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Hello,
Couple days ago, my old laptop died. I have plugged HDD ( TOSHIBA MK4018GBP) via IDE – USB cable. Thing is that HDD is detected by winxp (sp2) as a storage device (even exact name is given) but the disk is not recognize as a disk itself, thus i don't have an access to it. I cannot assign partition, nothing. I have noticed that LED is blinking regularly. I run some tests. 1.testdisk_win.exe detects correctly as the HDD, but that's all – now I'm waiting for the results of partition analyze (by now: Analyse cylinder 11/4863: 00% Read error at 10/2/1 – I guess that sucks. 2.photorec_win.exe detects letter of HDD (d:) but partition isn't given. 3.I plugged HDD to another pc (win xp), the same effect. 4.I tried to use software like Partition Magic etc. with no results. 5. I was willing to test in under linux, but at the time I had only DSL linux edition. I have no idea what to to then. I have read that it could be HDD boot or some ROM information embedded by manufacturer. Thanks for any hints. Last edited by greg02; 03-20-2008 at 03:55 AM. |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 22,277
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Re: TOSHIBA MK4018GBP IDE - USB problem
Hi, welcome to TSF.
![]() You should run Toshiba's HDD tools first ("Drive Fitness Test" and, maybe, "Ontrack Data Advisor"). |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Re: TOSHIBA MK4018GBP IDE - USB problem
Sounds like the HDD is gone.
But, it could be the USB connection confusing Toshiba's tools. Try mounting the drive inside a desktop PC, using an appropriate adapter (of course). |
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