How to read data from a faulty HDD

pedroc1999 said:

is the drive enabled in the bios?

Well i wouldn't like to go over the tread 3 times, just go read the problem from the begining, you will the see what has been done and why.
How can i check if the drive is registered in the BIOS when i had to jump start the drive connecting it to the pc while working??
That was the only way to boot up with that drive connected parallel with my Win7 drive...

Kaktussoft said:

petko131 said:

pedroc1999 said:

So the drive simply isnt being recognised...

have u tried in a diffrent pc?

have you got an external + powered hdd lying around, you could use that as a temporary docking station

As mentioned before (twice ), I don't have a external rack or a sata-usb cable... All my other PCs have ATA connectors...
The question is how can i "register" the unrecognized hard drive to windows?!?!?!

You don't care losing all data on that disk?

Well now i don't care.... i am now goinng to perform this quick scan, so be back who knows when

I'll be in touch over my mobile

In Elevated Command Prompt

Code:

diskpart
list  disk

Does it see the disk. I assume it's number 1.
Still in diskpart

Code:

sel  disk  #
clean
exit

Of course replace # with rela disk number.
Works? Only do it if you want to destroy EVERYTHING on disk. All partitions and files are gone forever

If partition wizard can't recover the partition(s) and surface scan retruns no errors (let it only check first few GB, so let it run 10 minutes)

• delete all partition on that disk (if any) How to Delete All Partitions with partition manager? Partition Wizard delete all partitions Help Video
• initialize MBR (if not yet MBR) How to Initialize Disk to MBR Disk with partition manager? Partition Wizard Video Help.
• rebuild mbr How to Rebuild MBR with partition magic? Partition Wizard Rebuild MBR Video Help.
• apply the changes

Be sure you select the correct disk!!!
Works?
Create one or more partitions How to Create Partition with partition manager? Partition Wizard Create Partition Video Help
Works?

Will do as you say. But not now, because i am running partition recovery wizard, and for 10 minuets it hassdon only 0% so that means it will be left over the night. I will delete all of the data after the test is done. Now the bad hdd isn't appearing as unallocated, but as a logical type, and bad disk...

petko131 said:

Will do as you say. But not now, because i am running partition recovery wizard, and for 10 minuets it hassdon only 0% so that means it will be left over the night. I will delete all of the data after the test is done. Now the bad hdd isn't appearing as unallocated, but as a logical type, and bad disk...

Do you mean it found a logical partition? Is it type NTFS? What's the size?