160gb hdd inaccessible after switching mobos...

[proteusx]

seems ive been asking for help here a lot lately.

anyway, i just switched motherboards (from a SOYO brand), where i was using a 120gb seagate as my primary master (running win2k), and a 160gb seagate as my primary slave.

on the new mobo (an ASUS), i'm using a 70gb ibm as primary master (running new install of win2k), the 120gb seagate as primary slave, and the 160gb seagate as secondary slave (secondary master is a dvd-rw).

now, all drives are jumpered to cable select, and i can use and access all of them perfectly fine...except the 160gb seagate. it appears without any problems in device manager, and even shows up in My Computer, but when i try to open it, it errors with "D:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

now, i was JUST using this hdd on the old mobo, it was formatted into a single ntfs partition i was using to store all my personal data. and in disk management, it shows a 149.5gb partition described as "healthy", but it doesnt seem to recognize it as ntfs...

any help would be IMMENSELY appreciated, i have 100+ gigs of files on that disk, and I can't understand why its inaccessible all of a sudden.

 

[wolluf]

Is the new install of 2k serviced packed up to SP4 (or at least SP3 - because that's when 48 bit LBA support (for drives > 128GB) appeared in 2k.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

 

[proteusx]

yes, SP4 is installed, along with all relevant security updates.

i also ran seagate's seatools online diagnostic program, and the drive itself tested out perfectly fine, but on a filesystem test, it gave me the error that it couldnt find a filesystem...

i figure if i can just recover the data onto another hdd, then i can reformat it. any recommendations on good data recovery software?

 

[Freestone]

A lot of success has been reported with GetDataBack

http://www.runtime.org/