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System No longer recognizing harddrive
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Ive searched various forums, some say it could be the mother board, some say it could be anything. would anyone happen to know why a hard drive that works fine would just up and stop running?


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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As others have said, it could be anything.

Details help.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Seuss]
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well i have two harddrives and one of them (the bigger one, with nothing but music) Started acting weird a few days ago. It was lagging when i tried to access the files on it and then on the third day it wasnt recognized as being there anymore.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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My external HD did this once.  I just unplugged it from the computer and then from the wall socket for an hour and plugged it back in and whammo worked fine.

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Stein]
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well ive had it out for a few days so i guess i'll try it again


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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The only idea I have would be to try it in another computer. If it doesn't work there either, then i'd say there's a decent chance it's the hard drive itself. From what i've seen, it could be several different things, but usually if you have hard drive issues it's usually that. Is it really old? That obviously won't help either.

Oh, and something a little easier before you do that, try the auto-detect setting again in the BIOS, should have that. If not then i don't know.

Edited by ImperialCactus (07/12/08 04:34 PM)

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: ImperialCactus]
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well i hooked it back up today. no go. it's a couple years old maybe it's just done. This sucks balls, i just lost over 100 gigs of music. potentially. i'll try the auto detect.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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Jack Albertson said:
This sucks balls, i just lost over 100 gigs of music. potentially.


I did that once...it was what got me to start backing up anything of any importance.

Did you try hooking it up to another computer like someone else suggested?

Also, when it's in the machine hooked up, touch it and see if it's spinning. If it is you still may be able to recover the data. I've used Test disk successfully on drives before so I would give it a try. You'll still  probably have to buy another drive to copy the data to though.

Edited by Aiko Aiko (07/14/08 07:27 AM)

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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no i dont really know anyone else with a computer. And i cant really tell if it's spinning, but it does get warm/hot which would indicate movement no?


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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You should feel a tiny vibration if it's spinning. I would try testdisk, it can't hurt anything. Also there's a program called ultimate boot cd that allows you to boot to the cd you create and run HDD diagnostics. That would give you an idea of whether it's the hardware failing.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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I don't see that you've ruled out the two obvious first choices in troubleshooting. First, make sure it's getting power from your PSU. If you've ruled out power, the next step is a bad cable (IDE/SATA/PATA), whatever cable you're using. Try using the cable from the working HDD, if they're the same, to see if it powers on.

Your 3rd troubleshooting step is to try that HDD on another port on your motherboard. Also try the other port using your good HDD. That's a sure fire way to rule out the MB. I wouldn't start worrying until you try all of the above.

I hope that helps.

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Wronguy]
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i just tried testdisk and it wont even recognize it. And i noticed that when i hook it back up i get a message that says it hasnt been formatted asking me if i want to. If i do that will it start working again?


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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Formatting will erase the data, so I wouldn't recommend it. You might be able to do a quick format and preserve data, but you'll have to research that one. :wink:

I take it cables and power have been ruled out?

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Wronguy]
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im really not worried about my data but i do want the drive to be usable. And im trying the cable thing in a sec.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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If it's asking you to format it, it's being recognized. What about if you go into disk management, if it shows up, try assigning it a (new) drive letter?


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Edited by Aiko Aiko (07/15/08 02:35 PM)

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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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that's the thing. it that's the only time it's recognized. other than that i have no access to the disk.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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I'm guessing this is an external drive.  Try opening up the enclosure and making sure everything is connected properly.  Get rid of any dust that is in there.  Put everything back and make sure everything is plugged in and see if it works.

If not try hooking it up to your MOBO.  If BIOS recognizes it as a usable disk, your enclosure is bunk, if it doesn't, the drive is a brick.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: NIMH]
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it's internal.


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Re: System No longer recognizing harddrive [Re: Jack Albertson]
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try changing over the jumper on the drive to "slave".
  then reboot and see if it is recognized by the BIOS as a slave drive. if it's already a slave put it as a master on the second IDE channel.
I have a HD that does that. something burnt out in the circuitry for the master jumper pins or something.

  also sometimes you just need to get new hard drive cables. they seem to shit the bed a lot.

Edited by cpw1971 (07/17/08 05:54 AM)

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