Not Reading HDs after power surge/loss

I don't think I had anything on there that hurt me to lose. I think it is the disk I was using to run Acronis backup. Go figure huh?

OK. So apart from that, your system is good right?

If that is the case, just initialise the disk as normal and lets see what can be read from it.

Regards,
Golden

Won't initialize. It says I/O error.

Mmm.

Can you select the disk using diskpart? From an elevated cmd window try the following:

diskpart <enter>
list disk <enter>

lets assume it shows as disk number 1

select disk 1 <enter>
attribute disk <enter>

Does it list any disk attributes?

Regards,
Golden

Sorry, but not sure how to get to an elevated cmd window.

Hi,

Click the Start Orb, then in the search box, type cmd.

Right-click on cmd in the list, then choose Run as administrator.

Regards,
Golden

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Ok, I took out the bad HD, removed the SATA cable and blew my rig out. This thing is running good once again! I'm going to mark this solved. Thanks again for all the help!

sibbil said:

If that disk is still under warranty, it may be worthwhile downloading the manufacturer's diagnostics app and running it on the drive to see what error code is returned. Could be worth a new drive!

Thanks for the thoughts. :) However, that disk is @ least 3-4 years old.