Sees drive in BIOS not in windows

[gearhead03]

Wife's CPU locked up last night.
A restart would not get past the boot from cd..........
ChkDsk ran about 25% and gave a "corruption error"
Installed in different machine with WinME on it as a slave.
The BIOS picks up the drive but it's not found in Windows.
Booted into DOS and the drive still can't be seen.
Any Suggestions?
I am wondering if it's a MBR issue.
I would like to get the drive running again but mostly I need to get the data off of it if possible. It has been ages since we backed this one up.

Mark A. Kale

 

[Freestone]

If the drive was formatted as NTFS neither WindowsME or DOS will recognize the NTFS partition(s).

A quick check would be to create a boot diskette capable of reading NTFS:

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

 

[gearhead03]

thanks I will try that and update here!

Mark A. Kale

 

[gearhead03]

Okay here are the latest developments.
Installed as a slave on Windows XP PC.
Windows sees the drive but when clicked on in Windows Explorer it claims that the drive isn't formatted.

Making a boot disk with the program from above gives a
"Scanning Folder Please Wait" message that has been on there for 15 - 20 minutes.

Mark A. Kale

 

[Freestone]

I am sorry to hear you are experiencing so many difficulties. I've never seen the message you listed from NTFS Reader, but then again I only used it on undamaged drives.

When Windows claims a drive isn't formatted it is almost always time to start thinking of a data recovery application. I, and other forum members, have had good success with GetDataBack

http://www.runtime.org

Be aware there are two versions, one for FAT and the other for NTFS.

 

[gearhead03]

I am running R-studio now.
Getting lots of unexpected MFT record.........errors
and read disk failed....

Mark A. Kale