Hard Drive Gone

Well by the sounds of things BIOS is seeing the drive but Windows isn't seeing a formatted drive so you could have a problem particuarly if you have important data on it that hasn't been backed up some where else.

Look in Device Manager under Disc Drives and see what the OS is telling you about this HDD. If it shows up as unformatted get a copy of the drive makers testing utility and test the drive these are generally bootable Floppies but can be different depending on the drive maker.

If the Drive passes as OK you will need to consider what you want to do and if you want to spend money recovering any data that was on it. If you do there are several options available to you but they all require you to perform the recovery differently so you'll need to follow their directions but [b]Always Remember Never To Save Data to the Drive that you are Recovering it from[/b] as you run the risk of overwriting other data and making it much harder to recover all of your data.

The data recovery programs available are as follows

http://tinyurl.com/6vef4

http://tinyurl.com/rmvrv

http://tinyurl.com/r4oyz

http://tinyurl.com/pjmx8

http://tinyurl.com/70lc

http://tinyurl.com/djw6u

http://tinyurl.com/pxh3t

http://tinyurl.com/mbwfq

http://tinyurl.com/4oeqa

Each has its advantages and disadvantages and yopu'll need to find out which one suits you best though the one from On Track is fast Simple to use but Expensive. X Ways has 2 products available Win Hex which should only ever be used by someone expert in Hex and Davory which is the easy version to use and is fairly cheap as well though it is slow to recover foiles.

Col

Well by the sounds of things BIOS is seeing the drive but Windows isn't seeing a formatted drive so you could have a problem particuarly if you have important data on it that hasn't been backed up some where else.

Look in Device Manager under Disc Drives and see what the OS is telling you about this HDD. If it shows up as unformatted get a copy of the drive makers testing utility and test the drive these are generally bootable Floppies but can be different depending on the drive maker.

If the Drive passes as OK you will need to consider what you want to do and if you want to spend money recovering any data that was on it. If you do there are several options available to you but they all require you to perform the recovery differently so you'll need to follow their directions but [b]Always Remember Never To Save Data to the Drive that you are Recovering it from[/b] as you run the risk of overwriting other data and making it much harder to recover all of your data.

The data recovery programs available are as follows

http://tinyurl.com/6vef4

http://tinyurl.com/rmvrv

http://tinyurl.com/r4oyz

http://tinyurl.com/pjmx8

http://tinyurl.com/70lc

http://tinyurl.com/djw6u

http://tinyurl.com/pxh3t

http://tinyurl.com/mbwfq

http://tinyurl.com/4oeqa

Each has its advantages and disadvantages and yopu'll need to find out which one suits you best though the one from On Track is fast Simple to use but Expensive. X Ways has 2 products available Win Hex which should only ever be used by someone expert in Hex and Davory which is the easy version to use and is fairly cheap as well though it is slow to recover files.

Col