Please Please I need help with a hard drive. Updated!! Please Look any feedback would be appreciated!!

[Joe2683]

I have an extra 14 gig hard drive in which i store all my music and videos, on which most are irreplacable, that has totally stopped working. It happened about an hour ago, it doesn't appear on MY Computer, but windows still detects it. The weird part about that is that the name that it gives it is followed by a whole bunch of exclamation points. I am really worried, because i have so much stuff on there and i couldn't stand losing it all. Is there any way i can at least save the information to another drive or something, please help!!

Specs:
Windows XP
AMD 1.33 Athlon Thunderbird
512 DDR Muskin
30 gig Seagate Hard Drive (NDIS)
14 gig Western Digital Hard Drive (not working) (NDIS)
MSI 6380 KT266 motherboard
GeForce 2 Ultra 64mb
DVD Rom
CD-R
D-Link Ethernet Card
Lucent Modem
ATI TV wonder

Things I have tried:

1) Uninstall the hard drive, and let it reinstall
2) Set the bios settings to default. making me run super slow.
3) Unplugged and replugged the IDE Cable
4) Got new drivers
5) uninstalled both hard drives and let them reinstall


Updated:

I got the hard drive to appear on my computer and the name of the device is normal again, after much stripping of parts from my system, but the problem seems to be worst than ever. When I click the drive it says it is corrupted and unreadable. When i right click it it does show any memory available and it says the file system is raw.
I also just remembered that there was an error when I was shutting down that said something about a missing or corrupted drive volume.something file in the drive that is currently giving me the grief. I also just right now checked the computer management in the administrative tools to see the disk management settings, and saw that the messed up hard drive was there but it said that none of its 14.32 gigs were in use and that it had no file system. All of these things lead me to a solution that I don't want to consider at this time which is partitioning the drive. If I do this I don't know of any way of gettin the files back.

I know that I probably can't get the hard drive back to its original state, but I at least want to transfer the files from it. Please Please tell me there is a way.


Thanks,
Joe

 

[ojai00]

I don't think you want to hear this, but I think your drive has died out on you. Have you tried taking that drive to another system and seeing if you can get the drive to work? Did you hear anything to make you aware that something was wrong with your drive (clicking, screeching, etc.)?

 

[Joe2683]

No I totally didn't hear anything at all, but I don't think that the drive is dead. I think that the file system or partition got deleted or corrupted somehow. I know if I create a new partition and format it the drive will work, but that really is not an option I want to consider until I know that there is no hope of saving the information. Thanks for the feedback though!! Hopefully somebody knows of some miracle way of saving my music and stuff to another hard drive.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[AndyHui]

Looks like your partition information is damaged.

Look for a program called Easy Recovery Pro. In most situations like this, ERP is able to get everything back.

 

[Wolfsraider]

if all else fails wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer fo 30 or so minutes and it may take a few freezings to get any/all info off
this old trick works most of the time to retrieve all data

hope it helps

 

[GeSuN]

if all else fails wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer fo 30 or so minutes and it may take a few freezings to get any/all info off

Is this is really working??? If so, why does it works... I mean why physically freezing the drive would help???

 

[Wolfsraider]

don't know why but it is an old trick used by many😉

 

[ttn1]

My guess on the freezer thing is this. If the bearings are seizing on the spindle, freezing would shrink everything up so it would run a little easier. This may allow the drive to spin up for a little bit allowing you to get data off.

If the read head fails, I doubt this will work.

 

[dexmanone]

Hey, let us know if this works. Ya never know when you might have a siezed hd. Rule # 1, back up.