Can't access hard drives

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scharkie

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Hi,

I have a Toshiba Laptop satellite X200. Last week both hard drives crashed so I took it to a computer repair shop. They told me that both hard drives could not be accessed and replaced with new ones. I couldn't understand how both went down but pc knowledge is limited. Anyway I bought an IDE cable setup to see if I could access. Although the hard drive does not show up om my computer it does in devises and computer management. How can I access the hard drives.

Can someone please help as all my info is on them.

Thank you.
 
In disk management, are they assigned drive letters? If not, you may just need to assign the drive letters as disk drives won't show up in my computer without drive letters being assigned to them. If there are letters assigned then you definately have drive issues.
 
Hi,

Thanks for your time.

No assigned drive letter. It shows up as disk 3 in management and says unkwown, not initialized and unallocated
 
If they are showing as unallocated in disk management then they need formatting although as has been said there may be issues with these two drives.

Without researching this Toshiba box are you saying it had two hard drive bays because if it had/has then I can't understand why the non primary drive went down the pan either.

More info please.
 
Hi,
Yes I had 2, 160gb hard drives which came wth the laptop. C and D drive. Sorry Wolfeymole but I don't know what more info you need. I'm not very pc savy.
 
Well there are laptops that actually do have 2 physical hard drives Stranglehold so let's be absolutely clear on this Scharkie, were these drives internal?
 
scharkie said:
Hi,

Thanks for your time.

No assigned drive letter. It shows up as disk 3 in management and says unkwown, not initialized and unallocated
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This indicates that there is no file structure on the drive, there has to be a file structure like FAT or NTFS for the drive to be recognised.

If you do manage to format them then you can run a disk check on them but if you have problems even trying to format them then the disks have issues, as has already been mentioned.
 
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