What is wrong with my harddisk?

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Eric

My OS fails, and I remove existing HD into another PC as a slave drive, D
drive [C drive as a primary drive] can be recognited, but E drive [D Drive as
a primary drive] cannot be recognited, and request for format.
This HD can be access before, does anyone have any suggestions on how to
solve this problem on reading E drive?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eirc
 
Eric said:
My OS fails, and I remove existing HD into another PC as a slave drive, D
drive [C drive as a primary drive] can be recognited, but E drive [D Drive
as a primary drive] cannot be recognited, and request for format.
This HD can be access before, does anyone have any suggestions on how to
solve this problem on reading E drive?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eirc
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Sounds like it has died. You can try running a diagnostic on it. Get the
utility from the hard drive mftr.'s website. You will create a bootable CD
with the file you download. Use third-party burning software to do this.

Boot with the media you created and test the questionable hard drive. If the
test freezes or has fails any physical tests, replace it.

Malke
 
Thank you very much for suggestions

There is only one harddisk, and partition into C and D, the C drive can be
read, but the D drive cannot be read. As I set it as a slave drive, C becomes
D drive, and D becomes E drive. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to
fix it? The harddisk is not died, because D drive can still be read.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank everyone for any suggestions
Eric

Malke said:
Eric said:
My OS fails, and I remove existing HD into another PC as a slave drive, D
drive [C drive as a primary drive] can be recognited, but E drive [D Drive
as a primary drive] cannot be recognited, and request for format.
This HD can be access before, does anyone have any suggestions on how to
solve this problem on reading E drive?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eirc
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Sounds like it has died. You can try running a diagnostic on it. Get the
utility from the hard drive mftr.'s website. You will create a bootable CD
with the file you download. Use third-party burning software to do this.

Boot with the media you created and test the questionable hard drive. If the
test freezes or has fails any physical tests, replace it.

Malke
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Eric said:
Thank you very much for suggestions

There is only one harddisk, and partition into C and D, the C drive can be
read, but the D drive cannot be read. As I set it as a slave drive, C
becomes D drive, and D becomes E drive. Does anyone have any suggestions
on how to fix it? The harddisk is not died, because D drive can still be
read. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank everyone for any suggestions
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It would have been very helpful if you'd included this information in your
*first* post so as not to waste people's time. I would still test the hard
drive. Otherwise, back up whatever data is on it, recreate your partitions,
and format.

Since you haven't told us what "my OS fails" means - and I'm not going to
bother guessing - that's my best suggestion. Someone else can spend the
time trying to unravel your mysteries. I'm done.

Malke
 
Thank you very much for your suggestions
Most of the data is stored in E drive, but this drive cannot be detected.
Should I try to read it on another PCs? I understand format this drive will
solve all the problem, but the data in E drive will be gone too. How to
ensure the E drive is died? Is there any other approach to read this drive?
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much for any suggestions
Eric
 
Since that partition can't be read, you would need to repair the allocation
table for that partition, Please don't refer to it as drive X since it is
existing on one physical drive, refer to it as partition X.

most likely you have lost that data, I suggest you be prepared to format it,
and refer to your backups, to recover your data.
 
Thank everyone very much for suggestions
Do you know any tools to to repair the allocation table for partition?
Our office don't get any backup for this harddisk, and I would like to fix
the allocation table rather than format it.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
Eric
 
I get the impression that you are not that knowledgable on how to go about
doing this, I suggest you take it someone who already knows how to do this,
else you are going to cause more damage rather than fixing it. do a goggle
search on repairing FAT and NTFS partitions, I'm sure you will find loads of
info.
 
Hi Eric,

.........Do you know any tools to to repair the allocation table for
partition?


........I would like to fix the allocation table rather than format it.


........Do you have any suggestions?

Just for the hell of it, do what Malke originally suggested. You'll be
hard pressed to find better initial actions.

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PA20Pilot said:
Hi Eric,

........Do you know any tools to to repair the allocation table for
partition?


.......I would like to fix the allocation table rather than format it.


.......Do you have any suggestions?

Just for the hell of it, do what Malke originally suggested. You'll be
hard pressed to find better initial actions.
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I'm still waiting for someone to try this. I don't
know a thing about it, and don't have something (duff
disk) to test it on.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Paul
 
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