my pc is not detecting my hard drive

[seby08]

hy one day i was playing mafia ii and all of the sudden everything stops my desktop was empty error message everywhere my pc couldnt find my hard drive . i used sistem restore now every picture and all my music is gone .i cant save any game or save settings to my software please help is my hdd broken ?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello seby08, welcome to Seven Forums!


Find the manufacturer of the Hard Disk Drive at the link below to see if their diagnostic tools will help and be sure to post back with updates.

Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities


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[seby08]

thank you i have found some soft ware but unfortunately toshiba hasnt got a program that runs on windows 7
heres the list and none of them work.
Software Utilities

 

[seby08]

i think i might as well had a virus because lots of my data is hidden but ill keep trying

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello.


If you feel you have a virus you may want to do a clean install and start over from scratch to over-write the virus, sometime that's the only, best option, have a look at the info below.

   Information

If you want to do a clean install anyway, this may be a better process, after you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media and want to do a complete wipe secure erase of the entire Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive, have a look at Step One of the Optimize tutorial below then boot the Windows installation media to start the Windows 7 clean install process.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

DISKPART : At PC Startup​

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