- Apr 16, 2005
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I have a hitachi 400gb sata 3.5 drive that I use for storage (everything I have since pretty much when I first got a computer.) I used it in an external enclosure, and one day when I came back it did not work (it would spin up but windows would not recognize anything.) When I finally got to take it home to my desktop to take the drive out of the enclosure, it spun up, the raid controller bios screen (that comes after the regular bios boot screen) seemed to recognize it with the right model number and with ~372gb, but the computer would always freeze before it would boot up. Now, it recognizes it with weird symbols and arrows, and as 1gb. It still spins up.
What can I do to figure out what is wrong? It spins up, so would putting it in the freeze do nothing? Maybe I could replace the electronics on the board (but are the files corrupted?) I tried the recovery console but I can never load the SATA drivers by pressing F6 (I have a NF7-S-v2.0) I tried booting to ubuntu live cd, but it gave an error when trying to configure the sata drive.
Any ideas?
What can I do to figure out what is wrong? It spins up, so would putting it in the freeze do nothing? Maybe I could replace the electronics on the board (but are the files corrupted?) I tried the recovery console but I can never load the SATA drivers by pressing F6 (I have a NF7-S-v2.0) I tried booting to ubuntu live cd, but it gave an error when trying to configure the sata drive.
Any ideas?