Hard drive cockup

Nebzor

Nebzor

Nebzor

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Well, last night I was watching Poirot (yay!) til about 2am, at which point I tried to shut the computer down. I noticed it took a fair while, which was odd, but I thought nothing of it.

This morning, I wake up to find my freshly partitioned WD6400AAKS (30GB Vista, rest as data) and my 160GB Seagate backup drive have both wiped themselves completely clean. Not only is the data gone, so are the partitions.

Any ideas what's happened? Or any easier solutions than to reformat and put things back on there? :)
 
Looking at it from a different program, the old hard drive is still partitioned and is fine.

I tried to use the WD DLG just now, to both check and then low-level format, but it is claiming the drive is locked and so refuses to do anything.

:o
 
Your saying the drive is locked? flip that sounds like the ATA password lock has somehow been enabled...

This happend to me some months ago and because I dont know how and when it was enabled im totally confused.
 
Aye, seems like it. I don't see how turning a computer off would do such a terrible, terrible thing though :(

Any easy ways to unlock said hard drive?
 
Ok, now all the diagnostics are stating cable errors and the like.

Have tried multiple cables, in multiple SATA ports, with multiple BIOS settings.

Seems the drive is dead.

Time to try out WD's advanced RMA :(
 
My experience with the WD advanced RMA was so so, its ok them getting the drive to you but you have ot post to germany (I used parcel2go fyi) and the website is crap at updating the status. I sent the old drive in plenty of time, but was bricking it when the website didnt show it arriving until quite some time after the 30 day time limit.
 
Must've been updated since, as I'm to mail my drive to somewhere in Middlesex and everything on the site was updated incl. RMA number and packaging details within 30mins of applying.
 
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