Hi

Bios detect the hdd and also in windos xp but i cannot access the hdd.
I checked with hdat2 4.53 hdd regenerator all gives bad sectors

I need help to fix the problem

Thank u

Not familiar with hdat2. Try testing the drive with MHDD
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
Do you need data from the drive?

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These drives love to have bad heads and hope not media damage, better send it to pro if you want your data back.

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Could be password locked.

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But the BIOS Detected the hdd and olso XP (inlcude the partition).

In that case software would not be the rescue.
Only professional tools, sorry my frined, this is the time to turn to someone who have those tools and the experienca to work with them.

OK wait. If you are saying that your BIOS see this and so does your XP but when you try to open the partition on it you can not open it up. You have no access to your data area on this one. Is this your primary HDD boot drive? If so what have you done lately on this one. Did you happen to do some software updates, or windows updates? You can try this one before going further.

1. Clone this HDD to a new one. Find another computer and mount this drive on it along with another HDD to clone it to.
2. After your clone try to run a virus scan on it (I am talking of the cloned drive) and not with a free virus progam. One like KAV or something like this. You can also try some other things like Stinger on it too to see if you have some autorun issues on it from other peoples pen drives or USB drives that you have used lately to take stuff from.
3. With a recovery program such as R Studio or Get Data Back for NTSF scan this drive
4. Find your file system on it
5. Once you have this one then copy your data to another drive
6. You can try the clone into your system and see if you can boot from it now
7. If you still have same problems then it is in your OS and you need to reinstall it and start over

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Just a thought............you could try mounting the drive in Linux. You might have to clear the ntfs log to do this.

Or better still you could download the emergency boot cd from R-studio.
In evaluation mode it would give you the option to open drive files or scan for files.

Is it a Momentus 5400.6 model?

Yes it is

Is it detected in Windows as a 0mb raw partition?

If so I believe it is a translator problem.

A terminal log might be useful.

You mean that XP can recognise the partition (i.e it knows about an NTFS partition)?

If so, then it must be able to read at least the first sector.

So, its almost certainly a translator issue (no, not the regular DIY Seagate fix)

Requires pro help on this one if this is the case.

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