hdd problem

[sumanrajan435]

hi ..
i recently added a internal hdd of my friend on to my system..
it seems to not get recognized...
disk 1 is the new one..
i am getting a i/o error ..when doing intilization..
its filled with data..could some one help me over here..i dont want to format it ....
but if its the last thing to do ..plz ..give the very basic stuff to do that because i am a newbie...
Any help would be greatly appreciated..

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[jerovsek]

hello,

could you post more info about hard drive

[sumanrajan435]

hello,

could you post more info about hard drive

what kinda ..a informaion really...?
when i open my computer..only my previous hdd gets recognised and i am ale to access ans see it ..while my second (new one)..i cannot see it..it says the new one is working properly..no problems ...

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[HaQue]

Hi, try "Partition Find and Mount" http://findandmount.com/

once it has scanned the disk, then I would suggest to choose make an image of the drive.

Is the drive actually 4GB?

once you have an image, you can just mount the image(it will show up as a drive, say V:) you can just copy files, or if the image wont mount, perform data recovery on the image.

[rameez]

Its a firmware issue contact a pro .

[pcimage]

More like bad heads IMHO

[sumanrajan435]

tried find and mount ...no use ..getting errors...

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[sumanrajan435]

its actually a 500 gb hdd now showing only ..about 4gb ..dont know ..why..?..i am a newbie to all these...

[shahij]

It's ROM mismatch or FW, according to the visible scene.

[sumanrajan435]

can you explain it a bit.... or ....could you be more simple...

[sumanrajan435]

it is actually a 500 gb hdd ..but now showing ..only ..3.86gb unallocated and not intililized ...
..........if there is nothing to do...someone plz explain how to format if its possible..?

[labtech]

Does the drive spin down after power on? Wait few seconds and check.

[sumanrajan435]

disk is spinning ..i am able to hear the sound ..when power is up....

[labtech]

disk is spinning ..i am able to hear the sound ..when power is up....

Not asking if it spins up as it should. That's fine. The question is if the drive spins down after 10 seconds, let's say?

[labtech]

...that involves shifting firmware zone address for the 2 copies of the firmware on the platters in a way that the drive doesn't read Sa at startup, then it provides the oportunity to load from a loader - module 11 - ro we can read firmware tracks or search for modules on the correct location.

I thought the OP indicated the problem drive is a Seagate. Is there a similar solution for a Seagate drive?

[sumanrajan435]

i heard that...ubuntu live cd ..can do the trick fixxing ..drive and so on ...?..is that true..?

[sumanrajan435]

I want to object..
I searched..the net and found..by using a live linux cd you can view and repair your hdd using.. Disk utility..

[sumanrajan435]

I am fed by with this data recovery thing..
I want to format. It. But puzzled with that tooo..
Dont know how to do it....

[HaQue]

It is like saying "can I repair my car with a screwdriver?" You can in some cases, but you need to know what is wrong.

In this case, at the moment you have no idea what is actually wrong with the Hard Disk.... You don't actually believe there is a "Disk Utility" that fixes all hard disk problems do you?

How about you link to the specific page you found that outlined fixing a hard disk with a Linux liveCD and we can evaluate how successful it may be in your case? Or the name of the disk utility.

[sumanrajan435]

I got a live cd.. And tried disk utility.. Tried to format with it.. No use..
Right now really fed up with this hdd...