I have an 80GB EIDE WD800 Western Digital Caviar drive with about 40GB of files on it that I need for work. When we try and install it into a PC (we have tried multiple machines with the same result) it shows in the BIOS as a HDD but in Windows it's displayed as a removable device. When we try to view the contents of the drive we get the "Please insert disk" error. Anyone know a solution? Thanks all!!
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Hard Drive Problem
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It sounds like a corrupted partition table or file table. did anything happen to the disk prior to this issue?
Have you tried using File recovery tools on the drive?
has a pretty good one by the name of GetDataBack. Just make sure you get the correct one for your Filesystem. (FAT or NTFS)
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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.
Have you tried using File recovery tools on the drive?
has a pretty good one by the name of GetDataBack. Just make sure you get the correct one for your Filesystem. (FAT or NTFS)
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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.
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