When I click on the drive icon a error pops up saying d: is not accessible access is denied. I am running xp home with admin account. I have replaced the ide cable as suggested by the ms help articles. This has happened within the last few weeks. When I checked the eventlog, it reports that the driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk1\d. My bios is up-to-date as far as I know. My motherboard is a Gigabyte ga7vaxp. Hard drive is a Western Digital 80gb(model 800jb). I need to recover the files on this drive as it has a wedding video.
2006-10-05 12:23:32 · 5 answers · asked by patrj2004 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It shows up ok in the bios list.
2006-10-05 12:29:52 · update #1
Sorry forgot about some details. It is a second hdd connected as slave. But currently am using a recovery tool to see if I can get the files that way
2006-10-05 12:37:03 · update #2
when I open the properties box there is no detail.
2006-10-05 12:42:25 · update #3
I was successful in recovering the files using zar program (zero assumption recovery). In the meantime, I will try the suggestions given to me and report back on how it went.
2006-10-05 13:50:00 · update #4
ok I switched the cables around and it didn't even want to boot up, so I guess the drive is toast... thanks anyway.
2006-10-07 08:27:16 · update #5
Hmm.. looks like your hdd is gone. What you could do is get a caddy and try to retrieve your files externally...
Edit:
Maybe it is corrupted then. But hmm.. it should still open something. Can you access the properties of the drive?
2006-10-05 12:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by cktan86 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you please update your question with the following info:
Do you have 2 hard drives and the D is the second one, or is it a 2nd partition of one drive that also holds your C ?
If it is a partition of the only hard disk you have, then the partition table may be damaged. Can you remember when you stopped being able to access it, did it stop all at once, or was it intermittent for a while and then stopped? Did anything eventful happen around that time (power outage, moved the pc to new location, hardware upgrade/repair, etc)?
If it is a 2nd hard disk, do you have a CD or DVD drive ? If so, move the 2nd hard disk to the cable the CD/DVD is using. Can you now access it?
Also - right click on MyComputer go to Manage, then move to Storage, Disk Management. What does it show there for all drives/partitions?
2006-10-05 12:32:23 · answer #2 · answered by kbugiell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive had something like this happen to me before.
Make the drive a master on the IDE cable. and do not have a slave set up on that cable either. Just the drive itself.
I had some sort of IRQ problem that i never solved, but when i performed the above it worked just fine.
Hollah if it works for ya ;)
Ohh and make sure the jumper settings on the back of the drive are set up for master also.
2006-10-05 12:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by ebred 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the BIOS show the drive properly?
2006-10-05 12:27:32 · answer #4 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which recovery tool you are using? Try this one to recover your wedding video.
2006-10-05 13:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by VBACCESSpert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋