WD20EARX cannot detect after setting as Dynamic Disk

[mukti79]

Hi All,

I'm new in this forum & I really need help from u guys... hope u can help

I just bought new WD Caviar Green 2.0TB SATA 64MB cache 2 weeks ago. For the 1st use, I set it as Dynamic. After format it & transfer lots of information inside, for several days it runs smoothly without any errors. Yesterday, I unplugged it (bcoz I need to use SATA cable for DVDRW) and when I plugged it again today (to HDD), the error has occured... it shows that my new HDD is NEW & need to format. I'm really depressed coz I got so many INFO inside it.


FYI, I'm using Win XP Pro 32bit. When I recheck again at BIOS, it can detect as normal but cannot detect in Windows.

For those who can help me settle my problem, i really appreciate it...



mukti79
(malaysia)

[loki]

Hi,

Firstly welcome to the forum

When you removed the drive did you use the safley remove hardware wizard or just unplugged it from the pc?

The drive is being detected by windows as it is asking for it to be formatted which indicates possibly the MFT / partition has got corrupted. You can check in disk managent & it will show the drive as raw, un-initilised etc.

You could try R-studio trail software & see if it can access the drive or Partition Find & Mount but if the MFT & MFT mirror is corrupted then you'll be looking at possibbly a RAW recovery - no correct folder structure or correct file names.

Loki

[mukti79]

Thanks for your advice, loki.

I've tried R-Studio... it really helps. I successfully recovered ALL data without losing even 1 file with R-Studio.

Thanks to all members here for your attention & support.