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stonedbob

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ok this is the deal, i had 1hdd 40gb with xp installed and a 2nd 250gb with just stuff on it...
so now im moving the 40gb to an old pc... easy right?
well when I remove the 40gb and start xp setup it detects my 250gb hdd as unpartioned space 😱 so i went nuts thinking somehow my 200gb data was gone 😛
so i did the 40gb back and the 250gb was still gone.. then I found out something screwed up the pation table on the 250gb and I recovered it using this wonderfull program:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
so i could read my hdd again 🙂
BUT I started xp setup, and guess what it still said unpartioned space 🙁

so can anyone tell me whats going on ?!
 
The HD might be going bad...

What brand is it? My friend had a Seagate lose its file structure randomly so that windows said it was unpartitioned.... the problem was that he had years of photos and videos of his kids on there.

He bought a program, recovered the files, and RMA'd the drive.

I would backup your data and reformat it, even if you decide not to use it as your main.


Welcome to Anandtech forums BTW! :thumbsup:
 
its a samsung hdd, but I dont think its going bad, I remeber having this problem with another pc too when I switched a hdd channels 🙁
i havent had any corupt data or what so ever

thx for the welcome 😀
 
I had a similar problem once. About a month ago, I purchased a pair of WD RE 320GB drives to setup in RAID1. Well, I usually test each drive individually before trusting them with my data. I found whenever I'd disconnect one of them and plugged it back in, the data was gone! The file structure, data, everything! Then about a day later after I had filled out the RMA form for NewEgg, SMART diagnostics were reporting an unhealthy drive. Then I knew it was definitely bad.

To make a long story short, get whatever data you can off the disk (I use OnTrack Professional) and send it in for replacement.
 
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