HDD Failure need help please

I really need everyones advice on this matter since I have about 100gb of stuff on this drive.. thank you

My problem is I bought a WD 1tb drive less then a month ago, I run it as a slave on my computer just for storage. I have about 100gig of pictures and family videos on it, today I rebooted my computer and it would not start, it would get to the windows xp load screen and then just turn to a black screen, it would not boot in safe mode or boot to last known good config.. If I unhook the 1tb drive my computer will boot fine and run with no problems, anyone have any idea what could be wrong with the drive and what I could do to get the data off it if I have to rma it back to WD?

Thank you for your help

I really need everyones advice on this matter since I have about 100gb of stuff on this drive.. thank you

My problem is I bought a WD 1tb drive less then a month ago, I run it as a slave on my computer just for storage. I have about 100gig of pictures and family videos on it, today I rebooted my computer and it would not start, it would get to the windows xp load screen and then just turn to a black screen, it would not boot in safe mode or boot to last known good config.. If I unhook the 1tb drive my computer will boot fine and run with no problems, anyone have any idea what could be wrong with the drive and what I could do to get the data off it if I have to rma it back to WD?

Thank you for your help

drkstorm37

Actually scrap that for the time being,,,put in your xp cd and go into the recovery console.....then type chkdsk /r

this will run a check for bad sectors (maybe the reason why it wont load) and fix them.

will this let my computer boot when the slave drive is hooked up, because right now if I hook it up my computer will not boot updrkstorm37

well if the os isnt booting up then the problem is on your master hdd so your slave is probably fine....best run a chkdsk /r on your master hdd then.

my os will boot as long as I only have the master drive hooked up, it is when I hook up the slave it wont boot, I know the jumpers are right because I have used it for about a month and this problem just started today.drkstorm37

Anyway iam off to bed now (its 12:30 here in the UK) so if you need any more help feel free to PM me and ill reply in about another 7 hours. So like i said before,,,do a CHKDSK /R on your slave drive and if it doesent work after that burn a puppy linux cd and boot from it in order to get to your files.

I got my computer to boot with the slave but I cannot move anything off of it or burn anything from it, every time I try my computer locks up,, any suggestionsdrkstorm37

Download minipe it's a Windows Live CD iso you should be able to backup the files.

http://minipe.org/ the passwrd should be still "thecavern" once you download

sorry I didnt get a chance to repost back after I tried the CHKDSK/R and the linux puppy, I got the computer to boot showing the slave drive, the CHKDSK on the slave locks up at 53% percent no matter how I run it., The slave drive will open up but anytime I try to open anything or move anything the computer locks up even when using puppy, I am going to try to put it in another computer and see if it will allow me to move things, if not I do not know what im going to do, many of the photos on the drive are very important to me since the person has passed away.. I usually back up my drives every few months but I just purchsed this drive on jan 20th and didnt think I needed a back up so soon.. thanks for all your helpdrkstorm37

I waited about an hour and a half, should I wait longer? I found a program called powersuite that allows you to boot from it and move files from one drive to another drive, so if all else fails I can use that if it will run.. thank you for all your helpdrkstorm37

I do not know if it matters but its during the 1st of 3 faze that it stops on, it is the checking part of it.. I will try it tonight and let it run 8 hours to see if that helps,, thank youdrkstorm37

I hooked the drive to another computer and let it run for hours and it never moved passed 53% on the chkdsk. I tried a couple different data recovery programs and nothing helped, I guess I am just gonna have to accept the data as lost and purchase a new drive.. thank you everyone for all your help..drkstorm37

Yes I did try it, I left it in for about 12 hours, I got western digital diagnostics to run on it on start up and it says there are to many bad sectors to even diagnos it let alone recover from it.. drkstorm37

What on earth was on that DVD?Daytona_178