When I try to acces anything on my slave hard dirve, I get an error message saying "The hard dirve is not formatted, do you wish to format it now?" I just used the hard dirve a few hours prior, and it was functioning perfectly. Any suggestions on what course of action I should take and weather there is any cance of retriving some of my data off of it?
2006-08-10 07:47:16 · 8 answers · asked by Grant H 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
When i try to acces it in DOS by changing directory to it it says "Data error
2006-08-10 07:57:44 · update #1
Just to mention, it is an IDE interface, IBM Desktar hard drive. Kind of old (about 4 years).
2006-08-10 08:00:06 · update #2
If your drive was working a few hours prior, than it is probably not a drive failure.
If you were using it on XP and brought it back to an older version of Windows, it may not recongize the drive.
Make sure that both drives are on Cable Select. Or, make sure that the slave jumper is set to slave and the other is set to master.
If that doesn't help, try it in another computer. If it works in the other computer than it could be a problem with the computer. If it is the same, then it is either a jumper or HD problem.
I think you stand a solid chance of getting the data back.
Hope this helps!
2006-08-10 07:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by JC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you do anything drastic to the hard drive, like formatting, go into your bios and see if the drive is showing up there..
It's possible you didn't connect the ribbon cable properly, or, maybe you needed to set the jumpers on the drive..
Formatting is a last resort..
2006-08-10 14:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard Drive may be failing.
Controller cable may be failing.
Slave controller on Motherboard may be failing.
If you're using Windows NT, 2000 or XP, look at the event viewer and see if Error ID 7 exists?
2006-08-10 14:53:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the cable and powersuply to insure its not loose and properly inserted. If still you get the error try the HDD in another PC. If the same error is returned, your HDD might have corrupt. Then try to repartition and format. Best of luck
2006-08-10 14:54:34 · answer #4 · answered by jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you changed anything since it was working last? If you just plugged it in, I would verify you have the jumpers and everything set right. If it has a bootable OS on it, try unplugging the other and see if that one works alone.
2006-08-10 16:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by Ken H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to make sure its connected and possible do a disk scan, The other problem may be a corrupted hard drive.
2006-08-10 14:54:07 · answer #6 · answered by shclapitz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try accessing in dos. Type CMD from the run line.
You might also go into the bios and see if it knows your drive is connected.
2006-08-10 14:52:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask the computer niceley ? lol
2006-08-10 14:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋