So here is the ordeal:
I have 2 segate hard drives, one is a 1.5tb and another is a 500gb. The first has windows 7 installed and the second has vista installed. When I boot I get a screen that allows me to choose what OS to use. It all worked just fine with my windows 7 allowing me to reach in to the vista hard drive to pull out old files (it became my storage bin for heavy files and stuff).
The problem is that yesterday when I tried to run a program off the 500gb hard drive wtih vista whilst running windows 7 it didnt let me and then I saw the hard drive was no longer accessible and said it needed to be reformatted. So I restarted my computer and checked the bios to see if the BIOS could still see the hard drive and it did. It booted once more in to windows 7 where I checked the hard drive and it still seemed to be connected but not accessible. I tried to see if there was any way to access it but couldn't so I turend the machine off because I didn't want to start screwing things up.
Today after doing some reading on Hard Drive failure symptoms I cautiously proceeded to try and boot it up again to run a few tests to see if it can be salvaged but now it wont even boot. The 500gb hard drive doesnt show up in the BIOS anymore but seems to still be spinning smoothly and it doesn't sound like something is broken or it isn't stuck on repeat sort of noise. When I try to boot it says "Disk Information: no hard disk is detected" and asks me to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media. So now I am stuck and dont know what to do. I tried changing the boot devices but still get the same result.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to get all of it in there.
System:
Intel Core i7 920
Mobo is an Asus P6t Deluxe V2
12gb DDR3 ram
GTX 295 Nvidia GPU
One CD/DVD drive and one Blue ray drive.
I have 2 segate hard drives, one is a 1.5tb and another is a 500gb. The first has windows 7 installed and the second has vista installed. When I boot I get a screen that allows me to choose what OS to use. It all worked just fine with my windows 7 allowing me to reach in to the vista hard drive to pull out old files (it became my storage bin for heavy files and stuff).
The problem is that yesterday when I tried to run a program off the 500gb hard drive wtih vista whilst running windows 7 it didnt let me and then I saw the hard drive was no longer accessible and said it needed to be reformatted. So I restarted my computer and checked the bios to see if the BIOS could still see the hard drive and it did. It booted once more in to windows 7 where I checked the hard drive and it still seemed to be connected but not accessible. I tried to see if there was any way to access it but couldn't so I turend the machine off because I didn't want to start screwing things up.
Today after doing some reading on Hard Drive failure symptoms I cautiously proceeded to try and boot it up again to run a few tests to see if it can be salvaged but now it wont even boot. The 500gb hard drive doesnt show up in the BIOS anymore but seems to still be spinning smoothly and it doesn't sound like something is broken or it isn't stuck on repeat sort of noise. When I try to boot it says "Disk Information: no hard disk is detected" and asks me to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media. So now I am stuck and dont know what to do. I tried changing the boot devices but still get the same result.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to get all of it in there.
System:
Intel Core i7 920
Mobo is an Asus P6t Deluxe V2
12gb DDR3 ram
GTX 295 Nvidia GPU
One CD/DVD drive and one Blue ray drive.