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HDD help ASAP

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QuIcKsIlV3r

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okay, i need help now!!!!
I have a WD 40gb ATA 100 72000 rpm drive and i dont know what happend but last night when I went to take out my maxtor 13gb drive, attached to the same IDE cable, something happend to my WD drive. Everytime i boot up the computer, my BIOS doesnt detect my drive and the HDD keeps make a wierd sound like the needle isnt in the right place. I have tried to give the drive a little knock to see if i can reset the needle. But to no avail.
I know i can send the drive back to WD and RMA it but the problem is, i have ALL my info on the drive and I need most of it back. School programs, emails that were extremly important and movies as well as my ICQ and MP3's. Is there anything i can do to get the info back????


Asus A7V with bios 1005 fixed a7v133
WD 40gb 72000 rpm ata
maxtor 13gb ata66
Geforce 2 GTS
Soundblaster Live value
 
agjust the jumper settings. when you have them on same cable u should set one t master and other to slave. the position of the jumper for these settings will be on a sticker on the HD istelf or in the manual.
 
Thanks for the reply, but it's the HDD it's self. I know the needles are screwd up. Something is really wrong, i know about changing the master and slave drives.
 
oh sorry i was skimming through! =) i dont think theres anythign you can unless u have some conenctions with the fbi 😉 have you asked your hd manufacturer if they can provide any data recovery? im sure they wont care about all the porn and mp3s and illegal software u might have *wink wink*
 
oh you might try norton ghost or something similar- i have heard that they can restore some data on otherwise malfunctioned drives- usually if they have more then one partition but what the hell- worth a try?
 
WD HD's have different jumpers for master with a slave and master/single. If you don't have the other drive connected any more have you changed the jumper to master/single?
 
If there's actual physical damage on the drive, I don't think there's much you can do.

-RSI
 
I agree with Pederv.....You can't just remove a 2nd Drive and leave the jumpers alone
on a WD drive. There is a setting for Master with Slave drive, and there's another
jumper setting for Single Drive without Slave.............Greg
 
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