Harddrive died

ReignReign New York
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Out of nowhere my comp froze... I try to load it up again and windows doesn't exist... i go into windows setup to see if i can reinstall... says that there was 25mb of unformatted space... as if it never existed. I tried to reformat that space, and it just stays at 0%.

It was a 200gb Western Digital.. connected to an IDE2 card. It was partitioned to two drives, C: 25gigs and D: 161GB. C had windows.. D had all my files.

I installed windows on an extra HD and i hooked up the old one as slave... doesn't let me access C since it doesn't exist... but it lets me open and view D... but it doesn't let me copy anything cuz it keeps freezing. Is there any way to recover this info? Someone told me to take it to a local comp store cuz they should be able to get the files back for me.

Any ideas?

ALSO... why can't windows detect the HD when its hooked up into a regular DIE port? Is it that windows or my mobo that doesn't support the 200gb HD?

I plan on getting two 80s or something now.. so this doesn't happen again.

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    It's probably still under warranty. If you think it's broke, try to get it RMA'd. I just RMA'd by 80gb special edition and they sent me a new one in two days.
  • ReignReign New York
    edited November 2004
    bump anyone?
  • rykoryko new york
    edited November 2004
    what O/S are you running? xp should be able to see the 200gb partition without a problem.... maybe youe IDE pci card is screwed?
  • ReignReign New York
    edited December 2004
    I'm running XP.

    I connected the HDD as slave and started to copy some files, and then it froze and the HDD started clicking. There are still a bump of files i need to copy, and now every single time i connect it, it starts to click and wont let me load windows when its connected. I think I found myself a nice new paperweight.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Put it in the freezer for about an hour. At the end of the hour, take it out, stick it back in the system, boot it and immediately copy the remaining files.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    Yep, that's about your only chance of recovering anything off of it unless you want to spend thousands of bucks for a professional recovery service to recover your data.
  • ReignReign New York
    edited December 2004
    LOL i guess that makes sense. I had it plugged in for like 1 minute today and it got really hot in that short time. I'll try it tomorrow and update you guys.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    when u put the drive in the freezer, put it in a ziplock bag first.
  • ReignReign New York
    edited December 2004
    Okay it booted without clicking, but the comp didn't detect it. After a few seconds it started clicking again... I guess i give up.
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