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Help! How can I rescue my damaged hard drives?

Asked by lgil9 in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: can, error, hard, how, i

For the past year I've been running Win2000 with an IBM 46gb hard drive, no problems.
I just bought a 120gb Western Digital (WD) hard drive, and ran into a series of problems. It now looks like both disk drives are damaged, probably from the same event.
Here's what I did:
1. I tried to use EZ-Install, WD's little program that's supposed to install their hard drives. But it complained something about NTFS (sorry, I didn't record the exact message), and wouldn't install it.
2. So I decided I'd put the 46gb IBM drive back in, and put the 120gb WD as my secondary drive, thinking I would partition it and format it there.
But when I tried to boot up I got an error message saying the c:\winnt\system32\config\system was corrupted (on the IBM drive).
3. I tried doing a Win2000 install on the IBM drive, using the repair option, but it says there is no disk present.
4. I tried again to install the WD drive, and EZ-Install now says it can't find any Western Digital disk drives.
It looks like both drives are corrupted. Norton Disk Doctor says there's no file system on the IBM drive, and can't do any diagnosis on it.
In looking back, it's possible that when I put the 120gb WD in as slave to the IBM 46gb, I may not have changed the jumper on the WD to make it a slave.
Questions:
1. Could it be that not changing the jumper caused the problems I've outlined?
2. Is there any way to rescue my IBM 46gb drive--either myself or from a hired technician or outside firm?
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Help! How can I rescue my damaged hard drives?

Asked by lgil9 in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: can, error, hard, how, i

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