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Hard drive disappeared
I was copying about 350 gigs from a hard drive in my computer to a larger drive in a sata dock attached via usb. Everything was going fine. Then the transfer was interrupted with an error message which unfortunately I do not remember. The gist of the message was that something could not be copied. "skip" was one of the options. I checked skip and immediately the transfer abruptly ended and the hard drive. "G" in my computer from which I was copying disappeared. It disappeared from "Computer" and Windows Explorer and from the HDD list on computer management / storage in the control panel.
I tried system restore and from a restore point and the image the system created, neither of which worked. The failed restore returned this error message System restore failed to replace the file (C:Windows) with it's original copy from the restore point. An unspecified error occurred during system restore, (0x8007/a90).
My machine is custom built. The operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Other than the missing HDD everything else seems normal.
What can I do? There was a lot of data on that disk which I need.
Thanks,
Joe
I tried system restore and from a restore point and the image the system created, neither of which worked. The failed restore returned this error message System restore failed to replace the file (C:Windows) with it's original copy from the restore point. An unspecified error occurred during system restore, (0x8007/a90).
My machine is custom built. The operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Other than the missing HDD everything else seems normal.
What can I do? There was a lot of data on that disk which I need.
Thanks,
Joe
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in device manager, I am showing 8 drives. There are 6 in the computer and 3 externals. The scan attempted to install a driver but failed.
lets find out what's failing, it should have a yellow mark on something - usb?
it may be the drivers are installing fine but the drive itself is now toast - can you plug it into another computer and see if it comes up?
try a different connector cable (ide, usb, etc whatever it is) just in case
it may be the drivers are installing fine but the drive itself is now toast - can you plug it into another computer and see if it comes up?
try a different connector cable (ide, usb, etc whatever it is) just in case
Remove the drive from the dock and connect it directly (internally) to a PC, then check if the BIOS sees it,and if yes, if the OS sees it. Possibly the dock has broken.
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The one in the dock is OK. It's the one in the machine with all the data that is giving the problem. Right now I have removed the G drive and am waiting the the machine to restart. It is taking far to long.
Thanks,
Joe
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This expert was the fustest with the mostest. The questioned drive is now alive, well and functioning.
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Byron 440 came up with the solution. I removed the questioned drive from the computer and restarted the machine. While it was running, just for grins, I removed the target drive from the dock, inserted G (the problem drive) it grabbed a driver and identified itself as G. So I shut down, reinstalled the disk and all is functioning normally. Byron is my hero of the day.
Joe
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