Hi,
I was running a laptop which developed a power issue and would not progress further than the black and white startup screen upon boot without entering a continuous rebooting loop. So I removed the internal HDD which is a Seagate Momentus thin 320GB and hooked it up to a functioning desktop through sata usb cable and tried to copy some files across.
I noticed that this process was taking a lot longer than usual as It was taking over an hour to transfer a 100mb video. So after the video finished, I removed the drive safely from the desktop, and located a different functioning laptop and removed it's hdd then inserted the Seagate drive into it and tried to boot the laptop.
The laptop wouldn't boot, so I removed the Seagate and connected it back to the desktop via sata usb to begin the long process of copying my files, but when I did this, I could no longer access the drive in windows explorer. I constantly get the following message: E/ is not accessible, the request cannot be performed due to an I/O error.
I have tried various data recovery software but they either cannot locate any partitions, or once scanning has finished, say there are no files to recover. The drive letter and the correct drive size are the only pieces of information left when vieweing the drive. Its also worth mentioning that upon inspection in device manager, it lists the drive as a RAW device now, when it was previously NTFS. The HDD is NOT making any strange noises or clicking sounds. It sounds normal.
Any advice apart from take it to professional data recovery would be appreciated. Even if you can tell me what you think may be wrong in this case? Chipset? Platter? Etc.
I was running a laptop which developed a power issue and would not progress further than the black and white startup screen upon boot without entering a continuous rebooting loop. So I removed the internal HDD which is a Seagate Momentus thin 320GB and hooked it up to a functioning desktop through sata usb cable and tried to copy some files across.
I noticed that this process was taking a lot longer than usual as It was taking over an hour to transfer a 100mb video. So after the video finished, I removed the drive safely from the desktop, and located a different functioning laptop and removed it's hdd then inserted the Seagate drive into it and tried to boot the laptop.
The laptop wouldn't boot, so I removed the Seagate and connected it back to the desktop via sata usb to begin the long process of copying my files, but when I did this, I could no longer access the drive in windows explorer. I constantly get the following message: E/ is not accessible, the request cannot be performed due to an I/O error.
I have tried various data recovery software but they either cannot locate any partitions, or once scanning has finished, say there are no files to recover. The drive letter and the correct drive size are the only pieces of information left when vieweing the drive. Its also worth mentioning that upon inspection in device manager, it lists the drive as a RAW device now, when it was previously NTFS. The HDD is NOT making any strange noises or clicking sounds. It sounds normal.
Any advice apart from take it to professional data recovery would be appreciated. Even if you can tell me what you think may be wrong in this case? Chipset? Platter? Etc.