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benjamin- View Drop Down
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    Posted: 26/May/2007 at 11:25pm

Hello,

I am a first time buyer from MWAVE.
 
My stuff arrived in a timely manner.
 
I just bought a MassCool external SATA USB enclosure ( http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA30025&RSKU=BA30025 )
along with the 500GB SATA2 (http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=AA66870), thinking I would use the two together.
 
 
I attached the hard disk to the enclosure with the included wires and attach via USB and the power was on and no drive shows up in my computer, although it does load mass storage plug and play drivers.
 
I read in the instruction manual for the enclosure that the drive should be formatted to fat32 before using the enclosure.
 
I wasn't planning on having to link the hard disk directly to the motherboard, not even sure whether my system supports it. Well, I was able to find SATA ports on the motherboard and I was able to find an open spot to plug the power on.
 
OK now it shows up as an unformatted drive. Fine. But now I am missing my 250GB drive. I had 3 IDE hard drives and a DVD Writer currently functioning before I installed this one. Now my 250GB IDE drive is not showing up. Maybe this is normal, I am not familiar with SATA technology.
 
The new 500GB SATA drive shows up in Disk Management as being 7.38 GB! Whats going on here? Please help
 
I am running
XP Pro SP2
Athlon XP
3 internal ide hard disks
1 ide dvd writer                
 
 
I tried formatting it with a quick format and it fails. I partition a 250MB section and that failed to format.  
 
  
 
 
 
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benjamin- View Drop Down
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Posts: 2 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27/May/2007 at 8:46am
just a quick update...
 
the 250GB disk that seemed to dissapear is now showing up in disk manager as being unpartitioned and unallocated!
 
is  there any reason for this to happen, did i lose all of the data on this drive?
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Posts: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28/May/2007 at 4:08am
Where find documentation.Please send links to PiousPirate2006@wikichat.com
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Posts: 322 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28/May/2007 at 12:17pm
you know you could just post the link in the forum
I'm not as random as you think I salad.
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Posts: 5 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28/May/2007 at 5:16pm
It's times like this when I miss fdisk.exe...  Not that I've ever had problems with Windows Disk Management myself, but I can't find it in me to ever trust it =p

Something that may help you with your troubleshooting though...  SATA is plug and play.  Since it doens't require you to restart, you can try disconnecting/reconnecting your drive while disk management is open.  That will at least show you how the new drive is being reported.

As far as your older drive showing up as not having a partition, if you cannot browse it in explorer, chances are your drive is lost.  I've not done much personally in the realm of data recovery, but I'm sure there's a tool somewhere you can use to recover your drive.

Generally, the situation sounds bad.  Something that may also make life easier is disconnecting all volumes aside from the system (c:) and one you are working with when managing your partitions.  That way you can prevent most accidents.


Edited by leisuree - 28/May/2007 at 5:17pm
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To recover your data you can use Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software. It is a file and partition recovery utility which recovers lost data from formatted hard drive, or data lost occur due to software malfunction, viruses or file/directory deletion or even sabotage. It also provides partition recovery from FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS & NTFS5 file system.
Download the demo version from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm

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There are hard drive recovery utilities that are available. Some are extremely reasonable and you can give them a shot. I had experience using NTFS Data Recovery Software. You can use the free demo version to see whether the software is able to recover your files or not. Free demos usually only show you the files names that can be recovered, but you need to act quickly...the more you use the computer the greater the chances are the files will be overwritten and lost for good.
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Posts: 457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14/Nov/2007 at 10:38am
Hi Benjamin,
 
It seems the harddrive show as raw harddrive and you have to create partition as primary and format as NTFS.
 
If the harddrive has data before ... yes, it seems you lose everything.
If it won't formatted .... definitely bad harddrive !


Edited by Philips - 14/Nov/2007 at 10:39am
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Posts: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22/Apr/2008 at 5:31am
Originally posted by benjamin-

 
is  there any reason for this to happen, did i lose all of the data on this drive?


i had a similar experience in the past due to the wrong format type and as i know now,  the data should still be there if they were not covered with other data.  
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Posts: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22/Apr/2008 at 8:52am
Originally posted by Philips

Hi Benjamin,
 
If the harddrive has data before ... yes, it seems you lose everything.


it's not a bad idea in these situations to make some tests with either avira free unerase or, better, with pc inspector file recovery in order  to have a hope of recovering the work. Although they are free, they can (many times) recover your valuable work.
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