I recently built a new computer for myself and I bought a brand new Seagate 250GB SATA drive to replace my Seagate 120GB PATA drive. The older drive is only around 9 months old.
I reformatted the SATA drive with a Windows XP Pro SP2 CD (probably my biggest mistake). Everything installed smoothly, and I copied over a bunch of data from another hard drive fine. I hooked up my PATA drive and deleted the partitions with disk management. When I went to reformat it, Windows gave a BSOD with a "MACHINE_EXCEPT_ERROR" message. I tried reformatting the PATA drive with the WinXP Install CD, and this worked fine.
I went ahead and downloaded Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic and gave both drives a full scan. It turns out that there are partition errors on BOTH drives (bad index) for EVERY partition (the 250GB drive is split into 3, 120GB is 1). Thankfully there are no bad sectors and no physical damage to either drive.
To resolve this I tried to use Seagate's Discwizard bootup tool to reformat the 120GB drive. I scanned it with SeaTools and no errors were detected (it had been partitioned correctly I guess). I wanted to rescue the files that I had backed up to the 250GB before a complete wipe. I copied around 40GB to the 120GB before the same BSOD message came up, MACHINE_EXCEPT_ERROR. Did a rescan of both drives with Seatools and both have partition damage again.
Is there any way for me to rescue the data off of the SATA disc before I reformat the whole thing? It has 3 partitions, 1 is for the OS (no important data), the other 2 are for storage. Also, what might be causing all of this?
I reformatted the SATA drive with a Windows XP Pro SP2 CD (probably my biggest mistake). Everything installed smoothly, and I copied over a bunch of data from another hard drive fine. I hooked up my PATA drive and deleted the partitions with disk management. When I went to reformat it, Windows gave a BSOD with a "MACHINE_EXCEPT_ERROR" message. I tried reformatting the PATA drive with the WinXP Install CD, and this worked fine.
I went ahead and downloaded Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic and gave both drives a full scan. It turns out that there are partition errors on BOTH drives (bad index) for EVERY partition (the 250GB drive is split into 3, 120GB is 1). Thankfully there are no bad sectors and no physical damage to either drive.
To resolve this I tried to use Seagate's Discwizard bootup tool to reformat the 120GB drive. I scanned it with SeaTools and no errors were detected (it had been partitioned correctly I guess). I wanted to rescue the files that I had backed up to the 250GB before a complete wipe. I copied around 40GB to the 120GB before the same BSOD message came up, MACHINE_EXCEPT_ERROR. Did a rescan of both drives with Seatools and both have partition damage again.
Is there any way for me to rescue the data off of the SATA disc before I reformat the whole thing? It has 3 partitions, 1 is for the OS (no important data), the other 2 are for storage. Also, what might be causing all of this?
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