Strange Hard Disk Behaviour

I'm using Seagate SATA hard drive. I moved it to another PC (running on
Samsung SATA hard drive) with Seagate drive being secondary. But windows of
other computer won't recognize it. It is being recognized in BIOS. When I try
to boot the Seagate drive as primary, the PC reboots after Windows bootup
screen shows up. I tried to format it using Windows XP cd. The CD is able to
recognize the hard disk but shows the partitions as raw and is unable to
delete or format the partition. It is also not working on the original PC on
which it earlier used to.

I also tried to boot my PC through DR-DOS, where I am able to see all my
directories and files but not able to copy them to any other drive.

There is no noise in the hard disk and it seems to run smoothly.

Please guide how to recover my files or if my hard disk can be repaired.

"Gaurav" wrote:

> I'm using Seagate SATA hard drive. I moved it to another PC (running on
> Samsung SATA hard drive) with Seagate drive being secondary. But windows of
> other computer won't recognize it. It is being recognized in BIOS. When I try
> to boot the Seagate drive as primary, the PC reboots after Windows bootup
> screen shows up. I tried to format it using Windows XP cd. The CD is able to
> recognize the hard disk but shows the partitions as raw and is unable to
> delete or format the partition. It is also not working on the original PC on
> which it earlier used to.
>
> I also tried to boot my PC through DR-DOS, where I am able to see all my
> directories and files but not able to copy them to any other drive.
>
> There is no noise in the hard disk and it seems to run smoothly.
>
> Please guide how to recover my files or if my hard disk can be repaired.

Did you set the jumpers to slave on the secondary SATA HDD?.
Normally there is a diagram explain how to set the Jumper on the HDD try
that and Reboot, how do you connect the SATA HDD, is it through a IDE or USB?.
HTH.
nass
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http://www.nasstec.co.uk

nass wrote:
>
> "Gaurav" wrote:
>
>
>>I'm using Seagate SATA hard drive. I moved it to another PC (running on
>>Samsung SATA hard drive) with Seagate drive being secondary. But windows of
>>other computer won't recognize it. It is being recognized in BIOS. When I try
>>to boot the Seagate drive as primary, the PC reboots after Windows bootup
>>screen shows up. I tried to format it using Windows XP cd. The CD is able to
>>recognize the hard disk but shows the partitions as raw and is unable to
>>delete or format the partition. It is also not working on the original PC on
>>which it earlier used to.
>>
>>I also tried to boot my PC through DR-DOS, where I am able to see all my
>>directories and files but not able to copy them to any other drive.
>>
>>There is no noise in the hard disk and it seems to run smoothly.
>>
>>Please guide how to recover my files or if my hard disk can be repaired.
>
>
> Did you set the jumpers to slave on the secondary SATA HDD?.
> Normally there is a diagram explain how to set the Jumper on the HDD try
> that and Reboot, how do you connect the SATA HDD, is it through a IDE or USB?.
> HTH.
> nass
> ---
> http://www.nasstec.co.uk

There are no jumpers to set for Master/Slave on a SATA drive. However,
some motherboard manufacturers may designate and identify SATA ports as
such. What may be more significant is whether or not the Seagate drive
might need to be jumpered to match the SATA speed of the other motherboard.

> I'm using Seagate SATA hard drive. I moved it to another PC (running
> on Samsung SATA hard drive) with Seagate drive being secondary. But
> windows of other computer won't recognize it. It is being recognized
> in BIOS. When I try to boot the Seagate drive as primary, the PC
> reboots after Windows bootup screen shows up. I tried to format it
> using Windows XP cd. The CD is able to recognize the hard disk but
> shows the partitions as raw and is unable to delete or format the
> partition. It is also not working on the original PC on which it
> earlier used to.
>
> I also tried to boot my PC through DR-DOS, where I am able to see all
> my directories and files but not able to copy them to any other drive.
>
> There is no noise in the hard disk and it seems to run smoothly.
>
> Please guide how to recover my files or if my hard disk can be
> repaired.

1. SATA drives do NOT have a master/slave relationship OR jumper
setting!
2. If your SATA drive has jumper/s, RTFM to see what they're for. They
are NOT for setting master/slave; no such thing with SATA drives! Every
SATA drive is a MASTER!!
3, Are you certain it's a SATA drive? If so, it will have a much
smaller data cable than an IDE drive with its 80 pin ribbon cable.
Maybe you mean PATA? That's actually an IDE drive. SATA drives are NOT
IDE drives!

Wikipedia has an excellent article that may help you a LOT. Search for
SATA
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