Hi all, I've a 80GB SATA hd that I was using as my primary hd (had windows and everything on it), one day, all of a sudden, I turned on my computer and windows wouldn't load, tried everything I coudl imagine and still it wouldn't load. So I installed windows on another HD I have here and booted from that one with the SATA still plugged in. Even though the SATA HD is recognized when booting up, it won't show on windows explorer, did it die? anyone have any idea? man, all my stuff is there :/
Hmm.. Don't junk it yet. Install it in your computer as a second drive (not boot). See if the BIOS even detects it. There's hope if it's detectable in the BIOS. In Windows, go My Computer > Manage > Disk Management (as Dashken recommends) and check if the partitions are healthy. You can scan them for any problems. Hopefully, it's just a soft error.
I have it already as second drive, the bios detects it but windows don't. I'll try your advice when I get home Adrian and Dashken.
If that's the case then I guess all my files are gone forever. damn, didn't see this coming at all. I'll check it out tonight, at least if I can get the HD to work i'll be half happy.
if you are using NTFS, there is still chance of file recovery. i accidentally deleted on of my 120gb ntfs partition before, but i was able to recover all the files.
Okay, for apparently no reason, windows detected it again, i plugged it in, rebooted and windows woudn't see it, i rebooted again and windows saw it. which means all my files are safe (phew) BUT, i tried to boot the pc with it set as primary and I got a blue screen of death with no error message or anything, just a generic BSOD. should I try to use recovery console? Take a look: http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9582/fdisfjdjd2.jpg We have C:, D: and F: which are the HD with windows that I'm using now, my dvd-write and a virtual drive. And now we have E: and G:.. E: was my main old windows partition and G: was my secondary partition to keep stuff, I just have no idea what that 502 MB unkown partition is.
haha that's exactly what i'm doing. anyway, i guess i'll try to re-format later and see how it goes, windows is weird! also, anyone can give any help on which commands I can run on recovery console to try to fix it?
I can't remember the console commands, but one of them is fixmbr. That's for fixing the Master Boot Record.
yeah it was beyong repair. but I was able to save all my files, which i'm very glad. thanks for all the help guys!!
and it DIED! hahaha damn.. i managed to save all my files, i was just started using it agian and all of a sudden, pluft.. dead. bah! now i have to use my old 4200 rpm hd. i'm in bad luck lately, my graphics card cooler died, now my hd.. wonder what's next.