Harddrive Failure in BIOS NEED DATA!

[pkspx]

My computer detects my harddrive, Its a maxtor 40GB ATA133 harddrive about 1year old not even. Whenever the machine first boots up though it gives an error, Error 200 "harddrive failure" I run the Maxtor PowerMax diag and error code UK0E02 returns "return drive". This was my 2nd harddrive in the machine for data I have another harddrive to boot to my OS. Im thinking the harddrive controller is the problem, Is there anways that I can get data back? A motherboard that might just be stronge enough to see the drive or something? Its a long shot I know but the data is important, not important though to spend 2grand to recover it

[Chuckiechan]

I would make a partition on your good drive "C" large enough to hold your data on the bad "D" drive. Then I would down load the new "maxblast" software that has a copy utility. (your original software may have it). Then I would try to copy from the bad to the good new partition on the good drive.

Now you will have a good "C" and "D" on the good drive, and copy bad drive "E" to (partition) drive "D" on the good drive.

BTW: even though it is failing, it may still be able to carry out this function. Keep your fingers crossed!

BTW: If it is the HDD controller, maybe you can borrow a bud's computer and plug into his and verify that. Then go buy a new, faster, hotter, sexier MB!

[John Prophet]

have you tried it on another motherboard? or on the other controller of that motherboard? I though I had lost my main drive a few weeks back..I was freaking, cuz I had lots of business stuff on it and no backup except on the drive itsef, lol.

It was saying "boot disk failure" and I was freaking way out. But it was just the primary controller on the motherboard.

JP

[pkspx]

I gave up on the machine few weeks ago so I went out and got a
Intel P4 865Chipset board
Pentium 4 2.4GHz 800FSB
Kingston 512 DDR400 Works good but I got no data.

I even tried the drive on this new system, infact this new system wont even boot to my OS the BIOS just says press f4 for setup, im thinking its telling me to disable that harddrive?

Thanks for the tip, im going to try that tonight I keep hoping ill be able to copy data never thought to use maxtor software though!

[John Prophet]

Well you dont have to BOOT off of the ailing hard drive...put it in on the secondary..boot off another drive and see if it even shows up in wondows..of course if it is hanging in the bios u might be outta luck.

Sometimes the f4 thing could just be to get you to go into bios and confirm a change (such as a new drive detected)

JP

[pkspx]

Turned the machine on with another harddrive and the maxtor drive connected, got into windows and ran Get Back Data. It didnt see the 2nd harddrive, but the bios detects it! I need another data recovery program.....I think?

[John Prophet]

What opersating system was/is on the old drive and what OS is on the new system?

JP

[pkspx]

Im using Windows XP, Thinking of building a linux box just to see if that detects it,