Hard Drive not detected

Flipster81 · 27 Feb 2006 at 01:06

I've stumbled upon a problem with one of my hard drives. All of a sudden it doesn't seem to detect it at all. I've only bought the drive 2 weeks ago. It's a 250GB maxtor and there are a few important files on there. If it is faulty is there anyway to get the information off from there? I can hear the drive start up but it doesn't detect in the bios or in windows. What's wrong with it?

semi-pro waster · 27 Feb 2006 at 10:30

Have you tried using a different cable or different port to see if that is the problem? Also are you using SATA or IDE, SATA cables being more likely to come loose.

Explicit · 27 Feb 2006 at 11:20

Did you touch anything in the bios?

Flipster81 · 27 Feb 2006 at 13:04

Thanks it's fixed now. It seems that the hard drive wasn't getting enough power therefore I changed around the power cables and it's worked!

Phew thank god!