Storage Solutions WD 1TB Internal HDD Problem

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Hi i bought a new WD 1TB Internal HDD for my PC about 9 odd months ago as my existing 500GB Sansung wasnt sufficient.

All was good until this morning when My Computer only showed the old 500GB HDD & not the 2 partitions of my new 1TB HDD.

The Device Manager still showes it but thats it
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I removed the SATA wire going from the HDD to the Motherboard, cleaned & reattached it - nothing.
Removed the wire again & put it in another SATA slot on the MB & restarted the pc & it detected the hdd & all was good.

Switched-on the PC again now & its again not detecting the new HDD, i tried doing the above again a few times but no luck.

All my important stuff is in there & any help on tiding over this problem will be most appreciated.
 
Ckeck the drive partition, right click on my computer>manage>disk management. Is yoiur drive listed there along with the partition?
 
You've opened the Properties screen and not the Manage one. Please check again - Right click on My Computer and select Manage
 
Just remember to backup to a different drive, not this 1TB HDD. If you are from mumbai, just get ur HDD over to my place if needed, i have around 1.5Tb free.
 
HailStonE said:
Try this & it might help you... Its free & usually works.. :)

Free Partition Recovery Software - Recover Deleted FAT/NTFS/Ext2/Ext3 Partition.
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Thanks for that ^

Well it does detect my WD 1TB & also shows the Partitions in it:

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Upon double-clicking on the Photos partition the following pops-up but, nothing happens if i double click on a file/folder, Right-Click/CTRL-C or Drag-Drop dosent work & that greyed-out 'Proceed' button stays just that - Greyed-out for hours :huh:

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edit: the forum isnt fully expanding/showing-up the above screenshot ^ in normal res, link to it here > http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8011/dm5kw.jpg

vivek.krishnan said:
Just remember to backup to a different drive, not this 1TB HDD. If you are from mumbai, just get ur HDD over to my place if needed, i have around 1.5Tb free.
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I stay in Andheri, check your inbox just sent u a mail.

Thank You.
 
Update:

Hi guys, thanks for all your suggestions - most MOST Appreciated!!

I had sent an SOS to a friend of mine who's doing some big Computers/Technology related study/work,

he downloaded & installed this software which did the trick.

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There's my 1TB drive in RED.

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As soon as this drive went problematic, I had a New Jersey based friend buy for me > Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive USB 3.0 Kit (2TB) for $129.95/-

I just got it yesterday, made a FULL & COMPLETE RECOVERY OF MY DATA.:clap:
 
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