Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
July 31st, 2014, 8:07
Hi,
I have a Red WD20EFRX NAS Drive that does not get detected in Windows at all.
Doesn't make any nasty sounds, is there any simple checks I can do to try and discover info about the fault? Data would be nice but not essential.
July 31st, 2014, 8:26
Is it detected OK In BIOS?
July 31st, 2014, 8:29
how did you connect drive to computer via sata or usb
July 31st, 2014, 8:33
No, I meant to write that as well. Sorry.
July 31st, 2014, 8:41
HaQue wrote:Hi,
I have a Red WD20EFRX NAS Drive that does not get detected in Windows at all.
Doesn't make any nasty sounds, is there any simple checks I can do to try and discover info about the fault? Data would be nice but not essential.
it was not seen in disk manager tests the hdds!!
July 31st, 2014, 9:08
sempre wrote:HaQue wrote:Hi,
I have a Red WD20EFRX NAS Drive that does not get detected in Windows at all.
Doesn't make any nasty sounds, is there any simple checks I can do to try and discover info about the fault? Data would be nice but not essential.
it was not seen in disk manager tests the hdds!!
I'm sorry but I don't understand your answer.
July 31st, 2014, 9:48
HaQue wrote:sempre wrote:HaQue wrote:Hi,
I have a Red WD20EFRX NAS Drive that does not get detected in Windows at all.
Doesn't make any nasty sounds, is there any simple checks I can do to try and discover info about the fault? Data would be nice but not essential.
it was not seen in disk manager tests the hdds!!
I'm sorry but I don't understand your answer.
tested the hdds?
July 31st, 2014, 11:48
No, I do not do internal work on HDD. a bit of playing in Seagate Terminal, soldering under microscope broken boards etc is all. That's why I said any simple checks. Rather than throwing it away, I thought a quick post may show if it is worth spending any time, but as it doesn't detect, and I didn't think WD has terminal like the Seagate drives, a quick question wouldn't hurt. Especially as it sounds fairly normal, if a drive can sound "normal".
July 31st, 2014, 23:01
MHDD says "Drive is not Ready"
PC wont boot with drive attached
July 31st, 2014, 23:24
Try installing the drive's PM2 (Power Up In Standby) jumper. If the drive comes ready and identifies itself, then that will at least say something about the PCB.
You might also install the OPT1 jumper to reduce the SATA link rate just in case the drive is unable to negotiate a high speed link with your SATA host.
One other simple thing would be to clean the HDA contacts on the PCB.
August 1st, 2014, 1:08
hello
if you have winxp machine use SeDiV demo.
http://sediv2008.narod.ru/Easy3.9Passwo ... 567890.rar password 01234567890
Disable secondary channel in device manager. hot pluged drive and test it with SeDiV.
Just take care when you use SeDiV not to connect drive for diagnose on same channel, where is your primary drive
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