Computer not recognizing HDD?

[BChico]

I have a fairly new Seagate 200GB hard drive that is giving me some problems. I was getting Data Write errors so I decided to restart and see if it would fix it...never had them before. The HD was hooked up as my secondary. Now when I turn is on its not recognizing it, Windows sees that there is another HDD there, but it is recognized as 'that block sybol that shows upo in error' then "T3200822A...in other words a block replacing the S.

In the Bios it shows up as !!T3200822A....any ideas? I have alot of stuff that is on there unfortunately...and its only a 6 month old drive.

Thanks,
Brad

 

[John]

That typically indicates the drive is failing or has failed. I had a laptop HDD do the same thing to me this afternoon, and I couldn't even initialize the drive using disk management. I set up an advanced replacement RMA.

It's unlikely that data receovery will be able to pick anything up but it's worth a shot. Try spinrite or getdataback.

 

[BChico]

John, thanks for the tip on GetDataBack...im running that right now.

I was tinkering around and got it to recognize the drive again...using a Master/Slave config rather than a cable select. Bad news is...that it looks like it corrupted the MBR and partition table due to those write failures.

I can see my files as the GetDataBack prog is running, what does it ultimatly do? Will is rebuild the table, or just transfer the files to another drive?

If worse comes to worse, I actually work in digital evidence and forensics, so Ill just take it in to the lab and image the drive with Encase...thats a big ass hassle though.

Brad