So I think my HDD just failed

Kitsune

Kitsune

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I have a western Digital 1TB harddrive that has over 200GB of pics and movies and such and I think it just failed on me.

I was playing a game and I stoped playing it, went some where and when I came back I moved the mouse because it was on screen saver and if froze so I tried restart it, buy hitting the powerswitch, and when it turned back on it told me something about an error 109, I changed sata plugs around and it changed to 106. Point being I had a lot of valuable data on there.

So I guess my question is does anyone know of a data recovery shop that could get all of my data or am I pretty much screwed?
 
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Lets not jump to conclusions. If your put your hand on the drive can you feel the disks spinning inside?

You could also try to put the drive in a working computer to see if you can get the data that way.

There could be a problem with your mobo or something rather than your hdd.
What kind of computer do you have make and model..and what OS do you have?
 
It is an intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz socket 775 with 2GB of ram (Crucial Technology). The OS (Windows 7 Ultimate) is on a 30Gb sata Harddrive and everything else was on the 1Tb sata. It is a rather old computer but still runs.

At first I thought it was my ram so I took them out and looked for "burn" marks, and then replaced the ram, Now running dual channel instead of single channel, which is better? I have 2 1GB sticks. Anyhow.

I turned the computer back on after uplugging the 1TB From the mobo and the computer started just fine after that.

(The XP computer is a Compaq x.x with 1GB of ram,AMD 2600 Processor I think)
I put the 1Tb in the external dock that I have for it, and any other HDD's that I will get in the future, and the discs still spin in it. It sounds like it is thinking but then............ Nothing........

I went to Administrative tools on my windows xp computer, which it used to reconize before today, and I can't even find it in the computer management (seeing if it switched the drive path or something). When I put it in the "Hot Drive bay" of the Intel P4 (which is in a Gateway FX case) It freezes the computer, When I hook it up to the Mobo it wont go past telling me there is a 106, or 109 error, Then tells me to press F4 For Setup, when I put it in the Windows xp computer it does nothing but spin :(

I pressed F4 and went through, but I am not familiar with running bios too much so that didn't do anything helpful. When it was comming up with the 109 error on start up the computer would beep once, like it always does, then beep again and brought up all this information about my ram and whether I was running single channel or dual channel, the error 109 and finally Press F4 for setup. Then when I switched sata Ports it beeped once then showed me all the same info and changed to a 106 error.

When I get home I will get the model number off of the Mobo, and the HDD that isnt looking to good, and maybe take some pics of the screen I was getting?

Mothrboard Model# D915GUX
HDD: Western Digital Caviar
Model# WD10EACS

This is what the screen says when the HDD is plugged in.

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well there is still some chance that your hardrive will work.since your harddrive still spins and i guess you don't hear any funny noise.

what i will suggest you do is to take the 30 gigabyte hdd out and leave the 1tb in it
get a start up disk or any bootable os cd to run a clean installation. make sure you do not format the hdd since you will loose every thing on it.
the os might run a check disk for you. and it would be fine.
 
have you done any upgrades to your machine lately...

I would go to Western Digitals website and get the bootabe lifeguard diagnostic tool... burn it a disk then boot to it and run the program to check your drive for errors...
 
ruffpuff said:
well there is still some chance that your hardrive will work.since your harddrive still spins and i guess you don't hear any funny noise.

what i will suggest you do is to take the 30 gigabyte hdd out and leave the 1tb in it
get a start up disk or any bootable os cd to run a clean installation. make sure you do not format the hdd since you will loose every thing on it.
the os might run a check disk for you. and it would be fine.
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I will try that using the Win-7 Ultimate disc. :)

jasonn20 said:
have you done any upgrades to your machine lately...

I would go to Western Digitals website and get the bootabe lifeguard diagnostic tool... burn it a disk then boot to it and run the program to check your drive for errors...
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The only thing I have done was ram but I needed that to run the computer. I had added a video card aswell. If the windows 7 disc fails to fix it I will try to get the Lifeguard Diognostic :)

Quiltface said:
What is your BIOS version? That might help a little bit.
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I havent a clue But when I am tinkering with it I will find out :D
 
OK so I downloaded the WD Diognaustic and it is telling me that...... You know what I will just post a pic..... Ok didnt work like I wanted But the bluebar says Unable to locate the license agreement file, DLGLICE.TXT!!!.... What am I doing wrong ?


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So you are using a CD then? How did you burn it? (ie drag the ISO to the disk or use something like nero to open then burn the image). Either way it looks like the image didn't burn correctly or that part was missing.
 
I used MagicISO, made it bootable and then burned the image to the disc and finalyzed it. I was going to check burn proof but I didnt. I dont know the difference x.x I never did get the BIOS version wither :( I will get that as soon as I can
 
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If you can just give us the make of the bios i dont necessarily need the version number. Just trying to find out exactly what that error means.
 
I dont know where to find the name of the maker but the Bios Version is EV9151A.86A.0444..... Sorry it took so long I got a little busy today.
 
Cromewell said:
It's an Intel board so the BIOS is Intel as well. http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/dsktpboards/d915gux

I don't know what error 109 means in this context, I can't find any references in the manual (http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15192/eng/D915GAV_D915GAG_D915GEV_D915GUX_ProductGuide02_English.pdf).
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I am thinking that it is just saying there is some serious problems with the installed HDD that causes the system to be very unstable or something so much so that the system wont run with it installed to keep it from destroying the system?
 
Kitsune said:
I have a western Digital 1TB harddrive that has over 200GB of pics and movies and such and I think it just failed on me.

I was playing a game and I stoped playing it, went some where and when I came back I moved the mouse because it was on screen saver and if froze so I tried restart it, buy hitting the powerswitch, and when it turned back on it told me something about an error 109, I changed sata plugs around and it changed to 106. Point being I had a lot of valuable data on there.

So I guess my question is does anyone know of a data recovery shop that could get all of my data or am I pretty much screwed?
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Im just curious to know what game were you playing on an old video card with a 27 inch HD tv that might not support the computer and therefore causing it to crash. I understand there might be other variables but the thing that stands out to me is that its a pretty old computer... I was just wondering.
 
BuddyLee81 said:
Im just curious to know what game were you playing on an old video card with a 27 inch HD tv that might not support the computer and therefore causing it to crash. I understand there might be other variables but the thing that stands out to me is that its a pretty old computer... I was just wondering.
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I was playing Gothic 3. The videocard isnt increadibly old I think my friend got it with his gateway a year or two ago. But yes the computer is pretty old but still runs. But I also had like COD4 and GTA San Andreas. And like 20 other games that I dont remember what they were right now but the main ones I played were GTA, COD4, and Gothic 3.
 
So I fanally got around to reading the included text in the Lifeguard tools for my hdd and found out that it MUST boot from a floppy drive inorder to work, so my question is how do I get around it? Or can I get around it? Other than that I dont know what to do :(
 
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