Hard Drive Renamed

[Alan Brown]

A friend had a Western Digital WD400 hard drive on his machine. One day it
suddenly stopped working. On investigation the BIOS on my computer shows it
as WDC ROM Model --SABRE--

It looks like a virus or something has renamed the drive. Is that possible?
How do I rename the drive and recover the data? I've sent a cople of emails
to Western Digital with no reply.

Thanks

Alan

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Alan Brown" <[email protected]>

| A friend had a Western Digital WD400 hard drive on his machine. One day it
| suddenly stopped working. On investigation the BIOS on my computer shows it
| as WDC ROM Model --SABRE--
|
| It looks like a virus or something has renamed the drive. Is that possible?
| How do I rename the drive and recover the data? I've sent a cople of emails
| to Western Digital with no reply.
|
| Thanks
|
| Alan
|

Hardly a virus. Most likely it was picked up via S.M.A.R.T.

 

[Alan Brown]

|
| Thanks
|
| Alan
|

Hardly a virus. Most likely it was picked up via S.M.A.R.T.

--

I've been reading about S.M.A.R.T., why / how would it change the name? It
seems to be a utility to give warning about a problem that is about to
happen. Is this disc doomed? How would I recover the data?

alan

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Alan Brown" <[email protected]>


|
| I've been reading about S.M.A.R.T., why / how would it change the name? It
| seems to be a utility to give warning about a problem that is about to
| happen. Is this disc doomed? How would I recover the data?
|
| alan
|

SMART is built into the BIOS and communicates with the hard drive directly to determine the
drive parameters and it could easily get a string from the BIOS of the hard disk and use
that to display it as a line item in the CMOS configuration of the system/motherboard BIOS.
It isn't just relagated to eminate drive failure notification.

What are you assuming this is bad ?
Why are you coming to a gloom/doom conclusion ?

Still unsure...

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

 

[Ben Myers]

Western Digital has diagnostic software available for download.

http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/DlgDiagv504c.exe

Ben