Recovering my Harddisk

[Cafn]

Hi there people

I'm new to the foruns so i'm sorry if this is the wrong place.

Well, on my old desktop, I wanted to turn him into a backup computer. He got 2 HDD, once with 80 gb and another (that came with the pc) with 20gb.

I formated it, to have a clean install, with no internet acess, no slowing process, only to store data. After the formatting and installing the windows, I saw that I only had 1 HDD avaiable. So I went to the setup and formatted the other HDD. Entered the windows again and there it was the 2nd one, ready to be used (needed a format though).

So yeah, I started the formatting, but then I had a power cut due to the raining, and the format was at the middle when it got "interrupted".

When I initiated windows again, it wasnt no longer on the "my computer" but the Device manager was tracking it. So yeah, I went down to the windows setup again, trying to format it again. Sadly, it wasnt something like "your windows cannot recognize your HDD".

So after some searching on this error, some ppl were suggesting on another websites for a low format to the hdd from you guys. So yeah, It was working fine and I was happy.

After the format, I reebotted my computer and it said "primary Slave hard disk fail" on the start. Somehow, the primary slave name also changed, to "Maxtor ATHENA WAH21PBZ".

Is there any way to fix it ?

Cheers
Cafn

(sorry for my english, i'm portuguese :S )

[BlackST]

There's nothing you can do as it is internal failure and won't work. The drive is isolated from the outside world (too complicated to explain here and beyond the purpose)

Replace the drive as it has probably reached end of life (it may be fixable, NOT BY YOU, but not worth it) and they are old drives.

[Cafn]

So for solving it I would to take him to a store to fix it right ? There's nothing at home that I cant do ?

Thanks for the help

[BlackST]

No and not a simple "store". If you really want, contact dmarques (David) or zebong (Jose Faustino) from this forum , they are in Portugal and I know both so I can recommend them. But is it worth it ?!?
If you were here I could attempt at a very low price for a fix for re-use, but I am in Italy.
And also it would break again in a while as most likely it is a 8-10 years old drive - it is a time bomb. Replace it unless you have data on it (but from what you wrote - attempt to format - it doesn't).

[Cafn]

yeah, I was just wondering for the info, I dont really need that 20gb since I got the 80 one

Anyway, thanks for all the help