vern Posted May 19, 2009 CID Share Posted May 19, 2009 I had a WD 300 gig drive fail a few years back and this was very helpful for me. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Had the same prob as you. Box wouldn't boot with HD connected except mine was an IDE drive. I was able to recover all data from the drive before trashcanning it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 19, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 19, 2009 Alright thanks will try that soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 20, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 I'm trying with the Ultimate boot Cd , but if any one has experience with it let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 20, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 Well that's it.. I give up and am sending it away tomorrow. :cry2: :cry2: :cry: Thanks for the help guys.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zalternate Posted May 20, 2009 CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 When your various programs or system can't see the hard drive, it's a real battle. Too bad no spare drive with the same specs for swapping the controller board out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 20, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 Ya i know thanks anyway... Went to staples looking for Verbatim or Sony DVD DL and found a Seagate 1TB drive for 100 bucks.. not bad i Guess. That just means i lose 1TB of crap versus 500Gigs Figures Thanks again guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted May 20, 2009 CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 Just out of curiosity , did you try installing an OS on it, and see if maybe windows found a partition ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 20, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 I tried that. When I hook that drive up and run the install CD it restarts right after it says "Starting Windows" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern Posted May 20, 2009 CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 There is a way to force it to load the os in the BIOS. The WD drive uses what is called SMART technology that reports any errors during POST to the BIOS and the machine then halts. Doing that could possibly corrupt the good drives though. Don't give up. I don't remember exactly what all I did to recover the data from my failed drive but I do know it took quite a while to get it. At least a month. On the ultimate boot CD choose and run the WD diagnostics program. Boot from the CD with only the bad drive connected. Whether you get your data back or not; it is a good idea to buy an external HDD and make regular back ups of your important stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted May 20, 2009 CID Share Posted May 20, 2009 I had a problem with a WD hard drive that looked like crap after a smart check. I ran Boot and Nuke and it read good after that! Its worth a try! Mudmanc4 might remember my post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordell383 Posted May 21, 2009 Author CID Share Posted May 21, 2009 Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. I would try it but DBAN still needs to detect it. and thats where I am at..... It cant be detect under anything....The only change i had was when using the UltimateBootCD now it states no MBR with that drive so maybe i ersed completly but have no way to restore the MBR Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted May 21, 2009 CID Share Posted May 21, 2009 I had a problem with a WD hard drive that looked like crap after a smart check. I ran Boot and Nuke and it read good after that! Its worth a try! Mudmanc4 might remember my post! Yea I do, and thats when i found out that what AVG was reporting as a virus, was one of those false positive BS things ( for the record , I don't go for that ) lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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