HELP, my Hard drive stopped working

[Registered]

It was fine, I had win XP [on the primary master] and on the slave I had the 80gb hard drive, my comp needed a reformat so I backed up everything on the slave, then unplugged it to make sure I didn't accidentally do anything to it... and now after the format and reinstallation of winxp and all the drivers I plug this slave drive in, and it tells me it's not formatted would I like to do so now?..

I've found a program [virtual lab] that can scan a drive and it tells me there are still files there, I'm wondering if that can see them why can't I access them??

can someone help me out??
I've got so much stuff on that drive, I almost pissed myself when this happened


edit//
I just read the "read before you post" thread and here's some info that I hope will be useful

first, I'm pretty sure this is not using the fat system (I could be wrong because It doesn't say fat or ntfs in disk managemen)

1. Asus motherboard [P4S800 series]

2. Win XP home edition

4. I havent yet attached any devices to the comp, because of this problem

5. I tried searching other threads but it wasn't the same problem

[sechs]

What exactly did you have before, what exactly did you do, and what exactly is the result?

[Registered]

I had one hard drive, with all my stuff
then I installed this second hard drive moved all the files I wanted to save onto that one... then disconnected it so there would be no way I could accidentally delete anything off it...
then I formatted the first drive and reinstalled windows and all the drivers back
now when I plug this drive back in, it tells me it's not formatted and asks if I want to do so now...


I know all the files are there, because I've tried recovery programs... the only problem is if I recover them using the programs then the names are all messed up like file1.mp3, file2.mp3 .. and I had like 20 gigs of songs

[sechs]

Exactly what did you do? Every step.

How did you prepare the second disk? How did you copy?

[Christian-Comp]

Personally, when I see a floppy disk that says it isn't formatted, would you like to do that now, it is either corrupted, or the file system is not compatible. With hard drives, in the above situation, I've seen that happen when drives are of two different file formats that aren't compatible with each other, such as fat and NTFS, etc. Your situation may be unique. Just my .02

[hawkman_jack]

This may be a dumb question, but did you set the Master/Slave jumpers correctly on both hard drives?

[Registered]

yep , the master and slave should be right... plus the drive does show up,

sechs:
I just put it in and copied the files (tested them) then turned off the comp took out the drive, yadda yadda lol, and now it needs reformatting

also, I doubt it's the fat/ntfs problem, because the disk manager would tell me that it's either fat or ntfs...

BTW.. thanks alot for the help everyone.. even though I haven't yet fixed the problem you are giving me hope

[MDS]

First before you go any further shut down your system check the jumpers and make sure the slave is on the middle connector of the ribbon cable and that you have the power connector firmly attached. I have seen hard drives that the power plug not making a good connection do the very same thing.

[Registered]

ok I;ve checked all the cables and they're fine... but I got a recovery program that says the drive is working on a fat16 file system

now, what should I do?? lol

[garrette123]

i didnt really read the other Solutions so if this is a redo thing sorry lol



i'd check the Cmos (press delete at startup)
and make sure you have both HD's in there and that right one set for slave and right one for master then if ya boot up and its the same thing try going into the Device Manager and if its in there uninstall it and reboot and try that and from what i read of the other post if those dont work then i dont reawlly know besides maybe you burnt it out somhow...