Harddrive changed models?

[memo]

Hello all,

I had this problem happen to me recently. I had a hard drive out of the case for a while but then I wanted to put it back in to get some data off it. It was originally a WD800JB and now its being recognized in the bios as a WD2400LB. When it boots all the way into windows using my other drive (a Maxtor 30GB) as a master with the WD800JB as a slave it Windows "detects" the drive and goes ahead and installs it, but I can't see it in My Computer. It resides in my device manager as a WD2400LB. I've have done some googling of WD2400LB and it seems it may be a firmware issue(?) but most of the links are in foreign languages. Not really sure what to do here to try to get my data off this drive. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[memo]

anyone got an idea?

 

[OdiN]

Could be corrupted....

Try putting it on the chain with the CD drives or just unplug the CD drives temporarily and use that and set it as master.

Maxtor drives I have seen cause problems with other brands when they are hooked on the same chain. Make sure your jumpers are set correctly.

 

[memo]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Could be corrupted....

Try putting it on the chain with the CD drives or just unplug the CD drives temporarily and use that and set it as master.

Maxtor drives I have seen cause problems with other brands when they are hooked on the same chain. Make sure your jumpers are set correctly.

Gave this a try. Put the hard drive on the secondary master and it still recognized as the WD2400LB. I am thinking something in the firmware may be messed up? Anyone have any opinions on that?

Also, I may try the "putting the drive in the freezer" trick, because when it boots up it does seem like its trying to access the drive but its scan, scan, scan, then nothing, so maybe its a read isssue. How long should I put it in there for? Couple hours, overnight? When I take it out I put it immediately into the PC right? Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[memo]

afternoon bumpage