Hi Guys,

have got a WD hard drive from a laptop.
The laptop was being used by the owner when it bluescreened
rebooted but stated no OS found.

Have attached the hard drive to another pc and get the following info
WD scorpio blue 320GB manafacture 2009
reports as 2TB in two different computers (win xp and win7)

it seems to be ok - no clicks etc but it seems like the board/firmware has an error

can you offer any advice - have searched forums and only come across one other similar to this
but it had no solution......

Search for MHDD.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

did that - have got a copy of MHDD but am unsure of what to do next?
can you offer any advice - obviously i can use the osftware to check/reset the hard drive
but can you give me any basic steps?

thanks

Read the manual here: http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02- ... al.en.html

Make sure hdd is connected to pc or laptop via IDE (as Primary) or SATA directly.
Boot to BIOS & make sure SATA is set to either IDE or Compatible mode otherwise mhdd wont see the drive.
Boot to MHDD boot cd which you made.
Start computer without SCSI support.
Press shift + F3
Press 1 & then enter
Press shift + F2
Does it see the hard drives model, serial & capacity correctly?
Also check that the drive initialises ie shows DRSC & DRDY highlighted in blue?


Loki