Here's the story. I have a computer that uses 2 harddrives, one that contains the installation of windows, the other is a personal drive that contains personal files (i.e. pictures, music, documents, etc.). This second drive recently failed on me. It is no longer seen in 'My Computer', however IS seen in the device manager. It is also seen in the BIOS, but when booting the computer, it gives me an error along the lines of 'Device 0 failure'. I've tried using programs such as Easy Recovery Pro and SpinRite, neither have worked. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can used? Absolutely any information would be GREATLY appreciated.
you could try right clicking "my computer" and then select manage click disk management under storage and see if you can fix it that way...
Tried that... while it took almost a good 5 minutes to connect to the Logical Disk Manager service (when clicking on Disk Management). It doesn't seem to see the drive period here. It is seen as a disk drive in the device manager, but no where else. My BIOS can detect that it is in fact a harddrive, but when it begins to boot windows, I get a 'device 0 failure' error message where I can choose f1 or f2 to continue to windows or my BIOS.
Have you tried to change your hard drive to use the secondary channel? Device 0 would normally be the primary channel. It could be the data cable try a different cable. If the drive was dead it would not be seen in device manager. Try changing it to use the secondary channel or change the connection cable. If none of the above work than it could be the motherboard controller. Check intels site for controller failure.
To solve both those problems, I've been testing the drive on another computer. The computer it died in was an older computer (parents can't seem to keep up with the changing technology). Not too old, but old enough that some of the software I've tried to use runs kinda sluggish on theirs while it flys on mine. Anyways, unless both our IDE cables are bad and/or both mobo's are bad (at least on that channel), then that isn't the problem.
well if u tried on both pc to no avail then u could get a professional company to get the info out( very expensive process) or throw it in the trash
Apparently the process to physically take apart the drive and retrieve the data costs around 500 dollars. I'm not quite yet ready to throw down that much money before exploring other options. Throwing the drive out without this data is also out of the question.
