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glasseyeball   10-17-2008 at 03:11:22 PM

So I installed this old 80GB HD in my box, when I booted up the drive shows on the bios, loaded windows and device was installed automatically. Here's where the problem hits. The drive doesn't show up in my computer, so i went to disk management and found the drive that i just installed. When I try to initialize the disk its says "The request could not be preformed because of an I/O device error". I see the drive, its recognized by my system, I just don't know what to do. Can I recover this drive?

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Shadow703793   10-17-2008 at 03:27:53 PM
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1. Make sure the ribbon is seated correctly.

2. Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly.

3. Is this a blank HDD or dose it have data in it?

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glasseyeball   10-17-2008 at 03:44:40 PM
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The drive is hooked in good, it has no data on it. The drive is unallocated. The drive is also a SATA so I didnt think I had to set any jumpers...

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pug_s   10-17-2008 at 04:56:19 PM
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I assume that the drive is not your primary boot drive. Try to delete this drive from device manager and let the computer try to detect it again.

If it doesn't work, it might be flaky controller to your computer. Many intel motherboards have a separate jmicron ide/sata controller which works better (or worse) than the intel sata controllers, so you can try to switch between the 2.

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glasseyeball   10-17-2008 at 05:24:03 PM
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No it isn't my primary boot drive. Ok, well I removed the drive in the device manager and reinstalled. Everything installed fine with no problems, it says the device is working and ready to use. But still won't show up in My Computer and when in disk management I still can't initialize the drive (same I/O dervice error).

As for the controller switching, I don't know how do do that. what does that mean exactly? How can I save this drive...

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ram1009   10-17-2008 at 05:29:04 PM
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You don't say where the old HDD previously resided. If it was in a store bought computer you may not ever be able to use it as a boot drive. Every HDD from a store bought computer I've had to work with had the boot sector modified to only work properly with the bios from a MB issued by the same manufacturer. Being an 80GB HDD I'm betting it's pretty old. If so. I wouldn't trust it as a boot drive anyway. If the HDD has data you need install it as a second drive using another drive ( preferably newer & more reliable) to boot from. Then you can migrate the data between drives at your leisure.

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glasseyeball   10-17-2008 at 05:49:09 PM
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I don't want to use it as a boot drive.

I did some thinking and this hard drive was actually the HD that came with the computer when I bought it. I bought another drive to add to the case, that is the HD that i am running the now. The Drive in question I forgot about and found today, plugged it in, it installed(shockingly) and now I can't initialize it.

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geofelt   10-17-2008 at 06:04:10 PM
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Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site, and see if they have a stand alone utility for it. You should be able to run diagnostics, and do a full format.

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glasseyeball   10-17-2008 at 09:20:25 PM
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Well I downloaded western digital's diagnostic utility, burned an .iso(I have vista), rebooted and ran a quick test. Test came back with an error/status code : 0003. What does that mean?

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slavka   10-18-2008 at 04:13:41 AM
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Looks like a drive firmware corruption. Here's something about it: http://datacent.com/datarecovery/h [...] al/WD800BB

I suggest you get a usb enclosure and try with it.


Message edited by slavka on 10-18-2008 at 04:16:21 AM
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