Samsung HDD Partition ERROR

:confused

I was doing an upgrade on my old system and ended up frying the motherboard... the thing is, I had everything but the video card disconnected.

I built a new computer, and tried to slave my old master drive, only to find some strange errors. My free space suddenly is my main partition (30 gb of 250 gb). I used the program GetDataBack and was able to view the rest of the drive, and remove files from it....

They were all corrupted. :yum

So I said screw it! I used Partition Magic to correct the oddity with the partitions (why did it do this????). I formatted again, and then downloaded Seatools, which showed errors. I then ran the Samsung tools and it wouldn't even detect the drive...

Upon reboot, the drive has been reset to it's previous, 30 GB (out of 250) blankness... What can I do, if anything, to make this drive usable and reliable?

help!!! :confused

 

do you remember the errors generated by seatools?

 

Do you really want to risk your data to a drive that has proven unreliable and shows errors?
Drives are pretty cheap now. I'd buy a new one.
If you want your data back that's another issue.
Oh and learn from this and keep backups

 

to xmeister:

well, the data is gone now... i guess what i really want to know is how this could have happened... computer science time! what could have caused the free space to become the main partition and the other 220 invisible? i'm very curious!

to voodoo:

it wouldn't really say because i wasn't testing a seagate drive

 

Not sure mate.
If you want a not very technical answer then - Drives can go bad at any time, could have been a knock to it or it just decided it'd had enough. I'm no expert on the technical side of HD's but from experience it's usually a head crash, a PCB issue or the motor. A head crash can do damage to platters but perhaps in your case the first platter is still partially readable or something.

What does disk management say?
Does the drive just show up as a 30G drive or is there a 30G partition and the rest raw?
And what brand/model of drive is it?

 

hmmm, actually in the drive properties it says used space / free space 0 bytes! in the disk manager it shows as:

(D:\) Layout: Partition, Type: Basic, Status: Healthy Capactiy / Free: 31.50GB

It's saying it's RAW, I can format NTFS, but only the 31 gigs

Any ideas? :wave

 

As I said I'm no expert but the things I could see happening are -
1) The PCB has some kind of error that is stopping it transmitting the correct data.
2) There is damage to one/some of the platters or the heads that is preventing most of the drive being read.

Someone with more knowledge may have a better idea but that's all I got

 

hmmm, well that's very interesting! thanks for the input.