Krambo Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Hi all, My Seagate Barracuda 7200 has just died on me. So i have currently reverted back to my XP OS. It had windows 7 on and all was running lovely, turned it on last night and nothing, the Bios wont pick it up or anything. Luckily i was smart enough to back up most things but there is a few bits and bobs i would like to rescue from it. Is there anyway for me to do this? Another thing when i plug that drive in as a slave (the duff 1) then XP loads really really really slow, but when I remove it then its fine. Im thinking that if it was totally duff it wouldnt even recognise it enough to slow down the boot process? Any help greatly appreciated. fyi.... tested each different SATA port. tested every cable. tested every SATA power cable no i dont have another machine to test this HD on as my other PSU doesnt have SATA power connectors and the HD has no molex connector. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANiC Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 (edited) seen that happen before where it slows everything down and tbh ive probably given up right there before but there is a couple of things you can try. any external caddy, or usb -> sata converter? buy a 4pin molex to sata power connector, maplins couple of quid grab seatools (for DOS): http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools might not fix a prob, but can tell you about the health of the drive, bad blocks, etc at least if you know it's a hard ware or software issue it will help. boot to a live linux cd to bypass windows completely. you could probably use any linux flavour but there is a number that can be used for fixing probs and revovering data, try this one: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 download the iso and burn to cd, then boot from the cd. both your hdds should be visible, and with a bit of luck you could just copy directly form one to another. also try Hirens boot cd off torrent, tons of tools on there for fixing, but not really copying. if you have a spare hdd, you could attempt to clone the faulty hdd, even if the hdd is failing you can get a direct copy... it might take several hours if it's so bad but had it work many times. acronis free trial: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ the best tool i have for this situation is ERD Commander, i heard there is a free trial on isohunt... it's a live boot cd that can interact with your win install, it's either gonna fix a windows error (or enable you to fix a win error), or tell you your windows install is shagged, but it will still let you browse your hdd contents, or it will not see the hdd at all and in that case you're stuffed if you are really in the crap and desperate then you need something like spinrite: http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm used this to fix a hdd that i couldnt see in windows at all. it took over 24 hours to fix the first GB of data (200GB hdd!), so i just gave up and rebooted and i could see all my data, well chuffed Edited February 26, 2010 by PANiC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANiC Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 i see you reading but just edited the above with more ideas, so refresh page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted February 26, 2010 Author Share Posted February 26, 2010 (edited) thanks P, great stuff, i tried the segate bootbale ISO but still just wouldnt see the HD. no good, nothing will recognise the drive. Its FUBAR. Edited February 26, 2010 by Krambo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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