the other day, when i tried to turn on the pc, it didn't detect the HDD.
but after tweaking the BIOS, it finally detected the drive, but didn't boot, and i got the usual DISK BOOT FAILURE message.
i had 2 partitions, C & D.
very very important data was in D, and some in C. C was my boot drive. my hard disk is Segate, IDE.
nothing happened when i tried to use a recovery prog.
and when i tried to install OS again, it showed only 5gb of hard disk, while mine was 40gb.
i REMEMBER, around 5 gb was all the free space i had left before the crash.
now i've installed OS in those 5 GB, but i haven't formatted the other 35 gb, mainly because i need the data in it, and also because i just can't access it!
please anyone, i need that data, please help.
is there any recovery software for segate that can help me recover corrupted data?
i've tried everything available to me, segate disk manager is crap, it's no use.
i've tries every way i can to FORMAT the hard disk and obtain the 40 gb of free space, byt it still detects only 5 gb, what the *censored* is going on?
i badly need the data.... help guysremove disk and place on another system as slave disk,

find/use some of the free recovery software and see what you can salvage...

good luckPossibly too - if you have or can use an external drive enclosure for it, hook it up by USB to another puter - then try and access your data and burn to DVD etc.

Sounds like the drive is possibly getting terminal - treat it gently and, hope you can retrieve what you need.i don't know guys, does changing the IDE cable make any difference?
i changed the cable the day before it crashed.
but, when i changed the cable, the PC did boot ond worked fine the first time...
i do that sort of thing very often, been doing that for years, and never had a serious problem.
i take my hard disk as crashed, but how am i able to access 5 Gb of space on a crashed HDD?
i was told by engineers, nevertheless, that a crashed HDD dosen't even get detected, forget being able to boot from one!
ANY IDEAS?
a did connect the hrive to another PC, it detected only 5 Gigs.Have you hooked it up as  a slave yet on a working machine to see what data is left ? ?
I don't understand the changing cables part...what exactly does this mean ? ? Quote from: patio on November 28, 2008, 08:34:53 AM

Have you hooked it up as  a slave yet on a working machine to see what data is left ? ?
I don't understand the changing cables part...what exactly does this mean ? ?