Sata harddrive not working - Saxperience

Gabbastard · 8th January 2011, 18:48

Two Maxtor Sata drives, recnelty the PC wouldnt boot up, BSOD'ing halfway into loading windows.

Put the drives into another PC, and the PC will list as "drive G" in "my computer" but comes up with the error message "drive inaccessible; the file or direct is corrupt and unreadable"

I remember this happened all the time a while back with Seagate Sata's, a lot of them were recoverable.

I got a copy of R-Studio, and it recognises and lists both sata drives, but gives the error message "Maxtor 6L160: Partition at 63 extends beyond disk bounds". Id assume this is the problem? Anyone know how to fix it?

R-Studio also says that each drive is not part of an array, but if I go to create an array, it says I should back up all data before doing so as it will be lost. But I cant back it up!

AXracing · 8th January 2011, 19:30

That is quite an odd one. Was it part of a raid array?

Gabbastard · 9th January 2011, 18:20

Raid array,is that where one drive cant be read without the other? If so, then yes it was.

AXracing · 9th January 2011, 20:42

Ok it sounds like you had a virtual hard drive that was spanned over multiple drives. To increase perforce the data that was saved on your drive was split up and saved on multiple drives at the same time. The problem with this is that the drives have to be combined in there original array or all you have are random bits of data. There are programs some free that can help recover data off the other drive if one drives fails though they are very limited in what they can do.

You can try fixing it by putting it back in your original computer setup that was not booting right and then try booting in safe mode. This should hopefully get you back in. Failing that you can try using your windows disc to get you back in. It has a repair install that may fix it. Or you can try installing windows over the original directory of all fails.

If you just want to use the disk in the computer you have it in now you can try this. Normally unless you require streaming perforce for rendering, Encoding or that sort of thing your best to just to have multiple individual drives. Normally have windows and such like on one that you erase and reload whenever you like and then data saved on another. If you want to set this up you just have delete any partitions on your drive and great a new one then format it. It will delete all data off the drive though.

Sorry I quite poor at describing things

Gabbastard · 10th January 2011, 16:04

Tried booting in safe mode, no joy, it just goes to blue screen of death.

Ill try booting using windows CD