I'm going to try to be as thorough as possible, but if I leave anything out please ask me as I really need your help. I know you've heard this before, but I was in the middle of a project about to export the final audio sequence and bam, this happens...anyway, the drive in question is a 2.5" sata toshiba MK5056GSY with CYL16383, H16, S63 and it also says 500GB LBA 976, 773, 168sectors. It is out of an HP DV7 laptop which is a 17 inch 64 bit unit about three or four years old.
The laptop just died on me. You hit the power button and all the lights come on but it does nothing. No problem, I'll just send it in for repair, but I needed the data off the hard drive to finish the project, so I put it in an external sata to USB device on my windows 7 desktop, and noticed the drive clicking just a bit. I immediately stuck it in the freezer. I looked for a suitable drive to clone it to and downloaded a copy of EaseUS Partition Master. After running chkdsk a few times (for which it did find errors) I proceeded to start the copy. It said it copied successfully, but at the end the screen blinked, and the destination drive and source drive disappeared. I unplugged it all, rebooted, and plugged it all back in. The destination drive only had the first partition (the source drive was partitioned 4 ways: 1=system, 2=boot, 3=hp recovery, 4=hp tools) and the source drive would not even register with the system unless the destination drive was disconnected. The source drive, when connected via the USB to sata box, shows all four partitions, but only knows that the 1st is an NTFS partition and assigns it a drive letter. 2, 3, & 4's file system cannot be identified, nor are they assigned drive letters unless I turn power off to the USB to sata adapter, for which windows momentarily says that those drives cannot be accessed unless formatted and then shows each partition by letter, with the option to format or cancel.
When I connect the source drive directly to the Sata cable via onboard controller of my desktop, I do not get any response. Sometimes the system will boot, sometimes it will not. When connecting via USB to sata, the system hangs, then comes back, then hangs. You can see hard drive access for a time on initial power up via the LEDS on the USB to sata adapter, but then it stops activity after a while. During this time only the first partition comes up as drive "I", and it comes up requesting a scandisk.
I have tried a few utilities but nothing can access the drive as it hangs the system or is unresponsive after it has stopped all LED activity. The only thing that gives me a bit of hope is that the drive continues to spin up and when I connect the drive via USB, widows acknowledges that the drive is there with the "hardware connected" confirmation sound. Also, when I open the drive management snap in, the source drive does show up when connected via USB to sata, and displays the appropriate partitions in what I remember to be the appropriate sizes for those particular partitions. I just cannot do anything with the information as when I click on the partitions, it does not allow me as it says that the information needs to be refreshed.
My question is how can I go about repairing this drives, or recovering it enough so that I can clone it to another drive, when I cannot access the drive enough to work with it. I have tried EaseUS Partition Master to fix the problem it caused, but to no avail. I have tried SpinRite 6.0, but I cannot even get it to see the hard drive, let alone startup. In fact, no utilities that require booting from DOS have worked as I cannot get my desktop to recognize how to start up in DOP from a USB stick. No one uses Floppys anymore, nor do I have any. I have tried burning on ISO to CD or DVD as well as using the memory stick wish other programs and changing BIOS settings for startup options, and nothing works. Can anyone give me some insight as to how to bail myself out of this problem?
The laptop just died on me. You hit the power button and all the lights come on but it does nothing. No problem, I'll just send it in for repair, but I needed the data off the hard drive to finish the project, so I put it in an external sata to USB device on my windows 7 desktop, and noticed the drive clicking just a bit. I immediately stuck it in the freezer. I looked for a suitable drive to clone it to and downloaded a copy of EaseUS Partition Master. After running chkdsk a few times (for which it did find errors) I proceeded to start the copy. It said it copied successfully, but at the end the screen blinked, and the destination drive and source drive disappeared. I unplugged it all, rebooted, and plugged it all back in. The destination drive only had the first partition (the source drive was partitioned 4 ways: 1=system, 2=boot, 3=hp recovery, 4=hp tools) and the source drive would not even register with the system unless the destination drive was disconnected. The source drive, when connected via the USB to sata box, shows all four partitions, but only knows that the 1st is an NTFS partition and assigns it a drive letter. 2, 3, & 4's file system cannot be identified, nor are they assigned drive letters unless I turn power off to the USB to sata adapter, for which windows momentarily says that those drives cannot be accessed unless formatted and then shows each partition by letter, with the option to format or cancel.
When I connect the source drive directly to the Sata cable via onboard controller of my desktop, I do not get any response. Sometimes the system will boot, sometimes it will not. When connecting via USB to sata, the system hangs, then comes back, then hangs. You can see hard drive access for a time on initial power up via the LEDS on the USB to sata adapter, but then it stops activity after a while. During this time only the first partition comes up as drive "I", and it comes up requesting a scandisk.
I have tried a few utilities but nothing can access the drive as it hangs the system or is unresponsive after it has stopped all LED activity. The only thing that gives me a bit of hope is that the drive continues to spin up and when I connect the drive via USB, widows acknowledges that the drive is there with the "hardware connected" confirmation sound. Also, when I open the drive management snap in, the source drive does show up when connected via USB to sata, and displays the appropriate partitions in what I remember to be the appropriate sizes for those particular partitions. I just cannot do anything with the information as when I click on the partitions, it does not allow me as it says that the information needs to be refreshed.
My question is how can I go about repairing this drives, or recovering it enough so that I can clone it to another drive, when I cannot access the drive enough to work with it. I have tried EaseUS Partition Master to fix the problem it caused, but to no avail. I have tried SpinRite 6.0, but I cannot even get it to see the hard drive, let alone startup. In fact, no utilities that require booting from DOS have worked as I cannot get my desktop to recognize how to start up in DOP from a USB stick. No one uses Floppys anymore, nor do I have any. I have tried burning on ISO to CD or DVD as well as using the memory stick wish other programs and changing BIOS settings for startup options, and nothing works. Can anyone give me some insight as to how to bail myself out of this problem?
but I really need some help on this one. This project has been one problem after the other...also another thing that has me a bit concerned is that so far, I have not been emailed about any of the responses to this or another thread that I have on this site. I could potentially be missing out on good information if this site does not email me that there was a reply. Is there something that I need to switch on so I can be notified? I thought the site would do it by default.
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