Windows Wont Read SATA 500GB HDD

[thepspgamer]

Hey there

 

about 3 months ago i bought a new seagate sata 500gb HDD for my computer and i got it up and running great, but today, it has just dissapeared from my computer

 

when i do into disk management, it just says "Import Failed" next to the disk, and when i right click it to try and reactivate, it does nothing

 

my BIOS picks it up fine and recognises it as a 500gb sata drive

 

im worried that i might lose the data i have on it, all my school work is on it and so is all my music and vids etc, and i cant lose my school work, i would be screwed as you can imagine

 

is there anyway i can get it working again, im desperate to get it going again, i have only had the thing for a couple of months

 

my spec, if needed is:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00ghz

2GB RAM

Geforce 7800gtx 256mb

ASUS P5B-VM Motherboard

Windows Vista Ultimate

 

also, the drive if needed comes up as a "ST3500320AS ATA Drive", and my device manager says it is working properly, so windows is obviously detecting it as connected correctly

 

please help, and thanks in advance http://www.pchelpforum.com/images/smilies/smiley.gif

[Dalo Harkin]

Go to the Control panel then Administrative Tools then Computer Management on the left hand side at the bottom there is a setting called Disk Management click that and all your drives are in there - what does it say next and under the drive?

[thepspgamer]

when i go into disk management, it just says "Import Failed" next to the disk, and when i right click it to try and reactivate, it does nothing

 

does that answer your question?

[Dalo Harkin]

Not really no - I was looking for the status of the drive - but if you cant get that far then..........

Ok - Is the drive external?

if its internal have you tried moving the drive to another SATA slot on the MOBO?

Also check that the power and the SATA cable are secure at the drive end and the SATA cable at the MOBO end too - if you are using a SATAII drive - you should really be using 'latch' cables as they lock into place - but the cables supplied in the MOBO box will be standard and they slip on the connectors.

[thepspgamer]

Not really no - I was looking for the status of the drive - but if you cant get that far then..........

Ok - Is the drive external?

if its internal have you tried moving the drive to another SATA slot on the MOBO?

Also check that the power and the SATA cable are secure at the drive end and the SATA cable at the MOBO end too - if you are using a SATAII drive - you should really be using 'latch' cables as they lock into place - but the cables supplied in the MOBO box will be standard and they slip on the connectors.

 

yes, i have tryed moving it to another port, nothing changed, and i have tryed replugging it, making everything is secure, so thats not the problem, and im not using a SATAII drive, just a regular SATA

 

and in answer to the status of the drive, it is set to dynamic, and it just says "Import Failed" under it, with no info to the right like my other 2 drives

 

hope this helps

[Guest Wolfeymole]

What have you tried to import to that drive, what files etc?

 

Have a read of this also

 

Troubleshooting Disk Management: Storage Services; File and Storage Services

 

And this

 

Reactivate a missing or offline dynamic disk: Storage Services; Local File Systems

[thepspgamer]

i have tryed re-activating it through disk management, to no avail, and i havnt put anything harmful on it, just music files, vid files etc

[Tootech]

Just had a look through your post.

 

What is the model number of your drive?

 

Perhaps at this point it would be a good idea to run the Seagate Diagnostics over it - it's a read only process. That will help determine whether or not the drive is actually at fault.

 

Follow the link below and accept the licence agreement etc. You want Seatools for DOS, the bootable ISO. Burn to CD, boot it and run the long test. It takes around 45 minutes.

 

Seagate Technology - SeaTools

 

Let us know the results.

[thepspgamer]

nvm, i fixed it :D, i managed to hex change it from a dynamic drive to NTFC, and its now working, with all my data on it

 

thanks for all the help though :D

[Dalo Harkin]

Glad its all sorted :)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

nvm, i fixed it :D, i managed to hex change it from a dynamic drive to NTFC, and its now working, with all my data on it

 

 

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