Mark W Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Soooooo, the setup. I'm running (Well, was running...) two hard-drives, the O.G. tiny one that came with my near archaic PC, and a secondary one (inside the tower, not an external one) that was much bigger.I've used the secondary one to store every photo I've ever taken with my cameras, store all my video files and that kinda thing. As you can imagine, it's contents is pretty valuable, especially as I need to email a magazine a batch of high res files - files that were/are on that secondary hard drive.Anyway, last Friday my computer was being mega slow, just taking ages to do stuff. Switched the minx off, and just left it 'cos I was going to Southampton the day after anyway. Got back today, fired up my computer, and there's no sign of my secondary drive (aka the E-drive). Rebooted, check again, no joy. Repeated that once or twice, made some coffee, made some soup, fired up TF and made this thread.Has anyone got any tips/suggestions for how I can check whether my hard-drive's totally f**ked or whether something's just been dicked about in my settings or something? Gonna do a system restore to beginning of last week when it worked, but I'm not super confident of that doing anything...EDIT: Just tried to System Restore, but says it won't do shit to my E-drive 'cos it's either been excluded from System Restore, turned off or removed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Errrrrr...*crosses fingers* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sheehan! Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Cant think of much as im not very good in this area, but have you gone to control panel and checked the device manager to see if the computer knows its there or not? and also have you double checked to make sure the hard drive is actually plugged in (quite a lot of people dont have the cases on their pcs)If not you could try setting the secondary hard drive to master and have a go at booting off of that and seeing if windows recognises it. if it does then you probably have a software related issue (virus etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 If not you could try setting the secondary hard drive to master and have a go at booting off of that and seeing if windows recognises it. if it does then you probably have a software related issue (virus etc)wouldn't the second hard drive need to have windows installed on it to do that?or must windows be installed on any hard drive before it can be used on a windows pc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yeah, Windows isn't installed on htat drive.When I get home from uni I'll just open up the case, take it apart, make sure everything's plugged in properly and see if that does anything. If not, I'll just try and get someone else to see if they can get it to work on their computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Take it out, boot up and run your comp for a bit, then put it back in and boot up and hope it notices it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Any chance you can try it in another computer Mark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Any chance you can try it in another computer Mark?Unlikely All my friends either use Macs or wankered PCs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, YEAH!Just whipped it out, cleaned it down a bit (Not talking about my penis), then stuck it back together.Booyah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sheehan! Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, YEAH!Just whipped it out, cleaned it down a bit (Not talking about my penis), then stuck it back together.Booyah.Give yourself a pat on the back and then backup your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 No time now, I've gotta go and learn about Flash in uni.Web-design semesters: No thanks. No thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Give yourself a pat on the back and then backup your work.Aye Do it now Mark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Well done Mark!Now it's your turn to hide, and let the HDD find you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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