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Hard Drive becomes useless

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Irontoes

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I did a motherboard swap last night to test a new mobo I picked up, after verifying the new board worked I put my old setup back togethor. Now my hard drive is useless, I cannot fdisk, format or install anything. Windows XP setup tells me that its a partition that cannot be used by WinXP. I try to delete it but the "d" button does nothing. I can press "c" to creat and it lets me pick a size etc, but when I hit enter it still says unpartitioned space and says it cannot use it.

I tried to fdisk with a DOS boot disk and it does the same thing, it seems to be working but after it gets to 100% its nothing again at the main menu of FDISK.

When I did the swap I replaced the power supply from a 250W to a 300W and I went from a nForce2 board to a P4 865 board. Both power supplies do not have the little 4 pin connector but I had a adapter that (like a Y-cable) adds the 4 pin. I knew this was a sort of dumb idea but I figured what the hell, someone made this thing might as well try it.

The drive worked before all this swapping and I did not drop it or anything. I even tried a 10GB drive I had laying around that had WinXP installed and the same thing happened to it. This was AFTER I swapped everything, the 10GB was not used during the 865 swap, which to me ruled out the possibilty of the Y-connector screwing up the drive somehow with some power surge or whatever.

Thanks for any help, Sorry if this story is a little confusing.
 
I did not try that, but Ill give it a shot.

Its still a mystery to me how a working drive with the same componants suddenly died on me, and the same thing happened to another drive. This is all with a normal AMD approved power supply now. I tried different cables too.

Downloading the WD tools now, thanks guys.
 
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