I need HDD HELP!!

[Amber]

:disgust:

HI
Thank you for reading this
what happened was I needed to make a partition bigger so I used partition magic 7 pro
well something went wrong and now I can't see the drive in windows I can't load windows on this drive

this was a slave drive with all my photos and what nots
anyone know how to get the data back

thanks

:disgust:

 

[oldman420]

right click my computer choose manage then try the disk managment console.
but i bet all the files are gone.
sorry this happened

 

[Amber]

oldman420
the drive is not see in the disk managment console.

 

[Smilin]

*sigh*

People, don't use partition havoc.

Amber, go here: Microsoft product support reporting tools

Download and run the report that says SetupPerf.exe. Email the resulting .CAB file to me. I sent you a PM with my email address. I'll take a look for you, but no promises ok?

 

[Amber]

Smilin
I will try and email you the info
what do you use if not "partition havoc"
I use partition havoc all the time and this is the first havoc, but 1 is too much

 

[Smilin]

For simply expanding a volume, use Diskpart from Microsoft. It will expand a volume without changing the partition type, fooling with the MBR/partition table or bootsector. Partition havoc and others use some clever tricks to work but don't take all posible situations into account.

 

[Smilin]

Well, it's not a problem with partition havoc. It's using extended partitions instead of primary. This is a bit odd given the number of partitions on the disk, but definately valid.

You're getting CRC errors trying to read from the drive. This includes CRC errors when trying to read the physical disk info (heads, cylinders etc). You're also getting bad blocks being reported by the driver (see your event logs). The disk is definately bad. The platters and that data on them are possibly good, but it appears the electronics on the drive are failing.

Couple things to try:
Move the disk to another channel on your controller
Change it from master to slave (hard-set, don't use cable select).
Try a different cable.
Mount the drive as a secondary in a different computer.

These are all kind of long shots but the alternative would be call Ontrack and let them mount the platters in a different drive (unbelievably expensive). There are some data recovery utilities out there you could try as well. If the software is patient and does enough retries it might be able to get the data off of there.

Sorry Amber.

 

[Amber]

Smilin
ok so the drive just went bad or was bad and it just died

what about the Ice Box Trick

and thank you for helping

 

[acid45]

ive had problems with partion magic before.


didnt like it at all.