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Possible bad HD, Help.. anyone?

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I have an older WD20G that I was trying to get some info from and possible use. The bios will recognize it in 2 seperate computers, but windows won't. I was going to use a WD data life guard disk and boot it up as the primary. But when I booted datalifeguard, it was looking for some kernal.

Does data life guards need to be online??

why is it asking for something right after I download it?

Has data lifeguard changed??

Does anyone know of a better option??

If I have to toss it, I will, but if its possible to get some files off first; I would like to.
 
>why is it asking for something right after I download it?
I don't understand this comment.

Can you tell us how the drive's are configured in your system?


IDE 0
[State Drive C:]
[State Drive jumpers ie Master,Cable Select, Slave]
[state ide cable position ie furthest from mobo/closest to mobo]
[State colour of IDE connectors ie black, blue, brown, pink]

Do the same for IDE1,2 &amp; 3 (Pleas don't say it's RAIDed <g>)

TIA
 
I set the jumpers depending what I tried. I tried it on two comp. Both as primary single drive removing the working primary completely and secondary in both comp. I set it to dual secondary or cable select when I slaved it and single primary or cable select when I put it in place of the working primaries. The IDE conectors on both computers are black.

It has been sitting awhile. I imagine it needs more serious help than just settings. I was looking more towards data recovery.

I did configure the privary when I slaved it to both dual primary and cable select
Oh, and no raid

Oh, and the bios on both did find the drive automatically. The one that has mellinium did not recognize it ( it didn't show up at all under my comp). The comp with xp pro wouldn't even boot with it in secondary (It seems to get hung on the screen with the blue bar pulsing under the windows logo.
 
Did you try a good old DOS/Windows9x bootdisk and see if you can get access to the disk this way?
Otherwise I would not waste time on that disk anymore - I think it's plain dead.
 
Your probably right. I just wanted to run a disk diagnostic to be sure.

I will try a boot disk. Thats kinda what I was trying with the lifeguard but I wiill try a 98 boot disk..

Thnx
 
Originally posted by: HippyWarlock
>why is it asking for something right after I download it?
I don't understand this comment.
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HippyWarlock

I meant that after downloading WD datalife guard and creating a boot floppy. When I tried to boot off it, It says its missing a kernal. Just didn't understand why it would be missing a required file after just creating it.
 
Originally posted by: bluewall21
I know it sounds stupid, but is it formatted?
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It was. It sat for over 6 months unused but I wouldn't think that would be a problem I have had windows recognize unformatted drives as long as it wasn't your primary with the boot partition
 
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