Hard Drive Lost...

[Gornall]

Hi,

I had a power cut bout 20minutes ago. Only lasted a couple of seconds but upon rebooting my SATA hard drive is no longer shown in windows.

Ive gone into disk management where it says its unallocated but if I try to initialise the drive it errors.


This is in the System Event log

The device 'WDC WD1600AAJS8550SA0 2' (IDE\DiskWDC_WD1600AAJS8550SA0__2________________05.06H05\5&a642691&0&0.0.0) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

Any ideas?

 

[Gornall]

oh dear.

The drive wont initialize so there is no way of doing anything to it in windows.

It shows up in the bios and in disk management as Not Initialized and Unallocated.

 

[Gornall]

finally got it to recognise the disk.

I remembered overclockin the chip by 5mhz bout 20mins before the power cut.

Thought was worth a shot n now its recognised. Gonna have to format though.

Will post again with results