MAXTOR detected from BIOS but not from Windows XP 1

[axilleas]

Hello

I have a MAXTOR 80GB HD from which I am trying to recover some data.When I boot PC HD is detected from BIOS.But when I logon Windows XP SP2 I cannot see it.Not in My computer not in Disk Management- Computer Administration.

Any ideas for what I could do or any tool that can fix this will be appreciated.

Regards

Achilleas

 

[goombawaho]

I'm assuming you have it hooked up as a slave drive or else you wouldn't be booting into Windows????

Have you checked jumpers if it's a PATA drive??

I would download and burn the Ultimate Boot CD and run the HDD manufacturer's utility off that and see if it detects errors on the drive.

If that fails or is inconclusive, try to get some data off by installing the trial version of GetDataBack for NTFS and run it against that hard drive. If it can see your data, buy it and recover the data ASAP.

If it can't see data, you're looking at professional recovery (think $500 and up).

 

[axilleas]

The HD is an IDE one.I have download full version of getdataback but how I could use it for retreive data?I dont see any option in the menu for that.

Axilleas

 

[edfair]

Do you have fdisk available? Use it, see if the drive is acknowledged there, move to it and see what partitions are set up.

The BIOS will see a hard drive but you won't be able to see data if there is not a valid partition table for it to look to.

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

 

[vacunita]

not in Disk Management

This tells me the drive is likely turning off, from when BIOS detects it to when windows loads.

If BIOS can see it, it also means its correctly jumpered.

GetDataBack needs to have the drive available to do something with it.

If its not showing up in Disk management chances are GDB isn't going to find it either.

I would second goombawaho's suggestion and get the Ultimate Boot CD to run the diagnostic utilities.

I would check if it appears in device Manager. It may have a yellow excalamytion point or something that would indicate why its not showing up in disk Management.



also you say you are trying to recover data from it. what happened to the machine it was in? Is it possible it was damaged?








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Phil AKA Vacunita
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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.

 

[axilleas]

Hello again
HD appears on Device manager list without any yellow sing.

Well a friend made the mistake and set HD as a master on a different PC.You can guess the rest....

Thank you for yoour help.

 

[vacunita]

Well a friend made the mistake and set HD as a master on a different PC.You can guess the rest....

not really. just setting it to Master wouldn't necessarily harm the drive.

Even if he tried to boot from it, all that would happen would be that it can't.

Setting it back to slave should have resolved that.

Since it is showing up in Device manager, with no yellow exclamation marks, I'm be surprised its not in Disk Management.

Even without a drive letter, but something should show up there.








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Phil AKA Vacunita
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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.