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Help me save this drive :)

S

Strang

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Ok i got a clients drive that he needs quicken files off of...

he is a snowbird when he shipped it and opened it again it said boot failure. and didn't spin.

so i told him i would try and switch the logic board.
well i did now its SPINS :) but it still says "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" and doesn't detect the drive.
from here i am lost. i got the thing to spin again but is the mechanical still shot? can i do something to it to get this data back?

thanks
-Steven
 
ouch

you need to get it detected to salvage the files *(via software)
when you say not detected is this in BIOS?
if so
can you access it in DOS? w\ the HDD manufacturers Diagnostic?
or is it just Windows that cant recognize it?

* a lab could crack it and read directly from the platters,
but talk about costly :eek:

the circuit board was from an exact match?
(not just make, capacity and spped but also model?
there can be changes in the low level format and
drive architecture between models sometimes,
I have 12 WD40GBs and like 8 different models,
though they are all WD400BBs)
 
sorry about the late response, my email notify isnt working..

anyways

when i start the computer up the bios "detecing IDE devices" and it can't find it.. the drive is spinning, loud i might add. anyways so it just trys to continue booting from floppy etc and of course it says "disk boot failure plz insert system disk and press enter"

no matter which computer i put it into...i also put it as a slave on another computer so i may be able to at least log on to windows and see if it dectects anything connected. but when i have the bad one attached the good one doesnt boot. i have checked my jumper settings and they seem to be correct.

i dont know... i think i have done all i can do..

and yes i matched the logic boards as best i could... wd200eb 5400 rpm also the drive parameters: is matched (whatever that means) see the drive spins now, which before it didn't even do that. so something is working now.

-Strang
 
i have the same problem... i hooked my harddrive up to another mobo and it wouldnt load windows. hooked it up to the original mother board and still nothing.
and i thought it was dead because it didnt spin either. i finally got it to spin and i could then get to the start windows normally screen with all the options but it would just go restart everytime...

sooooo anyway, try reinstalling windows on it... thats what i did and its fine now. if you need stuff from the original windows folder, just make the new one and call it something like windows1 and then you can get the stuff you need.


hope this helps. :) if it even makes sense lol.
 
the wierd thing is when i hoook up the bad drive as a secondary, and try to boot off of good drive. it spreads its disease and wont boot either one of them. i checked the jumpers and set them appropriately and when i start up with 1 good 1 bad neither are detected by bios and it halts when it can't boot..

-Strang
 
ok more wierdness but good...

i got both hard drives to detect and start up!
but when in windows only my good c: drive is showing up...

if i can continue to get the bios to dectect my bad drive, what can i do to copy files to my good drive?

-Strang

something else to add....when in add new hardware wizard, it dectects the hard drive but says their was a problem installing it.... am i getting closer?! any and all info or advice would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

s
 
indeed you are
try to access it with the manufacturers diagnostic in DOS
 
my bios detects is most of the time, and windows did 1 time. now none of the diagnostics from WD seem to see the drive.

if found out that the clicking noise means faulty or has erros on it... i am leaning torwards faulty, but still am trying..

any other advice?

now this is odd, which i just noticed...

my drive is a WD200EB protege 20gb now when i start up.. bios reads WD205EB. now i did switch the logicboard, but i matched them pretty well, manufacturing date is about 1 year difference. but other than that they seem to match.

anyways somethings are detecting the drive some are not

-Strang
 
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