. try this: boot to the xp cd, select repair using the recovery console, at the prompt type: fixboot fixmbr exit and reboot. if a no go then: install the os on another drive or place the hdd in another comp. try these tools to recover your data. http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm