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  1. May 4th, 2004, 11:17 AM #1
    Steve107
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    Can't open HD

    Hello...

    I have a question someone might know...
    I have a HD which was running oke till yesterday... then all of a sudden when I wanted to open the drive from my desktop it said something like: Shortcut to Drive G not found.. check it it's connected...
    So I opened up my PC and checked everything.. but all was connected as usual... so I restarted my PC and still the same problem...
    I disconnected again and connected again and started windows again...only now it took a long time for my PC to start up... so I disconnected it again and windows started normal..
    After that I reconnected the drive again.. waited about 5 or 6 minutes for windows to start...
    Now I went to My Computer and the drive was showing... so I opened it from there...
    It opened but it was all empty and normally on the left side it showed how much space is left and all, but that didn't show also...
    I got the HD out and reconnected it again, but nothing helps...
    all my holliday pics and holliday movies and personal stuff I can't replace are on that disk
    Does anyone knows how I can recover the data?
    I run win XP pro and it's a Seagate Barracuda ATA II drive...
    Hope someone can help me out.. thanx in advance!

    Steve
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  2. May 8th, 2004, 05:37 PM #2
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    Thanx for all help

    Windows fixed it itself.. just turned on and off the PC about 100 times and then it said Drive G had to be checked on consistencie or something.. and did some things.. now it's running again...

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  3. May 9th, 2004, 01:04 AM #3
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    First off welcome Steve107 to Windrivers,

    What this hard drive is telling you it’s going to die so warning back up your data before you lose it. Hard drive expected life to live within a week or sooner.
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  4. May 9th, 2004, 06:06 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by wmicro
    First off welcome Steve107 to Windrivers,

    What this hard drive is telling you it’s going to die so warning back up your data before you lose it. Hard drive expected life to live within a week or sooner.
    I agree you should back up this drive as soon as possible. If it doesn't fail (which I believe it's well on it's way) at least you'll have saved all your irreplaceable data.
    Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,
    but rather to skid-in-sideways, totally worn out, shouting. "Holy sh!t.. what a ride!"
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