Drive passes Drive Fitness Test but Windows Recovery Console and BartPE can't see it.

[RalphTheCow]

Here's the background/sob story from the Technical Support Forum:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=32&threadid=2028493&enterthread=y

I found a thread in here that said in this situation I should get a new drive, reinstall Windows, connect the old drive as a slave and then try the Get Data Back program on it. Bit if the BIOS can't see it as master, will it be able to see it as slave? Right now the BIOS says the master is the DVD burner. But before I try that does anyone have any ideas? How do you explain how the Hitachi Drive Fitness Program can get to the disc and even says it's good, but it looks like the BIOS can't see it. That program would have to use the BIOS to get to the disc, wouldn't it? And when Windows tries to boot, it does give the Splash screen before rebooting itself, which can only come form the disc, right?

 

[Nocturnal]

It sounds like it might be an issue with the jumper for cable select, master and slave. Try messing around with that.

 

[RalphTheCow]

This is on an Asus P5GD1 MB, and the disc is plugged into the RAID connection. Once this latest drive exerciser finishes, I will go look in the RAID configuration in the BIOS just to make sure it's still set to JBOD. I think it's configured that way because there is only one regular IDE connector, and the DVD burner is in that.

The jumper is set to the Western Digital-recommended Cable Select, and it is the only drive on that cable. The drive is a WB1600JB, made in 2004.

 

[Zepper]

Maybe you need to go into your BIOS and set that controller to non-raid operation if you don't plan to set up an array.

.bh.

 

[RalphTheCow]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Maybe you need to go into your BIOS and set that controller to non-raid operation if you don't plan to set up an array.

.bh.

I checked it and it is set to IDE. I can't remember if that's how I had it originally, but I guess it was. But this BIOS doesn't seem to display it anywhere except in the Boot Order section. There is a section for the ITE 8212F controller but it never shows the drive info.

 

[Jiggz]

Set the hdd to be a master. Check cable or try another hdd cable to make sure the cable is not at fault. And then try again.