HDS728080PLAT20 Hardisk help

[kwelito]

i recently bought a new drive an 80gig hitach. so what i did is installed in to my pc making it my slave drive. i opened computer management then disk management to format it using NTFS. it was good and i saw no problems at all, so i decided to partition it (using disk management) then transfer all my files to my new hardrive. but after i shut down my pc. the hardisk cannot be accessed ----> "THE OPERATION DID NOT COMPLETE, CHECK THE SYSTEM EVENT LOG FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ERROR" then when i hit ok
"AN UNEXPECTED ERROR HAS OCCURED. CHECK THE SYSTEM EVENT LOG FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE ERROR. CLOSE THE DISK MANAGEMENT CONSOLE, THEN RESTART DISK MANAGEMENT OR RESTART THE COMPUTER" i did restart it but it doesn't work. what will i do? can i still retrive the files on my new drive?

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Can you access the drive and the partitions in disk management?

 

[kwelito]

yes but the problem is i cannot reactive it.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

This does not sound too good. What happens if you schedule a disk check and reboot - does the chkdsk routine run?

 

[kwelito]

well i don't know that chkdsk thing? can you at least guide on how? tnx

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Go to windows explorer, right click on your hard drive > properties > tools > error checking > check now > select both options > start and accept run at reboot or similar.

 

[kwelito]

nope that's not possible because again i cannot see them appear as disk drives in my comp.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Just a thought - which files did you transfer to the new drive? All of them?

 

[kwelito]

well a couple of songs around a thousand of them.... downloaded programs... some pix of mine and important documents.... well i guess we can't do nothing but to format it then right?

 

[AlbertLionheart]

If the contents are important then there are specialist data recovery people who can extract almost anything from a drive. But they are not cheap. You are the only one who can put a price on your data.