corrupted HDD

[Guest]

I know there is nothing more I can do to recover this data, i'm more
interested in why this may have happened.
I have a new box with a P2 2.8, 80 gig SATA drive (1 partition, NTFS) , 512
memory. windows XP Pro.
I wanted to transfer a few files from the old dell box (windows 98SE) onto
the new one.
I pulled the HDD( 13 Gig ATA) out of the dell made it a slave and plugged
it into the new box.
everything seemed to be fine at this point, the new box booted up just
fine. however when I tryed to read the data from the 13 gig drive it took
forever to get into any of the directories. I rebooted once more thinking
this might help but when I tried to access the drive it said the drive had
been corrupted. after screwing around with it for a couple hours I am now at
the point where it says the drive needs to be formatted.
As I said before I know the data is gone. I'm just curios as to why this
may have happened.
Any Ideas?

 

[Steve N.]

I know there is nothing more I can do to recover this data, i'm more
interested in why this may have happened.
I have a new box with a P2 2.8, 80 gig SATA drive (1 partition, NTFS) , 512
memory. windows XP Pro.
I wanted to transfer a few files from the old dell box (windows 98SE) onto
the new one.
I pulled the HDD( 13 Gig ATA) out of the dell made it a slave and plugged
it into the new box.
everything seemed to be fine at this point, the new box booted up just
fine. however when I tryed to read the data from the 13 gig drive it took
forever to get into any of the directories. I rebooted once more thinking
this might help but when I tried to access the drive it said the drive had
been corrupted. after screwing around with it for a couple hours I am now at
the point where it says the drive needs to be formatted.
As I said before I know the data is gone. I'm just curios as to why this
may have happened.
Any Ideas?

Without knowing exactly what you did while "screwing around with it for
a couple hours" it's nearly impossible to say what went wrong. It could
be hard drive failure or bad sectors, it could be file system corruption
or a driver or even a RAM issue. Please tell us exactly what you did.

I would double check drive cabling and jumpering, run a chkdsk /f /r
against the drive in question. Then download and run the manufaturer's
diagnostics for that drive.

Steve N.

 

[Guest]

yes I did checked all connection, jumper settings. replaced all cables, ran
chkdsk and tryed moving it back to the original computer. it was after I ran
chkdsk that i started getting the drive needs to be formatted.
I'm pretty sure the hard drive failed, now when I boot up the computer it
dosn't even see the drive, I checked dish managment and it is not even
showing in there now. i'll check the bios but I'm pretty sure this disk is
done

 

[Guest]

Yeah dosn't show up in the Bios either. I guess I have a new paperweight.

 

[Steve N.]

Yeah dosn't show up in the Bios either. I guess I have a new paperweight.

Bummer. Looks like you did everything you could. That sucks. I hate it
when that happens. Thanks for the followups, though.

Steve N.

 

[Guest]

No Poblem, thanx for trying to help.

Bummer. Looks like you did everything you could. That sucks. I hate it
when that happens. Thanks for the followups, though.

Steve N.

 

[Steve N.]

No Poblem, thanx for trying to help.

You're welcome. Sorry it didn't work out.

Steve N.

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

Actually, formattiong does not means complete loss of data. You can
still restore files after that process using data recovery tools. The
most powerfula re imho Active@ undelete and Uneraser. These tools never
failed me before and were always able to bring lost data back to life.
That can really help in your situation.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[Patty]

I know there is nothing more I can do to recover this data, i'm more
interested in why this may have happened.
I have a new box with a P2 2.8, 80 gig SATA drive (1 partition, NTFS) , 512
memory. windows XP Pro.
I wanted to transfer a few files from the old dell box (windows 98SE) onto
the new one.
I pulled the HDD( 13 Gig ATA) out of the dell made it a slave and plugged
it into the new box.
everything seemed to be fine at this point, the new box booted up just
fine. however when I tryed to read the data from the 13 gig drive it took
forever to get into any of the directories. I rebooted once more thinking
this might help but when I tried to access the drive it said the drive had
been corrupted. after screwing around with it for a couple hours I am now at
the point where it says the drive needs to be formatted.
As I said before I know the data is gone. I'm just curios as to why this
may have happened.
Any Ideas?

First question, what port did you plug the ATA drive into? Primary IDE or
secondary IDE? Do you have a Primary IDE drive on this system along with
your SATA? If not, why did you make the ATA a slave drive rather than a
master?

I'm not sure what exactly you did that killed the drive completely. Was if
working fine prior to this in the old system or was it showing evidence of
problems?

Patty