Unreadable SATA Hard Drive... HELP!!

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White Dragon

Okay, here's the scoop...

I bought a SATA 400 GB WD hard drive a few months ago, ran it in my
eMachines as the slave (used a IDE to SATA adaptor) and put all my
important data on the HD.
Well, about a month ago it just stopped working on me. I was going
through files on the drive and it froze up.

I thought I might have fried the adaptor, but I found out that's not
the case as I bought a new motherboard with SATA plugs.

Now when I go into my computer, it's not there at all, I go to the
computer management/disk management and it's not there. But when I go
into the device manager it says it's there. When I go to the
properties and go to volumes then click on populate, it says;
Disk: Disk 0
[b:5dd6a0de98]Type:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown
[b:5dd6a0de98]Status:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unreadable
[b:5dd6a0de98]Partition Style:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown

Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet. Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.

[b:5dd6a0de98]Can someone please help me with my problem
here???[/b:5dd6a0de98]

Thanks, Nick
 
Previously White Dragon said:
Okay, here's the scoop...
Click to expand...
I bought a SATA 400 GB WD hard drive a few months ago, ran it in my
Click to expand...
^^ A mistake....
eMachines as the slave (used a IDE to SATA adaptor) and put all my
important data on the HD.
Well, about a month ago it just stopped working on me. I was going
through files on the drive and it froze up.
Click to expand...
I thought I might have fried the adaptor, but I found out that's not
the case as I bought a new motherboard with SATA plugs.
Click to expand...
Now when I go into my computer, it's not there at all, I go to the
computer management/disk management and it's not there. But when I go
into the device manager it says it's there. When I go to the
properties and go to volumes then click on populate, it says;
Disk: Disk 0
[b:5dd6a0de98]Type:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown
[b:5dd6a0de98]Status:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unreadable
[b:5dd6a0de98]Partition Style:[/b:5dd6a0de98] Unknown
Click to expand...
Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet.
Click to expand...

Oops, better give back-up a higher priority next time.
Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.
Click to expand...
[b:5dd6a0de98]Can someone please help me with my problem
here???[/b:5dd6a0de98]
Click to expand...

Please leave the attempt at color out. It does not work with
newsreaders and looks silly.

As to you rpoblem, professional data recovery is you best
bet. If you mess with the drive yourself, you might well make
recovery more expensive or impossible. Be prepared to pay
a significant amount though. Should also help to adjust your
back-up priorities....

Arno
 
Now I've got months and months worth of work on there, stuff that I
hadn't had the chance to back-up yet. Some of it I can replace, but
there's over 40 GB of data that I could never replace.
Click to expand...
The bill from the data recovery specialists will change your
work:backup allocation.

The new motherboard (with on-board SATA) should be able to
identify the hard drive from it's BIOS (in order to be able to boot
from it), but you're telling us what's reported by "device manager",
which I thought was a Windows program? What do the hardware routines
say. Can they recognise the type of the hard drive when it's the only
storage device attached to the machine?
 
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