HDD help ASAP

[QuIcKsIlV3r]

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

 

[lozina]

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.

 

[QuIcKsIlV3r]

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.

 

[lozina]

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*

 

[lozina]

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?

 

[Pederv]

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?

 

[RSI]

If there's actual physical damage on the drive, I don't think there's much you can do.

-RSI

 

[GregMal]

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