I am having trouble with recovering any data from my Seagate 7200.7 SATA 200Gb hard drive.
I have run the SeaToolsdiagnostic software and performed a full test and have discovered bad sectors on the drive. I am assuming that this is why Windows will not boot up on my PC, however pretty much all the data on the hard drive is stuff I want to keep.
Being the cheap student that I am I want to recover this data myself (only doing it professionally if that's the last straw).
I was informed on these forums that I could place the drive into my friends PC and access my files to back them up, however this is where I am at a dead end.
I originally placed the drive into my friends PC as he has the same motherboard as me, with a spare SATA connector, (Abit AV8 Mobo).
On power up the PC just would not boot into Windows XP (we both use Win XP Pro SP2). So I disconnected mine and started it up again - worked fine.
So now once Windows was fully loaded, I connected the data cable to the hard drive and I had a little pop up at the bottom right saying Windows detected a new drive.
Finally it appeared in My Computer as the E: drive, but I'll be damned if I can get access to it.
This is as far as I can get. I have plenty of space on his hard drive to back up as well as an external drive of his. I just need to access my files. I also noted how deadly slow everything was when my drive was connected. I definitely know it is connected as it shows up in the BIOS as SATA channel 1, whereas my friends main drive is SATA channel 0.
Somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong and help me solve this problem.
Thank you so so much in advance.
Marco
I have run the SeaToolsdiagnostic software and performed a full test and have discovered bad sectors on the drive. I am assuming that this is why Windows will not boot up on my PC, however pretty much all the data on the hard drive is stuff I want to keep.
Being the cheap student that I am I want to recover this data myself (only doing it professionally if that's the last straw).
I was informed on these forums that I could place the drive into my friends PC and access my files to back them up, however this is where I am at a dead end.
I originally placed the drive into my friends PC as he has the same motherboard as me, with a spare SATA connector, (Abit AV8 Mobo).
On power up the PC just would not boot into Windows XP (we both use Win XP Pro SP2). So I disconnected mine and started it up again - worked fine.
So now once Windows was fully loaded, I connected the data cable to the hard drive and I had a little pop up at the bottom right saying Windows detected a new drive.
Finally it appeared in My Computer as the E: drive, but I'll be damned if I can get access to it.
This is as far as I can get. I have plenty of space on his hard drive to back up as well as an external drive of his. I just need to access my files. I also noted how deadly slow everything was when my drive was connected. I definitely know it is connected as it shows up in the BIOS as SATA channel 1, whereas my friends main drive is SATA channel 0.
Somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong and help me solve this problem.
Thank you so so much in advance.
Marco
