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fried hard drive?

polypterus

polypterus

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So this morning I was greeted by an odd error message from Nvidia saying that the graphics card (6600gt agp) was not receiving sufficient power. I tried to restart XP, it locked, so I turned off the power switch. When it rebooted one of my hard drives now says "the disk in drive d: in not formatted" and I can't access anything on it. I tried it in another computer and it said "invalid disk." It's still in device manager, but I can't do anything with it. Is it gone? Anything I can try?

Also, should I be worried about that power warning? Is my p/s dying? Graphics card dying? Is my whole system dying? This sucks. 🙁

Edit: Sorry if this belongs in tech support forum, I'm stressed at the moment.😕
 
So, it doesnt show on my computer, but it does show on device manager, am i right? Look under administrative tools---> disk management and see what it says. My hdd failed not a long time ago and i got similar errors.
 
Originally posted by: Tlkki
So, it doesnt show on my computer, but it does show on device manager, am i right? Look under administrative tools---> disk management and see what it says. My hdd failed not a long time ago and i got similar errors.
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It's there but it says 100% free space. :Q It says healthy (active).

And it does show on my computer, it just says it's not formatted.
 
oops.. can you tell what is the file system atm? Mine said RAW, and couldnt access the drive and it was 0Bytes in size. That meant that it was dead at least.
 
Originally posted by: Tlkki
oops.. can you tell what is the file system atm?
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No, file system is blank. 🙁 It's shows the correct size and everything, looks like a new unused disk or something.
 
Originally posted by: Tlkki
can you just ditch the data and reformat it?. that could do it.
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It looks like the data is already ditched. 🙁 I'd like to try to recover it before I reformat (I don't really care about the drive I can just buy another one). Is there anything I can do to try to recover the data? I know there are a bunch of utilities out there but I've never used them. Thanks.
 
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