Hi guys,this is an awesome forum! So many people helping each other ...its great! Any help here would be really appreciated.
I have a problem with a 1TB SATA Seagate drive,which it appears i have possibly lost my data...which is digitised video of my daughter since birth,all her birthdays,fun times etc...i need my data! Nooooo!
......Im heartbroken...
The story is a friend gave me a 40GB IDE drive,had heaps of movies etc which he gave to me and i could always use another drive so i connected it up.My comp found the 40GB drive and all was good...when i went to my 1 TB with all the video on it it prompted me to "the disk in the drive is not formatted" etc etc you know the drill.
I got rid of the the 40GB drive and hoped that all would return to normal with my 1TB drive, but no.I have since connected up another 2TB SATA drive,formatted it and no problems.
I went to Computer Management (Disk Management : Local) in XP, it is showing:
a healthy DISK "0" (C) System drive of 74.49 GB...its an IDE drive...this is my system drive (80GB)
Second is showing a healthy DISK "1" (D) drive of 1863 GB(my 2 TB drive)...its a SATA drive
Then it is showing DISK "2" (F) drive 74.50 GB Healthy(in blue)/857.01 Unallocated (in black) - This is my 1 TB SATA i originally had full of AVI video files of my kid.
It looks like it has been made into a partition or something? The question i have does my System (C)drive which is IDE,have any probs or conflicts with 2 SATA drives....like am i daisy chaining wrong or something? Do i have to make a slave jumper for SATA? DO you guys think my data is toast? Any suggestions?...god i hope i havent lost the video forever..
Thx for any help,appreciated
I have a problem with a 1TB SATA Seagate drive,which it appears i have possibly lost my data...which is digitised video of my daughter since birth,all her birthdays,fun times etc...i need my data! Nooooo!
......Im heartbroken...
The story is a friend gave me a 40GB IDE drive,had heaps of movies etc which he gave to me and i could always use another drive so i connected it up.My comp found the 40GB drive and all was good...when i went to my 1 TB with all the video on it it prompted me to "the disk in the drive is not formatted" etc etc you know the drill.
I got rid of the the 40GB drive and hoped that all would return to normal with my 1TB drive, but no.I have since connected up another 2TB SATA drive,formatted it and no problems.
I went to Computer Management (Disk Management : Local) in XP, it is showing:
a healthy DISK "0" (C) System drive of 74.49 GB...its an IDE drive...this is my system drive (80GB)
Second is showing a healthy DISK "1" (D) drive of 1863 GB(my 2 TB drive)...its a SATA drive
Then it is showing DISK "2" (F) drive 74.50 GB Healthy(in blue)/857.01 Unallocated (in black) - This is my 1 TB SATA i originally had full of AVI video files of my kid.
It looks like it has been made into a partition or something? The question i have does my System (C)drive which is IDE,have any probs or conflicts with 2 SATA drives....like am i daisy chaining wrong or something? Do i have to make a slave jumper for SATA? DO you guys think my data is toast? Any suggestions?...god i hope i havent lost the video forever..
Thx for any help,appreciated
