Hi I have a maxtor ATA60gb drive that went bad and installed a ATA60 gb western digital but have not been able to transfer file to new drive. I have win 2000 professional 1.2ghz pc socketA,amd133. The drive shows on the device manager but not in my computer. I tried disk management but I get an error when trying to fix slave drive(maxtor). Is there another way? I'll appreciate your help.
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How to copy files from corrupted drive?
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You say the Maxtor drive went bad - how bad? Did it stop working altogether or was it just showing signs (eg, bad sector, etc). Because, its obviously got to be working well enough to spin up and be recognised in the bios for you to be able to read from it.
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I first began to get blue screen error until the win 2000 failed to log on so I did a chkdisk and it was not able to finish it because the disk reported errors. I tried to do a low format on it and it didn't do it either. So I got a new disk and it is in this spot where I got stuck I do not know where to go from here. The new disk works fine. If the old drive has not been assigned a drive letter how can I do the transfer of files? Also windows and cmos shows only 33gb capacity and not 60gb as the drive is.
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I tried to do a low format on it and it didn't do it either
A low level format basically over-writes everything on the drive with zeros. It is destructive to data. If the LLF was substantially completed there will be nothing to recover on the drive.
I tried to do a low format on it and it didn't do it either
A low level format basically over-writes everything on the drive with zeros. It is destructive to data. If the LLF was substantially completed there will be nothing to recover on the drive.
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Is the drive accessible/visible to the bios and another machine's operating system (as slave)? If its 'working' that much, you could try a data recovery app. Free one here (but it may have problems if ntfs and partition table is corrupt). There are others which cost - I thing do a good one for ntfs.
If the drive is 'dead' you would need to go to a data recovery agency (who will remove the platter and mount it elsewhere to access the data). This would be expensive.
If the drive is 'dead' you would need to go to a data recovery agency (who will remove the platter and mount it elsewhere to access the data). This would be expensive.
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