Hard Drive Not Being Recognised At All

williamd

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I've had one of the worst days in computing history.

I bought a new graphics card. After I plugged it in, my motherboard and PSU broke permanently, and having finally replaced them, I've noticed that one of my hard drives isn't working either.

I have 4 hard drives and 3 of them are still working it would seem, but this one isn't showing up in Windows at all, even if I swap round power / SATA cables to ones I know are definitely working.

Is there any hope?

Is there any chance of getting the data off it? Any software I can use that might help?
 
Does it show up in disk management?

Right click on MyComputer and select "manage" then choose disk management.
 
Firstly, is the drive detected in the bios? Secondly, click your start menu in windows, then hit run and type compmgmt.msc and press enter, click "disk management" and see if the 4th drive is listed there. It might be listed as a "RAW" format, if so you will need to use a 3rd party app to recoverer the data - I used GetDataBack for NTFS by runtime software.
 
It shows in BIOS but when I turn my computer on, you know at the start Windows XP appears on a black screen and it loads for a couple of seconds, well it loads this screen for probably about a minute before going into Windows and then obviously the disk isn't there.

If I go into disk management, nothing shows up, it just crashes and says "Connecting to Logical Disk Manager service..." at the bottom.
 
I've just used GetDataBack and it's found the disk.

It says its a Windows Dynamic Disk.

Could this be anything to do with it. What is a dynamic disk?
 
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