missing drives

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 18th, 2005, 5:58 am

okay heres the situation here... before i left to work, i had my comptuer running Bitcomet d/l serveral files... don't remember if i had any other programs running.. but... when i got home from work.. the program Bitcomet gave me an error.. i couldnt close it either..i forgot what it was because i thought it was nothing so i restartd my computer... before i restarted my computer.. i went on "My Computer" and i see my drives where missing.. thought it would be the error from bitcomet so i decided to restart the computer... as it loads up.. it stops where it detects my harddrives.. either i press esc or wait till it gives me nothing detected.. ive checked Cmos also and it didn't detect anything... it was loading so slow too... anyways... i checked my disk management on XP... it shows me my C: and my cdrom drive.. which is G: .. so that means my D: , E: , F: is missing.. E&F is one drive.. so does anyone have this situation im having here and knows how i can fix this problem? i don't want to lose 2 of my drives.. currently running Windows XP... <-- if that helps anything...

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 20th, 2005, 1:10 am

Try with just "C" and the CD rom as master hooked up, if OK and one drive at a time as slave and check again, if ok check other drive, if ok hook all up, make sure all drives show in POSt, then look in explorer see if you can see them, Let us know how you make out.

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 22nd, 2005, 9:04 am

currently ive tried everything.. including the way you taught me... and i notice that only my 200 gig hdd isnt working.. and if i do plug it in... right at the beginning when bios are detecting the drives.. it shows me that fsd/sdram frequency has been changed.. and then it freezes... n it doesnt happen when i dont plug it in

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 23rd, 2005, 12:53 am

I would suspect that the 200 gig drive has a problem or virus, if you can read it then get the information of that you want. I would then try using FDISK to remove all partitions, then reformat it, see if it then becomes a usable disk. You may check out themanufactures web site, they may have disk checking utilities the can check the disk health.

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 24th, 2005, 6:14 am

yeah but the thing is that bios isnt even loading the hdd... so that means theres no way to load the drive...

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 24th, 2005, 7:31 am

Hate to say it but sounds like the drive is DOA, recheck the jumpers, make sure the cable is good, if it still won't work you might be SOL....

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 24th, 2005, 5:27 pm

yup tried those too.. switching jumpers around... played wif everything.. still doesnt work..... btw.. what is DOA and SOL?

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 24th, 2005, 6:12 pm

Dead on arrival and sh*t out of luck

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 25th, 2005, 4:49 am

hahaha but thanks anyways... i think i gotta bring it aroudn to see if i could get it fixed... else...

my 200gig hdd!

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 26th, 2005, 12:18 am

Do you get anything if you boot up with this as a master, have you tried a different ribbon cable? Who makes the drive, I'll see if I can find you some utilities that can test you're drive.

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 26th, 2005, 1:56 am

yea.. ive set it as master and the only drive with couple different cables.. i guess that didn't do the job.. its from Western Digital.. also got a couple friends to see if i could get it to work on their computer.. didnt work either... but anyways thanks for the help.. i appreciate it.. i went back to the store and see if i could exchange it with another one.. they gave me a Maxtor.. i guess thats alright.. i hope theres no more problem with this new drive

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » August 26th, 2005, 5:59 am

Hey that is good news, I hope this one works out for you. I know you lost data, but if it's DOA the options are limited on getting data back , in less you want to pay big $

dakko · Post by **dakko** » August 27th, 2005, 3:53 am

yeah.. i was planning to get an enclosure for this new drive.. but i dun think it'll make any difference..

deluxepressure · Post by **deluxepressure** » August 30th, 2005, 9:56 pm

First!! Check your harddrive cable for tears First!! Ifyou are using a ribbon strip connection you will have that problem often due to heat !!!