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tech_no · 08-29-2007, 01:57 PM

My computer has been making a loud electical switching sound for about a week, but otherwise working o.k. Today I went to move files from my documents to my new slave hard drive and realised it is gone from my computer. It was partitioned so it was drives D, E, F and G.
I looked in device manager and the drive is not there, same with bios, only C Drive there now. I tried system restore and tried to restore to yesterday, but message came up: G/F/E/D after this point cannot be reversed because the drive was either excluded from system restore monitoring or turned off or removed. I know the restore was monitoring this drive before this. Shall I diconnect and reconnect drive or is it obviously stopped working. The switching noise has stopped now. I would welcome any advice, the hard drive is still under guarantee and is a Western Digital model. Just looked in event viewer under system and on 22/8/07 an information event was saying, all day, WPDC ClassInstaller and after that a disk error was on and off every day until the 28/8/07. It is looking like hard disc was a faulty one and has stopped working. Any advice, could it be anything else?
thank you, regards tech_no

08-29-2007, 01:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
tech_no Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Plymouth in Devon Posts: 173 OS: Windows XP Home with SP3 My System	[SOLVED] hard drive disappeared My computer has been making a loud electical switching sound for about a week, but otherwise working o.k. Today I went to move files from my documents to my new slave hard drive and realised it is gone from my computer. It was partitioned so it was drives D, E, F and G. I looked in device manager and the drive is not there, same with bios, only C Drive there now. I tried system restore and tried to restore to yesterday, but message came up: G/F/E/D after this point cannot be reversed because the drive was either excluded from system restore monitoring or turned off or removed. I know the restore was monitoring this drive before this. Shall I diconnect and reconnect drive or is it obviously stopped working. The switching noise has stopped now. I would welcome any advice, the hard drive is still under guarantee and is a Western Digital model. Just looked in event viewer under system and on 22/8/07 an information event was saying, all day, WPDC ClassInstaller and after that a disk error was on and off every day until the 28/8/07. It is looking like hard disc was a faulty one and has stopped working. Any advice, could it be anything else? thank you, regards tech_no Last edited by tech_no; 08-29-2007 at 02:14 PM.