HD suddenly showing up as unpartitioned???

[cw42]

I was removing one hard drive out of my case today, then moved another hd to a diff slot. Suddenly the hd that i moved, a Seagate 300GB, is suddenly showing up as an unpartitioned drive! It was working fine before, and I prob had about 250GB of data on it! I have most of the important stuff backedup, but really... wtf... why suddenly do this, and is there anyway to recover it?

 

[w00t]

that doesnt make any sense how can it just all erase? There has to be sumthing your not telling us.

edit: did you add a new hd or what else did you do?

 

[cw42]

I had three HDs: Maxtor 160, Seagate 200, Seagate 300.

- WinXP was on the Maxtor, I formatted it, then took it out of my PC
- Then I formatted the Seagate200, and installed WinXP on it
- Seagate300 was my data store, so i never touched that.

 

[Geforcer]

I had exact thing happen to me a couple weeks ago. It was a Seagate 400, and I rebooted one day to find the drive non-partitioned. I had to use a recovery program to recover all my data that was on it, and RMA'd the drive. Turned out to have bad sectors, and filled my eventviewer with errors. It's possible you might be in the same situation as I was Good luck recovering your stuff.

 

[cw42]

What prog did u use to recover?

 

[Geforcer]

I brought the drive to someone I know who works at a place that has Easy Recovery Pro. He was able to get the data off using an advanced recovery I think.

 

[xgsound]

birdpup has 5 links to data recovery programs in this thread. I don't know if any are free, but it's a start. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=32&threadid=1659923&enterthread=y


Jim