out of the blue hard drive trouble

Original Message

Name: bigdaddyduff
Date: December 25, 2007 at 18:20:53 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble
OS: Windows Vista Home Premiu
CPU/Ram: 120GB
Model/Manufacturer: TOSHIBA Satellite P105

Comment:

I have a 120GB WD passport portable hard drive that I have used for years which is nearly full of important files. It has worked perfectly for years and has suffered no trauma. However, today when i plugged it into my computer, it didnt open in My Computer and was only visible in my device manager. It worked this morning, and i made no changes to anything between that time and when it wouldn't work. It is listed as unknown, unreadble, and unallocated in my disk manager, and labeled with EISA configuration. If it has always been EISA formatted, why does it not work now? And if it wasn't, how did it get that way since this morning? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks a lot!

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Response Number 1

Name: Dark666
Date: December 25, 2007 at 18:59:26 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble

Reply: (edit)

The drive is USB. Right.
I had the same problems with my USB HDD.
I removed the drive from the external box and used a IDE 3.5 to 2.5 adapter and connected the drive to my HDD rack and it worked. I copied all the files and reformated. It works fine now.
Why don't you do the same?
If you don't have an HDD rack you can connect to the IDE cable in the board.
If you only have SATA onboard you can use 2 converters SATA-TO-PATA-TO-2.5.
Good luck
I'm just a shadow of my former self!

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Response Number 2

Name: aegis
Date: December 25, 2007 at 20:09:28 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble

Reply: (edit)

Good advice from Dark666. If it doesn't work, you might want to try a partition recovery program or a file recovery program.

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Response Number 3

Name: bigdaddyduff
Date: December 27, 2007 at 01:16:56 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble

Reply: (edit)

It is good advice, unfortunatley i don't have the technical know-how to pull it off, i'm mostly looking for a quick software or settings change fix, not to deconstruct my hard drive. Aegis, or dark666 or anyone, if you have any good programs in mind i'd love to hear, the cheaper or free-er the better, the fact that it happened so out of the blue makes me reticent to start taking things apart until its clear that's the only option.

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Response Number 4

Name: Dark666
Date: December 27, 2007 at 11:21:36 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble

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You should download Ultimate Boot CD and Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows.
And try to use the recovery utils on both discs.
Good luck.
I'm just a shadow of my former self!

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Response Number 5

Name: Dark666
Date: December 27, 2007 at 11:22:19 Pacific
Subject: out of the blue hard drive trouble

Reply: (edit)

also try this:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utili...
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