Bad HD and data recovery

[Guest]

I have a HD that was working as my slave drive for backup purposes.
Yesterday the drive disappeared from windows. When i attempted a reboot the
machine would not boot as long as the drive was on the same IDE channel as
the master/boot drive. I tried the drive on another IDE channel as well as
an entirely different machine and can boot the machine without problems, but
windows is not seeing the drive.

So basically i'm thinking that I have a bad HD that i need to recover some
data from. Is the drive beyond repair? What are my options?

 

[Don MI]

I have a HD that was working as my slave drive for backup purposes.
Yesterday the drive disappeared from windows. When i attempted a reboot
the
machine would not boot as long as the drive was on the same IDE channel as
the master/boot drive. I tried the drive on another IDE channel as well
as
an entirely different machine and can boot the machine without problems,
but
windows is not seeing the drive.

So basically i'm thinking that I have a bad HD that i need to recover some
data from. Is the drive beyond repair? What are my options?

The following may be of interest:
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Don

 

[Ron Martell]

The following may be of interest:
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Don

I agree. Spinrite has been the best drive repair and recovery tool on
the market for many years, and the new version 6 now handles NTFS as
well as FAT32 drives.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Guest]

I guess i should have said in my original post that neither BIOS or windows
is recognizing the drive. I'm guessing that this software is not going to
help me with that problem. I'll keep messing with it and if i can at least
get BIOS to see the drive i'll give this a shot. Thanks for the
recommendation.

 

[Ron Martell]

I guess i should have said in my original post that neither BIOS or windows
is recognizing the drive. I'm guessing that this software is not going to
help me with that problem. I'll keep messing with it and if i can at least
get BIOS to see the drive i'll give this a shot. Thanks for the
recommendation.

If the BIOS will not recognize the drive then there is little chance
of recovery or repair, outside of a data recovery specialist shop.
And they are expensive.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."