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Hard drive problem, current status(Auto-detecting SATA3 freezes bios)
Hi.
About a week ago while I was working on my computer, it suddenly hanged ( All programms didn't respond ).
I decided to restart it manually(not through windows, but by pressing a button on my computer).
From this moment Windows7 stopped loading...
I managed to load with Kubuntu live CD and it showed me, that my C: drive is marked as in use(or its NTFS is marked as in use). There were two suggestions: load Windows and properly shut down it, use something like force mount.
Well, first option, obviously, wasn't for me, so I made "force mount". After that Kubuntu started to show me: "NTFS is in inconsistent state" something like that. And I still had no access to my files on that drive.
I tried to load my Windows7 one more time, but with no success. One thing I have marked, that now Windows "loads/goes" a little bit further till Windows logo and stops there.
I tried to "repair" my C drive with Windows7 disk, but again with no success. I tried to run "chkdisk C: /f", but system printed out something like "No direct access to disk".
I decided to install Windows7 to another my hard drive(IDE, not SATA, previous drive, by the way, was SATA) and to try to access my files from that installed windows.
But another problem occured: now with my SATA drive connected, even BIOS hangs on message Auto-detected SATA3(my hard drive is connected to this port).
Any ideas, how I can safe my hard drive or at least files on it?
Any help would be highly appreciated!
P.S sorry for my english
About a week ago while I was working on my computer, it suddenly hanged ( All programms didn't respond ).
I decided to restart it manually(not through windows, but by pressing a button on my computer).
From this moment Windows7 stopped loading...
I managed to load with Kubuntu live CD and it showed me, that my C: drive is marked as in use(or its NTFS is marked as in use). There were two suggestions: load Windows and properly shut down it, use something like force mount.
Well, first option, obviously, wasn't for me, so I made "force mount". After that Kubuntu started to show me: "NTFS is in inconsistent state" something like that. And I still had no access to my files on that drive.
I tried to load my Windows7 one more time, but with no success. One thing I have marked, that now Windows "loads/goes" a little bit further till Windows logo and stops there.
I tried to "repair" my C drive with Windows7 disk, but again with no success. I tried to run "chkdisk C: /f", but system printed out something like "No direct access to disk".
I decided to install Windows7 to another my hard drive(IDE, not SATA, previous drive, by the way, was SATA) and to try to access my files from that installed windows.
But another problem occured: now with my SATA drive connected, even BIOS hangs on message Auto-detected SATA3(my hard drive is connected to this port).
Any ideas, how I can safe my hard drive or at least files on it?
Any help would be highly appreciated!
P.S sorry for my english
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Qlemo
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Ok. Tomorrow I will try.
nobus
disconnect the ide drive -only sata drive
then boot from a live knoppix cd -and try to copy your fiiles to an external USB disk :
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V6.4.4CD-2011-01-30-EN.iso
if this does not work - then it loks like the "bad disk" interface is locking up your hardware
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then boot from a live knoppix cd -and try to copy your fiiles to an external USB disk :
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V6.4.4CD-2011-01-30-EN.iso
if this does not work - then it loks like the "bad disk" interface is locking up your hardware
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Dr. Klahn
There may be an interface conflict between the SATA drive and the system controller. Not all systems are capable of handling higher speed SATA drives. Check the offending drive and see if there is an option jumper or switch to lock it to SATA 1.0 mode.
From Wikipedia:
From Wikipedia:
To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation. Western Digital uses a jumper setting called OPT1 Enabled to force 1.5 Gbit/s data transfer speed (OPT1 is enabled by putting the jumper on pins 5 & 6). Samsung drives can be switched to 1.5 Gbit/s mode using software that may be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Upgrading a Samsung drive in this manner requires the temporary use of a SATA-2 (SATA 3.0 Gbit/s) controller while programming the drive.
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SpringMVC
Nobus, if I connect SATA drive(no matter only SATA drive or also IDE drive), even BIOS won't load. It will hang on "Auto-detecting SATA".
DrKlahn, This SATA drive worked fine on my computer a week ago, before this bad situation happened. So I don't believe, that some hardware/interface conflict occured out of nowhere.
By the way, yesterday I tried this SATA drive on another computer. Same thing...It hangs on "Auto-detecting SATA" and, moreover, it resets BIOS settings...
If I switch in BIOS, that it will "recognize" SATA not as IDE, but as AHCI(or something like that), BIOS loads successfully (no "Auto-detecting SATA"), but it doesn't see SATA drive(i.e after BIOS loads, and if I enter into it, it shows, that all SATA are "Not detected").
DrKlahn, This SATA drive worked fine on my computer a week ago, before this bad situation happened. So I don't believe, that some hardware/interface conflict occured out of nowhere.
By the way, yesterday I tried this SATA drive on another computer. Same thing...It hangs on "Auto-detecting SATA" and, moreover, it resets BIOS settings...
If I switch in BIOS, that it will "recognize" SATA not as IDE, but as AHCI(or something like that), BIOS loads successfully (no "Auto-detecting SATA"), but it doesn't see SATA drive(i.e after BIOS loads, and if I enter into it, it shows, that all SATA are "Not detected").
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