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So I brought my hard drive into work today because my home CD writer is fucked and there's stuff I needed to burn. The computer wouldn't see the drive and says it's unreadable. This is a 180GB drive that had to be formatted to 127 because my home computer wouldn't do it any higher even after a BIOS update. I'm hoping this is the reason why the drive is unreadable. Is this the case or is my drive fucked and all my MP3's, ISO's, Videos, music gone? I'm assuming if the drive is fucked that I can then just use a low level disk utility to try and retrieve some of it? BAM! |
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Bump? |
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Who starts a fucking sentence with SO? |
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Out of your home / work machine, which one does the drive work in? |
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tell it to someone who gives a shit. |
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What is that? |
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It came from my home computer where it was working fine. Bill: Well you must give enough of a shit to comment. |
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Are the jumpers right for the new machine? |
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I can't see why not. It was a slave device in the home computer and it'll be the slave in the work one. |
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So the drive was detected in the bios but it doesn't come up in windows? |
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It does come up in the BIOS and it says it's a hard drive and 185GB. But when I look at disc management it says it's unreadable. This is on Windows 2K by the way. It's just strange. |
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Yeah, sounds weird. I guess it's best to wait until you can get a working cdrw for your home machine. |
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if it was formatted to 127gb (how?) there is a good chance that the only thing that can read it is the computer it was originally in. also.. the jumper COULD be set for "cable detect" instead of "slave," which works on SOME computers, but not all... |
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/me crosses fingers Drunken Mastah: I'll have a look into it. Going by the diagrams on the back of the drive though it's set to slave and there's not a cable detect and the bios doesn't mention. It was formatted to the greatest capacity the home computer could see. The computer is about 3/4 years old. Initially it would only see 80! So it formatted it as the highest it could. |
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if it works at your house and you want to copy it out, ask your friends if any of them have an ipod.. ipods can be used to store any type of file, I think. |
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I don't know anyone with an iPod :/ I think my mate has a removable drive. I'll try and borrow that. Over USB1 that's going to take a couple of years :P Thanks for the help though people :D |
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