Bios won't recognize drive after I bailed out of a chkdsk

R

Robert P

Member
Have a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB drive that I suspected of having issues. I copied various files to another drive and then attempted to do a chkdsk. System wouldn't do it until I rebooted so I did.

It was taking forever - 12 hours later it was still churning away on step 4 or 5, so I was going to try and do a reformat. Used the reset button, but when the system came back up the drive isn't recognized at all. Won't even show in bios. Previous to this I could still access files on it.

If bios doesn't see the drive is it officially a paperweight? I don't think it's even 2 years old.

Thanks.
 
Try unplugging the Drive and plug it back in? Reset BIOS CMOS? Try the disk in another system?
 
Hdd's are mechanical devices and will go out at any time. If the bios doesn't detect the drive then its shot.
 
chkdsk didn't cause the problem. Bailing could have corrupted the partition or file structure, would not have made the bios not detect it.

I would say it is just bad luck and timing when it failed.
 
Never EVER cancel the CHKDSK on force.NEVER!
If the drive has TONS TONS and TONS of files on it then it is completely normal that CHKDSK will take extremely long time to finish.

One of the drives in my UAC data device has over 500000 files and CHKDSK took about 23 hours to finish...
That's completely normal.And it varies on the drive,system and so on...
So just because it takes longer than "what you expected" that does not mean that your drive is automatically bad.
But canceling the CHKDSK on force because it takes longer than "what you expected" is just stupid...Don't do that in the future...
Use CHKDSK only if it's neccessary AND if you are willing to wait for it to finish...No point in starting the CHKDSK and then canceling it on force just because you hate waiting it to finish...

Have you tryed to connect the drive through USB on some other computer?
 
I agreed not to quit the chkdsk process manually by shuting down the power or reset.

Now, I would suggest we use external USB HDD case to use the HDD as an external HDD on other computer and see if we can get the drive recognized.

Also, try to remove all jumper at the back of the HDD if there is any.
Connect to the computer and power on once.
Then try different jumper settings. Hope this can let the Bios see the HDD again.

Hope this helps.
Bill
Tech Manager, WPTinc.:)
 
PcTestCard.com said:
I agreed not to quit the chkdsk process manually by shuting down the power or reset.

Now, I would suggest we use external USB HDD case to use the HDD as an external HDD on other computer and see if we can get the drive recognized.

Also, try to remove all jumper at the back of the HDD if there is any.
Connect to the computer and power on once.
Then try different jumper settings. Hope this can let the Bios see the HDD again.

Hope this helps.
Bill
Tech Manager, WPTinc.:)
Click to expand...

Not really sure how this will help, since the MBR seems to be damaged and a USB HDD external cady wont fix that, and a SATAII drive doesn't use the jumper slave/master arrangement.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top