Harddrive Completely gone

[Seizure]

Ok. So for a few days before I've noticed that wheN i turn my PC on it sometimes doesn't detect my harddrive. After a restart or two it detects it and boots up normally. THen today I walk home. TUrn on my PC and I get a "System disk error, please insert boot disk". I ran maxtor's powermax software and technically the harddrive is fine. But it's unpartitioned and unformatted. I'm extremely mad right now. Any one can explain to me why My entire 60 gig harddrive decided to just lose it's partition info without my permission?

Maxtor 60 gig 7200 Diamondmax Plus
2 Surge protectors and blackout buster UPS. So i doubt it's power surges.

 

[morkinva]

I don't know the reason but suggest using the data cable that came with the drive. Or check for bent pins on the mobo and drive. Also suggest squeezing the pins on the power cable together with a needlenose pliers (with power removed from computer) or using a different power connector. I hope your info is still there.

 

[Seizure]

nothing's loose. I also installed it as a slave on another computer. It will detect it in the bios but when windows boots up the DRIVE doesn't show because basically windows considers my 60 gig, Unpartitioned and Unformatted.

 

[morkinva]

Chit I dunno man. Virus, bad drive, sabotage ? Is it a dual boot system? Maybe this findpart utility can do something for ya. It can run from a floppy with command line: findpart all fp.txt

Bump for someone smarter than I.

 

[Seizure]

stupid Maxtor.

 

[Durron]

Ive seen this happen about 3 times now actually. Partitions just disappearing. I'm still using the drive of mine that it happened to, so its not a bad drive (it happened like 2 years ago). I've seen it at work a couple other times. No idea what causes it, so I'm not gonna try to guess. However you can get software that is pretty good at getting your data off of it if you need to. I've got a program called GetDataBack (lame name i know) that worked well for a drive that's partition disappeared. Can find it at www.download.com I think. You have to register it to actually save your data though, the demo will just let you see that its all there =).