CANNOT READ DATA FROM OLD INTERNAL SATA HDD




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I have recently been forced to buy a new laptop due to a hardward malfunction (not a software issue) and now want to retrieve the information from my old laptop’s HDD; It is a ST9808210A Seagate Momentus 4200A which I have never had any problems with previously. I purchased a SATA to USB connector and have plugged the HDD into the USB drive of my new laptop. The HDD is detected by the new laptop but does not come up on ‘My Computer’; on closer inspection in Administrator Tools, Disk Management, I see that the Disk is visible as ‘Disk 1’ but has a black bar above it and is ‘Unallocated’, on the left hand bar it is ‘Unknown’ and ‘Not Initialized’. When right clicking on the bar the only options available to me are ‘New Simple Volume’ and ‘Properties’ – neither of which enables the disk to work. There is also the option to ‘initialise’ the disk when clicking on the left hand bar, when this is tried I get the error message: ‘The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.’ Any ideas please – I really could do with getting several weeks of work off this disk!! THANKS. 

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Try to use HDD Regenerator, it is free for the first bad sector, sometimes that happen due to hard drive failure in the PCB (board) or due to excessive heat inside the laptop and it damage the disk, I had a lot of clients with this problem and unfortunately the most of the times, we can not recover nothing because the surface of the hard disk is really damaged, I expect you can solve your problem. 
  

  
Andro Jesus.
  
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try that drive with another computer. if it doesn't work, it's probably dead. hi there floriann software,

first of all, i would say that it is always a better idea to open up a new thread, instead of engaging in an old one.

apart from that, as the drive is recognized on other systems except for the xp one, then it comes to drivers. make sure you go to the mobo's website and update the drivers.
is the drive initialized as mbr. in case it is initialized as gpt, i would advise you to back up all the data and initialize it as mbr. win xp has some limitations on that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2581408

cheers,
d\_know\_wd :) not very hard to tell, you have one with a caution so that is a good sign there is an issue with the drive. 

does not mean you need to replace it right away, that is what backups are for. use the drive, if it fails replace it and restore from backup. or contact the drive vendor support and see what their criteria for a warranty replacement is, do the same thing if they exchange it, restore from backup. if you don't have backups today is a good time to start. you need to change the boot order so it checks the HDD before the floppy, cdrom etc...



btw a new pc means you will have to reinstall windows maybe the boot disk partition be cleared. you can disable emmc in bios then install a pure windows in ssd. enable emmc after the windows installed. Ok, fought this problem for almost a week, and 20 minutes after i write this it is solved:

I repeated the Installation, and as a final step I "diskpart" - cleaned and reformatted the WD drive, and now it works.

I do not really understand what might have been wrong ( it was "GPT")…. Maybe something in the order I did the things.




[View solution in original post](/t5/Intel-Optane-Memory/A-classic-one-Optane-module-not-recognized-by-RST-App/m-p/645903#M4006) i assume your new router is wireless?

limited access with wireless usually means you don't have a valid ip address assigned. you need two things for a working internet connection. 1. you need a physical connection, known as layer 1 and layer 2. 2. you need a logical connection known as layer 3.

if you've got the limited access message that means your laptop has a working wireless connection at layers 1 and 2. what you don't have is the layer 3 connection i.e. an ip address.

there could be a number of reasons why this is happening. i would suggest that you start by powering your pc down - shut it off completely not just hibernate it or just shut the lid. next power down the router, pull the power cord out of it. let the router sit unplugged for about 2 minutes. power the router back up......wait about 2 min more. power your pc back up.

learn how to use the command line command "ipconfig". you access the command line via the accessories folder on windows. when you get the c:/> prompt - enter the command "ipconfig" hit enter. in the group of stuff on the screen you want to see an ip addess assigned to the wireless interface. when you get the limited access message the first thing you want to do is check to see if you have an ip address assigned.

if the above trick doesn't work, then i suspect there is something wrong with your network configuration on your pc. if you take your laptop to a starbucks does it work there? This is a chicken and egg problem. No drive, cd/dvd won't work. You either need to get an external drive, or have someone write it to a USB thumb drive that your system can boot from. When it’s plugged into the server it should show up in MyComputer with the next available drive letter assigned to it.


If you don’t see if there open up Computer Management and under disk management see if it’s there but without a drive letter assigned to it. it might be that the drives were formatted as 1tb, if you do a factory restore it might format the drives to the 2tb. you will lose your data though.