dunno wat went wrong!! one min it was ok but after i install a codec & was burning a dvdr. the burning hang half way & i hv to reboot the system. after reboot (took much longer than usual), i enter to the HDD that contains the material that i want to burn & it prompt me "the disk in drive is not formatted. do u want to format!" wtf?? i hate to reformat & loose all my data... i had tried to remove the HDD & put into another sata slave slot & power cable, it hang during booting.... is there anything i can do?
i would recommend heading over to the hard drive manufacturer site, and looking for recovery tools. they usually have something you can burn onto a CD and boot, and have a bunch of tools you can use to see whats wrong with it and try and work it out. also at worst it might be dead, or if your lucky you can replace it and use those tools to get what you can off it onto a new one.
Seeing that he's got, what, 5 HDs ? and he was doing something power-intensive (burning a DVD-R) when it happened, I'd be thinking the power supply's borderlined. Possibly the disk as well but will have to check it to make sure. Might want to try it in another PC (one not so fully stocked) so's you can check if it's the HD.
it was abt 180GB inside, the HDD is pretty new abt 6mths+. will go home & try recovery tools. i did try PC Inspector which is not v good, took few hrs just to scan 1% of the data.
4 physical HDDs. u maybe right on the power but when the burning was hang, i still able to use my mouse, closed the applications & shut dwn. dun hv other system to test my HDD.... will try the recovery tools 1st.
interesting, what's your PSU? have you tried pluggin it into another system and see if it detects it?
i dun hv other system to test... unless i dismantle my office PC casing but dun think im allow to. think my PSU is 400w..... all along it was ok, if the PSU really surged, the whole system would had hanged... my fren said the hdd might hv died, ask me to use norton ghost to backup to anthr hdd.... but i dun hv any 250GB or bigger hdd...
my current suggestion is chnage the drive letter... Right click Change Drive letter and Paths see if there is any drive letter assigned .. or you can add/change it
If you don't have another system it's pretty difficult. We might set up a test center with duplicates of stuff sometime soon so people can test their systems, but later for that. Still think it's the PS though. It's almost sure to be power-related. I wonder if 400W is enough to power 4 HDs + 1 DVD-RW, esp if you're using one of those no-name clone PSUs. Just out of curiosity, have you tried removing all the other HDs ?
i dont see the psu being an issue unless he had a large number of the physical disks spinning at once. I have had power isues with having 4 250 gig barracudas in raid0 on the studio system i built, we fixed that with an 800watt psu, but before we had raid we had 4 seperate drives, and it ran perfectly fine
O is the drive letter. initially it was Drive:M, i change letter path to drive: O & it's still the same.
actually there's another CD/DVD combo drive..... i did remove one HD & put the problem HD into its SATA slot but the system seem to hv problem booting. mayb i will get a bigger HD to replace the two 160GB HDs.
Just a thing to check, but is the bios info correct for the drive? Would explain the slow booting and the need to format error.
will do a check when home. i did use "recover my files" recovery tools to scan & it took mre than 30hrs & it restart itself when i gone up in the morning. i did see quite alot of the files from the application when it was scanning 50%. think i hv to rescan & stop halfway to backup first.
finally managed to backup 90%+ of the files after 48hrs of non stop file transferring using Recover My Files. had done a reformatting & defrag. the HD seem ok now.... i'd also change a new PSU, a 400w one. the previous one was only 350w.
I would agree, go bigger. I have a 560W PSU, and I barely use 400 I think. But with 160W overhead, I can put in or replace anything I want and know it's not the PSU.
