So here's the rub. I put a new video card in my machine. I took it apart (it's a microatx) and did alot of cleanup and re-ran cables and so on. I Put the machine back together and plugged everything in and booted up. Install new video drivers blah blah blah...
I went later to load up a video off of my media drive and no dice. The link to the drive doesn't work, and I check and the drive isnt there. I opened up the case to start checking that cables are plugged in (while windows XP is still running) cause I can't figure out what else would be the problem. I'm looking at them and they all seem plugged in. I pushed on the SATA power cable on one of the drives, and apparently it wasn't pushed in all the way. The drive spins up and I'm like "sweet, I found the problem". So after a bit, I reboot the system to check it out.
And...... it's gone. Apparently, the drive is currently unrecognized and is listed as RAW needing initialization. The drive was 2 NTFS partitions split into 500GB chunks. I proceeded to use a couple data recovery demos that were recommended in other forum threads. No luck yet. One software seemed to recognize that there was two partitions, but it didn't seem to do anything else.
Am I just screwed here because I "plugged in the drive" in windows xp? Or is there something I'm missing? Does anyone have any thoughts about the recoverability of this drive?
Thanks for any help!
I went later to load up a video off of my media drive and no dice. The link to the drive doesn't work, and I check and the drive isnt there. I opened up the case to start checking that cables are plugged in (while windows XP is still running) cause I can't figure out what else would be the problem. I'm looking at them and they all seem plugged in. I pushed on the SATA power cable on one of the drives, and apparently it wasn't pushed in all the way. The drive spins up and I'm like "sweet, I found the problem". So after a bit, I reboot the system to check it out.
And...... it's gone. Apparently, the drive is currently unrecognized and is listed as RAW needing initialization. The drive was 2 NTFS partitions split into 500GB chunks. I proceeded to use a couple data recovery demos that were recommended in other forum threads. No luck yet. One software seemed to recognize that there was two partitions, but it didn't seem to do anything else.
Am I just screwed here because I "plugged in the drive" in windows xp? Or is there something I'm missing? Does anyone have any thoughts about the recoverability of this drive?
Thanks for any help!