I restarted my computer because my windows 7 gadgets were not working correctly.
Then it would not boot into windows. The bios load up takes a good 3 minutes and then says, "Primary Hard Disk Errors. Press F1 to continue." I do and then it says, "no CD in drive press ctrl alt delete to restart." If I don't continue and enter setup instead the hard drive does show up as WD3200AAKS on SATA channel 1. I noticed that the SMART status field is blank but my other two drives do show up as SMART enabled, previously there was a SMART ENABLED next to this disk following the name. Now it just says the model of the drive.
I tried using dos and it can't detect the drive. Neither can WD Data Lifeguard.
I plugged it into another computer, the one I'm on now, it's BIOS also takes 3 minutes to initialize. However it cannot identify the model of the drive, but it does list that there is something on SATA channel 3. I cannot get it to show up in windows. I tried plugging it in when it was already running hoping I would get a, "found new hardware" message but there's nothing. The hard drive spins up fine and there are no abnormal sounds. There was absolutely no warning it was going to die.
It's a WD Caviar Blue 320GB and it literally is my primary hard disk with windows and everything! The biggest BS is I have a Lab report + research due Wednesday, a MATLAB programming assignment due this Wednesday (MATLAB being only on that machine), and a writing research final next Monday. All of my work is on this drive. I'm at a loss, the kicker being that I actually do keep a backup on a 16GB Flash drive that went corrupt just YESTERDAY.
What can I do? Sending it somewhere is not an option I need this working TONIGHT because I need the data ASAP. Please help, Thank you.
Then it would not boot into windows. The bios load up takes a good 3 minutes and then says, "Primary Hard Disk Errors. Press F1 to continue." I do and then it says, "no CD in drive press ctrl alt delete to restart." If I don't continue and enter setup instead the hard drive does show up as WD3200AAKS on SATA channel 1. I noticed that the SMART status field is blank but my other two drives do show up as SMART enabled, previously there was a SMART ENABLED next to this disk following the name. Now it just says the model of the drive.
I tried using dos and it can't detect the drive. Neither can WD Data Lifeguard.
I plugged it into another computer, the one I'm on now, it's BIOS also takes 3 minutes to initialize. However it cannot identify the model of the drive, but it does list that there is something on SATA channel 3. I cannot get it to show up in windows. I tried plugging it in when it was already running hoping I would get a, "found new hardware" message but there's nothing. The hard drive spins up fine and there are no abnormal sounds. There was absolutely no warning it was going to die.
It's a WD Caviar Blue 320GB and it literally is my primary hard disk with windows and everything! The biggest BS is I have a Lab report + research due Wednesday, a MATLAB programming assignment due this Wednesday (MATLAB being only on that machine), and a writing research final next Monday. All of my work is on this drive. I'm at a loss, the kicker being that I actually do keep a backup on a 16GB Flash drive that went corrupt just YESTERDAY.
What can I do? Sending it somewhere is not an option I need this working TONIGHT because I need the data ASAP. Please help, Thank you.