Missing hard drive?! Help!

Abyssal · 10-12-2006, 08:56 PM

For some reason my slave hard drive isn’t being detected by my computer properly. It was working fine this morning. Later in the day I clicked a shortcut to a folder on the slave and it gave me an error saying that the network destination or drive I was trying to access wasn’t there. I then went to my PC and was startled to see only one hard drive icon.

Hoping it would get detected in the boot up, I restarted my PC. When it finally started booting up it a message saying something about there being no 80 conductor cable installed. I restarted a few times and got the same message repeatedly. However, the computer eventually successfully started.

Yet the hard drive wasn’t there. I restarted repeatedly, sometimes the computer loaded successfully, sometimes it didn’t. But eventually on one of the successful attempts the hard drive was detected. It showed up in Disk Manager as being active, healthy and still under its proper letter designation. Yet, when I would try to access it, it would give me a new error. It said that the operation could not be performed because of an inpage error.

Anybody know what’s wrong? I really need to get at the information on that hard drive. I have years worth of work on there! I’m very desperate! Please help!

~~OMGmissinglink~~ · 10-12-2006, 10:21 PM

check the ide ribbon is connected on both drives.

Abyssal · 10-13-2006, 05:46 AM

I did. As far as I can tell, all the cables are hooked up.

And strangely enough, I'm a lot less likely to get that error at start up if my DVD rom drive is open.

**Fr4665** · 10-13-2006, 05:58 AM

how are your drives connected in what eorder ... how many ide cables with how many drives on it etc ?

Abyssal · 10-13-2006, 06:07 AM

I dunno, I'll have to check when I get home from school

**Fr4665** · 10-13-2006, 06:20 AM

also see if the drive is being detected in the bios

**hwm54112** · 10-13-2006, 07:28 PM

if the drive is detected in bios,

If possible-run chkdsk /r

any chance of a virus?

is there a pagefile on the slave drive?

Wouldn't hurt to run drive diagnostics on the drive

10-12-2006, 08:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
Abyssal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6 OS: Windows XP	Missing hard drive?! Help! For some reason my slave hard drive isn’t being detected by my computer properly. It was working fine this morning. Later in the day I clicked a shortcut to a folder on the slave and it gave me an error saying that the network destination or drive I was trying to access wasn’t there. I then went to my PC and was startled to see only one hard drive icon. Hoping it would get detected in the boot up, I restarted my PC. When it finally started booting up it a message saying something about there being no 80 conductor cable installed. I restarted a few times and got the same message repeatedly. However, the computer eventually successfully started. Yet the hard drive wasn’t there. I restarted repeatedly, sometimes the computer loaded successfully, sometimes it didn’t. But eventually on one of the successful attempts the hard drive was detected. It showed up in Disk Manager as being active, healthy and still under its proper letter designation. Yet, when I would try to access it, it would give me a new error. It said that the operation could not be performed because of an inpage error. Anybody know what’s wrong? I really need to get at the information on that hard drive. I have years worth of work on there! I’m very desperate! Please help!

10-13-2006, 05:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
Fr4665 aka mr.fraggs Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA or Germany Posts: 2,965 OS: Win XP,Vista,Android My System	how are your drives connected in what eorder ... how many ide cables with how many drives on it etc ? __________________ I don't subscribe to threads please PM me if i miss a reply. ------- Everest SensorView Pro DriverCleaner how to fix your game

10-13-2006, 06:20 AM	#6 (permalink)
Fr4665 aka mr.fraggs Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA or Germany Posts: 2,965 OS: Win XP,Vista,Android My System	also see if the drive is being detected in the bios __________________ I don't subscribe to threads please PM me if i miss a reply. ------- Everest SensorView Pro DriverCleaner how to fix your game

10-12-2006, 10:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~OMGmissinglink~~ Troubled Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,535 OS: XP Pro sp2 My System	check the ide ribbon is connected on both drives.

10-13-2006, 05:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
Abyssal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6 OS: Windows XP	I did. As far as I can tell, all the cables are hooked up. And strangely enough, I'm a lot less likely to get that error at start up if my DVD rom drive is open.

10-13-2006, 06:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
Abyssal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6 OS: Windows XP	I dunno, I'll have to check when I get home from school

10-13-2006, 07:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
hwm54112 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,233 OS: WINXP	if the drive is detected in bios, If possible-run chkdsk /r any chance of a virus? is there a pagefile on the slave drive? Wouldn't hurt to run drive diagnostics on the drive