Another hard drive issue - help!

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After losing one 250GB drive yesterday, I now cannot access the other one.

The 2 x 500GB SATAs that I have in there are working fine, and so is the 160GB SATA I have.

The 250GB SATA shows up in BIOS, POST and in device manager, but is not in disk management as it should be. It shows up at the top of the list as Disk 0 and 'foreign' with a 0 byte size and no options to do anything to it.

The drive itself seems to be fine. It is warm to the touch and seems to be spinning.

I have tried swapping the data cable to it and that has made no difference.

Windows 7 64 bit.

Help! Can't lose 2 drives in 2 days! :(

Edit: the drive itself has one partition of 250GB and has about that much data on it...

More info"
Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G mobo
AMD 5200 CPU
6GB RAM
2 x 500GB SATA
1 x 160GB SATA
1 x 250GB SATA (not detecting)
 
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Don't try attach it to your external enclosure. ;)

What happens with only the 250GB + OS drive attached?

Was the most recent tinkering you did with your PC just cleaning it? Any hardware changes?
 
Last thing, it's listed as 'dynamic' in disk management, as opposed to the others which are 'basic'.
 
PostmanPot said:
Don't try attach it to your external enclosure. ;)

What happens with only the 250GB + OS drive attached?

Was the most recent tinkering you did with your PC just cleaning it? Any hardware changes?
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I have not tried with 250GB is OS only. ATM it is OS + 500GB + 250GB.


The tinkering was tidying the cables, clearing out dust and adding the 2 x 500GBs. They are working fine. The OS is on one of them...
 
that dynamic thingy is the problem. Do not format it or anything. unplug it and plug it in somewhere else first.
 
Garyvdh said:
that dynamic thingy is the problem. Do not format it or anything. unplug it and plug it in somewhere else first.
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I won't be formatting it, that's for sure. 250GB of stuff on there. :eek:

I don't have anywhere else to plug it in - my external enclosure was taken out by yesterday's hdd...
 
Enigmah said:
Use the manufacturer's diagnostic util (or Hiren) and test the disk.
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Erm, ok. Will this work even though it is not being picked up? I guess it will...

So I search for a Seagate diagnostic tool then, I would imagine?
 
Sometimes a dynamic disk will be displayed as foreign, after doing a rescan it allows you to initialize. What options do you have if you right click? Why did you make it Dynamic, was it part of a RAID set ever?
 
What is wrong with Seagate?

hj2k_x said:
I won't be formatting it, that's for sure. 250GB of stuff on there. :eek:

I don't have anywhere else to plug it in - my external enclosure was taken out by yesterday's hdd...
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I know how you feel I lost a new 1TB drive from Seagate... :eek:
I've always been a Seagate fan but this is to much...

I have now moved from Seagate to Western digital. I hear they are not to bad..
Very good latency with their drives.
 
Downloaded Seatools - the only test which it would run was 'short generic' which it passed.

The drive was never part of a RAID array - the two 500GBs were RAIDED together in my 1TB IOMEGA enclosure, but they are since working fine independently.
 
Conradl said:
Sometimes a dynamic disk will be displayed as foreign, after doing a rescan it allows you to initialize. What options do you have if you right click? Why did you make it Dynamic, was it part of a RAID set ever?
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Right click after rescan gives me

Import foreign disks
Convert to basic disk
offline
properties
help
 
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