How to make a hard drive detectable in windows which is detected in BIOS but not in windwows?

Question

I have a 250GB Hard disk i had installed Windows wista & Xp through the procedure given in this link: http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp for some time everything was fine but suddenly i cant boot one day to any OS so tried reinstalling vista alone but vista setup does not detect the harddisk .Xp setup detects it but i get a error message on Xp installation that it is corrupted. when i connected the hard disk to a friend's PC which runs XP it does not detect it not even in the management console but the BIOS shows my hard disk clearly. pls give me a way to recover the data from it.

Answer 1

Sorry, but I think your problem is severe.



There are 2 basic components to a hard drive, the circuit board and the mechanical platters the data is on. If your circuit board is bad it will not send the signal to Windows to be recognized, but your BIOS can still detect a hard drive (usually it will take a long time to be recognized and may not show the correct capacity). If just the platters, or the mechanical parts that service them, are going bad the drive will be recognized by Windows and you can usually get some or all of your data off.



The fact that GetDataBack cannot recognize your drive indicates it is the circuit board that is bad and it will be impossible to get your data back. The only exception to that would be if you replaced the circuit board from EXACTLY the same make and model drive. Changing the circuit board is easy; finding an older drive of the same make and model is the difficult part.



I currently have a drive that will not be recognized in the BIOS so I can't use it as a boot drive, but if I install it as a slave it works perfectly. Go figure.

Answer 2

It could be a host of things causing your problem, but a data recovery program like GetDataBack will read all the data that is or has been on the hard drive and allow you to copy it to another location. What you do with the hard drive after that will depend on exactly what is wrong with it.

Answer 3

homestead windows 7 will already have the drivers attainable to help that HDD. Your situation is the two the cables? if your applying SATA cable, determine the two SATA and the capability cable has been linked, no longer basically one among them. The SATA connects on your motherboard, the capability connects usually directly to the PSU (capability furnish Unit). determine it is getting adequate juice, especially if sharing with yet another capability hungry device on the comparable cable. additionally determine it is not a defective cable or HDD. If it is older IDE cable and/or has jumper settings in the back of the perplexingchronic, then be sure you place it to usual or slave (secondary hdd) counting on the variety you're applying it and what cable it is sharing. as quickly because it somewhat is done, the BIOS/CMOS could desire to a minimum of discover it as a cool call. Many hardware settings are defined in device Setup. particularly, perplexing disk drives are frequently controlled right here. on the finest point, perplexing drives are numbered in Setup aschronic 0, power a million, and so on or each and every so often as usual grasp, usual Slave. Which ever way those are named, they have a undemanding ON / OFF putting (each and every so often automated or something comparable). in case yourchronic isn't detected it particularly is by technique of the fact it particularly is became OFF in device Setup. in maximum situations, the bootchronic ischronic 0 or usual grasp. once you upload a 2ndchronic to the device, it particularly is could desire to be enabled by applying turning it ON in device Setup. while homestead windows 7 starts it is going to rapidly setup the drivers for you. you mustn't could desire to worry approximately that. although, variety new non-formatted perplexing drives won't seem yet. under administration Panel > Administrative equipment > computing device administration seem for storage > Disk administration decide on the recent HDD, appropriate-click, format (usually you will desire to set it as format: straight forward / variety: undemanding / document device: NTFS) and assign achronic letter. it is going to now seem under "My computing device"

Answer 4

to save your data, connect to hard disk to your friends PC as a slave and make sure you boot from his/her hard drive ( should do so automatically if setup as slave anyway)

once PC is booted copy your files from you hard disk and back them up on an external hard drive or to his hard drive.

then wipe and reload your hard drive.