HD problem

PikeyPriest · 17 Feb 2006 at 17:58

I recently added a 250 gb hard drive to my PC (less than a year ago) and we just had a power cut earlier today when i was using it. I have just restarted it and not windows doesnt recognise me having that drive.

The 40 gb drive (with all my uni work on) is detected fine, but not the 250 gb drive. It is detected in bios and when i go in to the drive manager it just says that it is uninitialised, but i cant get it to appear or access it.

Whats happened??

PikeyPriest · 17 Feb 2006 at 18:05

Run some recovery tests and they say the disc is physically fine with no errors.

Really not sure whats going on now :confused:

Corasik · 17 Feb 2006 at 19:50

Try 'Testdisk' partition recovery, see if it can find any partitions on the drive, and what state they are in.

I managed to corrupt the partition table on my hard drive, and testdisk was able to restore it perfectly.

PikeyPriest · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:49

If i find the partition with all my files do i just keep pressing enter and then choose to `write` the partition?

PikeyPriest · 18 Feb 2006 at 01:42

Thanks for the help. Program worked perfectly.

No files lost and took no time to fix