Followup to: Sudden Hard Drive Error

[Evan Bender]

Well, I checked the cables and they weren't hooked up
like before. It was a slave on the sec before, so I
changed it to that, and tried a couple other settings,
but no luck. I hadn't thought of that before though.
Also, I didn't format it using a drive overlay.
I'm still up the creek so to speak, and still trying to
figure this out. So if anyone has any more ideas on how
to fix this feel free to throw them my way. Thanks a ton
to you guys that already have though. I appreciate it.
Evan

>-----Original Message-----
> After deciding to sell my computer, I went and bought a
> 120gig western digital HDD to back all of my files up
on.
> After doing so, I ran it for a couple weeks and
> everything worked fine. Once I sold the computer, I
stuck
> the drive on my new computer and it detected it in the
> bios fine. When I went into windows, it showed the drive
> in my computer, but when I clicked on it, it gave me the
> error "The disk in drive D is not formatted, do you want
> to format now" Both computers were running XP, and I've
> been able to stick on other hard drives before. I've
> tried it on two other computers as well and get the same
> error. I have alot of important files on the hard drive
> and any help would be appreciated. I have tried to check
> for the files in DOS and get an error saying "the drive
> does not contain a recognized file system". I have also
> gone into windows disk manager, and it shows the drive,
> but under the file system tab it is blank. I have
> contacted the manufacturer, but they have been able to
> give me no help as well. The last thing I did was run
the
> error software from the manufacturer and no errors were
> detected. Thank you so much for any help.
> Evan

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

I lost everything on a 40 gig drive just before Christmas. I had a spare 40
gig drive. I used EasyRecovery Professional and was able to get back about
95-98% of my files (had to transfer them to a new location - hence the 2nd
40 gig drive).

The old drive had the partition designated as "RAW", which means it had not
been formatted. Of course, it had been formatted, and used, for about 2
years prior to the drive loosing it's mind.

After recovering the files, I created a new partition on the old drive and
have been using it, without incident, to this day!

"Evan Bender" > wrote in message
...
> Well, I checked the cables and they weren't hooked up
> like before. It was a slave on the sec before, so I
> changed it to that, and tried a couple other settings,
> but no luck. I hadn't thought of that before though.
> Also, I didn't format it using a drive overlay.
> I'm still up the creek so to speak, and still trying to
> figure this out. So if anyone has any more ideas on how
> to fix this feel free to throw them my way. Thanks a ton
> to you guys that already have though. I appreciate it.
> Evan
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> > After deciding to sell my computer, I went and bought a
> > 120gig western digital HDD to back all of my files up
> on.
> > After doing so, I ran it for a couple weeks and
> > everything worked fine. Once I sold the computer, I
> stuck
> > the drive on my new computer and it detected it in the
> > bios fine. When I went into windows, it showed the drive
> > in my computer, but when I clicked on it, it gave me the
> > error "The disk in drive D is not formatted, do you want
> > to format now" Both computers were running XP, and I've
> > been able to stick on other hard drives before. I've
> > tried it on two other computers as well and get the same
> > error. I have alot of important files on the hard drive
> > and any help would be appreciated. I have tried to check
> > for the files in DOS and get an error saying "the drive
> > does not contain a recognized file system". I have also
> > gone into windows disk manager, and it shows the drive,
> > but under the file system tab it is blank. I have
> > contacted the manufacturer, but they have been able to
> > give me no help as well. The last thing I did was run
> the
> > error software from the manufacturer and no errors were
> > detected. Thank you so much for any help.
> > Evan
>