peasepud 59 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I had a 750Gb external HD on which the casing has become broken and cant be used externally any more. So I ripped the drive out and installed it in my main PC, setting the jumper to slave and changing the BIOS the ensure my original HD is still the boot one. All is good so far, PC boots up and normal C Drive is still C Drive. Second Drive however is showing in Device Manager as Working Properly but doesnt have a volume associated to it. I know that I can go into Computer Management and "Initialize Disk" but I canot find anywhere that will confirm if its ok to do that, looking at the fact it rewrites the partition table Im wary that I'll lose the data on there. Anyone confirm what I should do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 im not 100% sure on this but.... disk initilisation iirc prepares the disk for use and should happen automatically in the background. i also beilieve your data will be wiped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cid_MCDP 0 Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 The only thing I can think of is there's some difference between what used to be a USB (or firewire or whatever) connection acting as a conduit to the drive from the PC and the fact that it's now IDE or SATA connected. Can you not just buy another enclosure and stick the drive in there? Seems like they'd be pretty cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 even if you do format the the drive (doing a quick format) the data can be recovered pretty painlessly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 86 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 how? simply by using one of the recovery tools listed here: http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groutound 0 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 i noticed my hard drive makes this noise now when i am downloading files into it. it didnt make this noise before. is this normal? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 8 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 i noticed my hard drive makes this noise now when i am downloading files into it. it didnt make this noise before. is this normal? :/ Generally not a good sign like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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