Does this HD work?

Hi there , I run Win2kPro I have recently purchased a 40GB Western Digital, I recently took a HD 15 Western Digital from my cousins PC, I hoooked it up to mines to see its true but loook what i found , once connected it recognizes it but it shows "0gb" and it merges with my 40GB what is wrong with this hard drive? please help I need to help my cousin out thanks

 

If trying to run both ....Did you set the jumpers master ,slave .

If so ,, or are trying to run one , they may not be compatable with each other so that when windows was loaded it set one of the drives one way . I no expert but have ran into this also ,

Seems as if The Mother drive combo once loaded with a op system like to be that way. If you had 2 drives the same "era "it may work ,,

None the less,, you should be able to slave the second one .
Hope this helps Ron.

 

during boot check to see how it is detected in BIOS. Also I'd suggest you goto Western Digital and download their disk utility, it will help you prepare the drive for use.

 

Whoa! , it seems my CDRW is master , my WD40GB Slave in one IDE channel and the WD 15 on its own channel via slave is there anything I can do now? it recognizes but with no GB installed

 

the CDRW should be set as master in the secondary channel ... your boot drive(Im assuming that's your 40giger) should be master in the primary channel ... and the 15giger should be slave on the primary channel ... your motherboards manuel should tell you which is the primary and secondary IDE channel ... and make sure you set the jumpers correctly, they are usually written on the back of the HDD or on the manufacturers website

 

Ok , I have done that it still points out to 0GB , infact I used Western Digital Life Guard to see if I can edit it and I can't , thats how I found out it was "0GB" and it doesnt show up in "My Computer"

 

does it work on your cousins PC? What file system is both drives?(NTFS or FAT?)

and just to clarify ... the BIOS sees the drive as a 0GB drive?

 

It was NTFS ,and it does recognize it as 0GB .

 

im assuming it doesn't work on your cousins PC either

if a reformat isn't possible(you want the data on the drive) ... the only thing I could suggest is a hard drive forensic utility like runtimes getdataback(www.runtime.org)

or here's some free utilities: (i have no idea how well they work)

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

 

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And the results, I had my CDRW and 40GB HDD connected on one channel , CDRW=Slave , HDD = Master , then I connected the 15GB onto its own channel set on Slave I also installed the program Pyrate recommened, Ok here is the boot.......WTF? it just restarded ok.........WTF? it did it again? whats this problem?,o.o Shit now its not ACPI compliant? Help please

 

Put your drives in the following order;
40Gb = Primary Master (MS)
15Gb = Primary Slave (SL)
Optical Drive = Secondary Master (MS)

Do Not, I repeat Do Not, put the optical drive on the same cable as a hard drive. Make sure you're using 80-wire DMA cable, and primary and secondary should be marked on the mobo. Possibly as IDE-1 and IDE-2 respectivly.

Jumpers on the various disk should be marked as:
MS = Master
SL = Slave
CS = Cable Select (stay away from this one, it's a pain)

 

Good! it has booted I ran "GetBackDate" software but it marks it as "0GB" and keeps having errors trying to scan the 15GB

 

there are two versions of getdataback ... one is for NTFS and the other for FAT ... make sure you are using the right version .. also might try DiskExplorer to see if that reads the drive, although that won't actually recover your Data

also GetDataBack will only recover data if the boot/disc sectors are corrupt, AFAIK it doesn't read from a physically damaged drive ... if GetDataBack can't scan it I'm guessing that that drive is physically damaged

might try this: http://www.ontrack.com/

 

Yeah I got the right version "NTFS" ok ill let you know, Thanks