Hard drive failure

[Guest]

Hi

I hope you can help i will try to explain clearly the problem.

When i turn my pc on i get a mesage saying disk read error, have restarted
numerous times same message. In my pc there are 3 drives 40gig master and 2
200gig slaves on differnet ide channels.

Im not that concerned about the master hd, because i have some spare 40 gig
drives, the main problem is that i have reinstalled windows on a new 40 gig
drive, but it says my 2x200 gig drives are unallocated???. How do i get it
to read them without re-partioning them.

On 1 of the 200 gig drives is my powerquest drive image images which i do 2
weekly, in drive image it shows the 2x200 gig drives and the space available
but it gives them a *.\ instead of drive letter, which is why it cant find
the images.

 

[Rich Barry]

Frank, are they SATA Drives? If so don't they require drivers? If not
SATA try rt clicking MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. If there rt
click and select a drive letter for them.

 

[Guest]

Hi rich thanks for replying, no the drives are ide, have tried the disk
management route but when i right click no option to assign a drive
letter,probably because it says the drives are unallocated,have also tried
plugging them into another pc same thing, drives unallocated.

Since my post i have downloaded and bought a program called r-studio drive
recovery, it can see all the data, so i can recover it, but 300 odd gig is
going to take a long time to recover.

There must be an easier way? like you said all i need to do is give the
drives letters but how??

 

[Rich Barry]

Frank, did you use a drive overlay program to install the 200G drives?
Are they configured Dynamic or Basic Volume?

 

[Vlad Katkov]

Go to Control Panel> Classic View> Administrative Options> Computer
Management. In the window that comes up find Diskl Management in the
left tree menu. Click on it and you should see all your hard drives,
assuming they are connected. Right click on the ones which are not
working, and select Format. I haven't done this recently so I'm not
sure of the options, but basically follow instructions. You'll want to
create a partition of the full space available (I believe this happens
in the Format Wizard so just watch for it). Then you must wait for it
to format. It's a 200 GB drive, so it might take a long time. I
remember leaving my computer on overnight to format my 160 GB SATA.
Once that is done it should be working...
You might then need to go to My Computer, right click on the drive,
Properties> Hardware> Properties> Volumes and click on Populate. It
should be working now.

 

[DL]

I think he wishes to recover a hd that has data on it and was previously
seen OK.
Overnight to Format a 160 gb sata? something wrong there

 

[Guest]

Lol correct Dl, they were set up as basic disks, i have finally got back all
the data i need thanks to a program called R-Studio, cost me $70 dollars but
worth every penny.

Thanks all for the help

Frank