HELP! Hard Drive Crash?

[Crusty]

Im building a new system. I put in a hard drive from my existing system, and when I access it, all it shows are extensionless files with names containing boxes and other weird characters. Each file is around 638-640 kb, and although the drive is detected correctly in the bios, the size reported in windows is wrong. Any ideas about what happened?

 

[RJS1000]

Part of an IDE RAID array?

 

[Crusty]

No no, it was a standalone drive used for storage only. Its a 45 gb maxtor 7200

 

[RJS1000]

What happens if you move it to the old rig? - works?

Make sure its the only drive on the new system and see if it looks the same

 

[Crusty]

I put it in another system - same results. At one point during the transfer, my assistant knocked it over. It only fell about a foot vertically, but landed on tile. Could this be responsible, or might this be a problem with settings?

 

[RJS1000]

If it was off when it was dropped should be fine.

If it was on & working when dropped - you've got a problem

Hope it was nothing to important....

 

[Crusty]

It was off. He had set it on top of the case, then tilted the case. So it slid off and hit the floor. I didnt think it was too severe. Im still in shock that I may have lost the data.... it was all my music (12gb), music videos (5gb), and nearly every episode of macgyver (15 gb).

 

[Bleep]

Have you installed it as master or slave, if it was a slave with no operating system I dont know what to do but in any case the partition will have to be set to active if you are going to boot from it. Fire your assistant.
Bleep

 

[zephyrprime]

I remember I had a similiar problem. I found out that my new motherboard had some sort of bug in it's implementation of PIO4 that caused it to do those weird "characters are wrong" errors. Had to run the drive in PIO3. This was some years back, before UDMA. Don't know if you've got the same prob but you might want to manually set the UDMA or PIO settings to something more conservative than the default.