drive tests OK, cannot open it

[malagash]

I did a Fujitsu drive test on a Fujitsu HDD and all was OK however when I install it into the tower I cannot open it. Windows Explorer sees it, I can see it in the BIOS but cannot access it.
Clicking on it renders Windows Explorer as not responding and I have to end task.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

 

[malagash]

Should mention that it is the slave and the jumpers are set correctly according to Fujitsu

 

[edfair]

What operating system are you using and what operating system formatted it?

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[malagash]

XP Home
don't know about the os when it was formatted. likely W98
the user says it used to open but i assumed that it was recently. i will have to ask and get back

 

[G0AOZ]

If you look in XP's Disk Management, does it show up in the righthand pane? If yes, this will tell you how it's formatted, i.e. NTFS, FAT32, etc.

It could be that the partition is hidden or corrupted, in which case you might need something like GetDataBack to reclaim and wanted files on it...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[malagash]

disk management says no file system and 100% free... i think i need to probe the user little more re: "I ued to be able to open it"

Thanks, i'll report back

 

[vacunita]

If you don't need the files in it, you can just use Disk Management to format it. It looks like the Parttion, and/or File table is corrupted, and Windows just cant read from it.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Roham]

Along with vacunita's post, if you don't necessarily need the files but just need the drive then you can format it as he suggested. If you need crucial data, then go with a data recovery program as mentioned elsewhere in the forum. I have used GetDataBack many times with good results except for USB drives.

If you don't want an extra cost associated with this, but still want to recover the data, you can try one more thing. I wrote a recent post regarding a freeware utility that I found that will discover existing partitions that may be corrupt and then will rewrite the needed information back to the drive. Reference thread751-1382280 This has a chance to make things worse if it writes an incorrect partition table, but so far I've had great success with some external USB drives that were seen in Device Manager & Disk Management, but were not partitioned according to Windows.

Good luck,
Mike

 

[malagash]

cheers guys, i will go to it in the morning and report back