hard drive drama
Sunday, February 15, 2009 by loukeeya | Discussion: Windows Vista
i have a windows vista ultimate 64bit pc and it crashed for no apparent reason - i am now unable to access the sata hard drive with all my vista set up and software. i had 2 re-load using a diff hard drive and now the old one shows as "unknown and unreadable" - can anyone help? have e mailed hitachi but no responses so far
thanx
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Reply #22 Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:33 AM
I don't get the impression that the maxtor is having trouble though. Seems to be used as a working alternative to me?
Reply #23 Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:41 AM
According to this...
.. the issue is with both the Maxtor and the Hitachi's... suggesting to me that the mobo/BIOS is having difficulty reading drives mounted internally but can see the Maxtor when mounted as a USB, although the data on it appears to be inaccessible.
Funny thing, my sister rang me a short while ago to say she is experiencing a similar thing (no, not the one with the Deskstar) with her old rig... when she powers up it just screams at her and she has to turn it off. She's talking about finding the cause and getting it fixed, but I don't fancy her chances as it has a 939 socket AMD CPU and mobo, and you just can't get those here in Oz anymore.
Fortunately, my mother gave her her PC to my sister when she went to the UK to live, which I rebuilt/upgraded and formatted with Vista Ultimate for her, so she has a working PC to keep her going.
Reply #24 Sunday, May 3, 2009 5:47 PM
i bought HD Regenerator for £60 - money well spent as its not only fixed both hard drives but have been able to access my date - i am so so so happy lol
Reply #25 Sunday, May 3, 2009 6:00 PM
Loukeeya, what exactly was the problem? Was it ever diagnosed? What did yrag say?
So happy you're back! 
Reply #26 Sunday, May 3, 2009 6:39 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:31 AM
have no idea what the problem was with both hard drives but HDD Regenerator sorted them out - i used usb and let software run and hey presto 2 working htachis lol
Reply #28 Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:32 AM
oooooooooooooooooooooooops wizard - i meant to say DATA lol but now u mention it i did loose a couple of dates lol
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Reply #21 Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:03 AM
Not just a bad batch in that case.
OK, so IBM/Hitachi have acknowledged issues with some of their drives, some more than others, but in loukeeya's case she says there were no early warning signs, just that the the drives just ceased to be read by the BOIS and Vista at boot. It may be that the Hitachi drives have had the biscuit, but it just seems strange that a Maxtor is also affected when mounted internally, which suggests there is another probable cause... unless the Hitachi took down the mobo, SATA connections when it died, meaning no drives will run when mounted internally.
Hmmm... the thot plickens.
