2nd Problem of the day (HDD issues)

[Bark4Soul]

My 2nd HDD, a 200 GB Western Digital Hard drive is not working right since I moved. Windows doesnt see it, it's my "D" drive and I had it renamed. I use it to store stuff on, windows is not on this drive, but when I click it, it says that the drive is now un-readable or corrupted, is it possible something got jarred when I transferred it in my car or something came lose? Or do I need to run some form of a diagnostic on it? I cant really afford to lose this drive, it has like 7 years of photos, music, movies, etc...u get the idea right? I really wanna get it readable so I can back it up and get a new drive, also, any help here is greatly appreciated...thank you!! And heres to someone saving my day /tear

Bark

 

[Rik]

The first thing to do would be to open your case up and make sure the data and power cables are fitted tightly.

 

[Bark4Soul]

Okay, I will look into that real quick and see if something came disco'd when I moved it from A to B

 

[Bark4Soul]

Okay I still need help...can someone suggest anything?

 

[Rik]

A new ata data cable may be worth a try, they do fail from time to time and a new one wont cost much.

 

[Spyder_1386]

hey Bark4Soul

Umm, try this... plug the hard drive into another pc and see if the same error shows up...

Spyder_1386

 

[Bark4Soul]

IS there a diagnostic tool I can run to see if it will help from the maker of the HD? I unplugged it, made sure it was good, and now it is being read but it says it is damaged or corrupted....ugh

 

[nickc]

back it up as fast as possible the drive is fixing to fail, then go buy a new drive to replace it.

 

[Tedster]

go into disc management in the control panel. If the computer can see the drive, assign it a letter. If the computer cannot see the drive, then you have a hardware issue.

 

[Samstoned]

find what you want at Western Digital website under maybe tools or diagnostics

 

[Bark4Soul]

go into disc management in the control panel. If the computer can see the drive, assign it a letter. If the computer cannot see the drive, then you have a hardware issue.

Well my comp sees it as the D: Drive it has been, but it says there is nothing there. How do I go into disc management and try and troubleshoot that?