Hard Drive with all my mp3s suddenly not working

[shawnharper]

I have a 160G drive that I have all my mp3s on (90 gigs). It's the
slave drive in my system (WinXP). A couple days ago, it became no
longer accessable. It shows up in Windows explorer, but it's "name"
is gone (now just Local Disk D and when I click on it it says that
the drive is not formatted, and asks if I'd like to format it.

I'm really bummed. This was my "backup drive" for all my mp3s, which
were stored on my car hard-disk based mp3 player, which was stolen
from my car last Monday night.

So, in the last week, I've gone from 2 copies of all my mp3s to ZERO!

I hope someone has some suggestions to help me out.

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[Ron Reaugh]

"shawnharper"

I have a 160G drive that I have all my mp3s on (90 gigs). It's the
slave drive in my system (WinXP). A couple days ago, it became no
longer accessable. It shows up in Windows explorer, but it's "name"
is gone (now just Local Disk D and when I click on it it says that
the drive is not formatted, and asks if I'd like to format it.

I'm really bummed. This was my "backup drive" for all my mp3s, which
were stored on my car hard-disk based mp3 player, which was stolen
from my car last Monday night.

So, in the last week, I've gone from 2 copies of all my mp3s to ZERO!

I hope someone has some suggestions to help me out.

If the drive still works and is not broken then the mp3s are likely still
there. You need to find some partition/disk recovery software.

Be very careful what you do as one false move and you'll lost it all.

 

[Ron Reaugh]

Post your query in the NG:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage


"shawnharper"

 

[Odie Ferrous]

I have a 160G drive that I have all my mp3s on (90 gigs). It's the
slave drive in my system (WinXP). A couple days ago, it became no
longer accessable. It shows up in Windows explorer, but it's "name"
is gone (now just Local Disk D and when I click on it it says that
the drive is not formatted, and asks if I'd like to format it.

I'm really bummed. This was my "backup drive" for all my mp3s, which
were stored on my car hard-disk based mp3 player, which was stolen
from my car last Monday night.

So, in the last week, I've gone from 2 copies of all my mp3s to ZERO!

I hope someone has some suggestions to help me out.

Thanks,
Shawn

Shawn,

What drive do you have?

I'm interested because I have been getting in a lot of Samsung and
Maxtor 160GB drives recently.

Thanks

Odie

 

[shawnharper]

Ron - where's comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage at. I'm a newbie to
newsgroups.

Odie - It's a Western Digital.

 

[Odie Ferrous]

Ron - where's comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage at. I'm a newbie to
newsgroups.

Odie - It's a Western Digital.

Thanks Shawn - can you let me have the model no. and date of
manufacture? (If it's not too much problem - just building a database
of drive info / stats and all helps.)

Thank you.

Odie

 

[JAD]

what does the bios say about it?
is it being auto detected from being manually setup?


"shawnharper"

 

[Jim]

I hope someone has some suggestions to help me out.

Thanks,
Shawn

An easy test would be to pop in a KNOPPIX live CD. Then check whether
it can read the contents of the drive.