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SpacemanSpiff757
02-22-2011, 09:41 AM
This is might turn into a rant, but I'll try to keep it from turning into one:

I just bought a new 1TB HDD (Western Digital Caviar Blue) from NewEgg last week to ease the burden of partitioning my primary and to backup my music/video/documents/photos/etc. It installed fine, copied everything over and worked fine. This morning I went to grab some files off of it and it wasn't being detected in Windows. At first I thought it was just a detection problem so I went into the Disk Management and it wasn't in there either (before or after running new hardware detection). I rebooted, went into BIOS and it won't detect it there either, but there is a blank space on the drive list in the SATA slot it's connected to (no device name, just a blank space). I've tried switching SATA slots/SATA cables/power cables with no luck. I'm now at the point were I think the HDD died in less than a week.

Is there anything I can do to try to get it to boot so I can move it to a different hard drive? Or have I just lost everything including all my old projects and school portfolio?
KidCactus
02-22-2011, 09:45 AM
Get a SATA to USB conversion kit and try to connect the drive to an USB port instead.
hunterx280
02-22-2011, 10:29 AM
Try unplugging ALL other SATA drives (including any optical drives) booting, making sure it recognizes in the BIOS. Power down, try plugging everything back in and try again. Typically you would do this if the drive is new and on the initial install but it sounds very similar.
Dukefrukem
02-22-2011, 10:44 AM
last resort... Download Knoppix, get a FAT32 file system and copy the files (slowly) in 32GB increments at a time.

This has saved me numerous times with hard drive failures. It's the greatest.
Mot Wakorb
02-22-2011, 10:49 AM
Knoppix supports NTFS writes now. No need to use FAT32.

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iHap
02-22-2011, 10:50 AM
If you aren't able to recover anything and all is lost, Newegg can return it, if you're over the xx amount of days WD has an awesome RMA policy.
Dukefrukem
02-22-2011, 10:52 AM
Knoppix supports NTFS writes now. No need to use FAT32.


News to me!! :)