Okay first off hello this is my first post here. I've been looking everywhere and can't find an answer to my problem so I'm hoping you people can help.
My computer has stopped recognizing any other hardrive than the the master drive. I'm buying a new computer in about a month so I wanted to transfer all of my files off of my two older drives (the master drive is a 10gb and the slave was a 20gb I know they're terrible) onto the hardrive I'll be installing into the new computer (a 160gb WD hardrive I got from a friend). I tok the 20gb one out and put the 160gb one in to start moving files off. Since I still had files on the 20 that wouldn't fit on the 10 I had to swap the 160gb and the 20gb ones out about three times to get all the files onto the 160gb one. An hour after I was finished I noticed that the 160gb hardrive had disappeared from My Computer. It still shows up in Device Manager but in Disk Management it now shows up as uninitialized. I decided to check to see if it was the hardrive so i put the 20gb one back in but now it's disappeared from My Computer too. I also wanted to see if it was that part of the cable so I put the 160gb in place of the 10gb master and it just came up to the primary drive not found screen. I CAN'T lose all of that data so if anyone has any help on my situation it would be greatly appreciated. I was wondering if it could be a boot sector virus that I've spread from the 160gb to the 20gb? Please any help at all would be appreciated as long as it doesn't involve me losing all of that data.:grinthumb
My computer has stopped recognizing any other hardrive than the the master drive. I'm buying a new computer in about a month so I wanted to transfer all of my files off of my two older drives (the master drive is a 10gb and the slave was a 20gb I know they're terrible) onto the hardrive I'll be installing into the new computer (a 160gb WD hardrive I got from a friend). I tok the 20gb one out and put the 160gb one in to start moving files off. Since I still had files on the 20 that wouldn't fit on the 10 I had to swap the 160gb and the 20gb ones out about three times to get all the files onto the 160gb one. An hour after I was finished I noticed that the 160gb hardrive had disappeared from My Computer. It still shows up in Device Manager but in Disk Management it now shows up as uninitialized. I decided to check to see if it was the hardrive so i put the 20gb one back in but now it's disappeared from My Computer too. I also wanted to see if it was that part of the cable so I put the 160gb in place of the 10gb master and it just came up to the primary drive not found screen. I CAN'T lose all of that data so if anyone has any help on my situation it would be greatly appreciated. I was wondering if it could be a boot sector virus that I've spread from the 160gb to the 20gb? Please any help at all would be appreciated as long as it doesn't involve me losing all of that data.:grinthumb