SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A

skapa · 03-05-2009, 02:21 AM

Hi Guys,
MAxtor 500 GB SATA installed and running under WinXP Sp3 with Mobo ECS A780GM-A. Everithing fine till one day when I switched on it did not boot and even entering BIOS Setup was taking some minutes. When in BIOS the drive did not show at all. After some restarts, I decided to use anothe HDD (Hitachi 500 GB) and everything went fine.
Please can you tell me a way to recover my data from the old Drive. It's hurting me thinking that I lost my MP3 Collection :-(. I used to think that I was safe using partitions.
Thanks in advance for your help

**raptor_pa** · 03-05-2009, 05:17 AM

Partitions are like chapters in a book, lose the book, they all are gone. Is the old drive still spinning? Is it making any 'clicking' noises or other strange noises - grinding, screeching etc? Assuming it isn't making noise and spinning try r-studio or getdataback in demo mode and see which one of them does the best job finding your files. You can then register that one and recover your files to another disk. Both are less than $80.00 US

Tumbleweed36 · 03-05-2009, 05:18 AM

Download and try the hard drive manufacturer's utility and see if that helps. Some times they will recognize (and fix bad sectors) a drive when nothing else will:

Hard Drive Utilities

Addendum: That raptor is too fast at typing for me....he got it!

mldean · 03-05-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by raptor_pa

Partitions are like chapters in a book, lose the book, they all are gone. Is the old drive still spinning? Is it making any 'clicking' noises or other strange noises - grinding, screeching etc? Assuming it isn't making noise and spinning try r-studio or getdataback in demo mode and see which one of them does the best job finding your files. You can then register that one and recover your files to another disk. Both are less than $80.00 US

my gateway has been acting up terribile lately ,and it makes strange scrapeing and grinding noises , i tried to reinstall OS disc and before it would finish it would just crash and hang , 3 times it did this same thing ...?

**raptor_pa** · 03-06-2009, 10:19 AM

You will need to open the case and determine if the noise is coming from the hard drive, or perhaps one of the cooling fans. Sounds more like a dying/dead HD. Verify where the noise is coming from, if from the HD, then it is time to replace it

skapa · 03-09-2009, 04:13 AM

Thanks Guys. I will try all options and then let you know how did it go. My wife just realized that we lost also all family photoalbum :-(, she is mad at me.

03-05-2009, 02:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
skapa Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP Sp3	SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A Hi Guys, MAxtor 500 GB SATA installed and running under WinXP Sp3 with Mobo ECS A780GM-A. Everithing fine till one day when I switched on it did not boot and even entering BIOS Setup was taking some minutes. When in BIOS the drive did not show at all. After some restarts, I decided to use anothe HDD (Hitachi 500 GB) and everything went fine. Please can you tell me a way to recover my data from the old Drive. It's hurting me thinking that I lost my MP3 Collection :-(. I used to think that I was safe using partitions. Thanks in advance for your help

03-05-2009, 05:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,921 OS: XP	Re: SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A Partitions are like chapters in a book, lose the book, they all are gone. Is the old drive still spinning? Is it making any 'clicking' noises or other strange noises - grinding, screeching etc? Assuming it isn't making noise and spinning try r-studio or getdataback in demo mode and see which one of them does the best job finding your files. You can then register that one and recover your files to another disk. Both are less than $80.00 US __________________

03-05-2009, 05:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,690 OS: XP Professional	Re: SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A Download and try the hard drive manufacturer's utility and see if that helps. Some times they will recognize (and fix bad sectors) a drive when nothing else will: Hard Drive Utilities Addendum: That raptor is too fast at typing for me....he got it! __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.

03-06-2009, 10:19 AM	#5 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,921 OS: XP	Re: SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A You will need to open the case and determine if the noise is coming from the hard drive, or perhaps one of the cooling fans. Sounds more like a dying/dead HD. Verify where the noise is coming from, if from the HD, then it is time to replace it __________________

03-09-2009, 04:13 AM	#6 (permalink)
skapa Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP Sp3	Re: SATA fails and not reckognized by ECS A780GM-A Thanks Guys. I will try all options and then let you know how did it go. My wife just realized that we lost also all family photoalbum :-(, she is mad at me.